Ruling — Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition

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Asked with: Pax Renaissance: 2nd Editionbg-308119-en-1e

Each player takes a turn in a clockwise fashion.[1] On your turn, you must perform either 1 or 2 actions.[2] You must take at least one of your two actions.[1] You cannot choose an action unless it changes the game state in some way.[2] After choosing your actions, you perform a market refresh.[1]

The possible actions are:

1. Purchase Market Card (E1): Pay Florins to the Market to take a faceup card into your Hand.[2] If you take a facedown card to start a trade fair, you must discard it rather than put it into your Hand.[3]

2. Play Hand Card (E2): Play a card from your Hand into your Tableau.[1][2]

* Place an East card to the furthest right side of your Tableau, or a West card to the furthest left side.[4]

* If the card has a bomb icon, you must decide and announce if the One-shot occurs.[4]

* If the One-shot occurs, you must deploy the card's Agent(s).[4] If it is a Civil or Religious War, Agents (Rook, Knight, Pawn, or Pirate) can function as attackers in a Battle.[4] If some survive, they are Victorious and cause a REGIME CHANGE.[4] If the One-shot is a trade shift or coronation, there is no Battle, but Agents must be deployed.[4]

* If no One-shot occurs, the placement of Agent Tokens is optional.[4]

* Agent placement options include:

* Bishop Agent: Place directly on the played Tableau card, or on any Tableau card or Throne with the same Location.[4]

* Rook & Knight Agents: Place into a choice of Cities on the specified Empire.[4] If the City is occupied by a Token, you must Repress it and pay 1 Florin to China for each Token repressed.[4]

* Pirate Agents: Place a pirate ship of the specified color into a Sea Border surrounding the specified Empire.[4] If a Token (Concession or Pirate) is already there, it is Killed for no cost.[4]

* Pawn Agents: Place one Pawn of your color into a Border of the specified Empire.[5] If a Concession is already there, you must pay 1 Florin to China to Repress it.[5] You cannot place a Pawn into a Border occupied by a Pirate.[5]

3. Sell Card (E3): Discard one card from your Hand or Tableau to receive 2 Florins from China.[2]

4. Activate Eastern Ops (E4): Each card in your Eastern Tableau can perform one of its depicted Ops once per player turn.[2]

5. Activate Western Ops (E4): Each card in your Western Tableau can perform one of its depicted Ops once per player turn.[2]

6. Convene an Eastern Trade Fair (E5): Discard the facedown card in the East Market to start a voyage following the black Trade Route.[2]

7. Convene a Western Trade Fair (E5): Discard the facedown card in the West Market to start a voyage following the white Trade Route.[2]

8. Victory Action (E6): This action wins the game if you meet the requirements.[2]

[1] RULEBOOK Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition — Rulebook · p.2 · A2 - FLOW OF PLAY OVERVIEW

[2] RULEBOOK Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition — Rulebook · p.12 · D1. ACTION PHASE · (Max twice per turn) · (Max once per turn)

[3] RULEBOOK Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition — Rulebook · p.15 · E2. PLAY HAND CARD & PLACE AGENTS · Purchase Market Card Example · One-Shot Example

[4] RULEBOOK Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition — Rulebook · p.14 · E2. PLAY HAND CARD & PLACE AGENTS

[5] RULEBOOK Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition — Rulebook · p.14 · E2. PLAY HAND CARD & PLACE AGENTS

So says the rulebook. So plays the table.

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
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base rulebook doc 446 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)
answer fence: passed — letter density 0.90212 of 2217 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Aug 27, 2026 19:52 UTC

retrieval — what the passage search returned

what this block IS: the PASSAGE SEARCH's own results — the same search that fills this page's closest-passages list — and NOT the passages the answerer read. Answering runs its OWN retrieval: a far wider candidate pool, re-ranked down to a final handful, plus floors this search never applies — the base rulebook, surviving errata corrections, and one slot per book on a multi-book read. Each of those armed only if THIS ask sent what it needs: the boost block names the ids it forwarded, and the scope line names the books it read. A document the answer CITES that no row here names is therefore EXPECTED, not a defect: two searches, two candidate pools, two orders. The answerer's own final rows are shown in their own block below, beside these and never mixed into them.

