Voodoo Doll

[iamthefly]

Hi folks, 

I think the answer to this question might be, "It does what it says it does, stupid!", but I'll ask anyway. 

Does armor ignore the single wounds inflicted through the Voodoo Doll? 

It says "reduce all damage" under armor, it no longer seems to be to a minimum of 1.

Context: I attached the Wanga Mojo curse on Gracie and walked the Voodoo Doll into a pit trap. The VD takes 1 damage and gains injured +1. Does Gracie ignore the damage? 

It seems like she would be unkillable with a touch of healing. Sour grapes. I miss my op VD from 2E 

Thanks, 

Ewan

 

[Maniacal_cackle]

Damage cannot reduce damage below 1 unless otherwise noted (for instance, shielded and soulstones specifically say they can reduce damage to 0).

[Adran]

The core rules for damage reduction is where you find that damage reduction is to a minimum of 1 ( unless stated otherwise). 

[iamthefly]

Thanks. It's a poor design when they split info between 2 places. Why write anything after armor 2 on the card if people still need to intrinsically know that the need to look up the book?...

[solkan]

20 minutes ago, iamthefly said:

Thanks. It's a poor design when they split info between 2 places. Why write anything after armor 2 on the card if people still need to intrinsically know that the need to look up the book?...

For the same reason all the rules about and and the rules for suffering damage are in the book and not on the cards—the card imposes a necessary brevity.  

[muraki]

28 minutes ago, solkan said:

51 minutes ago, iamthefly said:

Thanks. It's a poor design when they split info between 2 places. Why write anything after armor 2 on the card if people still need to intrinsically know that the need to look up the book?...

For the same reason all the rules about and and the rules for suffering damage are in the book and not on the cards—the card imposes a necessary brevity.

Yeah, i know it feels a bit strange at first, but the cards try and only call out things that are differences to the rules not the standard.  Hence shielded / other things going to 'a minimum of zero'.  It means if a new armor-like ability appears on a card and it doesnt say 'to a minimum of zero' then youre stuck getting 1 damage much like armor.  There's a learning curve for sure tho.  The core book is truely chock full of little info bits that aren't super clear on the cards, its crazy how many arguments are solved by 'oh gosh let me look it up in the core book'

[Adran]

3 hours ago, iamthefly said:

Thanks. It's a poor design when they split info between 2 places. Why write anything after armor 2 on the card if people still need to intrinsically know that the need to look up the book?...

Probably because overall this way saves the most space for the least confusion.

Just writing armour2 and then explaing armour in the rules with then also still requires looking at the damage reduction rules, or a lot of abilities being fully written out and adding the words to a minimum of 1 on a lot of different damage reduction abilities. 

[goth]

If it's a voodoo doll, it's a walk charge missile that will pop for a card but MORE IMPORTANTLY a scrap.  If I'm summoning voodoo doll every turn then you know Widow Weaver is right there.