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Betrayal at House on the Hill (First Edition)

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Does the killer, or the next player, take a dead explorer's items right away?

The rulebook treats picking up a pile as an action, and only some posts say otherwise.

  • Betrayal at House on the Hill (First Edition) rulebook · Rulebook · Using Items and Omen Cards
  • jon_joy_1999 · Community · 2022-01-21
  • Antistone · Community · 2010-02-07disagrees
  • gusrocha · Community · 2018-01-05disagrees

No, not automatically. Items on the floor are gained only when a character uses an action to pick them up from the Item Pile, which can happen on a later turn. Posts that say the killer takes them at once don't match the rulebook.

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