Whispers of Doom

Would you like to reduce the difficulty of attacking a Mindless Dancer by 2 and eliminate it in a single action? I thought so!

Have you let things get out of hand in Hemlock, and are staring down the barrel of a Crystal Parasite or accidentally chonky Poisonblossom?

Perhaps that Conglomeration of Spheres would better spend their days as a collection of dissociated orbs?

Perhaps you've taken Nasht's words to heart, and you know what the true weapon is in the Dreamlands.

Or maybe there's just some other high health nasty you'd like done with in one go, like a Corpse Dweller, Deep One Bull, Apex Strangleweed or Oozewraith.

The card is expensive, as it should be.

You have to take and pass a test, as you should do.

You probably need to be a mystic, but you're murdering monsters with your voice, not a gun (or maybe a 5xp card.)

You could even wear Fine Clothes, but why dress smartly when you can just bellow at fools in your dressing gown?

The card is level 0 and is excellent across so many campaigns. If you can slot a one-of copy, why not?

Now excuse me as I pack two copies for Before the Black Throne.

MicNic · 556
Zorzi does it as her bonus action. 6+ damage for $3. — MrGoldbee · 1517
Awesome, yeah! I still love the fail-save with String of Curses :) — AlderSign · 448
Paradimensional Understanding

Strange, often completely benign weakness, that unfortunately incentivizes you to stack all of the keys on a single investigator. Rules notes:

  • The first option has been ruled to flip the key back to its Stable side
  • You cannot choose the first option for a key that you already shifted
VinnyB · 192
Lt. Wilson Stewart

Wilson is generally very strong, but he's got extremely high synergies with George Barnaby, since:

  • George wants to discard a card every phase, and this lets you discard during player windows you might not otherwise be able to easily discard in, such as the Enemy Phase, or the Mythos Phase if someone ends up taking a skill test.
  • Obviously any card with or icons can be discarded to Wilson and will then boost your next skill test that round, but if it's the first card you've discarded this phase, you can commit it again to the actual skill test. So something like Inquiring Mind (assuming there's a clue at your location) can suddenly become an effective +6, and draw you a card.
  • Cornered is an obvious comparison; it lets you discard a card for +2 regardless of icons (turning Inquiring Mind into an effective +5), but it has some subtle differences. Wilson potentially lets you get a higher benefit (if the card has more icons), gives you some flexibility (you can gain resources, draw cards, and heal Wilson too), and lets you discard a card in an earlier phase to bank the boost for the next skill test later that round. But I mean, they're not competing, you can run both. If Wilson was nothing more than a third copy of Cornered, it'd be a great card in almost every George deck.
  • And while Last Chance is already great for George, Wilson makes it nuts. You can potentially do something like: In the Mythos Phase when your teammate takes a test, discard Last Chance to draw a card, then resolve any 6 effects off Wilson. Then later when you commit it from under George, you get another big boost to the test depending on cards in hand (which you can boost further by discarding more cards via Cornered or, if Wilson had readied by now, Wilson again, collecting whatever rewards that gives plus drawing another card), then when you almost inevitably pass, you draw another two cards.
  • George works really well with Dark Horse, but one challenge of a Dark Horse deck is occasionally needing an influx of resources to help with setup or to pay for a large asset. Wilson turns and icons into resources at a 1:1 ratio which means you can turn something as boring as an Unexpected Courage into a mini-resource cache, draw a card, then still commit it later to a test, without using a single action, which can occasionally be very convenient.

Dauntless Spirit is worth calling out as well. I'm not quite sure if it would work with George ("You may commit facedown cards beneath George Barnaby to skill tests as if they were in your hand.") or would not (since they don't work with Amanda Sharpe). If they do work, then Dauntless Spirit is pretty decent, as it reads something like "get +3 to your next skill test this round, and heal all damage and horror off Wilson", although as weird as it is to say, that effect might not be quite strong enough to be worth 1XP in most George decks? Pity that Survey the Area isn't in George's card pool (assuming the cycle works with his ability at all).

Codayus · 1
Luger P08

Enchant this gun and customize your ammo with quicksilver and you have a fast lightning gun that can be reloaded. Leo and Zoey can take this combo and both have the to pull it off.

They will both have a value of 9, which can even be boosted by 2 with the Extended Stock customization. Enough even for expert.

After the guns exhaust, you can either spend your turn reloading or have saved actions to move or do some clue getting.

stefeef · 10
*customize with custom modifications not custom ammunition — stefeef · 10
You knew that you can edit your reviews right? — Django · 5197
But if you miss? — MrGoldbee · 1517
@MrGoldbee Leo and Zoey would have a Skill value of 9 with this combo. If you upgrade the Custom Modifications with extended stock, you have a value of 11. You probably won't miss. And pulling the autofail would be less bad than with other big guns, because you can reload the Luger. — stefeef · 10
ignore MrGoldbee, hes a well known troll. — Zeberdee · 1
I'm well known? Anyway, you autofail your supergun is tapped until upkeep. Not true for most weapons. — MrGoldbee · 1517
@MrGoldbee In that worst case you can still activate and ready the Luger. (But you would be taking AoO) — stefeef · 10
Oh. Oops. — MrGoldbee · 1517
Professor William Webb

According to FFG, you can use it in step 6, even if there are no clues in your location.

"Yes, you can use Professor William Webb’s ability on a location with no clues, so long as you can resolve one of its effects. You’d trigger this ability during step 6, as it’s worded as “when” you determine success."

MarcMF · 12
Sure, this has been clarified long ago for cards like Burglary and Scavenging, and is also printed in the FAQ. — Susumu · 385
@Susumu those are different things though. Burglary replaces "discovering clues", i.e. the entire clue discovery result, whereas the professor replaces a single clue. — TheNameWasTaken · 3