Ruling — Keep the Heroes Out!

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How should we prepare everything before the first turn?

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Asked with: Keep the Heroes Out!bg-333255-en-1e

To prepare everything before the first turn, follow these steps: 1. Choose one of the scenarios available in the Dungeon Book and build the dungeon exactly as described in it [1]. 2. Place all Treasure Tokens face down and shuffle them; when a scenario asks you to place one in a Dungeon Room, pick one at random from the shuffled pile [1]. 3. Shuffle all Beast, Potion, Equipment, and Scroll cards together to create the Loot deck, place it face down next to the dungeon, and reveal the top 5 cards [1]. 4. Shuffle all Warrior, Rogue, Mage, and Archer cards along with the Scenario cards from your chosen scenario to make the Guild deck, and place the deck face down next to the dungeon [1]. 5. Decide the difficulty level for the session and place the Guild deck on top of the chosen Difficulty Level tile [1]. 6. Starting with the youngest player and proceeding clockwise, every player chooses a Monster Clan, taking their matching Clan Card, Tactic Cards, and Monsters [1]. 7. For each player, shuffle all the Tactics cards that match their Clan and place them face down next to their Clan Card to create their Tactics deck; then draw the top 5 cards and put them in their hand [1]. 8. At the beginning of the game, place a total number of Monsters (equal to the number indicated on the Clan Card) in rooms matching the type shown on the card [1].

[1] RULEBOOK Keep the Heroes Out! — Rulebook · p.3 · Build the Dungeon · Placing Treasures · Loot Availability · Prepare the Guild · Select the Diffi culty Level:

🔧 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 212 ms · ask 7593 ms · total 25462 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 17650 ms · generation 7812 ms
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citations (raw): [{"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Build the Dungeon · Placing Treasures · Loot Availability · Prepare the Guild · Select the Diffi culty Level:", "sharpsignalDocId": 453}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 453 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 453 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 7, 2026 05:08

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 Keep the Heroes Out! — Rulebook (corpus doc 453)	Player's Turn	p.5	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
#2	RULEBOOK Keep the Heroes Out! — Rulebook (corpus doc 453)	Player's Turn Example · Phase 2: Refresh Loot · Phase 3: Clean Up and Upkeep	p.13	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
#3	RULEBOOK Keep the Heroes Out! — Rulebook (corpus doc 453)	Player's Turn · Actions · Draw: · Place a resource: · Choose wisely: · Activate: · …	p.16	0.031746 (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 Keep the Heroes Out! — Rulebook (corpus doc 453)		p.11	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 Keep the Heroes Out! — Rulebook (corpus doc 453)	Special Room: Laboratory	p.8	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 Keep the Heroes Out! — Rulebook (corpus doc 453)	Special Room: Cells	p.8	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 Keep the Heroes Out! — Rulebook (corpus doc 453)		p.11	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 Keep the Heroes Out! — Rulebook (corpus doc 453)		p.4	0.029412 (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 Keep the Heroes Out! — Rulebook (corpus doc 453)	Build the Dungeon · Placing Treasures · Loot Availability · Prepare the Guild · Select the Diffi culty Level:	p.3	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 212 ms · first delta 5511 ms · total 25462 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 17650 ms · retrieval 212 ms · ask 7593 ms · gateway work 7812 ms · total 25462 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3725
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 305
tok/sec: 135.2 tok/sec — 305 output tokens in 2.256 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 0s 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 383), 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.