After Vic resolved two threads yesterday by pointing out the answer is in the Mummy's Mask rulebook, I decided I should actually read the rulebook.
I notice on p.9 the sidebar "RULES: AFFECTING THE SITUATION" has an example that doesn't match the FAQ.
The rulebook says:
Rules: Affecting the Situation
In some situations, you are limited to playing cards or using powers that affect or otherwise relate to the current situation. In these cases, the things you do cannot require anyone to do something else for your action to be meaningful—the things you do must directly affect the situation. For example, let's say that a character is attempting a check using a power that adds 1 to her check for each blessing in her hand, and a second character has a power that allows him to give the first character a card. He could give her a blessing, because that doesn't require any other action to affect the check. But he could not give her a card that allows her to draw a blessing from the box, because after drawing it, she would have to do something else— play the card she just drew— to affect the check.
The FAQ ends with:
But he could not give her a card that allows her to draw a blessing from the box, because she would have to do something else—in this case, play the card he gave her—to affect the check.
The FAQ was originally published with the inaccurate text, which Longshot posted about in the FAQ thread, and subsequently corrected by Vic.
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There are many, many changes with this level of subtle difference throughout the MM rulebook. (After Wrath, not only were we prepping MM, but the Pathfinder Adventures team was working on their game, and they came up with a *ton* of questions nobody had ever asked before.) I have yet to figure out the best way to deal with all that, but it needs to be wholesale rather than piecemeal (or I'll go crazy).