I'm writing this from memory, if I get it wrong please speak up.
Before you act, every character at this location must summon and encounter Giant Maggot Swarm.
I assume this includes the current player.
Before you act, you take one combat damage
I'm hazy on this one. Is 'you' the current player only OR the player encountering Giant Maggot Swarm, which would mean the current player twice takes this damage, and others present would take it once.
Each encountering character would apply the 1 bya combat damage during their own encounter. So, as written, the "original" character, would have to encounter the card twice, once during before you act and once again when they resume their regular encounter. That would mean they'd take two combat damage.
Having said that, you might want to review this thread to see the current thought process on this kind of card.
*all of the words apply to everyone encountering it*
Right, got it! Of course with the exception a summoned card may not summon further copies of itself.
Vic knows about the Giant Maggot Swarm already, we ran into that this weekend of course. There is errata pending and you're not meant to fight the Swarm twice.
That would break his own rule surely, unless the card was edited to say every _other_character?
That's why there's errata pending. As in, there's going to be an FAQ that edits it to every other character.
John, each character encounters the swarm once.
The exploring character is the one whose roll will count good sir!
Edit. Just saw it was in the canyon!
Yes 2 per character. ( it doesn't keep adding as a summoned card typically cannot summon another)
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1. I believe that the character first encountering the Maggot Swarm fights only the copy she encounters. The other two characters at the Canyon must each fight TWO Maggot Swarms, once from the original Maggot Swarm's power and once from the Canyon's power. The summoned Maggot Swarms can't cause more to be summoned.
2. To avoid shuffling a Maggot Swarm into the location deck, you need to beat by 4 only the card that came from the location deck. The other cards came from the box, and to the box they shall return.
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As I mentioned here, we're pretty sure that Canyon should summon those other encounters. If so, here's the deal:
Canyon: "When you encounter a non-henchman, non-villain monster, each other character at this location summons and encounters that monster."
Giant Maggot Swarm: "Before you act, each other character at your location summons and encounters a Giant Maggot Swarm."
So Character A encounters the Swarm. Characters B and C have to summon and encounter their own swarms, but finishing what you started, we deal with A first.
The first thing that happens there is before A acts, B & C each summon and encounter the swarm. These summoned swarms don't cause more swarms to be summoned, and defeated or not, they go back in the box.
Now A finishes his encounter with the Swarm, and he has to beat it by at least 4 to avoid shuffling it.
Now B & C each have to deal with the ones summoned by the location. Again, they're summoned, so they can't summon more, and they go into the box after.
So Joe has it right—A deals with 1, and has to worry about whether or not it gets shuffled; B & C deal with 2 each, but are really only concerned with not taking damage.
And that's a lot of maggot acid....