Weekly Update - 2018/10/21

Week In Review

Gaming

Arkham Horror LCG - The journey to Carcosa continued this week with The Pallid Mask.  We got wrecked.  There were a few errors on our end, but definitely the scenario made it as difficult as it could be, and each of our investigators ended up taking an additional trauma of one kind or another.  Luckily for Roland, he took physical trauma this week.

Menoth

I have completed construction, including magnetization, of the Colossal kit, so I am now 100% constructed for the Mystery Box showdown!  No pictures today, but I will try to get pictures for next time.

Spotlight: Arkham Horror LCG - Hard Mode

That's right.  Hard mode.  As though normal wasn't hard enough, hard mode makes each draw from the chaos bag all the more terrifying, adding additional low negative numbers and generally worse effects from the bad stuff tokens.

What does this mean for us, the investigators?  Anything we can do to accomplish the tasks faster, and with fewer chaos bag pulls the better.  This makes some cards that weren't particularly excellent before much more appealing.

Ways to get clues without drawing from the bag - Cards like Art Student and Gravedigger's shovel come into their own as ways to unearth clues.  Opportunities to reuse them like Calling in Favors and Scavenging could be worth considering if you are going heavy into these strategies.

Ways to do damage without drawing from the bag - obviously special mention to Agnes the great witch destroyer.  Beat Cop(2), Heroic Rescue, Lantern, Guard Dog, Brother Xavier, are all a little better when any draw from the chaos bag can be your doom.

Ways to avoid bad stuff - Ward of Protection is a biggie here - ditch an encounter card at the cost of a sanity?  Some of those encounters can wreck you for 3 or 4 sanity, or leave you in otherwise poor shape to deal with the monsters of the abyss.  Practically an auto-include for anyone that can sport purple.

Ways to improve your odds - The Chthonian Stone and Protective Incantation have given us new ways to seal away bad tokens and increase our odds with the chaos bag.  The cost to do so is high, but could be worth it in the right circumstances.  

Just pass your tests.  Obviously, good skill cards or supplies for bonus fixers become all the more important to pass whatever tests you must take.  Keep focus on the goal and try to maximize your actions toward accomplishing it by getting more clues per investigation (deduction, Rex), or do bonus damage, if at all possible.