I am relatively new to the game and was teaching a buddy of mine to play this weekend. Thanks to a software development background he picked the timing structure of the game up very quickly after I showed him the flow charts in the FAQ and Errata document.

Here is the question that came up. He was playing the Stark Core deck and came across the Bran card. He looked at the flowcharts and argued if you use his ability, if the new plot you choose to reveal has a "when revealed..." effect, that that effect would not be resolved because those are only specifically mentioned in Step 4 of the framework action window of the plot phase.

My argument was that Bran's ability specifically says 'Reveal' a new plot card, so using it in any player action window would allow you to resolve any 'when revealed...' effects on a new plot card.

Just posting this here to get official replies so I can show him.

thanks!

In section (2.2) of the FAQ, you can find the sentence "'When revealed' plot effects are essentially self-referential passive effects that initiate in response to the revealing of the plot card with the 'when revealed' effect." So the "when revealed" effects initiate whenever the plot is revealed, not just during the framework action window they're usually revealed in.

The important thing to recognize (beyond the fact that "when revealed" plot effects are considered passive effects) is that the framework event for "when revealed" plot text is more of a reminder for an important game mechanic rather than an exclusively limiting timing element saying this is the only time when the effects can happen.

Think of all the card effects that say "draw a card;" you can draw those cards outside of the "draw cards" framework window in the Draw Phase, right?