by curtc
Hermjard wrote:
Clearly only certain activities can be played during event resolution. So the fact that the rules say activities can be used during other players' turns and during event resolution should not be taken as a strict rule to be applied to all activities, but rather as a commentary on the type so activities available, in contrast with the standard delayed effects, which are only usable when taking an action with a set of dice.
Because of that, other activities are indeed further restricted in their activity description. Look at the type III outdoor activities for example, which explicitely say "Before executing your action". This is not the case with the above mentioned type II activity. So we have to assume in the first glance, that this restriction is intentionally avoided here.
Yes, that's a reasonable conclusion. But I don't believe it's the correct one. Consider the result if that were true. When multiple people have cubes there, is there no defined order for exchanging dice? All of a sudden there's now a timing element to the game? That doesn't seem consistent to me.
Hermjard wrote:
Btw, assuming you are right, wouldn't it be more effective and more consistent, to say "Cubes on outdoor activities work exactly like cubes on cards with delayed actions, except [when] the description of the outdoor activity says otherwise. You are allowed [to] combine at most one cube from each outdoor activity with one cube from one and only one delay action for each single action."?
Because that wouldn't be very accurate. Cubes on outdoor cards are very little like cubes on cards. And it still doesn't answer the question you asked, about whether you can use them from this particular outdoor activity when it's not your turn.
Hermjard wrote:
Why stressing a rule difference, only to take it back afterwards?
The second thing doesn't "take it back". It identifies an instance of something alluded to by the first thing. It's like saying, "In the expansion pirates can now sword-fight AND dig up treasure! ... Pirate A can sword-fight, and Pirate B can dig up treasure." The fact that the group was mentioned for being able to do multiple things does NOT emphatically mean that each instance of the category can also do all things mentioned. But I already explained that above, so I feel like I'm talking to the wall.
Hermjard wrote:
This makes no sense to me. So I don't believe, you are right.