drathe wrote:While in a pit, a Hero may search for treasure or secret doors as if it were a separate room. If a Hero dies in a room or corridor and no other Hero is present in the same room or corridor, then the dead Hero's inventory is lost. Now, what happens if a Hero dies in a Pit while another Hero is in the same room or corridor as the Pit? Is the Pit treated as a separate room in this case, resulting in the loss of the dying Hero's inventory? Or does it still count as part of the current room or corridor in which, the other Hero will gain their possessions?
From the North American edition Instruction Booklet, p. 22,
Dead Heroes:
What Happens To A Dead Hero?...Armor, weapons, and treasures
that belonged to you prior to death can
be picked up by any othe Hero in the
room with you.
Warning! If there are no other Heroes in
the room or corridor with you when you
die, any monster in the room or corridor
with you will claim your possessions....A dead Hero's equipment isn't necessarily lost if there are no other Heroes in the same room or corridor. A monster must first be present to claim the unguarded possessions. A Hero can die completely alone from a pit trap, with no monster(s) in the room or corridor of the trap. From there I'd say it's a race between any available monsters and Heroes to claim the equipment by entering the the room or corridor of the pit.
From NA IB, p.19:
What Happens to A Hero In A Pit?
<> As a Hero, once in a pit, you may
search the pit for treasure or secret
doors as if it were a separate room
unto itself.The pit isn't an actual room. It is treated
as if it were a separate room unto itself for purposes of searching for treasure or secret doors. Neither of these specific cases applies to a dead Hero's possessions.
If a monster was alone in the room or corridor with the pit trap when the unfortunate Hero died, the monster will claim the equipment. [A benovolent Zargon could rule that a monster must wait until it's part of the turn to claim treasure if he wanted to give another Hero a chance get to the room or corridor in the same turn as the death of a Hero. -edit] If a Hero was alone in the room or corridor with the hapless pit victim, then the Hero gains the equipment. If there were both a Hero and Monster, the Hero gains the equipment.
Being as there are may Zargons with individual interpretations of the rules, you could say that a pit was a separate room. I that case, a monster or Hero would actually have to enter the pit to claim the (fallen
) Hero's loot. A monster doesn't take damage from entering a pit. Heroes, on the other hand, do.