The site text is a cost-effect action. The condition is a response to the cost of the action. So...hmm...so the question is, does the response take place before the effect of the action? I d...
1. Yes. It’s overwhelm -> kill -> threat wounds. There’s gaps in between all of them, IIRC. So you can respond to an overwhelm without threat wounds being added.
Dark Ways (SH)
Event • Maneuver
Exert Gollum twice and remove a threat to make the Free Peoples player choose to make each companion strength -2 until the start of the regroup phase, ...
I might add that LOTR is my only real area of expertise, although I’ve dabbled in VS. I know a guy or two who play Magic...and there’s always AC, and one of his friends who goes to my college...th...