I just bought Dungeoneer and I really like the game, it's really well designed I think. BUT, (you knew there was a but in there somewhere) I have a few questions. So if anyone has any answers for me, please post them and help me out. And if these are stupid questions, well I'm sorry and need some clarification....

Now on to the questions:

1: When do you spend Glory when playing Boons and Treasures? Do you pay it when you ready the card, or do you pay it when you actually activate the card and use the item? Do you have to spend Glory every time you use the item or is it a one-time only deal?

2: If you use a Vampiric Dagger and it kills the monster, they obviously don't have to roll to overcome the threat right? (This was a question my roommate asked. I said if you're dead, you can't overcome a threat...)

3: If an item is readied can you pick it up later and place it back in your hand?

I'm sure that I'll come up with some other dopey questions later, but I guess that these will have to do for now....

Thanks for any guidance you can provide....

Attached treasures?
Do these attach to a specific item only?
Do they count against the treasure limit?

Threats.
Does attempting to beat a threat count as an attack. There are cards that give a bonus to attacks, but it isn't clear that beating a threat is an attack.

Example. In the Vault of the Fiends, the Fiend Embryo Canister says +1 to all Fight and Magic Attacks. But would this count for threats as well?

Same with Precision Arcana where the boon allows 1 additional die for each magic attack roll. Does this allow the extra die for threats?

If an item is in your inventory, you may not pull it back into your hand. You can choose to discard something from your inventory at the end of your turn (that's it). And that occurs after any opportunity to add a card to your inventory, making it somewhat tricky to change one item for another, except you can play things like potions (and, I believe, backpacks).

I don't have the Atlas edition of the game yet, but what do you mean by the "threat" of the Vampiric Dagger? In the first ed, the dagger gives a 50% chance of giving the player using it a life back. That would still count when delivering the killing blow...

The text of the Vampiric Dageer reads as follows:

"Vampiric Strike: your opponent must overcome a Melee threat 4+. Fail: your hero recovers 1 health."

If your opponent is dead, then they should automatically fail, right?

BTW I should have said "You spend Glory to put a card into play (use an instant, add something to your equipment, give yourself a boon), not when you USE it. " :)

"I can't point to any specific rule that would regulate that situation, but I think in the spirit of the card that the opponent would make that Melee check with his "last dying gasp" so-to-speak. Since the card will usually be used on monsters, and most monsters only have 1 Life.

Actually I can point to a specific rule. Everything in Resolution step of combat is "resolved at once", that hit effect is resolved during Resolution step."