What happens to a displayed card (e.g. cohort Leryn) at the end of a turn? Does it just stay out, and the hand is reset up to it's normal size?
I've been recharging a card to put it back into my hand before the end of each turn but actually now I think this is unnecessary perhaps?
Thanks
That's correct. A displayed card remains displayed until the scenario ends or an effect causes it to no longer be displayed.
Yeah I just spotted it in the rulebook as well after missing that paragraph first time I read it. Thanks!
I believe that you need to recharge->display each time you want to do a scouting of the location deck, as the power that allows you to scout is "Display this card to examine..." and not "Display this card. While displayed you may examine..." That's my group's reading of it anyway.
That being said, I think you can use the power to recharge another card to bring Leryn back to your hand at any time, not just at the end of your turn when resetting your hand. Might be a way to not accidentally lose Leryn due to taking damage on someone else's turn.
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Display this card to examine the top card of your location deck; if you have a role card, you may examine the top 2 cards.
While displayed, shuffle this card into your deck to add 1d8 plus the scenario’s adventure deck number to your combat check that has the Ranged trait.
While displayed, recharge another card to put this card in your hand.
While it's displayed, you can activate the second or third powers (because that's what they say), but you can't "reactivate" the first power without displaying it, and that means *from your hand*. So your group has read it correctly.
You can activate the third power anytime, unless something else says you can't... and taking damage is one of the times that you can't. While being dealt damage, you can only play cards that reduce or otherwise affect the specific type of damage you’re being dealt. You can't use cards just to avoid losing them.
Another Leryn-related question:
Adowyn's power tells me that I can search my deck or discard pile for a "Cohort ([] or Ally with the Animal trait". If I search for Leryn in my deck, do I need to shuffle my deck afterwards?
If not: Can I use the power even if I have Leryn displayed, just so I know what order my deck is?
Yes, you need to shuffle your deck if you search it.
Sometimes a card allows you to search a deck and choose any card of a particular type; that means you may look at every card in the deck and choose any card of that type. Unless instructed otherwise, shuffle the deck afterwards.
Since you are not instructed otherwise, you must shuffle after using Andowyn's power to search.
As for whether or not you can use it even if you know there aren't any Cohorts (or cards with the Animal trait if you have that power feat) in your deck, I'm not sure on that. I'd personally say you couldn't use the power as a free shuffle if you know there is nothing to fetch, but I also can't cite any rules to support my position. Doing so would allow you to do things like shuffle the deck for free after recharging cards to the bottom in order to get them higher up in the deck again.
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You may not activate a power or play a card that doesn’t apply to your current situation. For example, you may not play a card to reduce damage when damage is not being dealt, and you may not play a card to evade a monster when you are not encountering a monster.
So if you know there's no cohort in your deck, you can't activate that power.
If you claim not to know if there's a cohort in your deck, but you actually know there isn't, you're cheating, and you might as well consider cheating with more important things. (Think bigger, cheater!)
If you genuinely don't know if there's a cohort in your deck, the rules for searching say "If you don’t find a card of the specified type, ignore any directions related to that card." So if you search your deck for a cohort and don't find one, you ignore the part about putting it into your hand, but you don't ignore the bit about recharging a card afterward, so it'll cost you a recharged card and a shuffled deck to learn that lesson.
And if you've already looked once and you still genuinely don't know if there's a cohort in your deck, you should probably consult a physician about your short-term memory loss.
This is highly similar to my "For gods' sake, stop mulliganing for armor, Lem" ruling.