This last event I introduced Astral Crystals into play. These handy little single-use items are a bit like "action potions" that can give you back an action in the same way that Kirell's bard actions can. However, without the bard man himself to explain it in person, some folks were asking for a clarification, so here it is.
If you receive a Refresh effect, you instantly regain one encounter-frequency action that you have prepared but expended. The number after the Refresh is the level limit. A Refresh 4, for example, can only affect a character of 4th level or lower. It isn't an indication of how many actions you get back; a single Refresh effect only ever refreshes a single action.
The mechanic's a bit cludgey, but we liked it enough to fully approve the bard class, so you can all expect to hear it called more often. Please let me know if anyone has any questions about it.
I reiterate, you only get to refresh a single action when someone uses the Refresh tagline on you. And the level of the action is irrelevant; all that matters is your character level. Thus, if you're level 7 and receive a Refresh 8, you get one action back, but if you're level 9, fuggedaboutit.
So if I have 2 of action A prepared, and 1 of action B, both of which are level 2 actions, calling "Refresh 4" only gives me one action back, or is it a complete enqounter refresh and I can use all three again?