Ruling — Dungeon Fighter

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A game of Dungeon Fighter is played over several rounds, each consisting of three phases:

1. Movement Phase [1][2]

2. Encounter Phase [2]

3. Maintenance Phase [2]

During the Movement Phase, the party moves to a new room in the dungeon.[1][2]

To fight a monster, starting with the first player, each player takes a turn "swinging" at the monster by following these steps:

1. Choose One Die: The player chooses one of the colored dice in his play area to throw at the target board. If he has no dice in his play area, he must either take one bonus die from the chest token or the party suffers damage.[3]

2. Throw the Die: The player throws the die at the target board, following the rules for throwing dice.[3] The die must bounce at least once on the play surface outside the target board before touching the board.[4]

3. Check If the Hero Made Contact or Missed: The player checks the conditions to see if the hero missed.[3] A throw counts as a miss if the die does not bounce at least once outside the target board before touching the board, if it touches the table through the holes in the target board, if it lands on one of the bones on the target board, or if it lands outside the target board.[4]

4. If the hero made contact, he deals damage to the monster equal to the number of the target board section the die lands in (plus bonuses from equipment, if any).[3] If the die lands showing the special icon, the player activates the hero's ability related to that die's color.[4]

5. Reduce the monster's hit points on the hit point sheet by the amount of damage dealt.[3]

A fight can end in one of two ways:

1. The heroes defeat the monster: This occurs if they have collectively dealt enough damage to reduce the monster's hit points to '0' or less, and the party proceeds to the Maintenance phase.[4]

2. All heroes have fainted: This occurs if the heroes suffer damage that reduces their hit points to '0' or less, resulting in the party losing the game.[4]

[1] RULEBOOK Dungeon Fighter — Rulebook · p.4 · The Game Round · 1) Movement Phase

[2] RULEBOOK Dungeon Fighter — Rulebook · p.4

[3] RULEBOOK Dungeon Fighter — Rulebook · p.5 · FIGHT THE MONSTER

[4] RULEBOOK Dungeon Fighter — Rulebook · p.7 · FIGHT THE MONSTER · Rules for Throwing Dice · Ending a fight · Swing and a Miss!

Settled. Play on.

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live,vps
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only): gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
timings: search 204 ms · ask 3750 ms · total 3958 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 3958 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1271 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1271 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 0.92782 of 1607 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 6, 2026 13:50 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 Dungeon Fighter — Rulebook (corpus doc 1271)	FIGHT THE MONSTER	p.5	0.047712 (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 Fighter — Rulebook (corpus doc 1271)	Setup	p.3	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))	300
#3	RULEBOOK Dungeon Fighter — Rulebook (corpus doc 1271)	FIGHT THE MONSTER · Rules for Throwing Dice · Ending a fight · Swing and a Miss!	p.7	0.046898 (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 Fighter — Rulebook (corpus doc 1271)		p.6	0.045262 (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 Fighter — Rulebook (corpus doc 1271)	CREATING THE DUNGEON	p.3	0.043364 (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 Fighter — Rulebook (corpus doc 1271)		p.4	0.043301 (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 Fighter — Rulebook (corpus doc 1271)	Specific Throw Requirements (weapons, rooms, or monsters)	p.11	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
#8	RULEBOOK Dungeon Fighter — Rulebook (corpus doc 1271)	Specific Throw Requirements (weapons, rooms, or monsters)	p.11	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

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 26 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 Dungeon Fighter — Rulebook (corpus doc 1271)	Setup	p.3	#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
#2	RULEBOOK Dungeon Fighter — Rulebook (corpus doc 1271)	CREATING THE DUNGEON	p.3	#5	0.043364 (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 Dungeon Fighter — Rulebook (corpus doc 1271)	CREATING THE DUNGEON	p.3	#10	0.029572 (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
#4	RULEBOOK Dungeon Fighter — Rulebook (corpus doc 1271)	The Game Round · 1) Movement Phase	p.4	#14	0.028175 (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 Dungeon Fighter — Rulebook (corpus doc 1271)		p.4	#6	0.043301 (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
#6	RULEBOOK Dungeon Fighter — Rulebook (corpus doc 1271)	FIGHT THE MONSTER · Rules for Throwing Dice · Ending a fight · Swing and a Miss!	p.7	#3	0.046898 (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 Dungeon Fighter — Rulebook (corpus doc 1271)	Specific Throw Requirements (weapons, rooms, or monsters)	p.11	#7	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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#8	RULEBOOK Dungeon Fighter — Rulebook (corpus doc 1271)	FIGHT THE MONSTER	p.5	#1	0.047712 (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 Dungeon Fighter — Rulebook (corpus doc 1271)	The Game Round · 1) Movement Phase	p.4	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Dungeon Fighter — Rulebook (corpus doc 1271)		p.4	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Dungeon Fighter — Rulebook (corpus doc 1271)	FIGHT THE MONSTER	p.5	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Dungeon Fighter — Rulebook (corpus doc 1271)	FIGHT THE MONSTER · Rules for Throwing Dice · Ending a fight · Swing and a Miss!	p.7	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 204 ms · first delta 1571 ms · total 3958 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 204 ms · ask 3750 ms · gateway work 3958 ms · total 3958 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2504
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 471
tok/sec: 202.1 tok/sec — 471 output tokens in 2.330 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 52s 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 1201), 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.