Lesson Learned

Lesson Learned

The serpent’s sword had left a small cut on the boxer’s ear. It scared him more than it hurt him. After being in the ring with Bruiser Houlihan for eight rounds, Nathan knew his way around a beating. “The passage to the left. That’s where he came out of.” As Nathan readied his survival knife, Detective Luxley shot the beast in the head.

MrGoldbee · 1497
This should read: — MrGoldbee · 1497
The serpent’s sword had left a small cut on the boxer’s ear. It scared him more than it hurt him. After being in the ring with Bruiser O’Houlihan for eight rounds, Nathan knew his way around a beating. “The passage to the left. That’s where he came out of.” As Nathan readied his survival knife, Detective Luxley shot the beast in the head. — MrGoldbee · 1497

Opportunist

Opportunist

Winnifred loves this one. You play two skills to a test, you get to draw a card. One stays in your hand if you super succeed on the test. So every skill test, you get to draw a card. Your hand stays steady. Soon you need your own cave to store all the wine you stole.

MrGoldbee · 1497
since winnifred has to commit 2 different skill cards, you can't increase your hand by comitting two Opportunist. So her hand stays the same size through her ability with Opportunist, rather than growing — niklas1meyer · 1
Have tried, can confirm, Winifred loves Opportunist. You're pretty much always trying to win by 2 anyway to benefit from Lucky Cigarette Case, Watch This, Quick Thinking, etc. — Zinjanthropus · 231
Nik is right! — MrGoldbee · 1497
I actually did not realize that, but they do still both return to your hand, so you can, e.g. commit 2x opportunist + QT + Watch This for +1 card, +4 skill modifier, and most likely +3 resources and +1 action (as well as Opportunist returning to hand).. It's still good. — Zinjanthropus · 231
yes they both return, but you wouldn`t come out with a netto of +1 card, you commited 4 cards, get 2 back and draw 1 with winifreds effect, so in the end your hand is -1 card — niklas1meyer · 1
If you aren't running Lucky Cigarette Case with Winifred, you're doing it wrong, though. I have found that her ability + LCC + 2xPickpocketing 2 is plenty to keep her hand full. Opportunist helps if you aren't evading something or if you need to increase the number of cards in hand — Zinjanthropus · 231
To be clear, I think Opportunist 2 (especially if you have 2 copies) is good for Winny because it allows her to push her skill value into succeed-by-two range without sacrificing _as many_ cards in hand. In many cases, you can successfully replace the cards you spent, and in some cases (with Pickpocketing 2 + Lucky Cigarette Case) it lets you net cards in hand — Zinjanthropus · 231
Yeah never said something against that, just that commiting 2 copies of opportunists doesn't trigger winnifreds ability and so don't "increase" your hand size, just keeps it stable. Of course you can draw cards through other cards etc — niklas1meyer · 1
Stealth 2 gives her something close to a free evade each turn to trigger aforementioned cards — Django · 5171

Drawing Thin

Drawing Thin

At three experience, this stops being an auto-include for every single survivor. If you’re going for a big money deck, with teamwork to help out your buddies, you’re probably gonna make more than Jenny trying to get her hot streaks, as your toys cost less. Two bucks a turn every turn, or four bucks with two, in exchange for a failure or a more difficult action.

Making a test harder for yourself, especially if you have other failure cards, can be a strategy, but it’s no longer -the- strategy*. And as much as I love playing Rita and having an economy made from two copies of one card, this is a reasonable taboo.

*Unless you're Stella.

MrGoldbee · 1497
I think it's still a good Rita choice, as she tends to be bad at reliably failing tests (because of her +2 Elder Sign) without it. Also with two copies the card draw can really be beneficial for finding Peter, Track Shoes, etc. But yeah, it's definitely not an auto-include anymore. — Zinjanthropus · 231

The Yellow Sign

The Yellow Sign

I highly, highly disagree with the FAQ. That isn't how it is written. You would take two horror and do the search. You then draw tge card and play it. The horror OBVIOUSLY comes before the card play. Even if it comes from official sources, it does not follow the rules or logic of the game.

Tilted Libra · 37
Proof of why interactions work is very lax around here, but in this case it's not wrong. Keyword here is "after you take". You take the horror during the skill test, virtually at the same time as (but after) putting the weakness in your threat area. Only after the test ends can the weakness check whether you took horror. Long explanation: You initiate a skill test, which has 8 steps, and after determining your failure(step 6), resolve the consequences of failing, which is taking horror and drawing a madness. At this point you're at step 7, take the horror and put the weakness in play during the test still in step 7. Then you end the test at step 8 and clean up, putting chaos tokens and committed cards away. Only after it is done will Psychosis check for horror damage because of the "after" wording. — Mataza · 19
I appreciate the explanation! — Tilted Libra · 37

Scavenging

Scavenging

Minh Thi Phan can now become the Keymaster from the Matrix with Old Keyring and Scavenging (2). As long as you can afford to spend 1 resource every 2 successful investigates to pay for the keys, you are effectively permanently removing 2 shroud from every location.

Erdjo · 329
Actually "After you successfully..." happens in St.6 before "If you succeed" which is St.7, so the keyring discards after Scavenging triggers. — Kittibop · 1