Action windows with green background

[Julia 2,809]

Another noobish question (sorry... I think I have one hundred more...). The turn sequence scheme, as reported on pag 30 of the core rules, says that

 

"green: any player can take any actions generally, or between the game steps stated in the rules"

 

This rule is not 100% clear to me. Allow me to go with an example:

 

Quest phase, step one: players commit characters to quest

 

it has a green background, so I read this as:

 

"any time, while committing characters to a quest, I'm allowed to play event cards. So, for instance, I can use Sneak attack to play Gandalf and have him questing; at the end of the quest phase, he returns to my hand"

 

Is this reading correct?

 

The thing that confuses me is looking at the structure of the Planning Phase: if my reading is correct, then what's the need of the two green "player action" boxes? I understand the need to use boxes to show that playing players actions is legit between bullet point 2 and 4 of the Quest phase, but why between bullet point 1 and 3 of the Planning Phase? Being both bullet point 1 and 3 of the planning phase green, it should be automatic that you can play actions whenever you want. Or?

 

Thanks for help

[alogos 171]

Box are preaty.

You're playing it right, don't bother. (yes, you can sneak attack gandalf and commit him to quest)

Also, it may be because player 1 is the only one to play ally and attachement, and then it is player 2 turn, etc... so player 1 cannot play attachement on player 2 ally that enter play the same turn. But this does not prevent player 2 to play event action during player 1's turn.

 

Also, note that player, one by one, declare all there commiting characters. You can't play action when player X is choosing a character and then another, only before and after he decided all his characters.

[Julia 2,809]

Indeed. Importance of first player token and sequence of declarations were clear to me, but thanks for the reminder (one more confirmation never hurts)

 

Good to know I was playing it correctly, thanks a million for the answer