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Can you elaborate a bit?  Which cards are you looking at and what different meanings are you seeing?

Ah, gotcha. I believe "opposing character" refers to a character fighting in the battle in which the card was played, so I would rule that play would not work.

Spoiler?

I checked the list and no new cards use the term opposing in the special ability. But the one new special ability does use that term in it's definition.

As far as I am aware, "your" is the only term in Redemption that implicitly includes the ownership AND the control aspect. Not 100% sure, though.

Quote from: browarod on January 30, 2013, 02:14:05 PM

As far as I am aware, "your" is the only term in Redemption that implicitly includes the ownership AND the control aspect. Not 100% sure, though.

Not true as far as I know. Opponent's, player's, his/hers, and any similar variation should be ruled the same way as your.

None of those possessive forms have REG entries (nor does simply "him/her"), but the entries for "opponent" and "player" say nothing (that I saw) about ownership+control when those words are used in reference to a card. Also, "your" is the only context I have ever heard anyone even talk about the distinction between ownership and control. I'm fairly certain I've seen Razor/Drawn Sword used against someone's character banded in by their opponent with no flag thrown as being an illegal play (which it should be if you are correct).

For consistency's sake, I hope you are correct and the REG entries are just missing that information; however, there is nothing currently that I can see in the rules that says anything but "your" should be treated as requiring ownership+control.

From the REG:

Your
Several cards in Redemption® refer to cards that are “your” cards (e.g., your Priest, your Heroes, your demons, your warrior-class Evil Character). For a card to be considered “your” card, you must be the owner of the card as well as have control of the card.

If this is to apply to "Opponent's", "Player's", "His/Her", these should at least be listed in the "Your" entry... if not given individual "See Entry under 'Your' for details".

Or perhaps explained in the "Control" section? (Note: there is currently no "temporary control" entry though it is referred to in the "Control" entry).

Those are some good points. Hopefully they can be updated in an upcoming release of the REG.

All the cards I find that use "player's" are referencing locations (hand, territory, discard pile, deck, etc.) and not cards.

In that case, it's probably not necessary, though it might not be completely unwarranted, just for the sake of completeness (who knows what kind of verbiage could get past us in playtesting someday?  ).

There is no entry for His/Hers in the REG and I don't think we need one. I'm open to suggestions on how to integrate that into the definition of Your though.

It could just be a note in the "Your" entry. Then we could add an entry for his (do we ever use "his or her" on any cards? I know that most if not all cards say his) that redirects to Your.

I know we use "his" the question was do we ever use "his or hers". I know we don't use just "hers" ever. So I was wondering if "hers" was even necessary (after all, my sister rarely plays, and Marti is getting out of the game...)