How does this power work with equip-all resources like the Book of the Skull or the Power Plant?

Would this have an effect on a characer who has the Phoenix Force applied to them without a shard?

Would a character reassigned a ring from the Power Plant this way not have to remove it?

Sorry for the list of questions. I know these would be asked at one point or another. Might as well get all of these out of the way at once.

The resource assigns it to all characters at force construction and doesn't inherently reassign itself. Nothing says Doop can't assign a resource to a character already assigned a resource. Doop will make it so that one character is not assigned the resource and assign the resource to a character potentially already assigned the resource. Team-wide resources tend to do very little for assigned characters though, so this probably won't do much.

Note: no mention of assigned characters.

Note: it references characters eith equipped hammers, not assigned the Book of the Skulls.

Yes. But do remember the only way to be assigned the Phoenix Force and not be assigned a Fragment is via split/merge.

That is not a choice. That is required.

I don't believe it would, since the only thing telling you to remove the rings was the resource that was assigned to them.

For the Power Plant I suppose it depends on how they define "as if it were a relic".

Since Doop can reassign relics, and the ring can be used "as if it were a relic" then it is entirely possible that they may let Doop move rings around.

Same with any of that stuff, really.
Might end up with a situation of a character assigned the Phoenix Force not having a fragment and a charcter not being assigned having one.

But tradition shows that they will not have any rulings for us until after the figures are released, so... Whenver that is.

Hopefully they will at least be able to start discussing these things and sending them up the line as needed for answers.

Is there truly any difference between "assign" and "equip?"

Was "equip" deliberately used to prevent hammers given to a character by the BoS and a conditional action (power action when dropped that turn) from being taken away by certain game effects, such as Catwoman, Doop, etc.?

In the case of the BoS, if the dropped Hammer becomes a relic, it can be reassigned by Doop, but if "equipped," it can't?

It was established with The Growing Darkness and Adaptive Armor "as if it were a relic" is synonymous with "is a relic". It has all of the identities and properties of a relic if it acts "as if it were a relic".

Equip = Assign
Assign =/= Equip

There is a significant difference. If you wait one or more turns to pick up a hammer you call down to the map, it will be assigned and you will not get the benefits the book provides for an equipped character. If you are equipped a hammer, you are still vulnerable to everything an assigned character is vulnerable to. Equipped is a form of assign in the same way squares are a form of rectangles. All squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares.

Thanks.

I wish the definition of "equip" were added to the Core Rulebook.

It only shows up on the one game element (book of the skulls), so to my understanding, it is considered equally as important of a definition as "promotion token".

Here is the thing about who is assigned the paticular resources:
Phoenix Force is in my initial post.

The powers of the Book and the Power Plant are blanket to all of the characters on your force.

Not adding any new questions. Just adding the remainder of the rules to the resources in question.