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Do mind that while the investigator himself will appear soon, both of the signature cards are replacement bullshit. Which is interesting, in a way, since they're so intertwined with his gimmick.
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Christ I hate packing exclusives with game novels
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PJOmega posted:Don't support this alt-card promo bullshit.
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Dec 8, 2017 20:33
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Another alt-art I'll just end up proxying. 
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gimmicky poo poo, not buying a book for this content
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Seriously, it's so easy to proxy the promo stuff. gently caress em.
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I wouldn't have a problem if these things were for showing up to events, prizes, or something along those lines. But as the cereal box prize in books that should be decent enough to hold up by their own merits it's pretty lovely. It just says to me they don't have the faith in their own books that they don't need a dumb gimmick to get them to sell.
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Radish posted:I wouldn't have a problem if these things were for showing up to events, prizes, or something along those lines. gently caress you, first worlder. 
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Lichtenstein posted:gently caress you, first worlder. I don't actually get to go to any cool events like that  but I wouldn't begrudge others.
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Radish posted:I wouldn't have a problem if these things were for showing up to events, prizes, or something along those lines. You should. Alt-art is one thing. Functionally different cards are a bad path to go down.
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PJOmega posted:You should. Yeah that's a good point.
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Now that we know what archaic glyphs can turn into, Daisy has the potential to use it to be a better Rex than Rex. I might give the new lower level book of shadows another look while I'm at it if she ends up needing more charges.
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I think you would need to mulligan hard for guiding stones since in order to surpass Rex you’re looking to play out stones, book of lore (to keep higher ed active) and book of shadows. Maybe in scenarios where the Agenda gives you a little early breathing room.
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Today I started another run of Dunwich Horror. It turns out poo poo gets hard when you can't just rely on Duke to coast through stuff. I also got gifted the Out of TIme and Space playmat, and it's amazing. The art is not only sweet on its own, but I was pleasantly surprised to see they've actually updated/enhanced it from the version we see on the card.
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So I got the core set for Christmas and I'm wondering what the prospects for solo play are without buying anything new. Hobby stuff is really expensive in the country I'll be living in until May, so I don't think I'll be buying any expansions for a while, and to be honest I'm not totally sold yet on investing in this game over the LOTR LCG (which I started with last year, and really enjoy). I played the first scenario a few times with just the recommended starting deck for Roland and it seems pretty swingy, with a couple of bad turns pretty much eliminating any chance of winning. Do I pretty much have to play double-handed to be able to enjoy the game solo?
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MeinPanzer posted:So I got the core set for Christmas and I'm wondering what the prospects for solo play are without buying anything new. Hobby stuff is really expensive in the country I'll be living in until May, so I don't think I'll be buying any expansions for a while, and to be honest I'm not totally sold yet on investing in this game over the LOTR LCG (which I started with last year, and really enjoy). I think solo is viable if you only have the core set. I could see Agnes or Daisy being competent by themselves with maybe a few proxies for the 1-of staples from the core set.
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Some proxies will fix the issues imho. Having two ofs reduces the swinginess of your draws a lot and makes for a smoother game.
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Are there any good blogs/sources of information and strategy for the game, a la Hall of Beorn? I'm mostly netdecking but want to try my hand at deckbuilding.
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Anyway, here are a couple of tries for a new Dunwich campaign. Mark and Daisy.Mark Harrigan posted:Total Cards: (30) Low on skills and high on health, I've found that with Sophie you can get good numbers on any given test anyway, and you need allies to soak sanity damage anyway. On that front, First Aid seems too slow to be effective. Slightly worried about cost, I may drop the guns, get more skills and mulligan hard for the Machete and Prepared for the Worst, specially after I upgrade to Brother Xavier. Not sure about Painkillers, either, is it possible to have too much health, specially paired with Daisy and Medical Texts? Daisy Walker posted:Total Cards: (30) Healer-Clue Gatherer. Daisy has way too many good cards. Possible includes are Flashlight (too much investigation?), Blinding Light (Mark should be able to punch monsters away and she has some other 'Oh, poo poo' cards) or more books or ways to get them (but I'm going to add Encyclopedias later on). I am probably being way too greedy with 2 Delve too Deep and the Unidentified solution. Any suggestions?
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Not a fan of doubling beat cops and guard dogs. You neither want Charisma for them, nor want to kill them off just for the sake of it. I'd ditch beat cops in lieu of Unexpected Courage (just keep 'em until they save your butt on a nasty event), but then upgrade the dogs to lvl 2 cops. You might consider slotting in Taunt (it can be really MVP), but then again, in two player it can be kinda situational. As for Daisy, I think you should go double Strange Solution or none - you need them for slotting in upgraded versions, you need to draw them at a calm, opportune time and they have wild icons, so they aren't really a dead draw anyways. If playing Delve too Deep, consider also using Maleson, not to gently caress yourself up (he's also an amazingly cheap bag of HPs). Though the price of such setup is pretty much having to go for Charisma ASAP. Forget the flashlight (you've got plenty of intelligence anyway) and blinding light (way overcosted, just save your sweet yellow events for tough situations).
