Ruling — Lords of Waterdeep: Scoundrels of Skullport

← Lords of Waterdeep: Scoundrels of Skullport

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How do I set up the game?

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To set up the game, follow these steps: 1. Randomly remove 25 Intrigue cards, 30 Quest cards, and 12 Building tiles from those included with the Lords of Waterdeep base game [1]. 2. Shuffle the remaining Intrigue cards and Quest cards with the corresponding types from each module [2][1]. 3. Shuffle the remaining Buildings with those from both modules [1]. 4. For the Undermountain module: shuffle its components with the corresponding components of the Lords of Waterdeep base game [2], then place the Undermountain game board near the main Lords of Waterwords game board within easy reach of all players [2][3]. 5. For the Skullport module: shuffle its components with the corresponding components of the Lords of Waterdeep base game [2], shuffle the Buildings from the Skullport module with those from the base game [4], and place the two Skullport game boards near the main Lords of Waterdeep game board within easy reach of all players [2][4]. 6. Prepare the Corruption track by placing 1 Corruption token on the '-1' space and 3 tokens on all other spaces (specifically, 3 tokens on each of the spaces labeled '-2' through '-9') [2][4]. 7. Each player chooses a color and takes a number of that color's Agents according to the number of players [2]. For the long game, take the number of Agents shown in the long game column (e.g., 5 agents for 2 players, 4 agents for 3 players, 3 agents for 4 or 5 players, and 2 agents for 6 players) [2][1]. 8. Proceed with setup as normal [2][1][4][3].

[1] RULEBOOK Lords of Waterdeep: Scoundrels of Skullport — Rulebook · p.5 · PLACING RESOURCES ON ACTION SPACES · ADVENTURER CARAVANS · SIX-PLAYER GAMES · OPTIONAL RULE: LONG GAME · LONG GAME · OPTIONAL RULE: USING TWO MODULES

[2] RULEBOOK Lords of Waterdeep: Scoundrels of Skullport — Rulebook · p.16 · RULES REFERENCE · SETUP · CORRUPTION · FINAL SCORING · OPTIONAL RULE: USING TWO MODULES

[3] RULEBOOK Lords of Waterdeep: Scoundrels of Skullport — Rulebook · p.6 · OPTIONAL RULE: USING TWO MODULES · SETUP

[4] RULEBOOK Lords of Waterdeep: Scoundrels of Skullport — Rulebook · p.7 · SETUP · THE CORRUPTION TRACK

🔧 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 354 ms · ask 8856 ms · total 9227 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 9227 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base-rulebook boost: not recorded (this ruling predates it); rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base-rulebook boost: not recorded (this ruling predates it)
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: Oct 31, 2026 08:31

retrieval — what the search arm returned

score = the fused retrieval score (reciprocal-rank fusion over the search arms) — NOT a cosine similarity. How many arms fused this ruling was NOT RECORDED (it predates the boost trail, ran on the path that stored none, or stored one that could not be read), and the ceiling depends on that count (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60): 2 arms top out at 0.03279; 3 arms top out at 0.04918. So a score above 0.03279 here is not an anomaly: it is arithmetic proof a boost arm voted, and the measured band 0.016–0.033 (taken on two-arm asks) is what does not apply. 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 Lords of Waterdeep: Scoundrels of Skullport — Rulebook (corpus doc 116)	RULES REFERENCE · SETUP · CORRUPTION · FINAL SCORING · OPTIONAL RULE: USING TWO MODULES	p.16	0.032787 (at the 2-arm ceiling (0.03279) — the top of a 2-arm fuse; whether more arms ran here was never recorded)	300
#2	RULEBOOK Lords of Waterdeep: Scoundrels of Skullport — Rulebook (corpus doc 116)	OPTIONAL RULE: USING TWO MODULES · SETUP	p.6	0.032002 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded))	300
#3	RULEBOOK Lords of Waterdeep: Scoundrels of Skullport — Rulebook (corpus doc 116)	PLACING RESOURCES ON ACTION SPACES · ADVENTURER CARAVANS · SIX-PLAYER GAMES · OPTIONAL RULE: LONG GAME · LONG GAME · OPTIONAL RULE: USING TWO MODULES	p.5	0.031754 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded))	300
#4	RULEBOOK Lords of Waterdeep: Scoundrels of Skullport — Rulebook (corpus doc 116)	SETUP · THE CORRUPTION TRACK	p.7	0.031258 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded))	300
#5	RULEBOOK Lords of Waterdeep: Scoundrels of Skullport — Rulebook (corpus doc 116)	ADVANCED BUILDINGS · LORD CARDS	p.15	0.029211 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded))	300
#6	RULEBOOK Lords of Waterdeep: Scoundrels of Skullport — Rulebook (corpus doc 116)	APPENDIX 1: NEW BUILDINGS · BASIC BUILDINGS · ENTRY WELL · HALL OF MIRRORS · THE GRIM STATUE · HALL OF THE VOICE · …	p.9	0.02904 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded))	300
#7	RULEBOOK Lords of Waterdeep: Scoundrels of Skullport — Rulebook (corpus doc 116)	INTRODUCTION · UNDERMOUNTAIN · SKULLPORT · GAME COMPONENTS · 37 wooden pieces: · 116 cards: · …	p.3	0.02758 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded))	300
#8	RULEBOOK Lords of Waterdeep: Scoundrels of Skullport — Rulebook (corpus doc 116)	GENERAL RULES	p.14	0.015625 (below the measured healthy band (< 0.016) — a weak fuse on a two-arm ask, and this ruling's arm count was never recorded)	300

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Lords of Waterdeep: Scoundrels of Skullport — Rulebook (corpus doc 116)	PLACING RESOURCES ON ACTION SPACES · ADVENTURER CARAVANS · SIX-PLAYER GAMES · OPTIONAL RULE: LONG GAME · LONG GAME · OPTIONAL RULE: USING TWO MODULES	p.5	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Lords of Waterdeep: Scoundrels of Skullport — Rulebook (corpus doc 116)	RULES REFERENCE · SETUP · CORRUPTION · FINAL SCORING · OPTIONAL RULE: USING TWO MODULES	p.16	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Lords of Waterdeep: Scoundrels of Skullport — Rulebook (corpus doc 116)	OPTIONAL RULE: USING TWO MODULES · SETUP	p.6	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Lords of Waterdeep: Scoundrels of Skullport — Rulebook (corpus doc 116)	SETUP · THE CORRUPTION TRACK	p.7	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 354 ms · first delta 6427 ms · total 9227 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 354 ms · ask 8856 ms · gateway work 9227 ms · total 9227 ms
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 48s 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: SETUP — "setup" / "set up"
matched words (in the normalized question): set up

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 38), 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.