Spiteful Imp and Pit Fiends

[Alabresim]

Okay I was resigned that i was going to lose a game, the Cultist had the only talisman and was at the pit fiends. Then fortune smiled upon me and I encountered the Spiteful Imp. The Cultist was the only charecter left and so I was transported to the pit fiends, I'm thinking: Great I have a shot to steal the Talisman away from her, but...I HAD to encounter the Pit Fiends instead. The text on the Spiteful Imp says that I am to be transported to other charecter. It says: I must encounter character and not space. Sounds like a bug to me...
Love the game by the way and appreciate the hard work!

[Fulgur14]

But you cannot encounter characters on Pit Fiends -- only Plain of Peril, Valley of Fire and Crown of Command allow you to encounter characters in the Inner Region.

[sanityismyvanity]

Originally posted by Fulgur14:

But you cannot encounter characters on Pit Fiends -- only Plain of Peril, Valley of Fire and Crown of Command allow you to encounter characters in the Inner Region.

I know exactly what you are saying Fulgur, and I use to think exactly the same thing until recently. I thought this was a "Can Vs. Cannot" issue, but it is not.

"Can Vs. Cannot" states "In any instance where a card’s effect indicates that a character cannot perform an action or use an ability (such as casting a Spell or using an Object), the character cannot do so. In other words, the forbidding effects of cards override other abilities and effects."

The problem in this situation is the forbidding effect comes from the base Rules, not a card. So "Can Vs. Cannot" is not something that can be applied here. Instead, "Special Ability Vs. Rules" is applied to resolve the conflict of "In the Inner Region, a character may only encounter another character on the Plain of Peril, the Valley of Fire, and the Crown of Command" and "You must then encounter that character; you cannot choose to encounter the space instead".

"Special Ability Vs. Rules" states "In any instance where a special ability or effect is at a variance with the basic rules, the special ability or effect always overrides the rules", so the Spiteful Imp card takes precedence in this case and overrides the Rules for the Inner Region. This is currently a bug in the game, since it won't allow you to encounter another character on those Inner Region space for any reason, but things like the Spiteful Imp should be applied fully even in the Inner Region.

[ToothlessNightFury]

sanity is correct...

[Alabresim]

It is also more logical and fits into the spirit of the game, of coarse I'm a little bias.