I think "this" is unnecessary. Great card!

•Ferny’s Pipe
Possession • Pipe
Bearer must be a or Man.
When you play Ferny’s Pipe, you may discard a pipeweed.
Each time the Free Peoples player assigns bearer to a skirmish, he or she must add or discard a card from hand.
“He was smoking a short black pipe. As they approached he took it out of his mouth and spat.”
cool!


Swarthy and Sneering
Event • Skirmish
Make a companion skirmishing a or Man strength -2 (or -3 if that Man is unique).
“He had heavy black brows, and dark scornful eyes; his large mouth curled in a sneer.”

•Ferny’s Pipe
Possession • Pipe
Bearer must be a or Man.
When you play Ferny’s Pipe, you may discard a pipeweed.
Each time the Free Peoples player assigns bearer to a skirmish, he or she must add or discard a card from hand.
“He was smoking a short black pipe. As they approached he took it out of his mouth and spat.”

Swarthy and Sneering
Event • Skirmish
Make a companion skirmishing a or Man strength -2 (or -3 if that Man is unique).
“He had heavy black brows, and dark scornful eyes; his large mouth curled in a sneer.”

•Ferny’s Pipe
Possession • Pipe
Bearer must be a or Man.
When you play Ferny’s Pipe, you may discard a pipeweed.
Each time the Free Peoples player assigns bearer to a skirmish, he or she must add or discard a card from hand.
“He was smoking a short black pipe. As they approached he took it out of his mouth and spat.”

Ok pipeweed is gonna have to be awesome for the freeps to make it worth the shadow using this card. I have to say although it does a bit more its along the lines of henchmans dagger. 0 cost but way useless. If it came out at the right time yeah maybe it is slightly functional but theres no way id put it in my deck when another card could take its place. Also I prefer cards that "belong" to someone to have an advantage extra when played on them if u no what i mean.

Swarthy and Sneering
Event • Skirmish
Make a companion skirmishing a or Man strength -2 (or -3 if that Man is unique).
“He had heavy black brows, and dark scornful eyes; his large mouth curled in a sneer.”

Yeah im one of those "funny" people. Strength reducers are twice as good as strength adders. Even without NB’s point about auto assigning ferny to the RB which i think is OP this needs to cost 2 anyway. Its equivalent of +4 (or +6) which is no way a 1 cost event.

I’m afraid that now I think Ferny’s Pipe has far too much text. I’d get rid of the new ability and make one of the preexisting ones only apply to Ferny or get a bonus when he uses it (for example, adding or discarding 2 cards from hand).