I must be missing something. The way I understand it: In the set up phase 4. 'Draw 3 fort cards to form your hand' .. so I have 3 cards normally in hand. Typically you'd spend/steel a card in the Encounter phase then moving on to Actions 3. it states 'Take Stock ie draw cards up to your minimum hand size of 3' ... so normally I'm putting one card down picking up 1 card so my hand size is 3 generally. No where in the rules does it state you can have no more than 3 cards in hand unless I'm missing something. The Shady Accomplice card played on ground floor would be actioned as 'move a card from this floor back into your hand' .. so i pay the conquest cost and put Shady accomplice down and pick up a card .. my hand size stays at 3 .. Alfred says below that 'The minimum hand size is usually 3. So if you get to the Take Stock stage with 3 cards in hand, you wouldn't draw another card.' .. so does this mean the rules should state under Take Stock 'if less that 3 cards in hand draw up to 3 cards. maximum hand size 3'? I'm playing currently maximum hand size 3 but the Take Stock rule is open for interpretation as it says 'Take Stock ie draw cards up to your minimum hand size of 3' so my initial reading playing Shady Accomplice was I've played card ground floor and maintained my hand size of 3 post encounter phase, moved onto take stock phase and drawn a card as i have a minimum of 3 taking it to 4 as there is nothing stating a maximum so its not obvious that you would not draw a card when playing shady accomplice.
I completely see what you mean - the current rules aren't entirely explicit.
I would suggest this rewording:
Your heroes prepare for the next challenge.
If you have fewer than 3 cards in hand, draw cards until you have 3 again.
I don't want to explicitly rule that there is a maximum hand size - there's potential for future cards that let you draw more, in which case Take Stock just specifies that you wouldn't draw more if you already had 3 or more in hand.
Does that make sense?