Practiced Medic Boon

[Lien Gib]

Do I only need to obtain the Practiced Medic Boon (see below) once to apply the process described in the boon multiple times, or must I "repurchase" it again each time I expend it in a game if I want to use it again in a future game? I can see both possibilities in the description and in comparison to the language found in other boons. Thank you for your help.

Practiced Medic (Radiant Oath)
By spending your off-hours administering medical aid to those in need, you have developed extraordinary first aid instincts. After
purchasing this boon, you can spend Downtime to provide medical services to others. Once you have expended 8 days of
Downtime in this way, you can expend the boon as a free action before attempting a Medicine check to Administer First Aid,
Treat Disease, Treat Poison, or Treat Wounds. You improve your check’s degree of success by one step (such as if you roll a
failure, you get a success instead); the boon is not expended if your original roll is a critical success. Once you expend this
boon, it provides no other benefit.
Special: You can apply this boon multiple times to the same character, though you cannot expend more than one copy of this
boon per adventure.

[Doug Hahn]

The "special" byline is often used when you choose the same thing multiple times.

I believe in this case, you can accumulate multiple copies of this boon but you can only cash them one in at a time and once per adventure. When you do so, the boon is expended.

For example, you could purchase 3 copies of this boon and spend all 24 days of downtime after a module to have 3 Practiced Medic Boons on the same PC. In the next game you play you spend one of them to make a check better. Now you have a total of 2 copies on that PC, and you can't spend either of those copies during that same adventure.

[Lien Gib]

Doug Hahn wrote:

The "special" byline is often used when you choose the same thing multiple times.

I believe in this case, you can accumulate multiple copies of this boon but you can only cash them one in at a time and once per adventure. When you do so, the boon is expended.

For example, you could purchase 3 copies of this boon and spend all 24 days of downtime after a module to have 3 Practiced Medic Boons on the same PC. In the next game you play you spend one of them to make a check better. Now you have a total of 2 copies on that PC, and you can't spend either of those copies during that same adventure.

Thank you for the clarification Doug. I appreciate it.

[Thibdab]

Just before Fame went away (a bit over years ago), I bought a stack of this boon after I ran out of other things to spend my healer champion's Fame on. It took him 2-3 levels' worth of downtime to charge them all up (so to speak), but it was very much worth it. He still has a few unexpended ones available, because I don't get to play him very often, and because Assurance now means he rarely needs the boost. (OTOH, now that he's a Master in Medicine, it's an easy 20 HP increase once a scenario, if he needs it.)