dnemiller wrote:
umm Dennis did not say the door was locked closed. He said it was overridden.
I was assuming he was talking about locked open and not locked closed but you know what. I will just stay out rules questions threads as it has become apparent lately that I know absolutely nothing about this game.
Sheesh Dean....why you so touchy today?
I only pointed it out because Dennis' initial question wasn't that clear, and I thought that the opposite situation (door Overriden open) was pretty well clear. Plus, I was involved in the 20-page WOTC thread on this one, and I know it's one that people constantly get confused.
I didn't say you were wrong. I just said it depended on some clarification in Dennis' post, and I figured I would point it out, not for your sake, but for any other readers. Honestly, Dean, I assumed you knew that if it was Overriden closed that Lobot could not do the next door, and you had just read Dennis' post the other way around. No need to feel slighted by it. I was just trying to clarify things.
Grand Moff Boris wrote:
And therein lies the hang-up. The way I understood it, a player doesn't choose to "end" the effect - it just ends because the turn is over (as stated in the ability). Now, if a player wants to maintain the override, he/she must say so, and if a door was targeted in the previous round, a decision about the use of the ability MUST be declared (even if that means to choose to do nothing new).
Yeah, that's something important to remember in judging. If someone forgets to declare Override, then technically it should go away altogether as "ending" is the proper effect, regardless of whether a new one is declared. The hang-up is just imply around the fact that it doesn't "end" until the after the new one is started.
@ Ray: Yeah, you got screwed, lol. Sorry bud. Happens now and then.
EDIT: @ Jason (if he reads this thread, or Dennis relays it to him): Don't sweat it. This is one of the toughest rulings to remember that I can think of. Always takes me a few seconds to think about it when it comes up. And yeah, pretty much everybody played it wrong until that WOTC thread, lol.