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Pelt Shipment

How this card interact with a backpack? Its a supply card so it can be attached to backpack... however as it has no cost, it cannot be played. I guess i cannot just draw that card from a backpack (for a action) right ať the end of the game... and cards in the backpack are not considered to be in the hand...

8/24/24

BaranJerevan · 8

You are right. You would have to get rid of Backpack first and then fetch Pelt Shipment from your discard pile (which is not that hard with certain cards). — AlderSign · 436 8/24/24

Or You can simply don't put Pelt Shipment under backpack from its research and draw it "manually"!! :-) — Piegura · 7 8/26/24

As AlderSign says, attaching it is usually sadness. As Piegura says, you can always not attach it. But beware, the rules say that when searching for one or more things, you have to find something if there is something ot be found. So if a Pelt Shipment is the only legal candidate you see, to put in your backpack, you must put it there. — RichardPlunkett · 12 10/7/24

Lifeline

You would be surprised about how many cards end your turn in this game.

As long as you failed at least one skill test during your turn, you essentially say "Nope!" when the game really wants you to not be able to do anything anymore. This gets especially laughable when the "end your turn" effect comes from a failed skill test (and even for only that one action it's worth playing Lifeline, because giving the scenario the finger is always a good thing).

8/23/24

AlderSign · 436

This doesn't actually work unfortunately. Since it doesn't cancel or substitute an effect that would end your turn, it really does only work when your turn would end due to running out of actions. — SSW · 217 9/2/24

According to this I'd say it works, because the additional actions happen before the effect of ending your turn affects the game state: https://arkhamdb.com/rules#When — AlderSign · 436 10/31/24

This might be a situation where if the card says "immediately end your turn", vs "end your turn". So playing a "Let God Sort Them Out" wouldn't work with this card, but nearly getting strangled by an Apex Strangleweed is fine. — techoatmeal · 15 11/11/24

Act of Desperation

This card seems to be worth one or two off-class slots in Jim Culver and Dr. Elli Horowitz relic-focused deck, for cracking monsters' heads with empty Flashlight, Enchanted Blade, Grotesque Statue, surplus The Chthonian Stone, or, of course, for maximum style points, the Jim's Trumpet itself, reenacting the "And now, the drum solo!" scene from Futurama: www.youtube.com

8/22/24

vlkaf · 7

"I'll see you in hell!"

With Makeshift Trap (Improved Timer. + Net.) and some other tricks (Lure/Lure, Bait and Switch, "Get over here!"/"Get over here!", Predator or Prey) you can have your own antimatter singularity for 6 less XP than the boring vanilla Poisonous. + Explosive Device. combo.

Probably still only worth it in Calvin, but this way I think you can truly maximize the output of "I'll see you in hell!".

(I guess it's also viable in Tommy since he can easily take the trauma.)

8/22/24

AlderSign · 436

Ríastrad

Besides the obvious curse synergies, this is a great card for the low-/zero-difficulty playstyle, using Makeshift Trap, Gumption, and Oops!/Oops!.

You can also pair it with Justify the Means, Three Aces, or, if you do care about the curses, drop a Favor of the Moon in the player window during the skill test.

Thinking of Preston Fairmont.

8/22/24

AlderSign · 436