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Jury-Rig

x:test x:agility|combat|intellect|willpower|"any skill" k:item

AND

x:fight|investigate|evade k:item

(theoretically) gets you the full list of items that Jury-Rig can be used on.

A shortlist of items that this poster thinks takes to Jury-Rig better that most:

Items with negative skill value modifiers:

Cryptographic Cipher
Sledgehammer (less so Sledgehammer (5))

Items with no skill value boosts but significant effects on success:

Items with less skill value boosts than their effects on success might warrant:

Fingerprint Kit
Detective's Colt 1911s (only possible with Versatile)

Items with "Succeed by X" Clauses without comparable skill boosts

Wildcards:

EDIT: Well, it just came to my attention that you can use any number of durability uses on any test. This is huge, as there is now one king of a card that you'd always want to pair with this card: Ancient Stone (1), to get ostensibly 6 more secrets that you would otherwise get for no resources. This also holds true, though to a lesser extent, for Strange Solution.

9/27/21

Lucaxiom · 4512

Ancient Stone! — MrGoldbee · 1485 9/28/21

@MrGoldbee Kinda? Any item that discards on a success was deemed un-qualified for the list. Strange Solution got the same treatment. — Lucaxiom · 4512 9/28/21

But why? There's no exhaust clause, so nothing is stopping you from using all three durability to get +6 on a test - which is really quite strong when you're aiming for high difficulty Ancient Stone or similar. — Death by Chocolate · 1489 9/29/21

Wait what?!.. You're right! there's no exhaust clause! — Lucaxiom · 4512 9/30/21

While it is good for ensuring Ancient Stone succeeds, you only record the difficulty of the test, not how much you succeeded by. So "6 more secrets than you would otherwise get" is not true. — TrisJ1 · 8 10/25/21

It lets you take on a big test. — MrGoldbee · 1485 11/10/21

Eon Chart could be an interesting target — zombieplayground · 1 12/12/21

I've been testing this on Old Keyring with good results. — DrMChristopher · 502 12/17/21

Probably not the best use of Jury Rig, but it can attach to Liquid Courage. — Lemmingrad · 21 1/7/22

Can it be attached to [Eye of the Djinn](/card/07225)? If so, seems pretty cool target. — Kalín · 200 2/6/22

would Archaic Glyphs - Guiding Stones be a good target, probably in a Minh build? — An_Undecayed_Whately · 1312 4/5/22

@An_Undecayed_Whately: Sadly, once you upgrade Archaic Glyphs into Guiding Stones version, it ceases to be an item and becomes a spell. Thus, it can't be jury-rigged. — HanoverFist · 746 5/9/22

@Lucaxiom: Two questions! One: What does your brackets around Fingerprint Kit and Old Shotgun indicate? Two: Wouldn't this also affect Lantern and Flashlight, which have ->Investigate actions? Unsure why those didn't come up in the tokenized search you listed, but Lantern seems like an interesting possibility similar to Old Keyring as you can sort of force-discard it after Jury Rig is empty, thereby discarding Jury Rig, thereby opening recursion via Scrounge For Supplies/Resourceful/Yorick. — HanoverFist · 746 5/9/22

@HanoverFist: Answer 1: typos. Should be fixed now. Answer 2: As described, the items presented are "A shortlist of items that this poster thinks takes to Jury-Rig better that most". Lantern does show up among the 100+ items in the search term provided at the start of the review, but it did not warrant mentioning in my opinion, since it doesn't fall into any of the categories I presented. I did not consider the recursion angle however. — Lucaxiom · 4512 5/11/22

Ah, missed the shortlist part, thanks — HanoverFist · 746 5/17/22

In the Thick of It

Give this to Parallel Roland (yes, he of the Directives) and you can start a campaign/standalone on 8xp.... making him 7-5 (I would assume, unless you're leaning into immediate Desperate cards)

I'd be interested to see what the community can build, on 8xp starting...

9/27/21

fiatluxia · 68

And for those with a mystic bent, you can do this with Mateo instead. — HanoverFist · 746 9/29/21

Down the Rabbit Hole

I want to love this card. It feeds my munchkin brain in a good way!

In theory, even if you buy cards that are new for your deck, it will still be worth it if your original decklist features enough upgradeable cards.

For every 2 upgraded cards, a new card can be added while maintaining advantage. If you want to have the highest experience advantage, you need 14 upgrade cards in a regular 8 game campaign. If you merely want to stay neutral or above, then you'd be able to add 13 card in the same scenario. That would make you gain 14 upgrade exp with a 13 exp penalty for adding new cards (which would still be net-positive).

This card rewards pre-emptive planning and deckbuilding and gives more experience very early on.

9/27/21

Kantarak · 17

Play as Dexter Drake, and combine with a pair of Arcane Researches, In The Thick Of It, and Charon's Obol, for a potential net 43 bonus XP over an 8-game campaign! — HanoverFist · 746 9/28/21

Every side quest also counts, right? That would be a crazy amont of XP... I think cards which upgrades several times like Emergency Cash are espacially useful — Miroque · 25 9/29/21

Dexter also has access to Let God Sort Them Out for even more bonus XP. — puert · 48 10/25/21

In the Thick of It

MJ Newman has screwed us again!

The uninitiated may think that this is the opening for Rogues or Rogue-secondaries to get more value out of Charon's Obol, but little do they know that this is actually a buff to Ursula Downs!

How could they do this to us? Seekers buffed yet again?!?!?!??!!?!?!

9/27/21

Flamy · 6

Calvin Wright loves this. Its perfect! — Lorkan · 7 10/31/21

In the Thick of It

For me: card is good, but not for every character. If you have <4exp cards that you need most, take it (Calvin loves it)

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9/27/21

Pawiu14 · 196

Your post breaks formatting. Use a linebreak. — MrGoldbee · 1485 9/27/21

done — Pawiu14 · 196 9/27/21