Ruling — Mage Knight Board Game

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How do I take my turn?

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At the start of your turn, you may choose to forfeit your turn and announce the End of the Round if your Deed deck is empty and the End of the Round has not been announced yet.[1][2] If you do not forfeit, you have two options: playing a Regular turn or Resting.[1]

Regular Turn

1. You may play any number of special effects, move, and influence effects at any time after your turn starts and before you announce its end.[1]

2. First, you may (but do not have to) move.[1][3] During movement, you may reveal new map tiles.[1][3]

3. Your movement may result in a mandatory action:[3]

* If you end movement on a space occupied by another player, you must initiate Player vs. Player combat.[3]

* If you enter a fortified site (keep, mage tower, city), you must fight all garrisoned enemies.[3]

* If your movement ended because you were attacked by rampaging enemies, you must fight these enemies.[3]

4. If there are no mandatory actions, you may choose to perform one (and only one) voluntary action:[3]

* At inhabited sites (village, monastery, keep, mage tower, city), you may interact with the locals.[3]

* At adventure sites (ruins, dungeon, tomb, monster den, spawning grounds), you may decide to explore them.[3]

* If there are rampaging enemies in adjacent spaces, you can decide to challenge them in combat.[3]

* If in a monastery, you may decide to burn it.[3]

* You may choose to do nothing.[3]

5. You must complete your movement and any tile reveals before taking an action; you cannot move or reveal tiles after an action.[3]

Resting

1. Depending on your hand, you must take a Standard Rest (if you have at least one card other than a Wound) or a Slow Recovery (if you have only Wound cards).[4]

2. Standard Rest: You must discard one non-Wound card and any number of Wound cards.[4]

3. Slow Recovery: You must reveal your hand to show you have only Wound cards, then discard one Wound card to your discard pile.[4]

4. If Resting, you cannot move, initiate combat, or interact with locals.[3]

End of Turn

1. Once you have done everything you wanted to do, announce that your turn is over.[4]

2. Reroll and return any mana dice you used to the Source.[5][4]

3. You must end your turn on a safe space; if you are not on a safe space, you must backtrack your move until you arrive at one, adding a Wound to your hand for each space moved while backtracking.[5]

4. Return all used or unused mana crystals from your play area to the bank.[5]

5. Put all cards played this turn into your discard pile, except for cards that were thrown away (remove those from the game, or put Wounds back on top of the Wound pile).[5]

6. Inform the next player that they may start their turn.[4]

[1] RULEBOOK Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook · p.6 · ~ A Player's Turn ~

[2] RULEBOOK Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook · p.6 · ~ A Player's Turn ~

[3] RULEBOOK Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook · p.6 · ~ A Player's Turn ~

[4] RULEBOOK Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook · p.6 · ~ A Player's Turn ~

[5] RULEBOOK Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook · p.11 · ~ End of the Turn ~ · 3. Clear up your play Area:

Rule found, game on.

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

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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.

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#2	RULEBOOK Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	DEED CARDS	p.4	0.046244 (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 Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	~ A Player's Turn ~	p.6	0.04612 (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 Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	DEED CARDS	p.4	0.044796 (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 Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	~ A Player's Turn ~	p.6	0.042925 (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 Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	When it is the Dummy player's turn: · When preparing a new Round:	p.15	0.042878 (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 Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	~ End of the Turn ~ · 3. Clear up your play Area:	p.11	0.031746 (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 Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	GAME · ONE ROUND · Players choose Tactics · ONE TURN · Resting: no movement, no action. · Any turn: · …	p.23	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

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 — 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 at	document	heading	page	fused rank	fused RRF score	carried by	how it got its slot
#1	RULEBOOK Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	~ End of the Turn ~ · 3. Clear up your play Area:	p.11	#7	0.031746 (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
#2	RULEBOOK Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	~ A Player's Turn ~	p.6	#1	0.047183 (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 Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	~ A Player's Turn ~	p.6	#5	0.042925 (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 Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	8. Other players :	p.7	#45	0.011628 (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 Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	DEED CARDS	p.4	#4	0.044796 (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
#6	RULEBOOK Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	~ A Player's Turn ~	p.6	#10	0.028778 (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
#7	RULEBOOK Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	4. Use the benefi ts of your space:	p.11	#11	0.026876 (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 Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	~ A Player's Turn ~	p.6	#3	0.04612 (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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	~ A Player's Turn ~	p.6	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	~ A Player's Turn ~	p.6	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	~ A Player's Turn ~	p.6	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	~ A Player's Turn ~	p.6	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Mage Knight Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 260)	~ End of the Turn ~ · 3. Clear up your play Area:	p.11	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 153 ms · first delta 1343 ms · total 6728 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 153 ms · ask 6572 ms · gateway work 6728 ms · total 6728 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4060
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 693
tok/sec: 131.4 tok/sec — 693 output tokens in 5.275 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 48s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 2h, checked 4s 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.

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 189), 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.