It looks like I can take tokens off adjacent opposing characters, am I right?

And yes, this does have it's uses. Say I incap an opposing indomitable character (Ms. Marvel) who's next to Eddie. Eddie can take the token, and Ms. Marvel will take unavoidable damage. Granted, it's a 1 in 6 chance.

I believe that the intended use is to give Edward Nigma the action token of a friendly character when it would one via making an action, incap, etc., to free them up to take another action next turn or to prevent pushing. I don't believe Nigma can take the token meant for an opposing character...









But I could be wrong.

Not if it already on there. If you give an adjacent character a non-free action or they are hit by Incapacitate or would receive an action token by any other means, it would instead go to Edward Nigma, provided he is adjacent at the time the action token would be given. If you do this you must then roll to see if 1 unavoidable damage would be dealt to the adjacent character.

it just says 'character', but doesn't specify which. It's up to the judge, really, but without an official errata you should be clear to do such a thing...I just don't know why you would.

This have been explained already in the Broken?-Thread..

So...

He's BROKEN!!

I agree. A 1 in 6 chance to deal 1 damage? Not to mention having to move adjacent to the opposing character, in which case Edward would probably get pounded. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me...

oh, he's broken alright. But not for the reason listed here....

At least warbound had a point cost and keyword requirement.

Does Nigma take pushing damage from his power?? I hear he can allow someone to take an action every turn. I don;t see how that is possible as he'd still take pushing damage normally from the power when given a second token, and still have to clear, correct?

You are correct. He still have to take pushing damage like normal and clear like normal.

I tried to play Anarky in a similar fashion, using his special power to remove tokens from pushed characters so that they could be "re-pushed" (with Exhaustion in play!).

Much too difficult to set up to be worth it.

Fortunately Anarky was pretty useful anyway.

The idea is that you give a token to Thanos on turn 1. Turn 2 you pass the token to your adjacent Edward Nigma and Thanos strikes again, but because he didn't get a token this turn, he clears. Turn 3, there's that clear Thanos, hitting again while Eddie clears.

Thanos (or whomever) goes every turn and you weep or laugh, depending on if it's you doing this.

Right destination, wrong path. The token given to Nigma on turn 2 is from Thanos' turn 2 action (Nigma cannot receive a token from a prior turn's action). Thanos still clears as he did not receive a token on turn 2. Then, as you said, rinse and repeat with Thanos and Nigma clearing on alternate turns.

Why would he clear? He still took an action, he just didn't receive a token for it.

Interestingly enough, per the FF rulebook (pg 7, Giving actions to characters), clearing is based upon whether you have received an action token during the turn rather than actually taking (non-free) actions.

As an aside, under the old interpretation, this tactic would still work with Nigma, as Nigma could clear every turn, as his receiving a token does not require an action.

Ok let me see if I can get this. I'll use Magus instead of Thanos.

Turns:
1. Magus carries Nigma. Magus has a token
2. Magus attacks giving Nigma the token. Magus gets to clear because he received no token.
3. Magus attacks. Nigma clears. Magus has one token on him
4. Magus attacks giving Nigma the token. Magus gets to clear because he received no token.
5. etc.
6. etc.
7. etc.

I always thought that, even with Warbound, that Magus would have to leave his one token on the board on turns 2 and 4 so that both Magus and Nigma would have a token on the end of those turns. But it seems only Nigma would have a token.

Where does the rule of 3 fit in on how many turns in a row a character can take a non-free action?