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 Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 446)	A2 - FLOW OF PLAY OVERVIEW	p.2	0.048652 (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 Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 446)	E2. PLAY HAND CARD & PLACE AGENTS	p.14	0.047371 (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 Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 446)	E2. PLAY HAND CARD & PLACE AGENTS · Purchase Market Card Example · One-Shot Example	p.15	0.045541 (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 Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 446)	D1. ACTION PHASE · (Max twice per turn) · (Max once per turn)	p.12	0.044854 (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 Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 446)		p.17	0.043313 (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 Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 446)	C3. PLAYER TABLEAUX · C4. STARTING RULING CLASS · C5. PREPARING THE EAST & WEST DRAW DECKS · C6. THE MARKET, THRONES, & VICTORY SQUARES	p.10	0.04212 (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 Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 446)	B1. GAME CONTENTS · B2. GAMEBOARD ANATOMY · B3. PLAYER BOARDS	p.4	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 Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 446)	A3. OBJECTIVE OF THE GAME · A4. CHANGES FROM 1ST EDITION	p.3	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

what the answerer read — the passages it actually had in front of it

what this block IS: the passages the ANSWERING read put in front of the answerer, in the order it read them — the other half of the two reads described above, and the one that decides what the answer could possibly say. Each row names the book it came from and where in that book it sits, what it scored when the search arms were fused, which arm carried it there, and whether the re-ranker chose it or a floor guaranteed it a slot. A row here that no passage-search row names is EXPECTED: a far wider pool, re-ranked, with floors the passage search never applies.

candidate pool: the answering read scored 80 passages, out of a ceiling of 80 set gateway-side. Both figures are reported by the gateway for THIS ask — measurements of what actually happened, not constants read out of anyone's source and printed here on faith.

floors armed for this ask: the base rulebook — armed · surviving errata corrections — not armed · one slot per book on a multi-book read — not armed. Every floor is stated on every ask, armed or not, so a floor that did not apply here is never mistaken for one this app does not know about.

arms fused for this ask: vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm. Stated separately from the rows because an arm that ran and carried nothing is a different fact from an arm that never ran.

read at	document	heading	page	fused rank	fused RRF score	carried by	how it got its slot
#1	RULEBOOK Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 446)	A2 - FLOW OF PLAY OVERVIEW	p.2	#1	0.048652 (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))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#2	RULEBOOK Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 446)		p.17	#12	0.026334 (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))	vector + full-text	the re-ranker chose it
#3	RULEBOOK Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 446)	D1. ACTION PHASE · (Max twice per turn) · (Max once per turn)	p.12	#4	0.044854 (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))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#4	RULEBOOK Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 446)	E2. PLAY HAND CARD & PLACE AGENTS	p.14	#22	0.023138 (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))	vector + full-text	the re-ranker chose it
#5	RULEBOOK Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 446)		p.33	#11	0.026862 (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))	vector + full-text	the re-ranker chose it
#6	RULEBOOK Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 446)		p.17	#5	0.043313 (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))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#7	RULEBOOK Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 446)	E2. PLAY HAND CARD & PLACE AGENTS	p.14	#2	0.047371 (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))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#8	RULEBOOK Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 446)	E2. PLAY HAND CARD & PLACE AGENTS · Purchase Market Card Example · One-Shot Example	p.15	#3	0.045541 (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))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 446)	A2 - FLOW OF PLAY OVERVIEW	p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 446)	D1. ACTION PHASE · (Max twice per turn) · (Max once per turn)	p.12	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 446)	E2. PLAY HAND CARD & PLACE AGENTS · Purchase Market Card Example · One-Shot Example	p.15	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 446)	E2. PLAY HAND CARD & PLACE AGENTS	p.14	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Pax Renaissance: 2nd Edition — Rulebook (corpus doc 446)	E2. PLAY HAND CARD & PLACE AGENTS	p.14	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 98 ms · first delta 3778 ms · total 7328 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 98 ms · ask 7228 ms · gateway work 7328 ms · total 7328 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3767
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 704
tok/sec: 201.1 tok/sec — 704 output tokens in 3.501 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 41s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, checked 0s ago)
answerer node (the seat proxy's own header — this probe, not this ask): node1
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 376), 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.