Chirping in here, standing on the backs of others to shine a spotlight on this encounter card. More specifically, why the designers decided to give the official "Mechanic" in the game, Daniela Reyes, an Intellect of 1. The character who's supposed to be the best with machines in the whole game is the worst at fixing a broken engine. I know it's Arkham, but jeez. This test is gonna be house ruled when it comes to Daniela more often than not. Maybe it's a Will test for her, or I'd just give her a token pull and she succeeds unless it's an autofail.
Yeah I'm not sure why this isn't a strength test. I'm sure Mark and Tony would both have some level of mechanics knowledge too, so it kind of makes sense.
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snacc
· 982
On an episode of Mythos Busters (I think), Maxine was quizzed about this, and she was like "eh, let Daniela clear it, if that makes you happy." I think Lonnie Ritter likewise.
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LivefromBenefitSt
· 1052
return to innsmouth better replace this with a str/int version
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Zerogrim
· 292
@LivefromBenefitSt yeah I heard that one, too bad there wasn't some esoteric ability on Daniela to account for this kind of thing. Weird design.
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Krysmopompas
· 358