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To play Legacy of Dragonholt, follow these steps:
1. Create your hero(es) using the rules in the character creation book.[1]
2. Prepare the story tracking sheet by recording 100 starting gold and two starting fame, which are shared among all heroes.[1]
3. Leave all story points unmarked.[1]
4. Begin the first quest by finding the 'To New Roads' quest book and reading entry 1000.[1]
5. During adventures, read specific entries in a quest book as instructed.[1]
6. If playing with two or more players, use activation tokens to track which players have made decisions.[1]
7. If playing with two or more players, determine as a group who will make each decision when a decision point is reached.[2]
8. When a decision is made, the player who makes it becomes the active player and exhausts their activation token by turning it facedown.[2][3]
9. If playing with two or more players, refresh all activation tokens (turning them faceup) once all players have exhausted theirs.[2][3]
10. If playing with one player, you make all decisions yourself.[2]
11. When playing with the 'Dragonholt Village' book, take turns choosing a location to visit, determining the order as a group.[2]
12. When choosing a location in the village, exhaust your activation token; you remain the active player until the corresponding encounter is complete.[2]
13. During encounters in the village, all decisions should be made as a group, though the active player has the final say.[2]
14. You may drink a potion at any time, provided you have the type recorded on your character sheet.[4]
15. If playing with two or more heroes, you can only drink a potion if your activation token is not exhausted.[4]
16. The game ends when you reach the story's natural conclusion.[5]
[1] RULEBOOK Legacy of Dragonholt — Rulebook · p.3 · components · character & trackInG sheets · setup · 1. crea te Your hero(es) · 2. prepare the storY trackInG sheet · 3. beGIn the fIrst Quest
[2] RULEBOOK Legacy of Dragonholt — Rulebook · p.6 · map of draGonholt · multIple plaYers · draGonholt vIllaGe
[3] RULEBOOK Legacy of Dragonholt — Rulebook · p.4 · rules GlossarY · usInG thIs rules GlossarY · actIva tIon tokens · actIve plaYer · condItIonal effects
[4] RULEBOOK Legacy of Dragonholt — Rulebook · p.6 · potIons · proGress · skIlls · dIsabled skIlls · learnInG new skIlls
[5] RULEBOOK Legacy of Dragonholt — Rulebook · p.2 · object of the Game

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🔧 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 198 ms · ask 3746 ms · total 3946 ms
single-flight (PR-5)
queued 0 ms · generation 3946 ms
retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1187 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1187 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 0.90247 of 1456 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until
Nov 29, 2026 18:11 UTC

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 rankdocumentheadingpage fused RRF scoresnippet chars
#1 RULEBOOK Legacy of Dragonholt — Rulebook (corpus doc 1187) components p.2 0.048412 (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 Legacy of Dragonholt — Rulebook (corpus doc 1187) components · character & trackInG sheets · setup · 1. crea te Your hero(es) · 2. prepare the storY trackInG sheet · 3. beGIn the fIrst Quest p.3 0.048139 (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 Legacy of Dragonholt — Rulebook (corpus doc 1187) rules sIdebars In ' to new roads ' 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
#4 RULEBOOK Legacy of Dragonholt — Rulebook (corpus doc 1187) map of draGonholt · multIple plaYers · draGonholt vIllaGe p.6 0.047379 (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 Legacy of Dragonholt — Rulebook (corpus doc 1187) object of the Game p.2 0.046642 (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 Legacy of Dragonholt — Rulebook (corpus doc 1187) potIons · proGress · skIlls · dIsabled skIlls · learnInG new skIlls p.6 0.045009 (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 Legacy of Dragonholt — Rulebook (corpus doc 1187) daYs · decIsIons · example decIsIon poInt · Knock on the door. · Break down the door. · Pick the lock and sneak inside. p.4 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 Legacy of Dragonholt — Rulebook (corpus doc 1187) rules GlossarY · usInG thIs rules GlossarY · actIva tIon tokens · actIve plaYer · condItIonal effects p.4 0.029644 (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 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 18 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 atdocumentheadingpage fused rankfused RRF scorecarried byhow it got its slot
#1 RULEBOOK Legacy of Dragonholt — Rulebook (corpus doc 1187) components · character & trackInG sheets · setup · 1. crea te Your hero(es) · 2. prepare the storY trackInG sheet · 3. beGIn the fIrst Quest p.3 #2 0.048139 (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 Legacy of Dragonholt — Rulebook (corpus doc 1187) rules sIdebars In ' to new roads ' p.3 #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)) vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm the re-ranker chose it
#3 RULEBOOK Legacy of Dragonholt — Rulebook (corpus doc 1187) map of draGonholt · multIple plaYers · draGonholt vIllaGe p.6 #4 0.047379 (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
#4 RULEBOOK Legacy of Dragonholt — Rulebook (corpus doc 1187) potIons · proGress · skIlls · dIsabled skIlls · learnInG new skIlls p.6 #6 0.045009 (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
#5 RULEBOOK Legacy of Dragonholt — Rulebook (corpus doc 1187) rules GlossarY · usInG thIs rules GlossarY · actIva tIon tokens · actIve plaYer · condItIonal effects p.4 #8 0.029644 (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
#6 RULEBOOK Legacy of Dragonholt — Rulebook (corpus doc 1187) object of the Game p.2 #5 0.046642 (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 Legacy of Dragonholt — Rulebook (corpus doc 1187) IntroductIon · Game overvIew p.2 #11 0.027651 (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
#8 RULEBOOK Legacy of Dragonholt — Rulebook (corpus doc 1187) components p.2 #1 0.048412 (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

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.

#documentheadingpagequote chars
[1] RULEBOOK Legacy of Dragonholt — Rulebook (corpus doc 1187) components · character & trackInG sheets · setup · 1. crea te Your hero(es) · 2. prepare the storY trackInG sheet · 3. beGIn the fIrst Quest p.3 no quote on the wire
[2] RULEBOOK Legacy of Dragonholt — Rulebook (corpus doc 1187) map of draGonholt · multIple plaYers · draGonholt vIllaGe p.6 no quote on the wire
[3] RULEBOOK Legacy of Dragonholt — Rulebook (corpus doc 1187) rules GlossarY · usInG thIs rules GlossarY · actIva tIon tokens · actIve plaYer · condItIonal effects p.4 no quote on the wire
[4] RULEBOOK Legacy of Dragonholt — Rulebook (corpus doc 1187) potIons · proGress · skIlls · dIsabled skIlls · learnInG new skIlls p.6 no quote on the wire
[5] RULEBOOK Legacy of Dragonholt — Rulebook (corpus doc 1187) object of the Game p.2 no quote on the wire
timing split
retrieval 198 ms · first delta 1789 ms · total 3946 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 198 ms · ask 3746 ms · gateway work 3946 ms · total 3946 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
3655
tokens out (what the answerer generated)
423
tok/sec
200.7 tok/sec — 423 output tokens in 2.108 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child)
answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 24s ago)
gateway schema (read from the running child)
schema head 0042_definer_search_path (live revision not readable by this principal)
answerer host (measured by rulesage)
reachable (for 60h, 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.
outcome
ANSWERED — Answered
abstain rationale (n/a — this ruling answered)
answered — no abstain rationale applies
decision
NOT_SETUP_SHAPED — no setup-shape pattern matched this question

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 1117), 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.