Ruling — Here I Stand

You asked

What needs to be placed on the table before the first round begins?

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

Asked with: Here I Standbg-17392-en-1e

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

RULEBOOK Here I Stand — Rulebook · p.7 · Mandatory Event Cards

Cards with the name of the card in red and the word 'Mandatory' printed on them are Mandatory Event cards. Mandatory Event must be played during the Action Phase of the turn in which they are drawn. When played, the event is always resolved first, then the playing power receives 2 command points to

RULEBOOK Here I Stand — Rulebook · p.8 · 6.2 The Deck · Adding Cards · Dealing Cards

The cards available to each power each turn consist of their Home card(s) and a variable number of cards dealt to that power from a single deck of shared cards. The deck is reshuffled each turn, after any new cards for that turn have been added, and before cards are dealt to each power. The upper-ri

RULEBOOK Here I Stand — Rulebook · p.27 · Diet of Worms Procedure · Publishing a Treatise

Select Commitment Card: The Protestant, Hapsburgs, and Papacy all secretly select one card from their hand to represent their level of commitment to these proceedings. Each of these powers must play a card. The card may not be a Mandatory Event. A power may choose its Home card. Cards with higher CP

RULEBOOK Here I Stand — Rulebook · p.9 · Discard Pile & Cards Out of Play

After a card is played, it is either removed from the game or placed in a single discard pile shared by all players: Out of Play: Cards are removed from the game if they are played as an event and the text 'Remove from deck if played as event' or 'Remove from deck after play' appears on the card. Ca

RULEBOOK Here I Stand — Rulebook · p.9 · 7. SEQUENCE OF PLAY

The game is played in nine turns or fewer. The first turn represents the period from 1517 to 1523. Each subsequent turn covers a fouryear period. Each turn consists of nine phases. The sixth phase, the Action Phase, is the most time-consuming phase, for it includes a variable number of rounds where

🔧 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 231 ms · ask 13557 ms · total 79028 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 65230 ms · generation 13798 ms
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citations (raw): []
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 540 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 540 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 08:03

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 Here I Stand — Rulebook (corpus doc 540)	Mandatory Event Cards	p.7	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 Here I Stand — Rulebook (corpus doc 540)	6.2 The Deck · Adding Cards · Dealing Cards	p.8	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 Here I Stand — Rulebook (corpus doc 540)	Diet of Worms Procedure · Publishing a Treatise	p.27	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 Here I Stand — Rulebook (corpus doc 540)	Discard Pile & Cards Out of Play	p.9	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 Here I Stand — Rulebook (corpus doc 540)	7. SEQUENCE OF PLAY	p.9	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 Here I Stand — Rulebook (corpus doc 540)	Marital Status Changes	p.37	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 Here I Stand — Rulebook (corpus doc 540)	The English Succession	p.37	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 Here I Stand — Rulebook (corpus doc 540)	Debater Bonuses	p.28	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 231 ms · first delta 13669 ms · total 79028 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 65230 ms · retrieval 231 ms · ask 13557 ms · gateway work 13798 ms · total 79028 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4386
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 9
tok/sec: 136.4 tok/sec — 9 output tokens in 0.066 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 37s 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 472), 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.