Ruling — Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread

You asked

Before anyone takes a turn, how is everything laid out on the table?

Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below counted as honest abstain

Asked with: Arydia: The Paths We Dare Treadbg-219650-en-1e

The answerer couldn't ground a confident answer in the rulebook. The closest rulebook passages are below — check them before ruling.

RULEBOOK Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread — Rulebook · p.4 · Setup

(These rules are for continuing your campaign after Saving. If this is your first time playing, use the Quick Start Guide. ) Get the following components and place them on the table, leaving a play space in the middle. Worldmap A with Party token B and Mode token (set to Adventure mode) C . 1 Threat

RULEBOOK Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread — Rulebook · p.11 ·

When directed to update a component’s state, return it to the Index without looking at it! Components that have changed states, such as NPCs, POIs, Maps, etc. will need to be encountered/explored again via a pointer. Often times state changes happen at the end of an encounter, and you will not come

RULEBOOK Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread — Rulebook · p.13 ·

• Title • Narrative Text • ID and State • Rules Text Events usually resolve with being banished, or returned the card to the index as cleared (card ID on the right). 1 • 2 3 • 4 On the front of the card the Guide should read the title and the narration text; then seeing the flip icon, the Guide shou

RULEBOOK Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread — Rulebook · p.16 ·

If the destination hex is unexplored (face down), reveal it, by flipping it face up, then put it back into its hex on the Worldmap. Place the Party token on the hex. The travel action is now complete.

RULEBOOK Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread — Rulebook · p.16 ·

Before resolving, you may take any number of skill or item actions (such as using a Knapsack to regain SP). 3. If the destination hex is unexplored (face down), reveal it, by flipping it face up, then put it back into its hex on the Worldmap. Place the Party token on the hex. The travel action is no

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ABSTAINED — Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below
corpus profile: live
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only): gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
timings: search 295 ms · ask 15549 ms · total 15855 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 15855 ms
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citations (raw): []
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 519 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 519 boosted
answered-before recall: no past answered ruling for this game matched closely enough
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 06:03

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 Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread — Rulebook (corpus doc 519)	Setup	p.4	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 Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread — Rulebook (corpus doc 519)		p.11	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 Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread — Rulebook (corpus doc 519)		p.13	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 Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread — Rulebook (corpus doc 519)		p.16	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))	200
#5	RULEBOOK Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread — Rulebook (corpus doc 519)		p.16	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 Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread — Rulebook (corpus doc 519)		p.16	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))	203
#7	RULEBOOK Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread — Rulebook (corpus doc 519)	Setup	p.5	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 Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread — Rulebook (corpus doc 519)		p.20	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

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 295 ms · first delta 15734 ms · total 15855 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 295 ms · ask 15549 ms · gateway work 15855 ms · total 15855 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 5121
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 9
tok/sec: 134.3 tok/sec — 9 output tokens in 0.067 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 19s 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: ABSTAINED — Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below
abstain rationale: I don't have enough information.
the answerer's own words, verbatim — hostile corpus/LLM text, rendered escaped

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 450), 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.