The Bell Tolls · ArkhamDB

There is no need to this card to exist, there is no "mechanic" to it, there's no thrill, only frustration. I just do not use it. If only there were ways for one to "counter" and/or "minimize" its effects I would accept this card in my pool.

4/22/25

Kekuleh · 5

The Return to equivalent is way more interesting ! You have ways to counter this weakness, I assume the best is Scroll of secrets (seeker). — TribulationsSolo · 1 4/24/25

Proposition:

Revelation: this card is played to your threat area. No other game effect can prevent this, or remove this card from your threat area. At the end of your turn, you are killed.

If you defeat yourself this turn as part of the effect of a spirit card resolution, you may carry over experience (half? minus some number?) when replacing this investigator after the scenario.

This would allow it to push the narrative and give some interesting incentives without the brunt of the devastating XP penalty it can burden the players with. It might actually be interesting to have to choose on the resolution of Doomed whether to defy fate (giving you Accursed Fate as it stands -- a longer timer, but enforce death with XP loss) or accept fate (giving you a different card with a shorter timer but allowing you to blow yourself up to carry XP over to a new investigator).

7/3/21

MrButtermancer · 58

That's the problem with any investigator death, and a fair number of campaigns have scenarios where getting defeated or doomed out means investigator death (and even more that end the campaign prematurely). So there's always the problem of how do you continue to play? The base line is: start a new investigator at 0 XP. If your group is OK with it, you can always house rule it to have you start a new investigator with any amount of XP you all find fair. You do have to draw this 5 times in a campaign for it to kill you, which may be unlikely, depending on who you are playing. Tommy has such slow draw, for example (plus reloading his deck) that you see maybe a third of your deck in any given scenario. Amanda is likely to deck herself 2-3 times in a scenario. If this Weakness is ruining your fun, you could always remove it from the Random Basic Weakness pool. — LivefromBenefitSt · 1102 7/4/21

You're proposing house-ruling, which is I guess fine, but formalizing a compromise to basically do what you're saying seems... cleaner? — MrButtermancer · 58 11/11/21

When called to add this, when I saw what it did, we agreed with the other player that it was pure cheese, so we opted to house rule that I would remove it from the deck and replace it with either 2 or 3 random basic weaknesses. — Fodas · 1 8/14/23

This weakness is actually a risk reward weakness...

Its 5 weaknesses for the price of one.. The first four are free and come with zero downside but the last one....well its the last one.

In a 7 scenario campaign you will need to duck it 3 times. If you can get that done early by perhaps resigning early in one scenario then you can be aggressive since your weakness is now just a simple dud.

This is really bad in a draw heavy deck (I got stuck with this death sentence with my Minh deck) or an Underworld Support deck, but if you have a slower deck that can be fattened up with Campaign Cards you might have an ok chance.

If not your team will have to carry on with a new 0xp Investigator in your place.

12/10/25

IceHot42 · 3

edit: oh wait it comes with some horror along the way...:( — IceHot42 · 3 12/10/25

Asides from scrying/deck manipulation. The only way i know how to defend against this card is draw Ikiaq before bell tolls and put her into play so you can cancel the weakness. But most of the time I never got this weakness by the time campaign ends unless you have a ton of drawing.

12/13/25

Soaringseraph · 9

Do note that Ikiaq only works on Doomed, as Accursed Fate and The Bell Tolls are no longer basic weaknesses — MaleficMarby · 35 12/13/25

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