Ruling — Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion

You asked

How do I take my turn?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lionbg-291457-en-1e

To take your turn, follow these steps:

1. Select two ability cards from your hand of six cards and place them face down in front of you.[1]

2. Choose one of these cards to be your initiative card; place it face down beneath the other card so that when both are flipped, the initiative value is visible.[1]

3. Once the initiative order is determined (from low to high), take your turn according to your position in that order.[2]

4. Perform the top action of one of your chosen cards and the bottom action of the other card.[1]

5. You may perform these actions in any order, but you cannot perform two top actions or two bottom actions.[2][1]

6. An action (the entire half of a card) must be performed in the order written.[2]

7. Any ability or action can be skipped.[2]

8. You may use an item for free in addition to your two actions from character ability cards.[3]

9. After performing the actions, place the card in your character's discard pile on the left side of your character mat.[2]

Alternatively, a character may declare they are performing a long rest instead of selecting two ability cards.[4] A long rest constitutes the character's entire turn for the round and occurs on initiative 99.[4]

[1] RULEBOOK Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion — Rulebook · p.6 · Card Selection

[2] RULEBOOK Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion — Rulebook · p.7 · Ordering of Initiative

[3] RULEBOOK Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion — Rulebook · p.19 · City Interaction: Items

[4] RULEBOOK Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion — Rulebook · p.22 · Long Rest

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🔧 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 222 ms · ask 10066 ms · total 10297 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 10297 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Card Selection", "sharpsignalDocId": 61}, {"page": 7, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Ordering of Initiative", "sharpsignalDocId": 61}, {"page": 19, "quote": null, "headingPath": "City Interaction: Items", "sharpsignalDocId": 61}, {"page": 22, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Long Rest", "sharpsignalDocId": 61}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 61 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 61 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)
debug row retained until: Nov 3, 2026 05:24

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. How much wider that pool was is set gateway-side and is NOT REPORTED for this ruling, and neither are the answerer's final rows — so rulesage has nothing of its own to show beside these.

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 Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion — Rulebook (corpus doc 61)	Ordering of Initiative	p.7	0.047875 (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 Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion — Rulebook (corpus doc 61)	End of Round	p.12	0.032787 (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 Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion — Rulebook (corpus doc 61)	Playing the Game	p.6	0.032258 (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 Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion — Rulebook (corpus doc 61)	Long Rest	p.22	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
#5	RULEBOOK Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion — Rulebook (corpus doc 61)	Playing by Yourself?	p.3	0.030769 (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 Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion — Rulebook (corpus doc 61)	Card Selection	p.6	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
#7	RULEBOOK Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion — Rulebook (corpus doc 61)	Scenario 3 Complete	p.23	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
#8	RULEBOOK Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion — Rulebook (corpus doc 61)	Line-of-Sight	p.9	0.029727 (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.

the passages the answerer read: NOT RECORDED for this ruling. Any of three things leaves this empty, and they are all different from the answerer having had nothing to read: this ask may never have reached a gateway at all; a multi-book ask keeps each book's own context on that book's own page rather than here; or the gateway build that answered may simply not report it. What this NEVER means is that the answerer read nothing — an answer was composed from passages either way, and their absence here is a gap in what we were told, not in what it read.

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion — Rulebook (corpus doc 61)	Card Selection	p.6	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion — Rulebook (corpus doc 61)	Ordering of Initiative	p.7	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion — Rulebook (corpus doc 61)	City Interaction: Items	p.19	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion — Rulebook (corpus doc 61)	Long Rest	p.22	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 222 ms · first delta 8177 ms · total 10297 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 222 ms · ask 10066 ms · gateway work 10297 ms · total 10297 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2490
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 286
tok/sec: 137.0 tok/sec — 286 output tokens in 2.088 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 53s 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: 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 9), 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.