Questions about encounter types

[Tezrul]

My question is fairly general... when encountering cards summoned by other cards (e.g. the "when closing text" or a "barrier", etc.) are you actually trying to defeat a barrier anymore for the purpose of using a blessing that helps vs barriers or when asked to defeat a summoned monster to close a location is the check to defeat the summoned monster considered a check to close for the purpose of the blessing that gives 2 dice to close locations (green leaf graphic).

My guess is that the only checks that count for "closing a location" and using that blessing are directly on the card (knowledge 8 or survival 9, etc.) and when you summon something it is no longer a check to close but simply results in closing when you do defeat it.

[Frencois]

You are right. As you said : "the only checks that count for "closing a location" and using that blessing are directly on the card (knowledge 8 or survival 9, etc.) and when you summon something it is no longer a check to close but simple results in closing when you do defeat it."

[Hawkmoon269]

See this FAQ. Blessing of Gozreh is the card you are thinking of and it only applies specifically to a check listed as the "When Closing" part of a location. Similarly, if a barrier that summoned a monster and you played a Blessing of Abadar during the check to defeat the monster, you would only get 1 die.

"Check to do X" means a check that directly does that, and isn't the same as "a check that would result in X", which is a termed not used in the game.

[Ghostfan28]

I have another question similar to this one

One of Vika's role cards allow her to automatically succeed at closing emptied locations. Does that mean only the locations with checks to close? So if the location causes a monster to be defeated, does she automatically succeed at the combat check or not?

[Hawkmoon269]

Her power is:

Vika's Pulverizer Role wrote:

You automatically succeed at your check to close an empty location.

I'd say that only applies if the "When Closing" text is a check. Like "Succeed at a Constitution 8 check." If she has to summon a card to close a location and then defeat or acquire that card, she isn't making a check to close a location, so her power doesn't apply. So she doesn't automatically succeed at a combat check to defeat a summoned monster that was summoned by the "When Closing" power of a location.

[nondeskript]

Her power allows her to automatically succeed at her check to close an empty location. If the location doesn't have a check to close (if you have to banish a card or defeat a monster, for example) it won't apply.