Ruling — Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion

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How do I take my turn?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lionbg-291457-en-1e

To take your turn, follow these steps: 1. Select two ability cards from your hand of six cards and place them face down in front of you [1]. 2. Choose one of these cards to be your initiative card; place it face down beneath the other card so that when both are flipped, the initiative value is visible [1]. 3. Once the initiative order is determined (from low to high), take your turn according to your position in that order [2]. 4. Perform the top action of one of your chosen cards and the bottom action of the other card [1]. 5. You may perform these actions in any order, but you cannot perform two top actions or two bottom actions [2][1]. 6. An action (the entire half of a card) must be performed in the order written [2]. 7. Any ability or action can be skipped [2]. 8. You may use an item for free in addition to your two actions from character ability cards [3]. 9. After performing the actions, place the card in your character's discard pile on the left side of your character mat [2]. Alternatively, a character may declare a long rest instead of selecting two ability cards at the beginning of a round [4]. A long rest constitutes the character's entire turn for the round (occurring on initiative 99) and involves choosing one discarded card to transfer to a lost pile while returning the rest to your hand [4].

[1] RULEBOOK Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion — Rulebook · p.6 · Card Selection

[2] RULEBOOK Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion — Rulebook · p.7 · Ordering of Initiative

[3] RULEBOOK Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion — Rulebook · p.19 · City Interaction: Items

[4] RULEBOOK Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion — Rulebook · p.22 · Long Rest

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🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only): gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
timings: search 234 ms · ask 10501 ms · total 10743 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 10743 ms
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citations (raw): [{"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Card Selection", "sharpsignalDocId": 61}, {"page": 7, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Ordering of Initiative", "sharpsignalDocId": 61}, {"page": 19, "quote": null, "headingPath": "City Interaction: Items", "sharpsignalDocId": 61}, {"page": 22, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Long Rest", "sharpsignalDocId": 61}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 61 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 61 boosted
answered-before recall: this ruling was answered, so past rulings were not offered
similarity threshold in force: 0.55 (rulesage.answered-before.similarity-threshold; the exact-question tier is not gated by it)
debug row retained until: Nov 3, 2026 05:24

retrieval — what the search arm returned

score = the fused retrieval score (reciprocal-rank fusion over the search arms) — NOT a cosine similarity. This ruling ran the THREE-ARM fuse (full-text + vector + the doc-priority boost arm, which carried the base rulebook and/or the errata corrections this query matched), whose arithmetic ceiling is 0.04918 — all three arms ranking the same chunk #1 (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60). The measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 was measured on TWO-arm asks and does not bound this one: its high end is the two-arm ceiling, and a third arm has room above it. A chunk only one arm ranked highly lands near 0.016 (that one arm's #1 vote), so 0.03 here is an excellent hit, not a 3% match.

per-arm ranks (the rank each search arm gave a chunk): NOT DISCLOSED by the gateway. Fusion happens gateway-side and only the FUSED score crosses the wire, so rulesage cannot show them without a gateway change. The rank column below is the FUSED rank (position in the returned list), which is real.

token count per chunk: NOT DISCLOSED — chunk token counts are not reported on the ask path. The character counts below are of the bounded snippet/quote rulesage actually received — a real measurement of what we hold, never an estimate of the chunk.

fused rank	document	heading	page	fused RRF score	snippet chars
#1	RULEBOOK Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion — Rulebook (corpus doc 61)	Ordering of Initiative	p.7	0.047875 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#2	RULEBOOK Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion — Rulebook (corpus doc 61)	End of Round	p.12	0.032787 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#3	RULEBOOK Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion — Rulebook (corpus doc 61)	Playing the Game	p.6	0.032258 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#4	RULEBOOK Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion — Rulebook (corpus doc 61)	Long Rest	p.22	0.03125 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#5	RULEBOOK Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion — Rulebook (corpus doc 61)	Playing by Yourself?	p.3	0.030769 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#6	RULEBOOK Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion — Rulebook (corpus doc 61)	Card Selection	p.6	0.030303 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#7	RULEBOOK Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion — Rulebook (corpus doc 61)	Scenario 3 Complete	p.23	0.029851 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#8	RULEBOOK Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion — Rulebook (corpus doc 61)	Line-of-Sight	p.9	0.029727 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion — Rulebook (corpus doc 61)	Card Selection	p.6	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion — Rulebook (corpus doc 61)	Ordering of Initiative	p.7	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion — Rulebook (corpus doc 61)	City Interaction: Items	p.19	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion — Rulebook (corpus doc 61)	Long Rest	p.22	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 234 ms · first delta 8425 ms · total 10743 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 0 ms · retrieval 234 ms · ask 10501 ms · gateway work 10743 ms · total 10743 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2490
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 309
tok/sec: 136.7 tok/sec — 309 output tokens in 2.260 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 54s ago)
stream path: streamed — the gateway pushed at least one accumulated draft
watchdog: first-token watchdog: 30s per arming window (rulesage.table.first-token-watchdog-seconds), re-armed once by the passages frame — so the worst case before a reader falls back to polling is 60s. Whether it actually fired is a BROWSER-side decision that never reaches the server, so it is not recorded here. The stream path above is the server's half of that story: whether a delta was emitted at all.
num_ctx · think posture: both are the CHILD's settings, not rulesage's, and no ask reply carries them — an answer never states which context window or think posture produced it. The live-seat line above reads them from the running child instead, where the gateway can answer for itself; it describes the child NOW, not this ask.

disposition

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
abstain rationale (n/a — this ruling answered): answered — no abstain rationale applies

setup-shape — why the checklist band did or didn't render

decision: NOT_SETUP_SHAPED — no setup-shape pattern matched this question

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 9), so "no registered errata card matched" above could never have matched one

Errata scope: the gate above matched this ruling's own edition only. When an ask also reads an expansion, that expansion's own registered errata cards stay outside the match — a stated phase-1 limitation, not a failed lookup.