From The General 20/3 

DOWN WITH THE KING 

8.4.5 The characters 45-55 have the ability to modify Problem-Solving
die rolls just like Office Holders. Do they retain this ability even if
in hiding, banishment, imprisonment or abroad? 

A. No. 

13.1 Is a PC who is banished or in hiding still limited to only one
activity even if he should win additional activities from a Prestige
Table? 

A. Yes. 

14.5.16 Does the Port Guards card have any effect on a character who is
escaping from imprisonment? 

A. Yes. Normally escape from imprisonment allows one to escape abroad.
The use of the Port Guards card against the escapee prevents him from
leaving Fandonia. He is then considered to be hiding inside Fandonia. 

15.9 The rule reads "Oncea player has made each counsel on a table, he
may make any counsel on that table on any turn thereafter." Does this
mean, for example, should he have given all four counsels for the
"Pirates" Political Problem, he might thereafter, if he wants to, give
the first counsel, "Discharge the Minister of the Navy" each subsequent
time he counsels from the Pirates Table? 

A. No, he may not give a counsel for the third time unless he has given
all the other counsels on the table at least twice - and so forth. 

24.1 Am I right in assuming that a character may go into hiding in any
phase of the game turn and that more than one character may go into
hiding at the same time? 

A. Yes. 

24.1 If a player announces an assassination attempt against a character,
may another player avoid the attempt by putting the endangered character
into hiding? 

A. No. If a player suspects an assassination attempt is imminent before
it is actually announced, he may put his character(s) into hiding, but
once the attempt is announced against a specific character, the assassin
is assumed to strike without warning - giving the character no time to
hide. 

24.2 The rules state that a player cannot go into hiding and come out of
hiding in the same turn. I assume that he cannot come out of hiding and
go back into hiding on the same turn either. 

A. Yes. 

29. May a player use an Escape card to allow a character to escape from
a country in which he is banished? 

A. Yes, the rules do not specifically mention this, but it logical.
However, the benefits that accrue from escaping banishment are dubious.
An escapee is a wrongdoer who may be extradited. A PC cannot function
better in hiding than he can in banishment. 

29.7 The rule says that a banished character is a "wrongdoer". This
doesn't mean he can be extradited for re-trial, does it? 

A. No. The term "wrongdoer" here and in 30.8 are misleading. Such
characters are already paying the price for wrongdoing. Only if such
characters escape banishment do they become true "wrongdoers" subject to
all rules for such. 

29.9/30.10 Both these rules end with the parenthetical statement, "he
automatically dies at the end of all Player Turns". Does this mean there
is some unstated number of turns after which a banished or imprisoned
character cannot survive? 

A. No. This is a non-statement; it may be striken from the rules to
avoid confusion. "All Player Turns" means "at the end of the game", at
which point a character's survival or death is irrelevant. 

Q. On the new Interrogation Table, if a "6" is rolled does the original
FAC go to trial as well as two other FACs being accused of wrongdoing? 

A. Yes, all three are tried. 

Q. Surely, under the new Interrogation Table it could be possible for a
player's whole faction to eventually be accused of wrongdoing: right? 

A. Yes, such is the way of conspiracies. When they start to unravel,
they can go all the way. 

NB submitted by John Kula (kula@telus.net)
on behalf of the Strategy Gaming Society
(http://www.boardgamegeek.com/~sgs), 
originally collected by Andrew Webber 
(gbm@wwwebbers.com)