General store card location

[f s 988]

Hi guys,

i don't understand very well the general store card location.

when it is permanent closed, it is not really closed, right ? because the card tell you to add some random new cards and to take one of them .

so, the only way to close this location is:

1 close one time by normal ways (antagonist, run out location deck)

2 close a second time by run out the new add cards arrived from the first step

is it right ?

thank you !

[skizzerz]

A permanently closed location can still have cards, and you can still explore there if it has cards. Usually permanently closed locations do not have cards, but some tell you to put more cards there on closing. Having cards does not change the fact it is closed.

[Frencois]

Exact: closed doesn't mean empty as well as empty doesn't mean closed.

And you can always move to or from a closed location as well as you can move to or from an empty location.

And you can explore a closed location... if it's not an empty one :-)

[Hawkmoon269]

This is from the Mummy's Mask rulebook:

MM Rulebook p16 wrote:

Characters may move to closed locations, and if there are cards there, they may explore and encounter those cards as normal. (Most closed locations don’t have cards to explore, but some effects can put cards there.)

The second version of the RotR rulebook says this:

RotR Rulebook p13 wrote:

Characters may move to closed locations and, if there are cards there, may explore and encounter those cards as normal.

I'm not sure what the original version said, since I only have it in print form and not PDF. But the parenthetical text was added to explain the situation you are experiencing.