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Thanks for the info. I think no matter what ruling I would have come up with, it went against the spirit of the scenario, but thought I would check in case the spell was just *that* powerful in this case.

It's very important in the later decks to have the blessing that gives 2 dice on close location attempts if you are running a small party with weaknesses on certain stats.

Thanks for the tip. Kyra actually had one of those blessings in her deck, but it took a bit for it to get into her hand (after 3 prior attempts I think). Between that blessing and me (Seoni) playing a blessing of Pharasma with the feat that lets you add a d12 instead of the normal die, we did make it by the check (although I think we only beat it by a few, was a bad dice night).

Here's the setup, my wife (Kyra) and I (Seoni) are in AP5, Into the Runeforge. We're on the next to the last open location, Halls of Wrath. We've encountered the henchman in the deck several times, but have been unable to close the location because neither of us has the cards (or luck) to get by the Intelligence check. Then I draw Disintegrate.

On my next turn, I encounter the henchman again and this time I use Disintegrate to successfully defeat her, but I fail the closing check. Now the scenario says, "if you defeat a henchman, but fail to close the location, shuffle the henchman back into the location deck" but Disintegrate says "If you defeat a non-villain monster when playing this spell, banish that monster, even if it would otherwise be undefeated."

At this point we're getting a bit frustrated at getting hung up on the location closing *and* having to keep fighting the same henchman over and over, so I made the ruling that the Disintegrate card took precedence after doing a Google search for this particular circumstance and finding no posts on the topic. I took a look through the rulebook today and came across the Golden Rule, which basically states scenario cards take precedence over player cards when there's a conflict, but the wording of Disintegrate almost seems specially phrased ("even if it would otherwise be undefeated") to deal with this kind of situation. So what's correct?