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ASSIMILATION: Box can use Toughness. Once per round, when Box is adjacent to an object, as a free action you can remove the object from the game and heal Box of 2 damage.
Since Box's ASSIMILATION SP says "once per round" not turn or "your turn", can Box use Assimilation on the opponent's turn if he had not used it during the round?
But...Nightcrawler really has been my favorite character for years.
ASSIMILATION: Box can use Toughness. Once per round, when Box is adjacent to an object, as a free action you can remove the object from the game and heal Box of 2 damage.
Since Box's ASSIMILATION SP says "once per round" not turn or "your turn", can Box use Assimilation on the opponent's turn if he had not used it during the round?
No, because you cannot assign actions of any kind (free or otherwise) during your opponent's turn. Although that is never formally stated in the rulebook, all reference to giving actions are described as "during your turn" or "on your turn". When your opponent is doing things, you have limited options like using Prob Control (not an action) on their rolls, canceling team abilities, choosing wildcard status, etc.
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ASSIMILATION: Box can use Toughness. Once per round, when Box is adjacent to an object, as a free action you can remove the object from the game and heal Box of 2 damage.
Since Box's ASSIMILATION SP says "once per round" not turn or "your turn", can Box use Assimilation on the opponent's turn if he had not used it during the round?
No. You can only give an action to your characters during your turn unless the power/feat/ability/etc description says otherwise.
It isn't any kind of action... it just sort of happens. Take a look at the description:
PROBABILITY CONTROL Once during your turn, this character allows you to reroll one of your dice (or die) rolls and to ignore the result of the original roll. All dice used in the original roll must be rerolled. A character using this power must be within 10 squares of the character for which the original roll was made, and have a clear line of fire to that character. A character can use this power on itself. Using the same rules, once per round during an opponent’s turn, this character allows you to force that opponent to reroll one of his or her dice (or die) rolls and to ignore the result of the original roll.
See? The words "free" and "action" never appear even once.
So is this not saying that? "Once per round" seems like it gives the license to act at any time one per round.
No, it is saying once per round. As in "once" and "only once".
If it didn't say that, as a free action you could still only use it on your turn, but since it is a free action (and there is no inherent limit to the number of times you can give a character a free action during your turn), you could just keep using the power as long as there were objects next to Box (and he still possessed the power).
No, it is saying once per round. As in "once" and "only once".
If it didn't say that, as a free action you could still only use it on your turn, but since it is a free action (and there is no inherent limit to the number of times you can give a character a free action during your turn), you could just keep using the power as long as there were objects next to Box (and he still possessed the power).
I agree with that, but why once per ROUND, unless there was an intent to allow the free assimilation of an object on the opponent's turn as well?
(BTW-I agree with you guys, I am trying to simply get a fine point on this.)
But...Nightcrawler really has been my favorite character for years.
I agree with that, but why once per ROUND, unless there was an intent to allow the free assimilation of an object on the opponent's turn as well?
(BTW-I agree with you guys, I am trying to simply get a fine point on this.)
If nothing else, there is always the default: Poor Wording of card. Works for Gorgon.
As for why once per round... maybe, just maybe it could have something to do with Mind Control and/or Possession?
I agree with that, but why once per ROUND, unless there was an intent to allow the free assimilation of an object on the opponent's turn as well?
(BTW-I agree with you guys, I am trying to simply get a fine point on this.)
Nothing in the power specifically says it can be used during an oppponent's turn. Since that idea (that can not give a character an action when it isn't your turn) is pretty fundamental to the whole way Heroclix works, unless a game effect spells out an exception to that rule in pretty specific language, you can't violate that rule.
Nothing in the power specifically says it can be used during an oppponent's turn. Since that idea (that can not give a character an action when it isn't your turn) is pretty fundamental to the whole way Heroclix works, unless a game effect spells out an exception to that rule in pretty specific language, you can't violate that rule.
Simple as that.
I agree, except that it isn't in the rulebook. It is a concept that is a framework to our convention, but the rulebook doesn't state that you can't give actions during your opponent's turn.
But...Nightcrawler really has been my favorite character for years.
As for why once per round... maybe, just maybe it could have something to do with Mind Control and/or Possession?
I was actually thinking that, too, but then I was wondering why someone would even want to try that since, as a free action, it would immmediately end the Control... unless maybe they wanted to eat an object to reveal a hidden Stealth fig?
I don't know, but that's the best I got for that particular strategy.
I agree, except that it isn't in the rulebook. It is a concept that is a framework to our convention, but the rulebook doesn't state that you can't give actions during your opponent's turn.
No, but it does say that you give actions during your turn. It actually says that over and over again from the basic rules section and then throughout later sections (core rules, etc).