In the wording of Chief's power "Manipulation" it is stated that "If Leadership would allow you to add an action to your action total for the turn, you can instead put a Manipulate token on the Chief's character card..."

It says nothing about Chief's Leadership specifically, does that mean ANY Leadership on your team would earn him a token?

That's a pretty darned good question. I think it is supposed to be assumed that the wording is referring to the Chief's leadership, but with the current wording I would any leadership would work.

Rep to you for thinking outside of the box on that one!

This was asked before, it was ruled that it is only his Leadership roll that counted for adding tokens.

can we find that source? i'm going to need a definitive answer here.

Here is the thread.

http://www.hcrealms.com/forum/showthread.php?t=271813

ok, well thats an interesting article but i'm afraid its a bit lacking.

"If Leadership would allow you to add an action to your action total for the turn..."

As worded the power is specifically targetting the power Leadership I don't know how you could argue otherwise. We could assume that they meant Chief, but as it is worded and with no errata I'm going to stick with the power as worded. Unless someone can PROVE me wrong.

much rep 2 u sir! and W0RD!

i too am a fan of no documentation? no justification.
proving intent only holds up in a court of law.

How is Harpua's comment not official? I see what the card says, but I can't see any judge letting you use it in the fashion you mention when a Rules Deputy has said no.

The Orange Tint has spoken. At this point, the only way this would be overturned is if NBPerp chimed in to say that Harpua was wrong.

In other words, Aethermix, good idea but it hasn't been ruled your way.

EDIT: And I see Normalview is reading this thread...I imagine some more orange will get thrown in the mix here.

I shouldn't have to, as Harpua has already commented in the linked thread... but since you noticed, how about this?

Special powers that let a character use a normal power, but with a twist, conform to all the normal rules of the power in question except for what is specified in the SP description.

In the case of Manipulate, Chief can use Leadership plus do some other things, and those other things occur when his Leadership is used. No other character's use of Leadership is mentioned or defined, so it is Chief's Leadership only that functions with the rest of Manipulate. If it said something like "If any character's Leadership would allow you to..." that would be a different story. It doesn't, though, so it is Chief's power only.

A clarification in the PG would be nice. The wording is a bit clunky.

Very good then I appreciate the attention to this subject, the rep and will now let it go.

While this may have been the intent of the designers, I think that this power does need an errata. As written, it looks like two different abilities within the special power, not a modified version of leadership.

Chief's power, Manipulate:
As written chief can use leadership.

He can also add a token when leadership grants an extra action. It doesn't say when chief's leadership allows it, or when chief successfully uses leadership. It doesn't specify the source of leadership at all.

I understand that this is apparently the intent of the power design, but if that's true then I think it does need an errata to work that way.

Another question to this power. If you remove a token, wen another figure pushes, and you roll a 1 or 2, can you remove a second token for that same character to roll again? Or PC the roll?

From the Player's Guide:
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