Track shoes in lvl0 version but not here, where'd they go? Otherwise, cool deck.

The shoes got probably lost somewhere while upgrading ;) Had them in there at the beginning but never actually played them, but you can easily cut a Manual Dexterity for Track Shoes. Not a core item, but if there are no enemies around, Rita can sometimes stand around and would have time to play the Shoes, but I wouldn't spend resources on them before I have Cleaver, Dirty Fighting and Peter out.

This is basically the deck I wanted to build for her. Except that I would want to start with hunting jacket and 2 pelt shipment :)

Nice deck! I built a similar one recently here.

The general idea is the same (combat oriented using Dirty Fighting and Bewitching) but with a couple of clueving options (shovel, belly of the beast), more economy and card draw (grift, at a crossroad) and keeping trackshoes.

@Ramun Yeah, I think the core of Bewitching, Dirty Fighting, Sweeping Kick and Easy Mark is just really solid for Rita and you can probably assemble that after two scenarios. After that you can choose if you want to flex a little bit more towards cluevering or just go pure fighting, whatever your group and campaign needs.

Stunning Blow is also a very good option for dealing with hard to evade enemies!

Stunning blow is certainly a solid option. I plan to put it in my level 0 deck, but upgrade out of it once I have bewitching and dirty fighting, making the fist boost less relevant.

A cool interaction with Rita is that since both Dirty Fighting and her ability are "After" triggers, you can choose to attack with the Hatchet first, then deal 1 damage to the enemy, easily dealing with 3 HP enemies (and getting your Hatchet back), even if you don't have your Cleaver.

@Ze_Azrael That sadly doesn't work that way. You can trigger the two effects in that order, but you can't have nested skill checks. So the Fight from Dirty Fighting will only start after the Evade is finished. This means that the damage from Rita's ability will always go out before the Fight from Dirty Fighting.

@mythras Nested skill tests strikes again! The rules of this game can be so unintuitive sometimes... You're right, it won't work like this. However after thinking about it for a bit, would this also be the case for automatic evasion? Since automatic evasion doesn't involve a skill test, then the nested ruling wouldn't apply, no? Though tbh at this point I don't know if this would make me feel better or worse haha.

@Ze_Azrael Yes, afaik with automatic evasions it would work and you can fight first, then ping the last damage with Rita. Cunning Distraction or Elaborate Distraction can do it.

But with Breaking and Entering or Sweeping Kick you again run into a problem, because the Evades trigger during other skill checks (the Investigate from Breaking and Entering or the Fight from Sweeping Kick), so you have to wait after those are over for your Dirty Fighting ...

I'm a big fan of this Rita deck- I built a goofier version with Survival Techniques/Makeshift Trap shenanigans, but I think this more streamlined version is probably the better way to run her. Those nested skill test rules will get you, though.

hi such a great deck, but what traits do you mostly write on Grizzled?

@Moonce That depends on the campaign, but Humanoid, Monster or Elite usually hits a lot of enemies. If you rather want more protection against treacheries probably something like Terror, but that is even more campaign specific.

Where will you put the two traumas from "In the Thick of It"?

@Serperucaz You put them on Physical. Rita has more than enough health to go around, not so much horror

How about adding dark horse (lvl5)? 4/3/4/6 statline sounds nice, and Rita doesnt really needs resources most of the time...