One of the rare instances where the flavor of the card complicates its interpretation.
Does "you heal 1 or more horror" imply the trigger occurs when you are healing yourself, or when you (the player) heals 1 or more horror from a card using a card effect? The strictest interpretation would be that Private Practice triggers only when you self-heal from horror, but that wouldn't make sense when one considers the flavor of the card, which
- very prominently features someone working to heal someone else's "horror"
- refers to a Profession in which exactly that person-to-person process happens
- references two people in its flavor text.
So far my table's decided that the flavor overrides the strict rules text, and it triggers whenever Carolyn (because it is always Carolyn) heals horror from any card, by any means.
Rules as written, “you heal 1 or more horror” means you generate an effect that heals 1 or more horror from your investigator card. I agree that thematically that doesn’t make a ton of sense for this card, but thematically it doesn’t make sense that the proper way to conduct Psychoanalysis (3) is to get all your friends together for a single moment and then fire a confetti cannon of treaters into the air, but that’s how that card works too.
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Eudaimonea
· 9
*a confetti cannon of treats
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Eudaimonea
· 9
I think it depends if you interpreted the healing phrase as active or passive. I would agree to Emmys interpretation, that whenever the investigator heal horror from a card you can trigger the reaction. Where I would say this doesn't work is when an ally like aleksey heals himself.
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Tharzax
· 2
There's a lot of work done BETWEEN sessions to keep a practice going.
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MrGoldbee
· 1576
Indeed tricky, since what Eudaimonea said is true (that's how the effect of "you heal 1 or more horror" is interpreted), but IMO you are also considered to "heal 1 or more horror" when you target a card other than your investigator if an effect allows you to (the same words are contained in "you heal 1 or more horror from another investigator/Ally asset/etc.").
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AlderSign
· 472
Personally, the wording seems really clear. If you heal horror, you get the bonus. Since there is no clarification of what TYPE of horror is healed, then it applies to any horror healing. That seems straightforward.
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acotgreave
· 964
@acotgreave, The skill card Fearless reads, “If this skill test is successful, heal 1 horror.” Since you think the phrase “heal 1 horror” clearly means heal any card anywhere, can I commit Fearless to a skill check and then, if successful, heal 1 horror off the Resilience my buddy three locations away has in his play area?
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Eudaimonea
· 9
@Tharzax, The distinction you want to make cannot hold. Old Carolyn Fern said, “ After one of your card effects heals horror from an investigator or Ally asset” and new Carolyn Fern says “ After you heal 1 or more horror from an investigator or Ally asset.” The permissive interpretation has to be that “you” is a stand-in for “one of your card effects,” so assets you control that self-heal would be included by that reading.
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Eudaimonea
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