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I've been unable to find the Mummy's Mask rules in PDF form, which I'd like to help look up rules (here's where I might grumble irately about the lack of an index). However, I can't find one anywhere on Pazio's site, on Lone Shark's site, or in the files section of BGG. Can anyone point me to someplace I can download a PDF of the Mummy's Mask rulebook?

Whoa, that was quite the bloodbath of ninja'ing up there!

-Tom

It doesn't imply that to me at all, and I can't figure out why it would imply that to you. What if there's no barriers listed at the location at all?

All of this scenario's locations, for any player count, have a barrier. I checked, hoping that might provide some insight.

As for my thinking about taking into account the barrier already put into the location deck when building the deck, I was assuming the location card tells you how many of each card should be in play, and that the initially placed barrier would count as one of those cards. However, upon closer reading, the rules specify that the location card tells you how many card to *deal*.

"Shuffle each card type and deal the correct number of cards of each type to form the basis of each location deck."

Seems pretty clear to me now that regardless of how many cards are *present*, the rules specify that the location card determines how many are *dealt*. But that still leaves the timing question, and the second part of your response.

...if you build the location decks first then there might not be enough trap barriers left. Plus, when you search through the barriers for them, you would see what barriers have or haven't been put into the locations already. So either way it needs to be done first.

Very good, Irgy! That's exactly the sort of explanation I was looking for, especially your first point about the number of Trap barriers available. Thanks so much for bringing that up and thanks to everyone for talking me through this.

-Tom

That makes sense, Yewstance, and thanks for the detailed breakdown.

I'm still puzzled why it's phrased the way it is. Why does it specify "before adding the cards from each location's deck list"? That's weird wording for what seems to be the functional equivalent of "in addition to the cards from each location's deck list".

In other words, the word "before" implies there's something going on with timing that I just don't understand. And for what it's worth, someone on BGG said there are other scenarios that specify adding cards *after* a location deck is constructed, which again raises questions about this wording.

-Tom

Hi there! I'm cross-posting this from BGG, where there were a couple of different opinions. I'd love to get an official resolution on this. It still seems ambiguous to me because of the wording, and since no one else seems to have posed the question (or my search-fu is weak), I'm worried I'm missing something.

The setup for Akhentpi's Legacy, one of the scenarios in Adventure 1 of Mummy's Mask, reads as follows:

"When you build location decks, add a barrier that has the Trap trait to each deck before adding the cards from each location's list."

When it says "add a barrier", that implies to me an 11th card for each location, beyond the nine listed on each card and the henchman/villain. But then it specifies "before adding the cards from each location's list". That implies to me that you then build the location taking into account that there's already a single barrier present, and that the card count is just the usual 10 cards. In other words, the set-up is just specifying there's at least one trap barrier in every location.

But if that's the case, why does it say "adding the cards from each locations list" rather than something along lines of "add the remaining cards from each location's list"?

Which is correct and why is it phrased the way it is?

-Tom