Really stupid and technical question about blessings and "recharge information"

[Michael Klaus]

As many of you might have noticed I ask questiones that can easily be answered by people who play the game. This time I have one concerning the change on the blessing cards.

As all other cards blessings "lost" their recharge box and as the rules say "the necessary information can be found in the power section".

Except for Blessing of the Gods which never had this in the first place. Instead the Blessing of the Gods originally copied the the top card of the blessings discard pile and accidentally copied the recharge information. Therefore the Blessing of the Gods was changed to have the power(?) "You may instead treat this card as if it had the same powers as the top card of the blessings discard pile."

Everyone who played both Adventure Paths of the PACG knows that the last phrase on the blessings (except... or including Blessing of the Gods?) is not meant to be a power as such and the sidebar in the rules can be interpretated in that way.

But on the other hand powers are only defined by the different cards that have powers; (in the setting up section, regarding character cards) as special things you can do before, during, or after the game; (in the playing cards section) by that playing a card means using one of it's powers; (in the boon section) that powers are special rules of boons/[cards]; and (in the bane section) as rules that apply when encountering those banes.

Obviously not everything in a power section is a power since some cards have quotes in their power sections (especially villains and promo cards) but then again how are you supposed to grasp that this "recharge information" is not a power that you can use or get's automatically activated after you played the card?

Couldn't it be possible that this leads again to new(!) players misinterprating that the Blessing of the Gods copies that "recharge power", too?

[Hawkmoon269]

Except it isn't a recharge "power" because that part isn't a power at all.

S&S Rulebook p9 wrote:

Any paragraph in the power section of a boon that doesn’t involve playing the card for a particular effect is not itself a power—it’s a mandatory action you must take when you play the card.

The recharge for S&S is worded like this:

"After playing this card, if it matches the top card of the blessings discard pile, recharge this card instead of discarding it."

So that is a mandatory action you must take after playing it. Any new player will have hopefully read that sentence and know that the last paragraph on most blessings isn't a power, and therefor the Blessings of the Gods can't copy it.

[Nefrubyr]

It doesn't matter if Blessing of the Gods copies the recharge text or not. The BotG is still a BotG; it does not match the "named" blessing on top of the blessings discard pile (since it is copying only the powers, not the name) so the recharge effect can't apply.

I have noticed that there's no definition of "match" when it comes to comparing cards; I've assumed it's the name that must match. With two editions of the base game and class decks, there are now blessings with the same name and art, but different set identifiers, adventure deck numbers and text layout.