Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5
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Creatures are first-class citizens: TROLL (D4 punches, 6 damage to kill, regenerates at its creator's turn end), SKELETON (2-point punches), WRAITH (walks through one wall a turn; its touch deals 2 and steals a random card), FIRE IMP (a stationary turret scorching anyone in sight once per turn — including its creator — killed only by Waterbolt or a Waterwall wave), DEMOCRATIC MONSTER (moved three spaces by EVERY player on their turn, one claw per round), SHADOW (a second body costing a life point per turn, destroyed by any damage), and ALTER EGO (a stationary double). Monsters obey their creators, move on the controller's turn, attack once per turn but never on their creation turn (summoning IS your attack), refuse to strike their creators, and vanish when their creator dies. Attacks can target creatures directly (no counteraction window — monsters don't counter); Dispel Creation un-creates them. Plus MEGA-MONSTER (double a monster's toughness or speed), ADRENALINE (two attacks a turn), MAD DASH, and LIFESAVER. Expansion Set #2 confirmed by Eric as a 5e-era product — marked historical-only in the data; the 6e game is exactly base + Expansion #1 (200 cards, all verified). Lobby gains an "include Expansion Set #1" toggle; the client renders creatures as diamond tokens with select-move-attack interaction. 95 tests passing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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6th-Edition Verification Checklist — v3 (post card-face + board photos)
Status update: the owner's photos of the 6e rulebook and Expansion #1 rules sheet
(research/scans/ IMG_4665–4673, transcribed in research/official-6e-card-list.md)
have resolved most of the original checklist. Membership and quantities for the 6e
basic deck (69 unique + 34 numbers = 125) and Expansion #1 (59 unique + 14 numbers
= 75) are now OFFICIAL and encoded in cards.json.
✅ Done (answered by the scans — no photos needed)
Full deck census / per-card quantities— official rulebook + Exp1 card lists.Number-card spread— base 2×12/3×10/4×7/5×4/6×1; Exp1 has its own: 2×5/3×4/4×3/5×2.Dispel Creation membership— ×1 basic AND ×2 Exp1 (the "125th card" question is closed).Bomb— on neither official list; not in this collection (presumed Exp2/7e-era).Trap!, Speedstone— confirmed ×1 each in the basic deck.Force Field— official Exp1 card ×1 (the FAQ's "mystery card" identified).The die— equipment list: one die numbered 1–4.Rulebook wording items— first-round "no combat" phrasing, punch/wall(20)/door(15) damage, pick-up-ends-turn, door auto-relock, 50-50 junction rule, AUTO WARP details, LOS center-to-center (still references the dropped center dots), ADJACENT/L.O.S. markings, hand/draw limits — all confirmed; see rules-notes.md "RESOLVED" section.
✅ Done — card-face spot-checks (owner's photos IMG_4680–4683, 2026-08-15)
All priority card-face checks are resolved; cards.json updated with verbatim text:
BUTT-HEAD— ATTACK, no LOS: turn into a goat, ram; physical damage = distance moved.MEGA-MONSTER— NEUTRAL, L.O.S.: doubles a monster's life-points OR movement.GIFT FROM ABOVE— rename from "Gift From God" CONFIRMED (NEUTRAL, no LOS).DIMENSIONAL WARP— rename from "Permawarp" CONFIRMED (NEUTRAL; rewritten text captured).REDIRECTION— rename from "Rewarp" CONFIRMED (NEUTRAL; rewritten text captured).Wands— WARP WAND and STICKY WAND faces confirm "Wand" titles and charge rules.SKELETON / TROLL / WRAITH— printed titles are the short names (no "Create ...").FORCE FIELD— face matches the FAQ-recovered text (card has printed typo "cating").Number cards— base-deck faces 2–6 photographed: NO rules text, just the value in a distinct decorative border per value. (An Exp1 number-card face was not photographed — presumed identical; cosmetic question only.)THOUGHT-STEAL— card face prints "THOUGHT STEAL" (unhyphenated); rulebook list hyphenates.
Remaining (optional): batch-photograph the rest of the deck faces to upgrade every card's
5e-database text to 6e-face-verified wording. Only 3 uncertain cards remain in
cards.json, all Expansion #2 (not owned): Load Stone & Fighterstone type conflicts,
Random's Card naming.
✅ Done — boards (verified by agent from owner's photos IMG_4674–4679)
All six layouts CONFIRMED EXACT with zero corrections, including the D and F doors;
each layout appears exactly once; perimeter openings verified on all 24 edges; the
"center dot on every space" claim was disproven (no dots on physical boards). See
research/boards-verification.md. Still historical-only open items: which 4 layouts
shipped in the base box (boards unlabeled; art style suggests E+F are the Exp1 pair),
which layout was replaced before 7e, board backs.
✅ Done — physical odds and ends (owner-reported, 2026-08-15)
Physical dimensions— sector boards are 7.5 in to a side (1.5 in per space).Errata sheet— none in the owner's 6e box.Token/counter-sheet inventory— DONE: full token set photographed (IMG_4684–4687), inventory inresearch/tokens-6e.md. 33 token types + 6 double-sided wizard standees + 12 color-keyed treasures. No numbered duration/charge tokens were present (cosmetic-only; digital tracks these natively).
📦 Expansion Set #2 — HISTORICAL ONLY (resolved 2026-08-15)
The owner confirms the 6th edition had exactly one expansion. Expansion Set #2 was a 5e-era product; its cards never shipped for 6e. The 85 'expansion2' entries in cards.json are retained as historical reference with null quantities (the deck builder can never include them) and their 3 'uncertain' flags are permanently moot for this project.
Where the answers go
| Finding | File to update |
|---|---|
| Card titles/wording, Butt-Head & Mega-Monster text | cards.json (text, name, cardType, los, flip verification.status to verbatim, clear notes) |
| Board findings | boards.json (separate agent) |
| Dimensions, errata sheet | boards.json / rules-notes.md as relevant |