RulingHall of Heroes (rules 1.0–1.4)

Boggs Rule Clarifications: And since we’re on it, a general rule about overkill: we had an old ruling by Caleb saying “overkill damage…

Question

And since we’re on it, a general rule about overkill: we had an old ruling by Caleb saying “overkill damage is damage from an attack.”, but that was before rules 1.4, which introduced a few changes to overkill, and added that “Damage dealt by overkill to an identity or villain does not constitute an attack against that character.”, which, to me, seemed to indicate that ruling was now obsolete. Could you clarify that? Or we should still consider that overkill damage is damage from an attack, but it’s not considered an attack?

Answer

Overkill used to exist in this gray area and Caleb’s ruling makes total sense with how it read before. However, we specifically changed the wording of overkill because we wanted to ensure that its damage was separate from an attack. So now I’d say no, damage from overkill is not damage from an attack—it’s a different source of damage. – Boggs (Facebook)