Sheriff Eli Waters ruling and "send home booted"

Rules Questions: Doomtown
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This ruling could lead to some confusion with the way other cards work.

Mariel Lewis is fairly straight forward - her send home says it removes the dude from the posse:

Shootout: If your posses has higher total influence than the opposing posse, remove a dude from the opposing posse and send them home without booting.

However some cards like

Pistol Whip:

Shootout: Boot your dude in this posse to send a dude in the other posse home booted. Your dude gets –1 bullets (minimum 0).

and Xiong “Wendy” Cheng:

Shootout, Boot: Send an opposing dude home booted.

don’t say they remove the dude from the posse after sending them home. I don’t have the rules/FAQ to hand so this might be covered there, but why does Eli leave the location of the shootout but remain in the posse while dudes that leave via Wendy and Pistol Whip don’t?

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Excellent question, @Doomdog :slight_smile:

Send home booted has it’s own special connotation within Doomtown. This had been ruled previously, and we included it in FAQ in the most recent update:

With Sheriff Eli Waters, if this occurs during a shootout, his movement doesn’t actually cause him to leave the posse, just to potentially move to a different location where there’s a wanted dude.

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We’ll be doing a rules reversal on this. There were some additional unintended consequences that came along with this.

To be included within the rulebook will be the following:

If a dude in a posse moves away from the location of a shootout, or moves home, that dude automatically leaves their posse.

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