Ruling — Set a Watch

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The game is played over a series of 9 rounds, consisting of 8 random Locations and 1 Final Location.[1] Each round is composed of a Camp phase and a Watch phase.[2][1]

Setup

1. Place the Camp board and Rest Tokens within easy reach of all players, and separate the Unhallowed and Summon cards.[3][4]

2. Select Adventurers: there must always be four Adventurers in play.[3] Depending on player count, players select one, two, or four Adventurers.[3]

3. For each selected Adventurer, take their board, 5 Ability cards, and 3 corresponding dice.[3][4]

4. Shuffle the Adventurer's Ability cards, draw 2 cards at random to place faceup on the Adventurer board, draw a 3rd card to place facedown (exhausted), and place the remaining 2 cards off to the side faceup.[3][4][5]

5. Place three equipped Ability cards in the Ability Slots.[3][4][5]

Sequence of Play

1. Before moving to the Camp phase, all Adventurers roll their dice.[2][1]

2. Players decide as a team which Adventurer will go to the Camp.[2][1]

3. The Adventurer in Camp assigns their dice to camp actions and/or Runes on the back of the map deck to resolve those actions.[2][1]

4. The remaining Adventurers are on Watch to eliminate Creatures.[2][1]

5. Draw the top location card from the Map deck and place it as the current location on the Camp board.[2][6]

6. Place the fire token to 7 firewood on the Camp Board (or roll a d6 to set a random starting amount).[2][6]

7. During the Watch Phase, reveal Creatures one at a time based on the Campfire reveal level.[7]

8. Trigger any relevant Reveal, Ongoing, and/or Position Creature powers in order.[7]

9. Adventurers use Abilities, Items, and direct attacks to defeat Creatures.[7]

10. As soon as a Creature is defeated, advance the Line and return to revealing the next Creature.[7]

11. When Creatures are defeated, they go to the Graveyard; if not defeated, they end up in the Horde.[2][6]

The Final Round

1. When the final Location is revealed, all Adventurers go on final Watch with no Camp phase.[7]

2. Proceed to setup the Line normally, then draw cards from the Horde deck and place them facedown at the end of the Line until the entire Horde deck has been added.[7]

3. Gameplay proceeds as normal to the Watch phase.[7]

Winning and Losing

* Winning: The Adventurers win if, at the end of the Final Round, at least one Adventurer has an unexhausted Ability card and there are no more Creature cards in the Line.[7]

* Losing: The game is lost if all Adventurers on Watch have all their Ability cards exhausted, or if an Unhallowed is to be summoned but the Unhallowed deck is empty.[7]

[1] RULEBOOK Set a Watch — Rulebook · p.7 · Gameplay · Locations

[2] RULEBOOK Set a Watch — Rulebook · p.6

[3] RULEBOOK Set a Watch — Rulebook · p.3 · 1. Set out the board and Components · 2. Select Adventurers · A. Adventurer Class

[4] RULEBOOK Set a Watch — Rulebook · p.2

[5] RULEBOOK Set a Watch — Rulebook · p.2

[6] RULEBOOK Set a Watch — Rulebook · p.6 · 6. Light the Fire! · Creatures · Summon and Unhallowed cards

[7] RULEBOOK Set a Watch — Rulebook · p.13 · The Final Round · Winning the Game · Losing the Game · Order of Play

Rule found, game on.

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

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answered-before recall: this ruling was answered, so past rulings were not offered
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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.

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#3	RULEBOOK Set a Watch — Rulebook (corpus doc 1079)	Round Overview · 3. Watch Phase: · 4. End Watch: · Order of Play	p.24	0.047379 (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 Set a Watch — Rulebook (corpus doc 1079)		p.6	0.046394 (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 Set a Watch — Rulebook (corpus doc 1079)	The Final Round · Winning the Game · Losing the Game · Order of Play	p.13	0.044404 (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 Set a Watch — Rulebook (corpus doc 1079)	Order of Play · Example	p.14	0.042803 (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 Set a Watch — Rulebook (corpus doc 1079)		p.2	0.041214 (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 Set a Watch — Rulebook (corpus doc 1079)	Runes: · Watch Phase · Setting up the Line	p.10	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

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 57 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 Set a Watch — Rulebook (corpus doc 1079)	1. Set out the board and Components · 2. Select Adventurers · A. Adventurer Class	p.3	#1	0.04866 (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 Set a Watch — Rulebook (corpus doc 1079)	The Final Round · Winning the Game · Losing the Game · Order of Play	p.13	#5	0.044404 (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
#3	RULEBOOK Set a Watch — Rulebook (corpus doc 1079)		p.6	#4	0.046394 (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 Set a Watch — Rulebook (corpus doc 1079)	6. Light the Fire! · Creatures · Summon and Unhallowed cards	p.6	#25	0.024203 (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 Set a Watch — Rulebook (corpus doc 1079)		p.2	#15	0.02578 (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 Set a Watch — Rulebook (corpus doc 1079)	Glossary	p.23	#29	0.022922 (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
#7	RULEBOOK Set a Watch — Rulebook (corpus doc 1079)		p.2	#7	0.041214 (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 Set a Watch — Rulebook (corpus doc 1079)	Gameplay · Locations	p.7	#2	0.047643 (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 Set a Watch — Rulebook (corpus doc 1079)	Gameplay · Locations	p.7	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Set a Watch — Rulebook (corpus doc 1079)		p.6	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Set a Watch — Rulebook (corpus doc 1079)	1. Set out the board and Components · 2. Select Adventurers · A. Adventurer Class	p.3	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Set a Watch — Rulebook (corpus doc 1079)		p.2	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Set a Watch — Rulebook (corpus doc 1079)		p.2	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Set a Watch — Rulebook (corpus doc 1079)	6. Light the Fire! · Creatures · Summon and Unhallowed cards	p.6	no quote on the wire
[7]	RULEBOOK Set a Watch — Rulebook (corpus doc 1079)	The Final Round · Winning the Game · Losing the Game · Order of Play	p.13	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 152 ms · first delta 3413 ms · total 18181 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 10287 ms · retrieval 152 ms · ask 7740 ms · gateway work 7894 ms · total 18181 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3325
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 698
tok/sec: 159.5 tok/sec — 698 output tokens in 4.377 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 11s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, checked 2s 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 1009), 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.