I’ve been there as well the whole time, but I like the close-knit forum here. I’ll be at bgg going forward primarily just out of necessity.

Absolutely, but do you have a bgg account? I may need to get your email or something. I just purchased a house so I’ve been incredibly busy and haven’t made much progress there, but I will as soon as things have settled down some.

I don't know, but I would liked to. Seems pretty arbitrary. The only thing I can assume is that maybe they do not have enough moderators or don't want to use their resources monitoring the forums. But I don't know how much of that they do officially. Unless Asmodee just doesn't like the idea? I have no clue.

Yikes. Seems like an odd decision... It is a bummer but I suppose I’ll just use bgg more.

Also each scenario can be played in standalone mode which is usually a bit harder as you can bring whatever do into it as you like and the make-up for standalone chaos bags often has tokens of each type in them.

That poor violin....

I mean... you can, but I don’t know. You kind of want to play them against each other, but you also risk escalating things

We've played it. And we lost, but we really just didn't have enough fire power. I really like the central idea, and I think the replayability is probably quite high. The story rewards seem interesting enough to want them, but seeing as how we lost, I don't know exactly how you get them. There were several times we seriously wished Sister Mary was packing some holy hand grenades.

I am dying to make a cursed deck for my custom gator Astrid Lee. She's downloadable in a few places, but this synergy made me very happy. Using Manipulate Destiny from Devil Reef, if she seals the elder sign and there's no bless tokens in the bag, it is a guaranteed 2 damage. So fitting for her backstory as a town gossip whose rumors become reality. The more cards that come out, the more that fit with her deck build (Insights 0-5, Rogue cards 0-3, Neutral 0-5, and 5 lvl 0 mystic and/or survivor) and theme. I cannot wait for the rest of the cycle's player cards. So far, thematically we have gotten: Manipulate Destiny, The Truth Beckons, Stirring Up Trouble, Breaking and Entering, Skeptic, False Covenant, Faustian Bargain, in addition to things like Eavesdrop from prior sets.

I’m guessing they shipped late or the mail service was late due to holidays. My TC outer Gods came Saturday and my Devils Reef came yesterday. But I do usually have them on the “release” day.

I hope we don't see an even worse version of Abandoned and Alone, lol. I know we will, but I don't want to. I can always hope.

I guess we can anticipate Wendy or Roland next.

Parallel Agnes in the meantime....

The thing that is weird is that Eye of the Djinn looks like it takes a hand slot. Is that supposed to be a balance to its power maybe?

The scenario guide should let you know if you keep/add any cards to your deck. If they do not say to add a story asset/ally to your deck, then you don't. But yeah, if you have added a story asset and they are "defeated" they go back into your discard and you keep them unless something tells you to remove them from your deck.

Yes, I'm feeling that I will enjoy The Last Ritual quite a bit more. Do those reviews include spoilers? I want to read them but I've only made it to chapter 3 or 4 of The Last Ritual.

Hello friends, I picked up the Wrath of N'Kai (finished it) and have started The Last Ritual. I must say that I enjoyed the first and am getting into the second. The first book was a bit too drawn out for my tastes, but the writing itself was pretty good. The Last Ritual had me at "Preston Fairmont is getting married" (don't worry this is really really early in the novel so not really a spoiler). Pretty excited to see how that turns out since he is just about the last investigator I expected to see 'settling down'. I bet there is more to it than there seems... Has anyone else read these yet? What are your thoughts?

Right? And it's much better than the lvl 0 version. I'm not particularly thrilled with her deck composition to be honest. But beggars can't be choosers. At least I have her. I'm interested to see what her original signatures are since her weakness(es?) appear to be shuffled into the encounter deck after set-up.

Oh no! Sorry to hear about your mom, Mimi! ❤️ Also, I have not had a chance to play with her yet. She'll be my next deck, but I'm not sure who/what I'll be running her through. I'd like to have her on arkhamdb before then so I can play around with deck ideas a bit more easily. I honestly am not sure what secondary to choose. We don't use taboos, so it seems very difficult not to choose seeker for Knowledge is Power so you can get more uses and efficiency out of Scroll of Secrets. I'm also tempted to try to make a curse mystic deck with the inclusion of the new In too Deep cards, but she is restricted to the mystic covenant. Oddly, she can't take the Otherworld Codex like I had hoped she would be able to, so her options for triggering her ability are more limited. There's scroll of secrets, Alyssa Graham, Scrying, and Parallel Fates. I'm of two minds for a deck right now. I could go secondary rogue or seeker and include Faustian Bargains/Stirring up Trouble/Deep knowledge to trigger the new Armageddon/shroud of shadows/eye of chaos suite. The other half-baked idea is to take Mind's Eye (mostly because I've never used it in a deck before) and limit my arcane assets. With a seeker secondary, I can pack in some Truth from Fictions to top off the Mind's Eye as needed (as it runs on secrets). With card draw, you could throw in some astounding revelations as well. The biggest problem is that if you lean into Mind's Eye, there's no solid way to deal additional damage as a Mystic with no out-of-class assets. I mean, there's the enchanted blade, but that takes an arcane slot which is not compatible with Mind's Eye. So barring the xp expensive Time-Worn Brand, if you go the Mind's Eye route, you'd likely be stuck relying on others for monster duty. Any thoughts on why Gloria might want to take a secondary guardian role? There are some minor support type abilities, but I can't see why one would bother when seeker and rogue are options.

I got them! Plot twist: Gloria's deck construction asks her to select a 2ndary class from Guardian/Rogue/Seeker and she can take 0-5 mystic, and 10 0-1 skills/events from her secondary. No wonder I was having trouble pinning her down, lol.

I already love flashlights, so that upgrade is actually quite enticing. As a potential evasion tool, it may encourage using more supply adding cards as well such as Venturer, E-Cache (3), or Contraband. Scavenging would be worth taking in this case as well.

Woo hoo! Tracking is showing I should get mine today. Needed a pick-me-up, so good timing. Gloria will enter the fray soon!

It's confusing to be honest. I cant tell if the spell is supposed to mutate and damage an enemy or if it supposed to be case on yourself to mutate and shred someone to bits. The guy looks as confused as I felt, lol.

Certainly sounds Lovecraftian. An attack spell that doesn’t use willpower but adds curses instead. Mechanically it feels like a gamble so that makes sense. I just wonder about its place in rogue, title/theme, and how it arrived there. Maybe a question for a future AMA.

Anyone want to fill me in on the riastrad lore and theories as to why that is tied to Rogue faction?