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Can a revealed Cylon keep the Sympathizer card instead of giving it to another player?

Players split on the printed "may" wording, and the designer's view reaches us only second-hand.

  • Haze01 · Community · 2008-12-11
  • wytefang · Community · 2009-01-09
  • bleached_lizard · Community · 2008-12-03disagrees
  • Woelf · Community · 2009-01-09disagrees
  • Mateui · Community · 2009-01-09disagrees
  • Gawain · Community · 2012-10-09disagrees
  • Gawain · Community · 2012-10-09disagrees

Unsettled. The rulebook says a revealed Cylon "may first give" the Sympathizer card to another player. Most posters read this as choosing the recipient, so the card must be passed on. One poster relays a remark from the designer that keeping it is allowed (so as not to create another Cylon), but that reading is not confirmed in the sources.

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