Question on Villains and closing locations


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Hey all, another question for you all.

Say, in a particular play through, there are two locations left open in the scenario. In the first location the villain is encountered and defeated.

I am only slightly confused as to how things proceed from there.

Is the location that you battled the villain immediately closed, with all other cards banished, thus leaving you to randomly shuffle the villain and a single blessing face down into either that location (on its own) or to location 2?

Or can the villain only retreat to the now, last open location (2)?

Again, thank you guys, bringing you these questions as i encounter them lol.

Sovereign Court

Yes, defeating a villain instantly closes his location unless a scenario says otherwise. That leaves one location, meaning no blessing gets shuffled, only the villain.


Or unless you find another villain in the location deck. That will happen much later in the adventure path, so don't worry about it until then.


Hawkmoon269 wrote:
Or unless you find another villain in the location deck. That will happen much later in the adventure path, so don't worry about it until then.

what would happen in the case of another villain being found?

Sovereign Court

Anytime a location is closed, whether by defeating a villain or any other manner, you do one of two things.

If there is no villain in the deck: Banish all the cards in the location, and close it

If there is a villain: Banish all non-villain cards, and leave the location open


Andrew L Klein wrote:

Anytime a location is closed, whether by defeating a villain or any other manner, you do one of two things.

If there is no villain in the deck: Banish all the cards in the location, and close it

If there is a villain: Banish all non-villain cards, and leave the location open

brilliant, noted for the future!! i take it the villain might as well be left face up in the location at that point haha?

Sovereign Court

Might as well. Unless there's two (S&S has a 3-villain scenario!) or more of course.

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