Curse! One Hand Tied Behind Your Back!

[Shadowere]

One of the players at our gaming table had the Cross Bow in play. He was hit with: Curse! One Hand Tied Behind Your Back!

His response was to place the Cross bow, he had in play, in his pack. then attempt to replace it with a one-handed item, the name I can not remember.

Speaking only for myself, I suggested that he was not able to replace the Cross Bow. For the moment it was held useless in one hand, because you can not change items during combat. As a result of the conversation at the table. The combat continued with him not benefiting from the Cross Bow, or the item he tried to put in its place.

Should he have been able to make the switch? Or, was his loss of benefits from either item the correct decision?

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Cheers!!

[Mental_Myopia]

You're correct. If he got hit with this Curse during combat, he wouldn't be able to bring a different "hand" item out of his pack to use during the combat.

[MunchkinMan]

On page 5 of the rules (with some added emphasis, here and there):

At any time, except during combat, you can:

• Use any card that says “any time except during combat.”
• Sacrifice a level to restore three lost Health points.
• Switch Items you are carrying or wearing for those in your pack. See p. 16.
• Trade Items with players in your own or adjacent rooms. See p. 16.
• Drop Items that you no longer want to carry. See p. 7.
• Play a Treasure card that you just received.

At any time on your turn, except during combat, you can:

• Play an Item card from your hand to the table.
• Spend gold and/or discard Items worth at least 1,000 gold pieces to go up a level (see p. 15).

One Hand Tied Behind Your Back provides no loophole for getting around these rules, so the correct decision is that the Cross Bow is now useless, and the player can not play any Item cards to replace it nor can he put something in his pack. Just because he was using a 2 Hand weapon at the time he was hit with the curse does not override the rules on what you can do during combat, on your turn or not.