Eyepatch question (... or the danger of pronouns)

[Ironvein]

Eyepatch's power:

Recharge this card to add 1d4 and the Swashbuckling trait to your check to acquire an ally or defeat a bane or a ship, or 1d8 if it has the Pirate trait.

What is it?

a) the ally/bane/ship in question; or

b) the check itself has a Pirate trait.

My guess is 'a', but pronouns are sneaky things.

[Theryon Stormrune]

We played it as "a".

[Hawkmoon269]

I'd say it is the ally/bane/ship as well. I've seen the "pirate" trait on them. I haven't seen the "pirate" trait be something a check can have.

(And typically, a pronoun can be assumed to have the mostly directly previous noun that would make sense as its antecedent.)

[Captain Bulldozer]

Yep. "It" refers to the last noun used previously to it in the sentence as a general. So eyepatch is saying, Recharge to add 1d4 ... to your check to acquire (insert card type where appropriate), but make that 1d4 a 1d8 if the card you're attempting to acquire has the pirate trait.

[Ironvein]

Thx guys, I was pretty sure of it as well; but you know what they say about making assumptions. Been a while since I had to think about the rules of grammar though.