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Parallel Fates

This seems really good for Gloria Goldberg. "Look at the top 4 cards of the encounter deck." - period. She gets to pull 5 and use her ability to filter a really bad card. Then perform the token draw and possibly place the rest back as needed.

3/24/21

Taevus · 783

On the positive end, it's a deep search, which has great utility in multiplayer especially. On the negative end, it takes an action and is highly likely to whiff. You still get to use her ability here, but I think this card is not as much of a priority for Gloria as Alyssa, Scroll, Scrying, or even other Encounter deck one off search effects like First Watch. — StyxTBeuford · 13049 3/28/21

I agree that it's good for Gloria. If there was a 0-cost event that read "Look at the top 5 cards of the encounter deck, then discard one and shuffle the rest back into the encounter deck" it would get played. Look at the glass half-full: it's not that there might be a downside of shuffling, it's that there is an upside of maybe they won't shuffle. :) — jbailey86 · 1 11/3/21

Moon Pendant

This card looks interesting. Gives you the ability to have 2 tarot cards in play while also mitigating some of the drawback of taking 2x tarot cards for consistency. Who actually wants this is another question, and it's hard to know until we've seen the full cycle of L3 tarot cards. Off hand, Sefina comes to mind, as I had decent success playing 4x tarot with her and 2x Anna Kaslow. Perhaps also Calvin, as the tarot is already an auto-include, and this could effectively give him an additional +1 to all stats at a lower cost than Anna.

3/24/21

Zinjanthropus · 230

How about a janky Lola deck 2 x Moon Pendant, Relic Hunter, all the Tarots as ????. It's neutral as well so doesn't get destroyed by her weakness. — EnglishLord · 1 3/29/21

Yeah, the idea of 2x Moon Pendant to get a bunch of ???? cards is definitely intriguing. +4 goes a long way. Lola would probably be the ideal taker. — Zinjanthropus · 230 4/4/21

And for Patrice ! Ina Patrice deck my thought is "each card in my deck must be usable whatever I have to do during the round". With the Moon pendant all the Tarot cards I can't play at the moment become copies of Unexpected courage to have even more wild skill icons to commit to whichever test I have to make. — AlexP · 285 4/18/21

Patrice already has Cornered to pitch a useless Tarot to, but this definitely doesn't hurt — supertoasty · 40 4/25/21

Altered Beast

Does this card contain a typo? It isn't clear if you are supposed to attach this card to the abomination or not. We went ahead and attached it, assuming it was a typo.

3/24/21

SaraNoH92 · 2

for others benefit it says "attached" with a D, took me three reads to realise where the typo was. — Zerogrim · 295 3/24/21

I know, the English version is the relevant reference for everything, but still want to point out, the German version has not this kind of typo, and it reads the way, it's obviously suposed to be read in the original version as well. — Susumu · 381 3/24/21

Curse of Aeons

So I've seen a lot of people talking about this with Jim or this with a effect where you want a symbol like sixth sense and those are fair "wants" for curse of aeons but I'd like to bring a different approach I've not seen discussed about it.

Capping the bag.

When there are curses in the chaos bag the number you can draw is anywhere from +1 to -far too much, if you have three curses in the bad and a -4 then in that instance you can draw anything from +1 to -10, with some math's and programs you can figure out the odds, but the possibility is always there for super insane pulls where you draw 3+ curses.

Not so with curse of Aeons in play, how many curses are in the bag? irrelevant!, the worst draw you can pull from the bag is now always -2 AND the worst token in the bag, in the above example even with 10 curses in the bag you can only draw a -6, which as a mystic is not that hard to overcome with commits, rogues also will find a -6 beatable if they HAVE to pass.

What Curse of Aeons does is allows more reliability with the "uhoh all curses" table, sure blessing of Isis is cool in its own way but just knowing that even with a whole ton of curses floating about there is now a non insane number you can match to succeed at any test is very liberating.

And like with such classics as lucky, curse of aeons need never actually trigger once to still be useful, did you go an entire game and never trigger its effect with a curse heavy bag, well 3 xp and 2 resources to not suffer for high cursed bags seems A-Okay to me.

O scratch that, I just drew a crit fail....

3/24/21

Zerogrim · 295

Well that’s why Jim plays the blues. — MrGoldbee · 1492 3/24/21

Thanks, that is an interesting perspective on this card. I still think 3xp is pretty rough but hopefully it finds a place. — housh · 171 3/25/21

So it has a function similar to the one of Ancient Coveant, right ? Avoiding to draw all the tokens at once. — AlexP · 285 3/30/21

It's a bummer, it is not a permanent, unlike the Covenants. 4 XP more (to get 2 copies), 2 resources, a card and a playaction to pay, that's quite a lot in comparison. — Susumu · 381 8/17/21

Maybe as a covenant? — MrGoldbee · 1492 3/14/24

Pathfinder

I am about to start playing “Horror in High Gear” and this question popped in my mind: Can I use this while I am the driver in a vehicle? Do the rest of the investigators in the same vehicle move with me?

3/23/21

Big_Daddy_Rod · 1

Per "Vehicles" in the campaign guide, "While an investigator is in a vehicle, that investigator cannot move independently of the vehicle". That means that any card effect that would move you doesn't (and neither does the basic move action), and the only way to move is indirectly via card effects that say they move that vehicle. — Thatwasademo · 58 3/23/21

(well, the "enter/exit vehicle" implicit free triggered ability also works, but from the wording that doesn't count as "moving" even though your mini-card is physically moved between the location card and the vehicle card) — Thatwasademo · 58 3/23/21

So in short, no, Pathfinder can't be used while you're in a vehicle, only if you stop the vehicle and get out. — Thatwasademo · 58 3/23/21

(and, of course, doing so means you're spending 2 actions every time you use it, due to the text on the Agenda) — Thatwasademo · 58 3/23/21

TIC is tricky. It has gigantic maps, and some maps that make movement cards useless — MrGoldbee · 1492 3/24/21

I would strongly recommend this for Innsmouth (Taboo or no). It makes a huge difference in most scenarios and in the one scenario where it isn't good you can just not play it. — CaiusDrewart · 3191 3/26/21

The above analysis is about right. I’d definitely advocate for pathfinder and safeguard(2) for the group that wants to get around Innsmouths large maps (horror in high gear aside due to the vehicle mechanics, as mentioned). . — AndyN · 42 9/10/21

Why does it cost two additional actions to use pathfinder? The FAQ above for frozen in fear seems like it would apply. — Jtreher · 9 3/2/23

Actually, looking at the FAQ on frozen in fear seems at odds with the comment here on this card. — Jtreher · 9 3/2/23

2nd para of 2.19 on the official FAQ says that Quick draw doesn't count as an action taken or spent. — Jtreher · 9 3/2/23