Rules Questions

[The Giant]

One: can Haley or Roy use the Party Leader Veto to force someone to use a shtick (this came up when Haley wanted to force Elan to do some wacky hijinks, as opposed to just flipping it so he could not use it) or can you only flip a shtick so the person can't use it?

No, these shticks flip the card with no effect, denying their owner the usage of the card until they rest.

two: For Elan's bard songs, does the person get one bonus overall for the roll, or, is the bard song bonus for each individual loot card given to Elan, or is it the unlikely situation of the bard song bonus is given for each drool factor?

One bonus overall per battle roll, not one per loot card given.

The first is about Haley's "Swipe" Schtick. If you use this Schtick on a monster, and successfully swipe a loot from underneath it, can you continue to attack/defend as if you had actually killed the monster?

No. You may have won the battle, but the Monster is STILL the top Monster on the stack. The rules only allow you to battle the top Monster, requiring you to remove the previous Monster before you can battle the next one (which then becomes the new top Monster). Since Swipe doesn't move the top Monster, you can't get to the lower Monsters, and you can't battle the same Monster twice.

You can, however, defeat the top Monster with, say, Longbow, discard it, and then Swipe the second Monster.

Secondly, in a less-than-six-player game, say you're in the following situation: You're Roy, and you're on the third level. The other players are on levels one or two (ergo, the NPC PCs are on the same level as Roy). How should the "you can't give loot drooled over a player to an NPC PC" rule be handled in this situation? We played it that it went to the NPC PC, as there was no way to give it to a player (what with them being on a different level, and all).

No, that is incorrect. The rule stands no matter where the players are in relation to one another.

The purpose of the rule is not to get players to offer Loot to the PCs per se, but to prevent Player A from offering all of Player B's Loot to the NPCs, causing it to be put in the Loot discard pile and removed from play, possibly for the rest of the game if the Loot pile isn't reshuffled.

when you are playing monsters, and you play your *last* monster, but still have "screw this!" cards in your hand, do you discard those cards immediately & draw a new battle deck b/c you have no more monsters, or do you wait until you are called upon to play a monster and then draw new cards?

You wait until you are called on to play a Monster and can't. If you can play the Screw This! before then, you may.

Another question: May you make a ranged attack into a room with both monsters in players and attack the player?

Definitely.

And, if you kill all the monsters may you continue and attack the player?

With a Ranged Attack, you may never continue to battle Monsters. You may only make one Ranged Attack on your turn, and only against either a player or the top Monster in a room.

If you were in the same room, you would be required to fight the top Monster only. You can't battle a player on the same turn that you battle Monsters.

The rules state that now Xyclon deck cards have red X's, but mine do. Should I save them?

This is an error in the rules; you should be able to save them.

I assume that multiple schticks like bard song and great cleavage don't all apply, so that 2 bard songs wouldn't grant a +4 bonus. Correct?

Yes, but multiple shticks DO provide the bonus listed on that shtick under "Boost".

Lets say we are on level 1. When Redcloak is placed into battle.

Redcloak is a Leader (Battle size +1) and when supported by Goblin's has the Horde (Battle size +1 per supporting card). So, if we start with Redcloak and the additional monster I play is a Goblin, would that further expand the battle size to 3?

Yup.

Poorly-Planned Illusion

When you move monsters to an adjacent room with more than one player in the room - when does the monster attack and who does the monster attack first?

Monsters moved by Poorly-Planned Illusion do not attack any players in the room to which they move.