during a friendly game we noticed what i think was most likely an oversight on fi107 The Serpent 600point trait, but it made me wonder what the correct way to handle it is.

this trait doesn't say for the power lasts even after the power is gone so when The Serpent dies (or goes to the next dial), the ability is gone and the terrain goes back to normal because of

From the rule book page 17:
so what happens to a multi-base character that was on flat( 1 elevation) terrain, but then because the trait is gone is now on 2 different elevations?

my guess is since its a movement restriction (the bolded part of the rule), the figure stays where it is, but this could cause some multi-base figures to get stuck(the underlined part) if they can't make it to the stairs and all the way down within their movment range

Assuming the terrain goes back to as printed...

Nothing in the Multi-base rules say the character can't occupy multiple levels, it just says they can't end their movement in such a way.

I don't see a problem. Some of the base is on elevated, some is on grounded.

How would the character ever move if they could not use ignores elevated.

Same way any multi-base moves. You pick a square to start from and go from there.
So only the chosen square matters.

that's not completely true


so mastermold on 1 of his many 4 movement clicks, could have the front of his figure be 3 squares from stairs, but the back of his dail is 5 squares from it, so he can't make that movement. and he can't take multiple turns/moves to make it there since he would have to end each move on legal, adjacent squares

In that case I'd say Mastermold is stuck, unless you can get his movement Perplexed up enough to end legally, or have some other game effect able to "move" him.

I'm still open to other documentation on this if someone can find anything.

MM is a colossal, so he won't need to use the stairs.




In general, though, based on what the effect is representing, I'd say that the intention is for the effect to last for the duration of the game. I'm not saying that the wording handles that, of course. I'm just saying what the narrative implies.

I'm also fairly certain that the rule for movement is intended to cover general occupancy. 99% of the time, saying where one can end movement covers this as terraforming is a corner case.

The closest rule to cover this is:
Of course, we're not dealing with blocking terrain here.

Heck we're not even dealing with a game effect causing this. Rather we have the absence of a game effect causing it.

What this does give us is a rule which is a verbose way of giving us insight to the intention of occupancy which is that if something happens which would make things be illegally placed, then it doesn't happen.



Now, I would say that a PG entry needs to be made to clarify exactly how it is supposed to work, but until then, I'd rule it at my venue as the terrain remaining changed.