Delve Too Deep + resigned character
If I play Delve Too Deep after a character has died or resigned, do they draw a mythos card?
I know that during the mythos phase, they do not. And the wording is similar.
Posted Apr 20, 2017, 6:29 AM UTC
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Pretty sure they don't.
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I'm evil and would say that if a player failed to draw an encounter card because they were eliminated then the first instruction failed to resolve and the part after the "Then" also doesn't resolve. (And thus not add Delve Too Deep to the victory display)
Now that choice is an application of the Grim Rule not an actually rule that I can find a firm answer for. However I think avoiding most of the cost on a VP investigator card is enough to invoke the Grim Rule to avoid it happening.
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If you check Elimination in the Rules Reference, you can see that a player no longer interacts with the game in any way except for one way - "per investigator" values.
Thus, when considering Delve too Deep, they are not an investigator, they do not draw a card, and they do not create an incomplete action before a "then", becuase they do not exist.
That all players later enjoy the reward of xp after the scenario is ended is the nature of how resolutions are determined. They could at some point do a resolution which could award xp unevenly, but that seems needlessly complicated in general.
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Eliminated investigators won't draw cards or interact with the game in any way. But they will still get the victory point from DTD at the end of the game, unless they've taken enough trauma to be killed or driven insane (and possibly other exceptional ways to be removed from a campaign that are yet to be introduced...)