Reply: King of Tokyo:: Rules:: Re: removing shrink and poison counters in Tokyo?

by freddieyu

Hermjard wrote:

I know the current ruling from the game authors, that you cannot remove shrink and poinon counters in Tokyo, but can someone explain me why?

You cannot use hearts in Tokyo for healing (others and yourself), fine.

You can use hearts in Tokyo for other things than healing (I know, that the english rules are wrong in that they say, that you cannot use hearts at all in Tokyo, so I accept the french rules here, no discussion about this again, please).

Ok, removing shrink or poison chips is an "other thing" I do with my hearts. So, why I cannot use them in Tokyo?

Note, that both, shrink and poison cards explicitely say, that you cannot use hearts for healing, when you used them for removing chips. By that it is explicitely said, that removing chips is not healing (or equivalent of that).

Otherwise, the wording would be "Hearts you use for removing chips, cannot be used for other types of healing" or similar.

So why I cannot remove chips while in Tokyo? Is it a purely arbitrary rule decision?

Because that is what the authors have interpreted this situation, time and again..

'nuff said....

BUT it is your game..if you want to house rule it that you can remove the status tokens in your group that is fine, just don't expect that to be the cause if ever you play outside your group.,