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No. Seltyiel's Marauder power cares about the traits on the card itself. If you are putting a card into your discard pile or you are recharging a card and that card has the required trait, you can draw a card. It doesn't matter what the traits of the check to recharge the spell where, only what the traits on the spell card itself are.

As to why you would add that trait to the recharge check, not that it also adds to the check to acquire. Jirelle having this card would have 2 shots at acquiring spells. And there are also lots of other things that care about when your check has the Swashbuckling trait.

Seltyiel might want to stock up on Blessing of Besmara if he has the Spellcaster's Tricorne.

Cool. I've been playing as if it hadn't worked due to the distinction but I felt it was something that was riding on the line and worth a shot asking.

What I have been doing is changing out my weapon armory from holding falcatas to pistols & rapiers, as well as prioritizing pirate allies like Giffer Tibbs for her discard to draw the bottom card of your deck ability(after marauder triggers). Displaying a sphere and drawing on a weapon recharge for every combat means each weapon is potentially another explore if I draw a blessing/ally out of it.

Once I get the 2 cards per recharge, Seltyiel is going to be heavily frontloaded for knocking out locations.

Re: Besmara, I think that's a pretty poor idea since with the +2 and skill bonuses, Seltyiel doesn't really need that second die to recharge or acquire a card. Especially for recharges since he gets a second chance at the end of his turns.

Okay, I looked everywhere and didn't see an answer relating to this so I must ask; Can you use Spellmaster's Tricorne to trigger Seltyiel's Marauder power and draw cards when recharging a spell?

I bring it up because nowhere else do I see a use for adding swashbuckling when recharging spells (Jirelle can't do this), yet the Tricorne only adds the trait to the check, whereas Seltyiel's power specifies that the card needs to be swashbuckling.

mercviper wrote:

I think I've been playing this game wrong the entire time. Does this mean for a "combat then combat" check, a) I would be limited to 1 blessing (and other card types too) per person for the entirety of both checks? b) if using a weapon for the first combat, would be unable to use a weapon for the second?

No, you're fine. On a multi-check card (such as a monster with Combat THEN Combat), each check is a separate check, so the one card type per person per check refreshes.

Oh okay. Thanks for the clarification!

Hawkmoon269 wrote:

I am just wondering when exactly I play it. It seems on a bane with multiple checks, I would play it during the first check and it would affect the future checks too, even though I wouldn't be playing it during this checks (which are separate steps).

A good question—I'd say the we want you to play it when you would attempt the check. Which would mean we'd need to add a sentence to that effect under "Attempt the Check" (page 10 of the Wrath rulebook).

Hawkmoon269 wrote:

Would anything prevent me from attempting check 1 normally then playing such a card for checks 2+?

Doing what I said above would. :-)

Hawkmoon269 wrote:

Does anything that happens while I am attempting a check need to happen multiple times? For example, if a location said "When you attempt a check, recharge a card." And I used this kind of card to defeat a bane with 3 checks to defeat, do I recharge 3 cards?

Because you play it when you *would* attempt the check, you don't actually attempt the check, so none of that stuff ever happens.

I think I've been playing this game wrong the entire time. Does this mean for a "combat then combat" check, a) I would be limited to 1 blessing (and other card types too) per person for the entirety of both checks? b) if using a weapon for the first combat, would be unable to use a weapon for the second?

Character Name: Ezren
Role Card: Illusionist
Skill Feats: Intelligence+4, Wisdom+2
Power Feats: +2 hand size, After you play a spell with the Arcane trait, you may examine the top card of your deck; if it is a spell you may put it in your hand (or recharge it), Add 1 to your check to recharge a card, Add 2(4) to your check to acquire a spell, At the start of your turn you may discard a card to draw a card
Card Feats: Spells+3, Item+3, Ally+3
Weapons: Acidic Sling +3
Spells: Glibness, Charm Person, Haste, Dominate, Invisibility, Blizzard, Disintegrate, Strength, Speed, Scrying, Mirror Image
Armors: N/A
Items: Sihedron Ring, Necklace of Fireballs, Robe of Runes, Emerald Codex, Wand of Enervation, Sihedron Tome
Allies: Clockwork Librarian, Merchant, Sheriff Hemlock, Ilsoari Gandethus, Brodert Quink
Blessings: N/A

