Konrad Klar wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 9:30 pm
CDavis7M wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 5:31 pm
Also, consider the meaning of parenthesis and brackets before raising your double bonus argument again.
But if a check for a race of bearer would give a result like "Dwarf, other race" then also a Dwarven Ring would give bonuses and CPs both for Dwarf and for other race bearer.
No it wouldn't. There are no "bonuses and CPs
for other race bearer" as you suggest. You just made this up. The Dwarven ring ONLY has its normal values printed on the card and the values in parentheses and brackets that apply to a Dwarf bearer. The use of parenthesis and brackets indicates that the bonuses are
alternatives. The Dwarven Ring only has
1 single prowess modifier. The prowess modifier is either +2 or, alternatively, +4 for a Dwarf. The prowess modifier is not +2 and an additional +4 if a Dwarf. This is why the prowess modifier on the Dwarven Rings are written as "+2(4)" and not "+2(+4)."
If a Dwarven Ring had two prowess modifiers as you suggested then a character that is normally a Dwarf and only a Dwarf would receive both bonuses: +9 direct influence (instead of 2 normally or 7 for a Dwarf), +6 prowess (instead of 2 normally, or 4 for a Dwarf), and 8 corruption points (instead of 3 normally or 5 for a Dwarf. Clearly this is not how it works.
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I checked ICE's ruling to see if I was right and of course I was.
ICE Netrep wrote:From: ich...@cstone.net (Ichabod)
Subject: Re: [METW] Dwarven Rings
Date: 1996/08/13
The dwarf bearer gets +7 to their d.i. The [7] only overrides the 2 on the card, not the +2. The cases you mention have no other modifiers. And no, the dwarf will not get the +2, only the +7.
There you have it from ICE. There is a
single direct influence modifier that has a normal value of "2" which is override by a value of "7" for a Dwarf.