Ruling — Too Many Bones

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How do I set up the game?

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Asked with: Too Many Bonesbg-192135-en-1e

To set up the game, follow these steps: 1. Place the Battle Mat in the center of your play area [1]. 2. Select a Tyrant or draw one at random [1]. 3. Place the Tyrant's Card, Chip, and Die to the left of the Battle Mat [1]. 4. Place the Day Counter Card and Chip (set to 1) directly below your Tyrant Card [1]. 5. Find any Tyrant Encounters associated with the chosen Tyrant and set them aside [2]. 6. Shuffle the General Encounter Deck or Solo Encounter Deck (if playing with one Gearloc) [2]. 7. Draw Encounter Cards equal to the number of Days shown on your Tyrant Card minus 3 cards [2]. 8. Shuffle these drawn cards with the Tyrant Encounter Card(s) you set aside to form an Encounter Deck, and place them to the left (story side up) of the Battle Mat [2]. 9. Find Special Encounters 001-003 and place them, in order, on top of your newly created Encounter Deck [2]. 10. Shuffle all Loot and Trove Loot cards separately and place both decks (chest side up) to the right of the Battle Mat [2]. 11. Place the 4 Lockpicking Dice nearby [2]. 12. Using the Baddie Type icons on your Tyrant Card, find all Baddies of those types, flip them face down, shuffle, and create separate 1Pt, 5Pt, and 20Pt Baddie "Active Stacks" [2]. 13. Place these stacks above the Battle Mat [2]. 14. Each player chooses a Gearloc and places their selected Gearloc Mat, Gearloc Chip (with number of Starting Health Chips underneath), Initiative (Ini) Die, and Stat Dice as shown [3]. 15. Adjust mat placement based on party size [3]. 16. Place the Gearloc Reference Sheet nearby [3]. 17. Find your Gearloc's 16 Skill Dice and place them in a Storage Tray near your Gearloc Mat (you may also store Atk and Def Dice there) [3]. 18. Place the Skill Dice with corresponding numbers into the slots on your mat for any Skills marked with a circle [3]. 19. Collectively choose a Party Leader [3]. 20. Choose a game mode to play on [3]. 21. Below the Battle Mat, create pools of Atk Dice, Def Dice, and Effect Dice, and place the D6 in this area as well [3]. 22. Place the 4 Lane Marker Chips above the Battle Mat [3]. 23. Place the 4 Baddie Ini Dice and Health Chip stacks above the Battle Mat [3]. 24. Place the Round Counter Die at the top of the Initiative (Ini) Meter on the Battle Mat, set to R1 [3]. 25. Use Encounter Card instructions to build your Battle Queue (BQ) [4]. 26. Trigger "Before battle" effects and Skills [4]. 27. Place the top Baddie from the BQ in its appropriate lane and Battle Mat position (including its HP, Lane Marker, and Ini Die) [4]. 28. Continue placing Baddies until there are 4 on the mat or the BQ is empty [4]. 29. Roll the party's Ini Dice and add them to the Ini Meter [4]. 30. Place Party Members onto the Battle Mat in appropriate positions (with existing HP) [4]. 31. Trigger "Start of battle" effects and Skills [4].

[1] RULEBOOK Too Many Bones — Rulebook · p.6 · Game Objective · Tyrant and Day Counter

[2] RULEBOOK Too Many Bones — Rulebook · p.7 · Encounters · Loot & Trove Loot · Baddies

[3] RULEBOOK Too Many Bones — Rulebook · p.7 · Gearlocs · Other Components

[4] RULEBOOK Too Many Bones — Rulebook · p.18 · Battle Set-up Sequence · BQ In Battle

🔧 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 243 ms · ask 19692 ms · total 389328 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 369383 ms · generation 19945 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 261 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 261 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 6, 2026 14:14

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 Too Many Bones — Rulebook (corpus doc 261)	Gearlocs · Other Components	p.7	0.047712 (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 Too Many Bones — Rulebook (corpus doc 261)	Game Objective · Tyrant and Day Counter	p.6	0.046898 (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 Too Many Bones — Rulebook (corpus doc 261)	Battle Set-up Sequence · BQ In Battle	p.18	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 Too Many Bones — Rulebook (corpus doc 261)	Ini Dice Placement (setting up for R1 of battle) · Ini Dice During Battle (R2 and beyond) · 2. Baddie Starting Positions · 3. Gearloc Starting Positions	p.17	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 Too Many Bones — Rulebook (corpus doc 261)		p.5	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 Too Many Bones — Rulebook (corpus doc 261)	Training Points (Pts) · STOP & READ!!!	p.23	0.030415 (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 Too Many Bones — Rulebook (corpus doc 261)	4. Skills Area Skill Dice	p.12	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
#8	RULEBOOK Too Many Bones — Rulebook (corpus doc 261)	Battle Queue (BQ) · Baddie Points (Baddie Pts)	p.18	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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Too Many Bones — Rulebook (corpus doc 261)	Game Objective · Tyrant and Day Counter	p.6	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Too Many Bones — Rulebook (corpus doc 261)	Encounters · Loot & Trove Loot · Baddies	p.7	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Too Many Bones — Rulebook (corpus doc 261)	Gearlocs · Other Components	p.7	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Too Many Bones — Rulebook (corpus doc 261)	Battle Set-up Sequence · BQ In Battle	p.18	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 243 ms · first delta 14575 ms · total 389328 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 369383 ms · retrieval 243 ms · ask 19692 ms · gateway work 19945 ms · total 389328 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3516
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 786
tok/sec: 147.6 tok/sec — 786 output tokens in 5.324 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 49s 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: NO_APPROVED_CHECKLIST — setup-shaped, but no approved setup checklist exists for this game
pattern that matched: SETUP — "setup" / "set up"
matched words (in the normalized question): set up

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 188), 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.