Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game
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If another player gives me a card I requested, must I play it right away?
The rulebook states it and the designer confirmed the permitted uses.
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- Dead of Winter FAQ v1.1 · Official document · 3.1.2 When I draw an Outsider Card do I have to reveal it immediately? · 2015-02-04disagrees
Yes. A requested card is revealed and has to be played at once: for its waste-pile effect, as an event, equipped to one of your survivors, or toward an ability that needs it (see the entry on abilities). You cannot keep it in hand (so it cannot count toward a hand-size objective) or add it to a crisis or the main objective directly. The published FAQ's Outsider entry loosely says Outsider cards can be requested and "played into the crisis"; the rulebook text is the stricter reading, and the way around it is to equip first.
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