Character Name: Seelah
Role Card: Crusader
Skill Feats: Strength+3, Wisdom+3
Power Feats: +1 hand size, You may discard the top card of your deck to add 1d6 to your check. If the top card was a blessing (or a spell), recharge it instead of discarding it, You may examine the top card of your location deck at the start (or end) of your turn. If it’s a boon, put it at the bottom (or underneath the top card) of the deck, Add 1d8 with the magic trait to your check to defeat a bane with the undead trait, When you play Blessing of Iomedae you may recharge it (or shuffle it into your deck) instead.
Card Feats: Weapon+2, Spell+2, Ally+2, Blessing+2
Weapons: Mokmurian’s Club, Karzoug’s Burning Glaive, Runechill Hatchet+2, Greatclub+3, Greatclub+3
Spells: Augury, Cure, Cure
Armors: Lesser Bolstering Armor, Demon Armor, Invincible Breastplate
Items: N/A
Allies: Jakardros Sovark, Sacred Killer, Shaman, Shalelu Andosana
Blessings: Blessing of Gozreh, Blessing of Gozreh, Blessing of Nethys, Blessing of Iomedae, Blessing of Iomedae, Blessing of Iomedae, Blessing of Abadar, Blessing of Abadar

Character Name: Kyra
Role Card: Exorcist
Skill Feats: Strength+3, Constitution+1, Wisdom+2
Power Feats: +2 Hand Size, Weapons Proficiency, Instead of your first exploration on a turn, you may reveal a card with the divine trait to choose a character at your location. Shuffle 1d4+1(2) random cards from his discard pile into his deck, then discard the card you revealed, Add 1d8(+1) with the magic trait to your check to defeat a bane with the undead (or outsider) trait, Add 2 to your check to acquire an armor
Card Feats: Weapon+1, Spell+2, Armor+2, Item+1, Ally+1, Blessing+2
Weapons: Runechill Hatchet+2, Flaming Ranseur+3, Fanged Falchion
Spells: Raise Dead, Major Cure, Mass Cure, Strength, Swipe
Armors: Bolstering Armor, Greater Bolstering Armor, Invincible Breastplate
Items: Belt of Giant Strength, Belt of Giant Strength
Allies: Poog of Zarongel, Morgiv
Blessings: Blessing of Pharasma, Blessing of Norgorber, Blessing of Abadar, Blessing of Nethys, Blessing of Nethys, Blessing of Gorum, Blessing of Gorum, Blessing of Gozreh

Character Name: Lem
Role Card: Virtuoso
Skill Feats: Dexterity+3, Wisdom+1, Charisma+2
Power Feats: +1 hand size, Weapons Proficiency, Once per check you may recharge a card to add 1d4(+1)(+2)(+3) to a check attempted by (you or) another character at your location, At the start (or end) of your turn, you may exchange 1 card in your hand with 1 card in of the same type in your discard pile.
Card Feats: Weapon+1, Spell+2, Item+2, Ally+2, Blessing+1
Weapons: Force Sling+3, Returning Frost Spear+2
Spells: Scrying, Corrosive Storm, Swipe, Major Cure, Sign of Wrath, Haste
Armors: N/A
Items: Holy Candle, Staff of Heaven and Earth, Robes of Xin-Shalast, Revelation Quill
Allies: Ayruzi, Mountaineer, Black Arrow Ranger, Black Arrow Ranger, Black Arrow Ranger
Blessings: Blessing of Pharasma, Blessing of Nethys, Blessing of Gozreh, Blessing of Erastil, Blessing of Abadar, Blessing of Norgorber

I played Ezren/Seelah and a friend played Lem/Kyra. In the second half we changed the rules to a variant where we seeded the henchmen/villains into the latter half of the deck to eat more of the timer.

Kyra died once in AD4; we didn't replay all the previous scenarios for the sake of time and granted her scenario rewards to catch her up. However, we only kept the cards that could be kept between the remaining 3 characters in between scenarios and had her deck recreated based on adventure deck rules for new characters before trading around.

For Seelah, I totally would've not taken more weapons, but more weapons was a better choice than more armor IMO.