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The Mother of Dragons expansion adds the following:

* **Player Count and Houses:** It increases the player count to eight by adding two new playable houses, Arryn and Targaryen.[1]

* **Vassal System:** A new vassal system is introduced that increases the viability of playing with fewer than eight players.[1] This system replaces most of the neutral force tokens used in the base game, leaving only the King's Landing token (from the base game) and the Braavos neutral force token (from this expansion) in use.[2][3]

* **New Board and Mechanics:** A new Essos side board extends the playing space and allows players to take out loans from the Iron Bank of Braavos.[1]

* **Components:** The expansion includes various new components, such as:

* An Essos Side Board [1][3]

* The Bite Overlay [2][3]

* An Eyrie Overlay [2][3]

* An Influence Track Extension [2][3]

* A "Braavos" Neutral Force Token [2][3]

* Dragon Strength Tokens [2][3]

* Vassal Setup Cards and Vassal House Cards [2][3]

* Westeros Deck IV Cards [2][4][3]

* Loan Cards [2][3]

* Targaryen Loyalty Tokens [2][3]

* Various other tokens including Order, Supply, Sea Order, Power, Influence, Victory Point, Garrison, and Area Improvement/Degradation tokens.[2][3]

[1] RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) – Mother of Dragons — Rulebook · p.3 · Mother of Dragons · Using This Expansion · MOTHER OF DRAGONS SETUP · 1. Determine Player and Vassal Houses · 2. Gather House Materials · Expansion Icon

[2] RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) – Mother of Dragons — Rulebook · p.2 · COMPONENTS · Neutral Force Tokens

[3] RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) – Mother of Dragons — Rulebook · p.2

[4] RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) – Mother of Dragons — Rulebook · p.4 · Alternate House Card Set dAeneRyS tARGARyen 4 · 4. Gather Vassal Materials · 5. Prepare the Wildling Deck and Wildling Threat Token · 6. Prepare the Westeros Decks · 7. Place Markers on Round Track · 8. Place Victory and Supply Tokens

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
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timings: search 65 ms · ask 6261 ms · total 6327 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 6327 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Mother of Dragons · Using This Expansion · MOTHER OF DRAGONS SETUP · 1. Determine Player and Vassal Houses · 2. Gather House Materials · Expansion Icon", "sharpsignalDocId": 908}, {"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "COMPONENTS · Neutral Force Tokens", "sharpsignalDocId": 908}, {"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 908}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Alternate House Card Set dAeneRyS tARGARyen 4 · 4. Gather Vassal Materials · 5. Prepare the Wildling Deck and Wildling Threat Token · 6. Prepare the Westeros Decks · 7. Place Markers on Round Track · 8. Place Victory and Supply Tokens", "sharpsignalDocId": 908}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 373 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 373 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 0.85979 of 1027 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 12, 2026 23:39

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 A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373)	GArrisons	p.26	0.032522 (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 A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373)	GAme boArd feATUres · AdjUsTinG infLUence TrAcks	p.27	0.031281 (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 A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373)	Tides of bATTLe	p.29	0.030798 (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 A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373)	Westeros Card: Mustering	p.9	0.030118 (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 A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373)	The Consolidate Power Order	p.13	0.02967 (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 A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373)	Westeros Card: Supply · Other Supply ruleS	p.8	0.028665 (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 A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373)	componenT overview · Game Board · Player Screens · Plastic Units · Order Tokens · Power Tokens · …	p.3	0.028259 (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 A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373)	H C B · 3. Choose and Reveal House Cards · The House Cards	p.19	0.027693 (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 80 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 — 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 A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) – Mother of Dragons — Rulebook (corpus doc 908)	Mother of Dragons · Using This Expansion · MOTHER OF DRAGONS SETUP · 1. Determine Player and Vassal Houses · 2. Gather House Materials · Expansion Icon	p.3	#9	0.016393 (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 re-ranker chose it
#2	RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) – Mother of Dragons — Rulebook (corpus doc 908)	COMPONENTS · Neutral Force Tokens	p.2	#14	0.014085 (below 0.016, the low end of the measured band — a weak fuse (that band was taken on two-arm asks; only its low end, one arm's #1 vote, carries over to a 3-arm one))	vector	the re-ranker chose it
#3	RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373)	.FFG.	p.31	#73	0.007519 (below 0.016, the low end of the measured band — a weak fuse (that band was taken on two-arm asks; only its low end, one arm's #1 vote, carries over to a 3-arm one))	vector	the re-ranker chose it
#4	RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) – Mother of Dragons — Rulebook (corpus doc 908)	Alternate House Card Set dAeneRyS tARGARyen 4 · 4. Gather Vassal Materials · 5. Prepare the Wildling Deck and Wildling Threat Token · 6. Prepare the Westeros Decks · 7. Place Markers on Round Track · 8. Place Victory and Supply Tokens	p.4	#13	0.014706 (below 0.016, the low end of the measured band — a weak fuse (that band was taken on two-arm asks; only its low end, one arm's #1 vote, carries over to a 3-arm one))	vector	the re-ranker chose it
#5	RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373)	GArrisons	p.26	#1	0.032522 (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
#6	RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) — Rulebook (corpus doc 373)	Tides of bATTLe	p.29	#3	0.030798 (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
#7	RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) – Mother of Dragons — Rulebook (corpus doc 908)		p.2	#17	0.013158 (below 0.016, the low end of the measured band — a weak fuse (that band was taken on two-arm asks; only its low end, one arm's #1 vote, carries over to a 3-arm one))	vector	the re-ranker chose it
#8	RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) – Mother of Dragons — Rulebook (corpus doc 908)	CREDITS	p.10	#10	0.015873 (below 0.016, the low end of the measured band — a weak fuse (that band was taken on two-arm asks; only its low end, one arm's #1 vote, carries over to a 3-arm one))	vector	the re-ranker chose it

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) – Mother of Dragons — Rulebook (corpus doc 908)	Mother of Dragons · Using This Expansion · MOTHER OF DRAGONS SETUP · 1. Determine Player and Vassal Houses · 2. Gather House Materials · Expansion Icon	p.3	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) – Mother of Dragons — Rulebook (corpus doc 908)	COMPONENTS · Neutral Force Tokens	p.2	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) – Mother of Dragons — Rulebook (corpus doc 908)		p.2	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) – Mother of Dragons — Rulebook (corpus doc 908)	Alternate House Card Set dAeneRyS tARGARyen 4 · 4. Gather Vassal Materials · 5. Prepare the Wildling Deck and Wildling Threat Token · 6. Prepare the Westeros Decks · 7. Place Markers on Round Track · 8. Place Victory and Supply Tokens	p.4	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 65 ms · first delta 3666 ms · total 6327 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 65 ms · ask 6261 ms · gateway work 6327 ms · total 6327 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3717
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 364
tok/sec: 140.4 tok/sec — 364 output tokens in 2.593 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 0s 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 301), 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.