Saturday, August 13, 2005

I am the Rulemaster!

(Those who don't really give a crap can go ahead and ignore this post like you've been ignoring the rest of this blog. Hehe!)
Last night at Dragon's Lair there was a Star Wars Miniature dispute that I was able to mediate. They were wondering if Sly Moore's Dominate ability works on enemy players and General Grievous.

Dominate (Replaces turn: Target non-Droid character takes an immediate turn, which does not count as one of your 2 activations this phase, even if it has already been activated this round; save 11. The target character cannot move this turn.)
OK, now it doesn't say anything about enemy players or anything but the rulebook contains additional information they couldn't list on a card. It says:
Dominate: Instead of taking its normal turn, this character can take control of a target non-Droid character, even one who has already been activated this round. (This does not count as an activation.) The target character takes a turn as though it were on the acting player’s squad but cannot move. It can resist this effect with a save of 11. Determine legal targets normally for enemy characters; any allied character in line of sight is a legal target.
Ah ha! "For enemy characters!" So that was settled. Now General Grievous, he counts as a Cyborg with both Droid and non-Droid attributes. Does this mean having droid attributes would not allow him to be targeted? Well, we go back to the trusty rulebook:
Cyborg: A Cyborg character counts as both a Droid and a non-Droid. This means it benefits from effects that target Droids (such as Repair) in addition to other kinds of effects (such as Heal). However, a Cyborg character is also vulnerable to harmful effects that don‚’t normally affect Droids (such as critical hits) as well as those that specify Droids only (such as Ion Gun 20). Cyborgs can be affected by commander effects.
Not a whole lot there but something caught my eye...Heal works. So I whip out the Polis Massa Medic card with Heal and it says:
Heal 10 (Replaces attacks: touch; remove 10 damage from a non-Droid character)
So if Heal works on Grievous becuase of his non-Droid attributes, therefore Dominate must work because of that same non-Droid status. Boo ya, nerds! Basically the point of Cyborg is to take advantage of both attributes and not be hindered by one or the other.

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