Preston Fairmont
Der Millionär

Ermittler

Silberloge der Dämmerung. Salonlöwe.

Schurke
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Health: 7. Sanity: 7.

Immer wenn du 1 oder mehr Ressourcen durch einen Karteneffekt erhältst, platziere sie auf dem Familienerbe statt in deinem Ressourcenvorrat.

-Effekt: +0. Du darfst stattdessen 2 Ressourcen ausgeben, um die Probe automatisch gelingen zu lassen.

„Mein Vermögen, mein Erbe, mein Problem. Lassen sie mich das auf meine Art lösen.“
Magali Villeneuve
Der gebrochene Kreis #3.

Preston Fairmont - Back

Ermittler

Deckgröße: 30.

Deckbau-Optionen: Schurkenkarten () Stufe 0-5, Überlebenderkarten () Stufe 0-2, Neutrale Karten Stufe 0-5.

Deckbau-Voraussetzungen (zählen nicht gegen die Deckgröße): Familienerbe, „Schulden“ bei der Loge, 1 zufällige Grundschwäche.

Deckbau-Einschränkungen: Keine Illegal-Karten.

Preston Fairmont hatte sich nie wirklich Gedanken darüber gemacht, woher das Geld seiner Familie stammte. Er wusste nur, dass sie viel davon hatten, und das nutzte er, wann immer möglich, zu seinem Vorteil. Manchmal versuchte sein Vater ihm mit besorgter Miene zu erklären, welcher Art Geschäfte sein Großvater nachgegangen war und welche Forderungen eine Gesellschaft namens Hermetischer Orden der Silbernen Dämmerung an ihn stellte. Aber Preston hörte ihm nie zu. Dann starb sein Vater bei einem verdächtig wirkenden Verkehrsunfall und Preston musste die Verantwortung für das Vermögen der Familie übernehmen. Und jetzt hat auch noch Carl Sanford, der Präsident der Silberloge der Dämmerung, um ein persönliches Treffen mit Preston gebeten. Nun macht sich Preston, vielleicht zum ersten Mal in seinem Leben, doch Gedanken darüber, woher das Geld seiner Familie wohl stammen könnte…
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FAQs

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  • Automatic Success/Failure: Some card effects make an investigator automatically succeed or automatically fail a skill test. If this occurs, depending on the timing of such an effect, certain steps of the skill test may be skipped in their entirety.
    • If it is known that an investigator automatically succeeds or fails at a skill test before Step 3 (“Reveal Chaos Token”) occurs, that step is skipped, along with Step 4. No chaos token(s) are revealed from the chaos bag, and the investigator immediately moves to Step 5. All other steps of the skill test resolve as normal.
    • If a chaos token effect causes an investigator to automatically succeed or fail at a skill test, continue with Steps 3 and 4, as normal. - FAQ, v.1.7, March 2020
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“My money, my legacy, my problem. Let me handle it in my own way."

Me and a buddy did a Diana/Preston run of the TCU. I must’ve read that quote a dozen times on his player card. And it’s absolutely true.

You can’t play Preston like other investigators, that’s clear from his stat line. Decades of indolence have left the millionaire dumber, slower, weaker and less willful than almost anyone else investigating the mythos. He doesn’t even use guns, finding most of the rogue illicit weapons too distasteful to consider.

But the years have left him far better at accounting. And whether you’re on the university campus or somewhere in space and time, being rich is all the power you need. Well Connected and Money Talks came with his set. Recent additions like dark ritual and faustian bargain mean that he can pay off his teammates and take care of the fallout indefinitely.

Once you get XP, you can use Lola and Delilah to buy your way to victory. Don’t forget an old key ring or other tools that let you lower the shroud of locations, those give you discounts.

But even with those bonuses, you’re gonna be facing tests you have no business passing. You might go with the Dark Horse route, convincing everyone you're an underdog while still taking family money. But that gets your stats to two, you’re still not gonna pass those willpower tests... But as a rogue, you don’t have to. Let the mystics play their upgraded wards of protection. First Watch and "I’ll handle this" are helpful from guardians. And you can always kick your feet up and say "You handle this one!". (Ironically, when I was playing with my buddy, Diana had a mob enforcer weakness. The easiest solution was always to have Preston pay him off for a single action.)

When you play as the millionaire, everything that you need can be bought. Cards that were once useless extravagances, like hard knocks or dig deep, let you pay to win.

So should you go rich or play dark horse? Take Ally cards with let me see that and Chance Encounter? Will you slot haste, grab the skeleton key?

It’s your legacy, your money, your problem. Go handle it your own way.

MrGoldbee · 1443
Only thing I would add is that Preston is super card dependent, so I recommend strongly that you run some sort of card draw engine. Drawing Thin, Rabbit's Foot, probably both. — StyxTBeuford · 12985
True! — MrGoldbee · 1443

Lola Santiago is incredibly powerful in a Preston Fairmont deck. I’d say she’s an auto-include.

With Preston’s Family Inheritance Lola lets Preston discover one clue per turn on a shroud 4 or lower (5 or lower if he’s a Lonewolf...) without taxing his resource pool.

In solo, where many locations are single clue locations, this lets Preston solidly hoover up clues while tooling up / drawing cards / moving around the map with his three actions.

Lola is better than Leo in a Preston solo deck. She also gives you a free action a turn, albeit limited to investigating, but that action is test-less, and one you’ll often want to do every turn anyway.

Finally, how does she compare to Streetwise? Sure, streetwise is far more flexible, as it lets Preston boost either Intellect or Agility to 7 once a turn by spending all of his Family Inheritance. Lola boosts those stats too, albeit only to 2, but at least it’s a permanent boost. I’d rather be investigating testlessly than pumping my Intellect via Streetwise and still risking drawing an Autofail.

Streetwise’s main strength is that it’s permanent, so you really have to buy it first. But once you have I’d save up your next 6XP for two copies of Lola

Especially when you add in her damage / horror soak which effectively puts Preston up to 8 in both.

darkskyman · 16
Why did you double post a review for Lola? — Myriad · 1219
Does Preston's initial 5 resources during setup go on him or family inheritance? — Caligula · 1
Start up ressources aren't added by a card effect, so i've always played that are in his normal pool — Django · 5070
I'm trying to build a Preston deck but somehow can't add the multi-class Rogue/Survivor Tennesse Sour Mash. Can't understand why it would be forbidden... — SimonG · 1
Ah, I figured it out. "No Illicit cards." :) — SimonG · 1

The side-mission called Curse of the Rougarou has a reward card called Monsterous Transformation. I just got this for Preston and and I can't help but feel it's too broken to be allowed. But as far as I can tell it's fine. I'm going to play it through and laugh as everyone dies to the filthy rich wolf.

jmccrary · 16
It IS too broken. That's why opt to not do that mission when Preston (or Calvin) is in the team... — Nenananas · 251
It's probably even better if you manage to get Body of a Yithian in City of Archives (TFA), as well — Zinjanthropus · 227