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Old 06-06-2016, 11:36 PM   #1
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Default Forced helpers?

This is a mechanics question rather than a card question:

If you use an effect to force a player to help you, but that effect stipulates that you cannot gain the winning level this way, what happens to the helper if the conditions change?

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Player A is Level 8, he is in combat but cannot win on his own, so he pulls Player B into the fight with him, the monster is worth one Level. And after the helper joins the combat, Player A plays a GUAL card to reach Level 9, thus securing the win.

Boiling this down to basic mechanics, what happens to the helper/combat? Does this bypass the "can't be used to gain the winning Level" clause or can the helper back out? Or something else entirely?
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Old 06-07-2016, 12:56 AM   #2
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If you are using some method to compel help that says you can't use it to gain the winning level, and the combat turns into one for the winning level, your helper is bounced and you are suddenly fighting alone.
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Old 06-07-2016, 06:20 AM   #3
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Ok so sneaky Munchkins get completely iced, thanks again, :)
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Old 06-07-2016, 06:47 AM   #4
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Default Re: Forced helpers?

That doesn't mean the now potentially winning player can't ask someone to join him as a helper, he just can't compel someone, and can't have a helper who was initially compelled to join the fight before he was winning.
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Old 11-19-2017, 09:36 AM   #5
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If you are using some method to compel help that says you can't use it to gain the winning level, and the combat turns into one for the winning level, your helper is bounced and you are suddenly fighting alone.
what if helper is Elf, and they played enough GUALs to go for a level 9, will they win the game?

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and can't have a helper who was initially compelled to join the fight before he was winning.
really? so, if Played A (level 8) forced Player B to help, then go up for a level 9 (Played B leaves the combat), then lose a level (Player A is again on level 8), Played B can't join the combat even voluntary?
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Old 11-19-2017, 10:40 AM   #6
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what if helper is Elf, and they played enough GUALs to go for a level 9, will they win the game?
If you can't force someone to help you for the winning level, it doesn't matter what the helper's status is.


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really? so, if Played A (level 8) forced Player B to help, then go up for a level 9 (Played B leaves the combat), then lose a level (Player A is again on level 8), Played B can't join the combat even voluntary?
That's not what MunchkinMan meant, I think. I believe he was restating that a helper who was compelled before the fight became for the win isn't stuck in the combat because the fight suddenly became so.

I don't know of many cards that bounce someone out of the fight that don't allow you to ask that same person to help. (I'm sure there are some, so don't feel a need to post counterexamples.) I'll even say that, in the absence of a rule to the contrary, you may ask the same player to help in this situation, as long as you are eligible to ask for help at all.
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Old 11-20-2017, 02:21 PM   #7
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If you can't force someone to help you for the winning level, it doesn't matter what the helper's status is.
thanks. what if it is not winning level for you suddenly becomes winning level for helper?

Player A is level 7 and is in combat
Player B is level 8 Elf
Player A uses ability to force Player B to help
Player B plays GUAL, so he/she is level 9 now
Will Player B win the game if they kill the monster?
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Old 11-20-2017, 02:32 PM   #8
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thanks. what if it is not winning level for you suddenly becomes winning level for helper?
I guess you'll have to try to lose the fight.
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