Manifest Nightmares - why does it have a range?

[Essexkiwi]

The summoning action for The Dreamer doesn't summon a model onto the table, they start off buried.
So why does the summoning action Manifest Nightmares have an 8" range?  

[SEV]

3 hours ago, Essexkiwi said:

The summoning action for The Dreamer doesn't summon a model onto the table, they start off buried.
So why does the summoning action Manifest Nightmares have an 8" range?  

It puzzled me as well when I started playing with Dreamer... My only guess is it's open future design (if they do other walking dreams upgrade with a different trigger condition)...

[touchdown]

I was going to guess it was to keep it consistent with other summoning actions but Tara's has no range.

[Regelridderen]

It’s the Malifaux equivalent of an expensive gold plated designer toilet brush, it prompts you to stop and ask “But why!?”.

[solkan]

It’s a design space matter.  The point of arranging the summoning attachments as a keyword is that they can just make up new ones if they want without redoing the summoning card.  And having a range on the summoning action allows for a future upgrade that doesn’t bury the summoned model.

And note that the M2E version of Dreamer summoned Alps and Daydreams directly onto the table.  It’d be really easy to imagine an Alp or Daydream specific upgrade (or clause errata’d onto the upgrade) that allowed that again.