While this is certainly a fun and interesting weakness for Nathaniel Cho and other guardians, or fighters. That much isn't the case for decks that mainly focus on clues, I would advice you to draw a different basic weakness if you happen to draw it with one of those decks. Fighter type investigators usually have a larger health pool, but Self-Destructive can easily trigger twice on a turn in multiplayer, so it's comparable to Internal Injury in impact I think.

In solo it's mostly fine and fun, since you always have to deal with enemies (though some decks use evasion and/or cards like Waylay, Persuasion and Dumb Luck or even Scrying to deal with enemies).

The fact that the impact of this weakness varies so heavily does raise an interesting question: "should Fantasy Flight restrict the basic weaknesses a character can draw?". I think the answer is yes, and they could just put it under deckbuilding requirements e.g. no pact weakness. And for characters who have multiple obvious archetypes, not all of which are impacted, probably also restrict their weakness pool to cards that are highly likely to be at least somewhat impactful.

All in all I rather like this weakness (for any deck in which it has any impact), though it does fall into the, frankly massive, suite of weaknesses with remove bad effect. I find that these weaknesses often still linger in my threat area, as two actions can be a steep cost if you have to deal with monsters or you just have to hurry up to progress through the act deck in a timely fashion.

Fun (sort-of) interaction with Lita: you get another bonus 2 damage across this card. If you're running through core you can take this after the XP-heavy second scenario The Midnight Masks and then go into The Devourer Below with murder on the mind. If you land the second attack ("No please!") you deal a whopping 7 damage.

If you're playing solo, this card will let you take out the big bad in two actions — one playing this, second with an attack from any standard weapon that deals +1 damage.

But if we're doing that, why don't we go further? Take Vicious Blow x2 (only one actually has to be levelled) and chuck'em in as well. Blam, blam! You just biffed the big bad beastie back below. In one action! It's about sending a message.

Now, the first of these 'combos' is easier to pull off; you're just looking for Lita (which you're doing anyway — she's incredible). But if you do happen to draw your Vicious Blows in time... well, surely one-two punching an Elder One back to beyond as soon as it raises its head is as cool as it's going to get?

Surely this card is misprinted. If Randall's ability is truly a trigger like it says, and not a , he can do it an infinite number of times upon entering play. Needless to say, that's pretty good. But the icon is certainly wrong, no?

Assuming so, my assessment would be that Randall is still a good, simple ally. Nathaniel's worried about sanity for sure, and the closest comparable horror soak available to him at level zero would be Something Worth Fighting For, which doesn't really do much else. But the real value in Randall is of course his ability, which even assuming it's meant to be a reaction, ranks him ahead of comparable cards (Tetsuo Mori and Prepared for the Worst) for two reasons: 1) Randall searches the entire deck for the item, and 2) he immediately plays the thing. This is pretty economical.

A fun and relatively simple side quest (appropriate to a starter desk), although 5 actions is a lot. Few Seekers are going to want to a third of 5 turns doing Draw actions to get a shot at an upgrade that will be useful only to Big Hand decks. Eldritch Sophist will helps you pull secrets off it, but that's a pretty thin combo.

More urgently, what happens if you do your last draw, have no secrets left, but don't have 10 cards in hand? Do you hang onto the tome until you hit 5 cards in hand? Have you missed your chance to translate it?

I'm a little surprised this card hasn't received better, or I guess more, fanfare. This is essentially 3 resources for 4 Premonitions which is incredibly powerful. The big drawback is that you have to decide the action you're going to take in advance rather than playing Premonition and deciding what action would be best to use the sealed token on. Generally speaking though, you'd only use a premonition on an important skill test (i.e. where the stakes are high), but the same is true here since you only get 4 secrets (but that is rechargeable through a number of cards, Enraptured in and Truth from Fiction and Eldritch Sophist if you've got access to ).

The ability to know EXACTLY what token you'll be resolving is strong, more so if you have anything that can draw multiple tokens (McBride, Jacqueline). If you're going to be just a little bit short, you now know if you need to commit a card from your hand that you were hoping to play. But obviously, that's just some useful knowledge that helps keep you from over or under committing. The real strength of the card is when you're committing skills to the test.

Unfortunately, most skills don't really need this. Enraptured will simply replace it's own secret (though you can use it to charge a spell instead), while skills like Prophesy and Torrent of Power are generally strong enough that it'd be a bit of a wasted use. It doesn't work with Defiance since you have to pick a symbol before you reveal, and even though it does combo with Defiance lvl 2, I'm not sure how useful that would be. Jacqueline's favorite augury is a great target since the effect is quite powerful, but you already have good odds of getting that to trigger so long as you're drawing multiple tokens.

Given this, probably the best thing about the card is it's lvl 0 rank, allowing it to be taken in off class s, Dunwich gators and anyone who's versatile enough. In faction it's a good little luxury/tool, but off class it's quite powerful. s like Silas Marsh and "Ashcan" Pete would appreciate it. s with Shotguns would like it, especially Zoey Samaras and the upcoming Sister Mary (which is exactly how I intend to play the nun with a gun). And Dexter Drake and especially Sefina Rousseau can abuse the crap out of all those delicious skills.

Aside from it's use in solo (which is good if a tad expensive), it's really going to shine in multiplayer where you'll be everyone's best friend. Remember that other investigators at your location can get in on the fun and commit their own cards to compound the effects. You could even double up those tokens with Take Heart and Self-Sacrifice.