Reply: Betrayal at House on the Hill:: Rules:: Re: Betrayal At House on the Hill - United We Stand - Furnace Room - Rules

by GregF

pooiyx wrote:

Hi. I recently played Betrayal at House on the Hill with a group of friends and we had Haunt 18 -- United We Stand. We had no place to put the Furnace Room tile. What happens in a situation like this? (Example image: http://pooiyx.weebly.com/uploads/1/7/9/4/17943599/1490461_or...)
Also, what happens when we can't place the Stairs From Basement tile due to a similar situation where there are no more exits/entrances (everywhere is a dead end)?

Don't recall if it made it into the 2nd ed rulebook, but there's a ruling in the FAQ (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=ah/faqs/hoth) on this one:

"You may not play a tile in such a way that it completely seals off a level. If a tile could only be played in such a way that a level would be sealed off with no free doorways left, then discard that tile and draw new ones until you draw one that leaves a free doorway. If all the undrawn rooms for a level would seal the level off, then the person whose turn it is may rearrange the level until there are more free doorways. The Mystic Elevator would count as sealing a level off, even though it might subsequently move away. If a roll on the Mystic Elevator would cause it to move to a level that would be sealed off, then the elevator does not move."

Edit: I downloaded the pdf rulebooks (from http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=ah/downloads) and realised that the Secrets of Survival rulebook is different from the one I have. The haunt I'm referring to is completely missing from the pdf, and (for example) so is Haunt 50 -- Treasure Hunt. Have these old haunts been replaced? Should we use these pdf rulebooks instead when we play from now on?

Thanks.

It's the other way around. The PDF rulebooks are from the first edition, and Haunts 18 and 50 (as well as a couple others) were replaced in the second edition, which you have.