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Thanks. My reasoning for having 4 allies with Mark is that I want to get Xavier as a way to get more sanity (3 instead of 2), shore up a weak stat and all of it cheaply XP wise, and upgraded cops are awesome. The alternative would be Elder Sign Amulets, but 3XP apiece hurt. I see your point, though. Will probably dump the cops for now. Regarding the Solution, I was aiming for 1 Freezing Variant to have another out to evade a monster (The Fight and Healing ones seem pretty pointless in this deck), but on second thought I already have some emergency cards slotted in there. I do feel that 2 Wards are enough to deal with Delve, though, monster shouldn't be an issue with Mark around. Will try and report back. After losing a bunch, probably. EDIT: Mark is going to need 4XP for the shotgun eventually, because Shotgun+Home Front is too silly and funny to pass up. He's even in the picture, damnit. Thus I rather be stingy on XP on his deck. Fat Samurai fucked around with this message at 13:32 on Dec 28, 2017 |
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Fat Samurai posted:Thanks. I ran a similar Mark deck through Dunwich and I think 4 allies is fine. You want allies to soak damage so Sophie doesn't flip on you. You will probably want to grab charisma somewhere down the line but I'd prioritize Vicious Blows and/or Beat Cop upgrades over it. I'd cut If it bleeds... for a pipe or another Let me handle this. I'd avoid Xavier though. Way too expensive to mitigate 3 horror for 5 resources and Mark doesn't really need the will boost. You're better off running pipes or just having Daisy heal your horror.
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Can you include both the upgraded version of a card and the basic version in the same deck (after buying the upgraded version with XP, of course)?
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MeinPanzer posted:Can you include both the upgraded version of a card and the basic version in the same deck (after buying the upgraded version with XP, of course)? You can't have more than 2 copies of a card by title, so you can't have 2 basic versions and 2 upgraded versions, because that would 4 copies of a card with the same title. You can have 1 basic and 1 upgraded.
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GoneWithTheTornado posted:You can't have more than 2 copies of a card by title, so you can't have 2 basic versions and 2 upgraded versions, because that would 4 copies of a card with the same title. You can have 1 basic and 1 upgraded. Okay, good, that's what I figured. Thanks. Also, let's say I've spent 6XP on upgraded cards in between scenarios 1 and 2. In between scenarios 2 and 3 I have 3XP more to spend, but I'm unhappy with how my initial upgraded card choices are working out and I want to buy something more expensive than 3XP. Can I give up my initial upgrades and regain the 6XP, so that I can spend 9XP in total, or does that 6XP disappear altogether once it's spent initially?
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MeinPanzer posted:Okay, good, that's what I figured. Thanks. RAW it is spent, and no refunds are given. You only get a discount when upgrading a card with the same name as the card you are taking out for it. You are of course free to do whatever, especially if a card was misread at first or whatnot.
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How well does this play with four people? I know it'd have to be 2 core sets, but does it feel like you're playing in a way the game isn't really designed for? Like, Magic can be played with more than 2 people but all sorts of weird poo poo starts happening, both in terms of the rules and balance.
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Nah. It's built for up to four normally. Some scenarios are a bit easier/harder with more people, so it balances out. Only thing is sessions can run a bit longer with that many people.
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What do I do with a weakness card when drawn by Old Book of Lore (draw three, add one to hand, shuffle the rest into the deck). RAW, unless the card goes to the table, it seems that I should resolve the effects and then shuffle it back. Edit: Nevermind, you do not draw the cards, you "search" them. Fat Samurai fucked around with this message at 17:37 on Jan 3, 2018 |
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Fat Samurai posted:What do I do with a weakness card when drawn by Old Book of Lore (draw three, add one to hand, shuffle the rest into the deck). RAW, unless the card goes to the table, it seems that I should resolve the effects and then shuffle it back. Old Book of Lore lets you search the top 3 cards of your deck and you choose to draw one. Searching is not the same as drawing, so you can choose to draw one of the other 2 cards instead of the weakness in which case the weakness does not resolve. If for some reason you choose to draw the weakness, it resolves normally just like you drew it from the top of your deck. You still have to shuffle your deck to randomize the other 2 cards that you searched.
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Boxman posted:How well does this play with four people? I know it'd have to be 2 core sets, but does it feel like you're playing in a way the game isn't really designed for? 2 cores will hurt at 4 players. In my 4 player group we have 4 cores and 2 of each pack after that and it’s worked pretty well. We actually only just added the 4th core with Path to Carcosa, given the overlap of classes at the table this time around. That might sound a little much, but that’s two players in the group doing the collecting, so it ends up a bit saner on everyone’s budgets. Edit: oh yeah, and 4 players rules.
