I asked a question in this thread and would like to have more discussion on the subject.

When using The Book of the Skull on a force why can't a character who is added to your force later in the game be equipped with Hammers or gain any benefits from the Book? All the book cares about for both is that a character be friendly to the force.

All I want to do is give Monkey Joe or Gulyadkin the Lion a Hammer and smash face. Is that so wrong?

This is just a guess, of course. But it seems to me the Book is assigned to the characters on your force at force construction, and there appears to be an implication that only those characters can then use the Book. I'd agree that the text doesn't really say that, but otherwise there would be no point in discussing assignment since there is not, as far as I can see, any benefit specifically spelled out to come from being assigned the Book at construction.
So for me this is a "fuzzy" in the rules that needed clarification, and the guys who have access to Design gave us one. I'd hope to see a documented clarification (PG or whatever replaces it) in the future to spell it out, though.

If this gets ruled as legal, I'll want to play a CW Ultron/ vomit-some-drones/ Book of the Skull team in a bad way.

Was there a reason you needed to start a whole new thread on this?

No one, besides myself, posted in that thread for the past 5-6 days. I even bumped it, but still nothing, even after someone else doubted the ruling Harpua gave. If the way he suggest it works IS the way it works then fine, but the wording on the Book still says nothing about a character needing to be assigned it to pick up/toss out hammers which is the cause of my confusion. Is there REALLY a world of difference between the way the Book is worded when compared to The Penguin? That's all I'm saying.

They are worded differently. Why WOULDN'T different wording have different effects?

Harpua was right, only the characters on the force during construction are assigned the resource.

However, friendly characters can be equipped with hammers. You can have friendly characters that weren't there during force construction. I would let Monkey Joe have a hammer.

Yes, but do you have to be assigned the Resource to turn the book and be Empowered by the Serpent? Just going by the wording on the card, all it takes to do those things is to be equipped with a hammer.

I personally would do what the wording on the card says. I wouldn't assume there are additional unstated requirements.

I don't know if I missed the ruling, but I am interested in this solely for the purpose of replacement characters. Are you able to split a duo and assign them both a hammer?

To me, 'your force' means anyone on your team at any time. I've bn morphing spiderman to his other suits then giving out the hammer. It doesn't say 'your force at the beginning of the game'.

Morph and other replacement effects are different because the rules specifically say that all game effects applied to the original character transfer to the new character.

Also those character's are apart of your force construction being on the sideline.

Which leads me to wonder why Monkey Joe, Red Wing ect wouldn't because the begin the game on their respected character. Its not that they are not there during force construction, unlike Ultron who can poop out drones. I would view them being more like split and merge's.

The rule for split/merge/morph/etc is not because they are part of your force construction. It works that way for those figures because there is a specific rule that says so. And when you reveal your force, Monkey Joe/Gargoyle etc are not characters on your force.

So the reason it needed a new thread was because you didn't like the ruling given in the old one?