Yes, it does. The party skips the entire Healing Step. However, it does not prevent wizards from casting the “Regeneration” spell, as spells are not part of the Healing Step.
(The icon description on page 19 incorrectly says “Priests will not heal anyone this round.” This should also apply to paladins. In later editions, this will be changed to “Skip the Healing Step this round.” )
You always chose an unconquered tile that is closest to entrance. The distance is measured by the number of steps required to get there from the entrance, as though you were walking through the dungeon. (In some cases, it can happen that there is a tile that is physically near the entrance, but only accessible by a path through many dungeon tiles.)
(The rules do not state this exactly. This will be corrected in later editions.)
If there is more than one such tile, you get to choose any one of them. Each round, you have to decide again. You do not take into account which tile was chosen the previous round (or whether it was conquered or not). So it is possible, for example:
The 1 point of damage is assigned as any other trap damage (i.e., it can be prevented by thieves or the paladin). The 2 additional damage is a special effect of the trap. Because of this, it can’t be prevented by anti-trap abilities (neither by thieves nor by the paladin) even if the first damage was prevented.
(The text on the card explains that thieves cannot prevent the damage, but this applies to paladins as well. The card will be corrected in later editions.)
Note that the additional damage is assigned at the end of the round, even after the Conquering Step. That means that even if this damage eliminates the last adventurer, the party can conquer a tile before it happens. Also note that if the adventurer you hit is eliminated by monsters or by fatigue, these two damage are not dealt. (They do not transfer to the next adventurer.)
The damage is dealt even if there was no Conquering this round.
(The “At the end of the round (after Conquering)…” text on the card just specifies the timing of these events.)
The paladin is not a wizard, warrior, priest, or thief, but he possesses the abilities of each. That means Vampires can attack him (he is not a priest). An Anti-magic Dart has no special effect if it hits him (he is neither a priest nor a wizard), but if it hits a wizard or priest it does prevent the paladin from casting spells or healing.
The paladin is still an adventurer, so anything that affects adventurers affects him (including traps and attacks that damage all adventurers).
The paladin goes first (except when Illusion was cast), so all standard attacks have to target him, and ghosts can’t attack him. Rolling Stone and Poisoned Meal affect the paladin, while the Pendulum hits the first adventurer behind him.
Even in Combat, the paladin can move to another player, following the general paladin rules. If he moves, he takes all the damage he received so far with him.
Note that Battle is evaluated in clockwise order, beginning with the starting player (i.e., the player that was starting player in the last round of Building). In some cases, this order can influence whether the Paladin moves, to which player he moves, and also whether he will affect Battle again this round.
When the paladin moves to a different dungeon, it results in one of three cases:
If the paladin is eliminated, he goes to the prison of the player that assigned the last point of damage to him (even if another player assigned more damage before the paladin moved). There will be no paladin for the rest of the Combat, no matter how evil the players are.
If the paladin is not eliminated, he leaves to the Distant Lands Board at the end of Combat.
So after First Year Combat, the First Year paladin is out of the game whether he was eliminated or not. If at least one player is on or above the paladin space of the Evilometer at that time, the Second Year paladin is assigned at the start of the Second Year (after the Starting Player Token is moved).
You can imagine it this way: prepare damage blocks above each adventurer according to the trap text, as if there were no thief or paladin (but do not assign damage yet). Now remove one block for each trap icon in the party, starting with the blocks prepared for the first adventurer, etc. Assign the remaining damage, if any is left. The prevented damage is not dealt.
No matter how much damage is prevented (even if all damage is prevented), the special effect of the trap (no conquering, no spellcasting, skipping the Healing Step, extra damage from poison) is never prevented.
This works the same way every round, regardless of whether some damage was prevented in previous rounds, as long as there are any surviving adventurers with the anti-trap skill.
As stated in the rules, the Healing Step is skipped if there was no attack in the Battle Phase this round.
This can happen if:
(Or in any combination that leads to the states mentioned above.)
The Healing Step is also skipped as a result of these special effects:
Except in the cases mentioned above, any attack by a monster (or ghost) will cause the party to heal during the Healing Step. You do not keep track of which damage was caused by what, so even the damage from traps or from previous rounds can be healed.
During Healing, you have to remove one Damage Counter for each heart symbol in the party. You always remove all damage from the first adventurers first, no matter when or from which source it was dealt.
Priests and paladins are healed the same as any other adventurers: when there are no wounded adventurers in front of them.
Every round, there are two spellcasting Steps (Fast Spells Step and Slow Spells Step) but only one spell (on the current Combat Card). This spell is either fast or slow, and thus it is cast either in the Fast Spells Step or in the Slow Spells Step. In the other step, nothing happens this combat round.