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I tried putting together a Wendy deck using Dark Horse/Madame La Branche. Played through Dunwich with it last night and it worked pretty well (right up until I got devoured by Yog-Sothoth anyway). It was a lot of fun, so I thought I'd share: Assets 1x Wendy's Amulet (Core Set) 2x Hard Knocks (Core Set) 2x Scavenging (Core Set) 2x Flashlight (Core Set) 2x Fire Axe (The Dunwich Legacy) 2x Lone Wolf (Blood on the Altar) 2x Dark Horse (Undimensioned and Unseen) 2x Gravedigger's Shovel (The Path to Carcosa) 2x Madame Labranche (A Phantom of Truth) Events 1x Elusive (Core Set) 1x Sneak Attack (Core Set) 1x Bait and Switch (The Dunwich Legacy) 1x Hiding Spot (The Path to Carcosa) 1x Fight or Flight (The Unspeakable Oath) 1x Cheap Shot (A Phantom of Truth) Skills 1x Survival Instinct (Core Set) 1x Guts (Core Set) 1x Perception (Core Set) 1x Overpower (Core Set) 2x Quick Thinking (Undimensioned and Unseen) 2x Resourceful (The Path to Carcosa) Treachery 1x Abandoned and Alone (Core Set) Once you replace Hard Knocks with Plucky, replace Flashlight with Lockpicks, and grab Scrapper, it becomes very flexible and reliable for Solo play. Having 2-3 supply/turn to blow on skill pumps and Fire Axes is neat, and investigating at a skill of 9 is a great way to reliably trigger Scavenging to recur Wendy's Amulet.
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Do you bother to sleeve your cards, and if so, which ones? I've sleeved the small character cards since I would destroy them trying to flip on a regular basis, but any others seem like it would just get in the way.
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A Horse Named Mandy posted:Do you bother to sleeve your cards, and if so, which ones? I've sleeved the small character cards since I would destroy them trying to flip on a regular basis, but any others seem like it would just get in the way. In play -> sleeved In binder -> unsleeved scenario cards -> unsleeved
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A Horse Named Mandy posted:Do you bother to sleeve your cards, and if so, which ones? I've sleeved the small character cards since I would destroy them trying to flip on a regular basis, but any others seem like it would just get in the way. Sleeving makes shuffling much easier and obviously protects cards. I use ffg clear
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Lichtenstein posted:In play -> sleeved Similarly, but slightly more granular: Binder -> unsleeved Player decks -> sleeved in Dragonshield Clear Matte, because I love love love the card backs of the player cards for this game and wanted quality sleeves that could take lots of shuffling Invesigator Cards -> sleeved in old leftover Dragonshield Clear (regular), alternatively FFG clear sleeves (silver packs), so that I could easily read both sides Mini character cards -> sleeved in FFG clear sleeves (yellow packs) Scenario cards that never get shuffled (chaos bag reference card, location cards, etc.) -> unsleeved Encounter cards/scenario cards that get shuffled -> sleeved in FFG clear sleeves (silver packs)
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I recommend Ultrapro, if only because FFG sleeves are cut ever so slightly long for some reason.
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My partner and I got into this game pretty unexpectedly (never into board or cardgames before) and absolutely love it. Don't even bother with the roleplaying aspect, but find the cooperation and difficulty to be addicting. Bummed I have to shell out  minimum for each expansion, but intrigued by the prospect of building an ongoing campaign. Only have the core so far, so any recommendations for where to go next?Tried to branch out into other two-player games with 7 Wonders Dual, but found it a bit basic in comparison. Can anybody recommend other games of similar complexity and excitement? Similarly, is Android: Netrunner even worth looking into or to be avoided at all costs?
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Android: Netrunner is an amazing card game but not cooperative at all. There is a cooperative expansion but it’s supposedly not great (although it does add cards to the pool so if you get into the game you’ll get it eventually). The upside of Netrunner is they just released a whole bunch of banned / restricted cards and cycled a bunch of poo poo out, in conjunction with the release of the new Revised score Set which makes it a decent time to get into the game. The bad news is there is still, like, 5-6 cycles of product which are still legal along with four deluxe packs, so the buyin to have everything right now is high. If you enjoy the deck building aspect I cannot recommend Netrunner enough. Other options that are popular right now are Legend of the Five Rings (just came out in October and only 6 expansion packs released so it’s just getting started), and the Game of Thrones LCG. I’ve heard decent things about Star Wars, but haven’t branched into it due to being more interested in their CCG card/dice game Star Wars: Destiny, and I also own everything I’ve named in this list so far.  Arkham is your best co-op option at the moment.We have Netrunner and LCG threads floating around so if you have more questions and want to get more targeted recs, hit those up!
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