About "Rocks fall, everyone dies"

[Grax]

Originally Posted by Tuplis

We had a strange thing happen in our last game. I'm fighting and losing to a monster that has "You are dead" as bad stuff. A level 9 player who has the "dark" race modifier has used abilities and cards against me. I fail to run away and play "Rocks fall, everyone dies". Does he win? I know you can't level up while dead but which one happens first, death or level-up?

In the wording of Dark it says that you go up a level (and it can be the winning level) if you cause a player to suffer bad stuff which includes death. In the instance that everyone has died, my assumption (and my groups) was that this would entitle the Dark player to gain the winning level, as it is not linked directly to to the after effects of the combat - in essence the Dark player would get the level as an effect of their race ability (interfering in the combat making the player suffer the bad stuff including death) due to the fact that you do not lose your race or class for dieing (with some exceptions)

In Short, it is a race ability - you don't lose the race, and you meet the criteria for the level.

Question/ Comment - If the Dark player gains the level as soon as their victim suffers the Death bad stuff, then he would win prior to the victim's Rock Falls Everyone Dies card has time to take effect.. or would he ~ I am not sure if it is a moot point, but all in all I would assume that the Dark player win regardless of whether he/she suffers the effect of the Rock Falls Everyone Dies..