When you play Hidden Hangar can you take a card out of the face up Shop? No. You may only pick up the face down shop deck and select a crew member from there. Note: You may however at the end of your turn, after selecting your crew member from the Shop Deck, take a card out of the face up shop deck.

During an attack or defense with Maxine Trinidad as your pilot you may reroll one die. Action cards/ crew effects/ armor effects may happen in-between this decision. You however may NOT use Maxine's reroll ability more than once per initial attack/defense. Example: You attack with Maxine and roll and 1 and a 2, and instead of using her ability you first response to your roll with Diabolical thus rerolling your initial attack, you may then choose to reroll one of those dice. I

If a card with a die counter on it is covered by another card, the die counter is removed and is set to zero or empty. A handful of cards in PBL ROBOTS require a die counter to determine the changing value of something important. The cards seen above are examples of cards that use dice counter when in play: Thunder Shield/ Refuge Laser/ Destroyer Sky/ Gears of Alvidon/ Torch Pipe/ Spor Conductor Each of these cards, respective of their card type (Expert Pilot/ Shoulder Armor/

If a player have both the crew members Mute and Vernon and rolls a 6 it becomes a 3. Mute's ability happens before the 6 is ever truly confirmed, or able to have its value changed. Note: If a player plays Change of Fate turning a die into a six with Mute and Vernon in play, it would instantly become a 3 as well.

Crew member Alpha Michael Delgado allows the attacking player to attack with two separate limbs during an attack. The action Overblown sends "any" attacking armor back to the owner's hand. This means that all attacking armor can be sent back to the hand during the attack. It also means the person playing the action could choose which armor to return. Note: The attack will still happen, but those attacking armors would now be in the attackers hand. Note #2: You could potential

One slight rule modification for events like house tournaments or conventions has been to alter the rules of bombs/shields to allow for a player to use bombs/shields during the initial attack phase. There are certain armors that do benefit from this rule in other moments of the game, such as head armor Gears of Alvidon and it is a way to minimize the effect of cards like Distraction Teddy; and make cards like Duds and Misfire even more potentially effective. The real reason w

Update: This is the preferred draft style by the majority of players for the past 6 years. During the 2019-2020 competitive play season in New England, a slightly modified draft format has been used. It was even democratically voted in by the participants of the 2020 Woodin Bowl as the draft format for the championship. The draft is almost identical to the previous draft format, except when the player normally "adds one card to each pile" after picking a pile, instead, the pl

If a game of PBL ROBOTS requires a player to Open the Shop (due to no cards in their Draw Deck or because of the Action Card 'Shop is Open') and there are no cards in the Shop Deck, the game is over and declared a draw. Reason: In the unlikely case of a game that stalls out or has no remaining relevant moves by either player and the Shop has been opened several times, without yielding relevant cards the game must have an alternate ending. Note: As of this date (3/25/2026)

Anytime an Action is played, the player must reveal it face up on the table, and then resolves the Action. Once the Action is resolved then place the card face down in the appropriate scrap heap. Note: Some Action cards require a die roll, and priority may pass back and fourth before the Action itself is resolved. If priority does pass while an Action is being resolved, an additional Action may also be played and will resolve before the original Action is resolved. Because

(reflected Rulebook version 1.4 page 4 section "The Shop is Open") The updated area has been highlight in yellow. "At any point in the...