by fardoche
Usually, in the boardgame hobby, if very specific and far-fetched cases (as in your 4 or 5 last posts in LoT) are not addressed in the rulebook, one should use common sense to determine the most likely intent of the designer.Of course you can ask here on the 'geek and most people will answer courteously with what they assume is the most probable interpretation of the rules. However, if you know you will argue against the majority anyways, why bother posting and asking our "worthless" opinion? Just send a geekmail directly to the designer.
And congrats: your "rules police" microbadge is very appropriate. I sincerely believe you should spend more time and have more fun actually playing the game instead of dissecting the rulebook and nitpick about futile details that are not specifically addressed... With all the card combos Troyes is subject to, it would be really hard to cover every possible situations that can arise during a game.
YMMV