Talk:Cloaking Device/@comment-30131536-20161017052824/@comment-454133-20161017061743

Yea, if someone puts cloaking device on an outrider, tell them to go home. :P

Also it's basic rules that you can't arbitrarily spend tokens however you like -- tokens have no abilities. You don't get to spend a lock or focus token unless you have a rule allowing it. You can spend a focus token on attacks only because the Modify Attack Step and Modify Defense Step both say you can, and they say when you can and what they do (rulebook pages 11-12). Likewise you can spend a focus token on Calculation because the card's text says you can, and that same card describes the effect.

Again, the tokens don't have any inherent abilities on their own. The focus and lock tokens' normal uses are explained in the Modify Attack/Defense Dice steps, and they have those abilities nowhere else. Focusing die results with the focus token ONLY applies to those two steps. Spending a target lock to reroll only applies to those two steps. This is why, for example, you can't spend these tokens to modify or reroll Proximity Mine or Seismic Torpedo dice -- they're not attacks, and so they never follow the steps that give those tokens their abilities. Yet you can emperor them. C-3PO does trigger on rolling any arbitrary defense die, e.g. Lando, because of how its rules text is written.

This probably isn't a matter of a FAQ being necessary; it's just people not reading the basic rules, and then making stuff up to suit their interests or assumptions. People make up much worse BS all the time, including ones that win tournaments and show off their fancy dice at the local game store (I'm often amazed at how few people know the rules for firing torpedoes, or barrel rolling). You just have to know the rules and be prepared to say No. Point out pages 11 and 12 to them, tell them the tokens can't be used that way anywhere else, and don't play with the cheating bastards if they get belligerent. ;)