Truly Obnoxious Curse vs. Sandals?

[ESQ]

For purposes of Truly Obnoxious Curse card, does the curse negation effect of the sandals count as a 'bonus', or is 'bonus' strictly defined as '+n'?

Player B had only the Sandals on when the curse hit, I agreed to let it slide pending review...

[Andrew Hackard]

A "bonus" is a combat bonus, but if your only Items are ones that don't grant a combat bonus, then you do have to lose one of them.

[Grej]

Originally Posted by Andrew Hackard

A "bonus" is a combat bonus, but if your only Items are ones that don't grant a combat bonus, then you do have to lose one of them.

What if my only Item in play is One-shot Item? Do i lose it?

[Andrew Hackard]

Originally Posted by Grej

What if my only Item in play is One-shot Item? Do i lose it?

Yes, because you have to lose one Item.

[Moldon]

So this post is out-dated?

Originally Posted by MunchkinMan

In English, that would be the Truly Obnoxious Curse!, and I think I'm being consistent when I say that it has to be an Item you are using, not just one that you are only carrying, since that's actually giving you a bonus.

One-shot items is not in use, is not it?

[Andrew Hackard]

Originally Posted by Moldon

So this post is out-dated?

One-shot items is not in use, is not it?

If you have equipped Items that give you a combat bonus, you must lose the one of them with the highest combat bonus (choosing among them if there is more than one). In the question you quoted, the player had an unequipped Item with a higher bonus than one that was equipped; he lost the equipped Item because it was giving him the highest bonus at the moment he was Cursed.

If you HAVE no equipped Items that give you a combat bonus, then by definition the highest bonus any of your Items are giving you is +0 and you must discard one Item of your choice, equipped or not.

[Moldon]

In the answer I quoted MM clear and explicit say it must be item in use. So I think items in use with no bonus give me +0 bonus, and items not in use not give me any bonus even zero. All this time I played basing that MM's answer. You overrule it?

I just want be sure I understanding mechanic of game right.

[Andrew Hackard]

MunchkinMan addressed a specific situation: how you resolve the Curse when you have an unequipped Item with a higher printed combat bonus than your equipped Items. The answer is that you discard the equipped Item with the highest bonus.

I addressed a different specific situation: how you resolve the Curse when you have no equipped Items that give a combat bonus. The answer is that you must discard one Item of your choice.

There's no conflict between our answers.