Sorry, I would typically copy and paste the relevant portion from the Core Rulebook 2011, but I am doing this on my iPhone and the pdf won't let me copy the text...

Anyhoo...

So I am playing a game tonight, I have a named theme team. According to the rules I have 4 probs for my 400 point team. I have a character roll for an attack on an opposing character. I crit miss. I have 2 characters with line of site and able to take tokens for a theme prob. I assign a token to the first character with line of sight and re-roll. I crit miss again. I declare another theme prob with another character to roll again.

My opponent declares shenanigans. He is under the impression that you can only use one theme prob per turn, period. I disagreed, each character can only use it once per turn. (Within the limit of how many you possess, ie. 2, 4' 6, etc)

We ended up rolling the 1d6 and winning the roll off so I was able to use my prob, however, he wanted to bet I was wrong. So much he was willing to bet a supe-rare. I was more than willing to bet, but I did not want him to lose a SR. I bet something more valuable, loser buys 2 soda's for the winner.

What say you 'realms? Will I be collecting my soda's at the rematch? Or begging for spare change to pay off a carbonated debt?

You were right. As long as character #2 hadn't already used it during the turn, or had a natural use of prob control, or taken a non-free action you could assign them both in the same turn.

Thank you so much for the Rules quote, rep incoming!

With so much at stake, if you need an official orange stamp, here is one.

A winner is you!!!

Winning! Do they make a tiger blood DNA soda?

Thanks!

Can you use theme prob defensively-- other players turn?

Yes, it is still a use of the actual power Probability Control, and as such you can use it on your rolls on your turn and your opponents rolls on their turn.

It's actually easier to meet the prerequisites for using themed team pc on an opponent's turn than your own, because unless something strange has occurred, you probably don't have to worry about if your character took a non-free action on the opponent's turn.

That's a good point. I'm trying to think of something that would cause a character to take a non-free action during an opponents turn. My first thought was Mind Control, but that wouldn't do it, because the action a mind controlled character is given is a free action.

Not that I know of, but they did have Tiger's Blood snow cones at the Cleveland Zoo this summer

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10644462@N05/6115623930/