Catacombs 3E

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What is the Gelatinous Cube piece?
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Why are discs different colours?
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Are Antients immune to all shots and shot modifiers?
Yes.
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Can Antients be damaged, destroyed, or suppressed?
No.
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What are Antient's immune to?
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Who controls the Antients?
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How many Spell cards do allies get?
2.
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How many Ability cards does an ally start with?
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What's an ally's maximum health?
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Can allies buy or sell items?
No.
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Is an ally's earned gold given to its hero?
Yes.
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Can allies themselves earn gold?
No.
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Can allies be resurrected?
No.
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Can allies be devoured, poisoned, or stunned?
No.
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What happens when a hero controlling an ally dies?
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Do heroes or allies take their turns first?
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Do I take turns for both the ally and hero during each round in the Battle Phase?
Yes.
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Does a hero immediately die once the Poison cards equal their starting maximum health?
Yes.
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Does a hero draw Poison cards if they didn't suffer damage?
No.
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What if there are no more Poison cards left to draw, but a hero has been poisoned?
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Are undead monsters vulnerable to fire walls and fire obstacles?
Yes.
What are monster vulnerabilities?
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Can I perform an item's shot sequence and the hero's shot sequence during my turn?
No.
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Can I choose to do the permanent item's shot sequence?
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When are items played once per room refreshed?
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Can any hero buy and wield weapons?
No.
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Can every hero buy and cast spells?
No.
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Can a stunned hero use an item?
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Can items be given away or traded?
No.
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Is there a limit on how many Item cards a hero can carry?
No.
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Are hero enhancements optional?
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What is a hero enhancement?
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Why is there a hero's face on my Item card?
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Do dead familiars return in the next Setup Phase?
Yes.
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Can a stunned or devoured hero still take turns with its familiar?
Yes.
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Can familiars be teleported or devoured?
Yes.
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Can familiars be frozen or stunned?
No.
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Can familiars earn gold?
No.
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Does a familiar stay with its hero until the end of the game?
Yes.
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How many familiars can a hero have?
1.
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Do heroes or familiars take their turn first?
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How many Combo items can be played per turn?
1.
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When can Combo items be played?
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Can Catacomb Lords be devoured?
No.
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Can Catacomb Lords be frozen?
No.
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Does suppression prevent the shot modifier too?
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What are the monster icons?
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What happens if I draw the same Monster Metre icon twice randomly?
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What is suppression?
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What's a Suppresses Box?
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Can you perform a melee after doing a Runic Shift?
Yes.
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Can characters heal beyond their starting limit?
No.
Do all heroes heal with Heal All?
Yes.
How many points do heroes recover with Heal All?
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Do heroes collect the discs of monsters they've killed?
Yes.
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Is the Overseer required to transform the Fire Spirit into the fire wall?
No.
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Can the Overseer control the fire wall?
No.
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Do reflected shots cause damage to the shooter?
Yes.
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What happens to a reflected shot?
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What happens to a nullified shot?
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What do the arrows and lines in the shot sequence mean?
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What do the symbols in the shot sequence mean?
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What are shot connectors?
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What's a shot sequence?
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Do I remove the shield piece when the owner dies?
Yes.
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Do I remove the shield piece at the end of the Battle Phase?
Yes.
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How do you destroy shadow monsters?
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What determines a monster's family?
The colour.
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What are the monster colours?
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Can I refresh an Ability or Item card?
How many times can Item cards be refreshed?
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Where do I get Item cards?
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Can players perform a rush shot before playing a Spell card?
Can heroes do their shot sequence and play a card in the same turn?
No.
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Who decides the turn order for heroes?
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Who is the strongest Catacomb Lord?
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Who is the weakest Catacomb Lord?
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Who chooses the Catacomb Lord?
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Which heroes should beginners start with?
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Can players control more than one hero?
Yes.
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Can we play with 2 players?
Yes.
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Where do Poison cards go?
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Can any other hero besides the Wizard cast spells?
No.
Do heroes need to start the game with all Item cards?
No.
Do heroes need to start the game with all Ability cards?
Yes.
How many Spell cards does the Wizard choose?
10.
Who chooses the Room cards?
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What are the Monster Pool and the Treasury?
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Where do spent coins go?
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