Lawrence Carlisle

Lawrence Carlisle

Edit: Does not not work with Forced Learning as that card is discard out of your turn :(

Edit: Checking the rules if skill cards committed to a test are discarded afterwards from your hand. If so, Lawrence may still be good in a high skill deck.

gromorthodox · 8
Would be awesome if our pal Lawrence was chill with discarding cards outside of your turn, unfortunately he is a bit stingy with that sorta thing :( — MaleficMarby · 35
Skill cards are discarded but its from limbo not your hand unfortunately. — Spamamdorf · 5
Please point to the rules section where it says the skill card is in limbo? — smithjas · 1
Limbo (added in FAQ, section 'Game Play', point 1.23) While the effects of an event or treachery card are being resolved, or while a skill is committed to a skill test, it is neither in play, in the discard pile, nor is it in an investigator’s hand. For the purposes of rules clarification, this liminal state is called "limbo." — angesplayer · 56
Thanks. I just found it myself... — smithjas · 1

Abigail Foreman

Abigail Foreman

With drowned city. Big question about interaction with the library card asset. Can the tome be attached to both at the same time or does abigail make all tomes 1 cost fast actions together. 9xp for tomes to be fast and cheaper (if you draw abigail) is pretty solid.

BakaWisdom · 5
https://arkhamdb.com/rules#Moving_Attachments says it ceases to be attached to Library Pass, but I'm pretty sure you can only use that trick for full effect once since switching the asset currently attached to Abigail with an asset attached to Library Pass would leave you with one still attached to Library Pass. — Thatwasademo · 59

Pocket Telescope

Pocket Telescope

Just played my first game with the spyglass. WOW it was a game changer. I can not tell you how powerful this card is for action economy especially when it comes to randomized locations.

  • check if a location is worth visiting especially if its a dead end
  • better use out of fast move action abilities
  • stay with the pack to investigate
  • get more value out of free move actions like pathfinder

I won't go into details but SPOILER if you are going for the challenge in drowned city. Someone needs this card. it just saves you too many turns

I'll also say this card leaves a lot of ambiguity in "as if you were there". are you considered there for the 2 player windows? does that mean I can exhaust the telescope to look at a location connected to the one I'm investigating? if yes there a a lot of followup questions for other cards.

BakaWisdom · 5
It's one of the cards that I love having in play but struggle to get into play... Regarding the "as if"... *sigh* They changed the ruling again and again, but I am pretty sure currently it affects only the thing you are doing, so "no" to your question. — AlderSign · 447
To be clear, there is no ambiguity to the written rules about “as if.” You absolutely can do what you ask in the bottom question. There is, however, tremendous ambiguity in the way FFG answers questions about “as if.” The most common answer is to ghost you, the next most common is to offer utter nonsense that contradicts the rulebook and other rulings, and the least common answer is getting it right, which they still occasionally do. — Eudaimonea · 6

The Harbinger

The Harbinger

In case any of you were thinking of using Transfiguration on Norman, this card prevents that. Once Transfigured, as per the FAQ, his weakness goes back on top of his deck face down every time you draw it, preventing you from ever drawing cards in your deck again, unless someone can help you shuffle your deck or discard the top card of your deck. i.e. Scroll of secrets, scrying, foresight, parallel fates are ones he has access to.

kongieieie · 28
Also split the angle. One of his signatures. Also anything that searches and shuffles his deck will buy you time to draw one of the above cards. Some deck searches are eureka, old book of lore, practice makes perfect, to name a few. — NarkasisBroon · 13
I mean, if an effect lets you draw more than one card you still get the others, since the draw is resolved simultaneously. — AlderSign · 447
But the good old foresight will still do the work — Tharzax · 1

String Along

String Along

This card should be a good addition to an evasion build, as its core strength is that it can combo with evasion events and assets to boost the test and add a card draw. This helps with succeed by 2, and especially good if you are trying to drag an enemy around to locations with clues.

Some particularly good in-class card combos to try:

Disguise

Slip Away

Sneak By

Blur

Looking forward to testing this out in an upcoming || Jenny Barnes run.

Time4Tiddy · 252
Disguise and Slip Away are the best examples in my opinion, since you bother even less about not disengaging :) — AlderSign · 447