by Steve99
In a game with up to 3 players the Bruce clan cards (value 12) have to be played early before anyone plays a lower numbered card of any clan.However the rules do not spcify what happens in a 4 or 5 players game. In that situation it says that a card can be activated for its special ability so long as it is less than any other face up card in that bloodline.
That would suggest that the Clan Bruce cards can always be activated at any time because there is no lower numbered card in the clan Bruce Bloodline.
Though the rules are not clear on this but I suspect that this was not the designers intent.
In 4+ player games we play it that the Bruce card can only be activated for its ability if there is not a lower numbered card face up in front of the active player.
It would be good to hear the proper way to play this from Richard