Ruling — Dungeon Lords

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What is the correct arrangement of components at the very beginning of a game?

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During setup, the components are arranged as follows: 1. Set up the game boards, tokens, figures, tiles, and cards as illustrated [1]. 2. Place the Distant Lands Board off to the side [1]. 3. Place the Progress Board where everyone can see it [2]. 4. Place the Central Board in the middle of the table so everyone can reach its components [2]. 5. For a two- or three-player game, fold the remaining Dungeon Boards and place them side up [2]. 6. Separate Monster (or Ghost) Tiles into two groups by their backs and mix each group; stack gold-backed tiles on the indicated space, then stack silver-backed tiles on top [3]. 7. Separate Room Tiles into two groups by their backs and mix each group; stack gold-backed tiles on the indicated space, then stack silver-backed tiles on top [3]. 8. Separate Adventurer Tiles into two groups by their backs and mix each group; put these stacks on the indicated spaces [3]. 9. Shuffle the three Event Tiles and place them face down on the indicated spaces of the spring, summer, and fall rounds [3]. 10. Shuffle the blue Special Event Cards, draw 2 at random, and place them face down on the Distant Lands Board (one underneath the Second Year Combat Cards Deck and one on top of it) [4]. 11. Shuffle the Combat Cards for the Second Year and choose four at random to place face down on the Distant Lands Board; return the rest to the box without looking at them [3].

[1] RULEBOOK Dungeon Lords — Rulebook · p.7 · Combat in Rooms · Rules · First Game · Setup · Distant Lands Board · Dungeon Boards

[2] RULEBOOK Dungeon Lords — Rulebook · p.7 · Progress Board (Building side up) · Non-Player Dungeon Boards · Central Board · Starting Player Token · Training Scenario

[3] RULEBOOK Dungeon Lords — Rulebook · p.9 · Progress Marker · Distant Lands Board · Adventurer Spaces · Rounds and Steps · Events · Discard Piles · …

[4] RULEBOOK Dungeon Lords — Rulebook · p.22 · Full Game · Choosing Initial Inaccessible Orders · Special Events · Recruiting as First Order

🔧 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 295 ms · ask 15606 ms · total 15911 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 15911 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 514 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 514 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 06:11

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 Dungeon Lords — Rulebook (corpus doc 514)	Revealing Orders	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
#2	RULEBOOK Dungeon Lords — Rulebook (corpus doc 514)	Full Game · Choosing Initial Inaccessible Orders · Special Events · Recruiting as First Order	p.22	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 Dungeon Lords — Rulebook (corpus doc 514)	End of the Round	p.17	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 Dungeon Lords — Rulebook (corpus doc 514)	Event Phase	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))	300
#5	RULEBOOK Dungeon Lords — Rulebook (corpus doc 514)	Adventurers Phase · Assigning Adventurers to 2 Players	p.17	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 Dungeon Lords — Rulebook (corpus doc 514)	Paladin	p.17	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 Dungeon Lords — Rulebook (corpus doc 514)	Progress Board (Building side up) · Non-Player Dungeon Boards · Central Board · Starting Player Token · Training Scenario	p.7	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 Dungeon Lords — Rulebook (corpus doc 514)	Setup · · New Round Phase	p.23	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 Dungeon Lords — Rulebook (corpus doc 514)	Combat in Rooms · Rules · First Game · Setup · Distant Lands Board · Dungeon Boards	p.7	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Dungeon Lords — Rulebook (corpus doc 514)	Progress Board (Building side up) · Non-Player Dungeon Boards · Central Board · Starting Player Token · Training Scenario	p.7	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Dungeon Lords — Rulebook (corpus doc 514)	Progress Marker · Distant Lands Board · Adventurer Spaces · Rounds and Steps · Events · Discard Piles · …	p.9	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Dungeon Lords — Rulebook (corpus doc 514)	Full Game · Choosing Initial Inaccessible Orders · Special Events · Recruiting as First Order	p.22	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 295 ms · first delta 13556 ms · total 15911 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 15606 ms · gateway work 15911 ms · total 15911 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4498
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 337
tok/sec: 147.2 tok/sec — 337 output tokens in 2.289 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 59s 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: BEGIN — "begin" / "beginning"
matched words (in the normalized question): beginning

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 445), 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.