Council of Elrond

Poison of his Voice wrote:Magic. Spirit-magic. Playable on a hazard permanent-event on a character in a spirit-magic-using character's company. Discard target hazard. Alternatively, playable on a spirit-magic-using Fallen-wizard. -6 to his stage points (to a minimum of 3) for the rest of the turn. Unless the spirit-magic-using character is a Ringwraith, he makes a corruption check modified by -3.

Is "-6 to his stage points (to a minimum of 3) for the rest of the turn. " applied once and later changes of amount of stage points are added/subtracted to/from resulting value,
or
"-6 to his stage points (to a minimum of 3)" by the rest of turn is applied to an amount of stage points and the result is recalculated each time when the value changes?

Example of 1st variant:
Player has 4 SP. After playing Poison of his Voice he has 3 SP. If in the same turn he would play a card giving him 2 SP, he would have 5 SP.

Example of 2nd variant:
Player has 4 SP. After playing Poison of his Voice he has 3 SP. If in the same turn he would play a card giving him 2 SP, he would have 3 SP ["-6 to his stage points (to a minimum of 3)" is applied to the amount of SP before Poison of his Voice's effect and recalculated].

It is the second option. There is -6 to his stage points for the rest of the turn. That applies regardless of whether his stage point total shifts. Otherwise, it would act as thought it set the stage point total to a certain amount, and cards which add stage points would have no effect at all that turn.

Bandobras Took wrote: ↑Fri Aug 03, 2018 3:05 pm Otherwise, it would act as thought it set the stage point total to a certain amount, and cards which add stage points would have no effect at all that turn.

So, in your opinion, the "Otherwise" is not the 1st variant?

It is not. The only way adding two stage points could bring his total to 5 is if the -6 somehow set the total to 3, but if it did that, then adding 2 could do nothing.

There is a rule that the bonus for weapons must be calculated with its maximum first when determining prowess. I am unaware of any similar rule for stage points.