The party casts the spell only if the total of their magic points is equal to or higher than the required amount of magic points (above the Combat Card space on the Combat Side of Progress Board). Just sum the crystal icons on all the remaining adventurers during the appropriate
The “skip Healing” and “prevent Conquering” abilities are resolved in the Monsters (and Ghosts) Step of Battle.
Fast spells that force you to withdraw a monster prevent it from using its ability, as does Metamorphosis (it turns a monster into a sheep with no abilities).
However, Blind Rage does not affect other abilities (it just alters the attack type), and Dimensional Gate is a slow spell, so the ability takes effect even though the monster is teleported away.
If the spell says it affects all monsters (Word of Peace, Suggestion, Blind Rage) it does not apply to Ghosts. (This is not optional – for example, you can’t decide to withdraw your Ghost when Word of Peace is cast.)
When you have to choose one of your attacking monsters (Aura of Fear, Metamorphosis, Dimensional Gate), you can’t choose a Ghost. You have to choose a monster, if you sent one. If you sent only Ghosts (or nothing at all), the spell has no effect on you.
Spells that affect the party can protect them from monsters and ghosts. For example, Magic Shield can prevent 1 point of damage from a Ghost and Invisibility can keep a Ghost from damaging wizards.
The effect of Illusion also applies to Ghosts: it allows them to attack the first real adventurer (even the paladin).
Once sent to battle in the Planning Phase, monsters and ghosts cannot be voluntarily withdrawn (for example to avoid a nasty spell), and they have to use one of their combat options, if possible. Whether they can attack or not, they return face down. (Golems and Vampires are the exceptions – Golems always return face up. Even if your Vampire cannot attack, you may decide to return it face up. (Golems and Vampires that get turned into sheep, however, lose their abilities and are knocked out.))
Some spells force you to withdraw one or more monsters. In that case, return any affected monsters to your Monster Lair face up, as though you never sent them. You can use them in later rounds. Nothing can cause a Ghost to withdraw from the battle.
It creates an adventurer with no abilities and one hitpoint. This adventurer is not a thief, wizard, warrior, priest, or paladin. It goes first, even if there is a paladin, and behaves as a regular adventurer. This means a standard attack has to target it. “Attack Anyone” attacks can choose it as a target. “Attack Everyone” attacks affect all adventurers, including the illusion. Ghosts can’t attack it, but its presence allows them to attack the first real adventurer (even the paladin). If the party conquers, the illusion is the first to be assigned fatigue.
If the illusion survives the round, it does not disappear. It will lead the party in the next round. It can be affected by traps and spells.
Once the illusion is eliminated, however, it disappears. You cannot keep it in your prison, so you will score no points for it.
Put a Food Token on the first adventurer. For the rest of Combat, it is exactly same as if that adventurer had one more hitpoint (as if the red number were 1 point higher). That means you have to assign one damage more to eliminate him.
If there is an illusionary adventurer surviving from a previous round (created by the Illusion spell), Create Food will apply to him, increasing his hitpoints to 2. (After all, it is magic food.)
The extra hitpoint does not go away at the end of the round. This adventurer can be fully healed by healing abilities or the Regeneration spell.
On the other hand, the Poisoned Meal trap causes one more damage to this adventurer.
Magic Shield absorbs the first point of damage that would be otherwise dealt to an adventurer this round. That means:
For monsters (and ghosts), you choose the order of attack and the type of attack in the Monster (and Ghosts) Step. You do not have to state it when planning. You can decide to attack in any order.
Note that the order might be important: for example, if an attack eliminates the first adventurer, the next adventurer becomes the first adventurer for the following attacks.
When planning, you can put two traps here, but you don’t have to choose the order of the traps. In the Trap Step, you can resolve the traps in either order.
Order is important not only because the first trap can eliminate an adventurer (and thus change which adventurer will be affected by the second trap) but also because the second trap is only affected by the anti-trap abilities that remain after the thieves and paladins deal with the first trap.
Example: Suppose we have a thief with 2 trap icons, the paladin with 3 trap icons, and two warriors in between. We played Rolling Stone (4 damage to the first adventurer) and Wall of Fire (1 damage to each adventurer, 1 extra to the last) in our Labyrinth. If we use the Rolling Stone first, then the four damage and also the first damage from the Wall of Fire gets prevented. The paladin will get no damage, the warriors will each get 1, and the thief (as the last line) will get 2 damage. On the other hand, if we use the Wall of Fire first, then its 5 damage gets prevented, and the Rolling Stone does 4 damage to the paladin. In both cases, five damage were prevented and four damage were dealt (but to completely different adventurers).
Nothing. But you still have to discard it after use.