Wilson Richards

After playing some scenarios with Wilson I just want to strongly advise you to look for Tool Belt and/or Tinker in the opening hand. As an investigator that uses plenty of assets (mostly of them occupying hand slots), you may find yourself slot limited and not being to exploit the versatility that Wilson provides (which I believe is his biggest strength). Also I advice to include Ever Vigilant as the number of actions you spend playing assets can be detrimental.

Fluxway · 154
I want to think that Toolbelt seems like an auto-include but the action cost is very high to flex around in. Maybe an upgrade will come that make use of all the XP tools out there. — Staticalchemist · 1
Crafty

I find it very unsettling that Wilson Richards can't use this card. I guess it would not fit the designers idea for the investigator restrictions; yet I think this would be an awesome card for the Handyman, both flavor and gamewise. It could not only benefit the use of tools but also some synergy cards as Gang Up and Call for Backup.

Fluxway · 154
He can't run it in a solo game. But in multiplayer you have options like Teamwork and Black Market. Our rogue is running Crafty for the purpose of passing it to Wilson. — antagonist · 1
Mysteries Remain

UPDATE: Upon further play, these replacement/alternate signatures are not really all that much better than the original ones.

The problem, especially at low player counts, is that most scenarios rarely have you walking around with spare clues. Typically you're spending down to 0 clues to advance the Act Deck, so the accompanying weakness is a dead draw AND gets shuffled back into your deck. Again, and again. And suffer a horror each time.

There are upsides though! This generates a clue out of thin air, which can sometimes let you ignore a challenging location.

And it’s fast, so it doesn’t trigger an Attack of Opportunity. Which allows you to hold onto this card until you get attacked at a location without clues, then play it to earn a clue (with Roland’s innate investigator power) when you defeat the enemy.

Chemistry Set

Prior reviews focus on the goal of using this for extra clues in a multiplayer setting.

I tried this with Roland in a true solo deck that features Steady-Handed in order to help trigger extra damage from the Katana. In true solo most locations have just a single clue. So there’s rarely a benefit to succeed by 4.

So far it’s working great! It hits the table often (because of Ever Vigilant is always handy via Stick to the Plan) and gives free draws and resources. It feels like a flexible alternative to Empirical Hypothesis.

My sole complaint is that Roland gets a fair number of clues testlessly, so it sometimes feels like it’s not worth the slot that could otherwise be used by Hallowed Mirror.

Accursed

Silas Marsh can take this and completely annihilate the effect of Cursed tokens. He can simply commit it to every test (he doesn't have to add any Cursed token in the bag), draw tokens, and take it back in his hand. The Cursed tokens would still be worth 0. For the whole game. I am not sure there can be a "Cursed Silas" archetype, but this can be very handy in a duet with a Cursed investigator, or in the Innsmouth campaign with a heavily cursed bag, of if Silas has the Dread Curse basic weakness.

Chakado · 19
Unless I'm missing something, you must add at least 1 curse right? I don't think adding 0 is valid — LoveApple · 10
Sure. "up to 3" means 0-3. — AlderSign · 436