This is my half of the party in our second S&S playthrough, and they do collect a lot of junk in their travels. Ranzak can tear through a boon-heavy location in no time, and tonight Alahazra examined/found and acquired 4 divine boons in a row at the Sacred Spring, each one powering the next examination.
Plus they both have weird rules about encountering boons at unusual times, leading to this theoretical scenario: Ranzak's boon-streak gets interrupted by an annoying bane or a roll of 1 or 2, and he has no more explorations to keep going; but before his turn ends, Alahazra (at the same location) examines the top card of their location; it's a boon but she fails to acquire it (maybe on purpose); Ranzak is now able to encounter it, and he acquires it; and now he's off and running again on another book-streak. This is possible, right?
I am assuming that there is no way to start this chain of events after Ranzak resets his hand but before his turn ends...?
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When you acquire a boon on your turn, roll 1d6; on a (□3,) 4, 5, or 6, explore your location
You can only ever "explore" your location on your own turn, during the Explore phase (see the back cover of the rulebook for Turn Overview). So he can only use his power during his turn, after his Move phase, before he attempts to close a location with an empty deck or resets his hand.
(This isn't as clearly spelled out in in the S&S rules, which only state that you can never explore on another player's turn, but if you download the rules for the latest set, Mummy's Mask, here, you'll find the details on page 7, "Taking Your Turn", under the "Explore" subsection. It always pays to have a copy of the rules from the latest set around, as they have the most recent most viable rules updates.)
Well, it would be on his turn, after his Move phase and before closing a location/resetting. Say he runs out of explores. Unless his explore phase ends immediately without anyone being allowed to use powers (and there are a number of things I can think of that would be permissible here, such as Ranzak playing an ally to explore again, or Alahazra playing a Cure on him), then Alahazra has a chance to peek at the deck, and Ranzak is theoretically off and running again.
Yes?
Close. Almost works. But, James' point is relevant because:
You may recharge a card that has the Divine trait to examine the top card of any location deck (□ or the blessings deck or any character deck).
□ When you use the above power to examine a card from a location deck on your turn, and it is a boon, you may encounter it.
Alahazra can only encounter boons she examines on her own turn.
Darn.
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I will say, even with these limitations, a Shapeshifted Alahazra with a 10 card hand size backed up by Ranzak with the ability to snag boons she fails to acquire is the most efficient boon vacuum I have seen or expect to see in this game. They can *flense* all the locations down to the bane.