Does the Sages journal add 1d4 to summoned henchmen?

[Paul Kingtiger]

Hello,
The Sages journal adds 1d4 to combat checks against Villains and Henchmen. Does this include summoned henchmen, such as when encountering a Skelington horde barrier or attempting to close a location?

[Yoshua]

Havent seen an official answer to this.

However I would say it does what it says it does.

"to defeat a henchman or villain"

To me that would mean the combat check against any card with the tag in the upper right 'Henchman' or Villain'

I dont have a skelington Horde Barrier in front of me, but as for closing a location? no that is a check to close a location, you could use it to defeat the summoned henchman if that is what the location closing tells you to do, but not in a roll against the location itself.

So TLDR:

Yes, if a henchman is summoned i would say it is still a henchman.

[Andrew K]

Since the card does not specify how you have to have found the henchman (location deck, barrier, closing a location, etc.), yes it works for summoned cards. A henchman is a henchman and a villain is a villain.

[Mike Selinker]

Henchman = henchman.

[Paul Kingtiger]

Thanks Mike and everyone else. That's how we were playing it, but I wanted to make sure. I really appreciate that this forum exists with dev involvement to ask questions like this.