Card Reviews · ArkhamDB

Ascetic

One downside that I haven't seen people mention yet: This investigator cannot participate in side scenarios/stories if they have ascetic. To do a side story during a campaign, you have to pay experience to complete a side story, which if you have none left after using the initial 10 (or more with In the Thick of it and etc) then you will never gain any more experience to pay for a side story.

7/10/25

Rysseidin · 2

Whispers of Doom

I recently used this card on parallel Agnes together with fine clothes and let me tell you: This card puts her on another level!

There a many non-Elite enemies with more then 3 health whixh this card kills with one action.

7/10/25

RavagerOCHW · 1

Village Commons

This card probably has a misprint, and should connect to the Congregational Church, not Osborn's General Store.

This has led a lot of first-time players to lay out weird maps of one-way routes. It was fixed in the Return To version.

7/6/25

oothooly · 1

This is not an error according to MJ: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1771639/locations-connection-question-possibly-a-very-mild — xemxi · 12 7/6/25

Well, they corrected it in the Return to card. But I could be wrong. — oothooly · 1 7/6/25

"Corrected" is an interpretation. It's weird, but intended. May be a bad design choice, but not wrong per se. — AlderSign · 430 7/7/25

I always imagined the town as having cliffs because of this. You can jump down easily, but can't go back up unless you loop around the winding path. I was thrown off by the change in the Return To. — soratoXIII · 1 7/9/25

The Archway

The ArkhamDB copy of this card's reverse side story effect is incorrect. The actual story effect here is: "Test willpower(1). For each point you succeed by, each investigator heals 1 horror." (Wound up being the key to my table's recently succeeding in this scenario, when the resident Mystic flipped this and wiped the board clean of horror tokens.)

7/4/25

Voltgloss · 393

Last Chance

That last sentence is interesting. "If this test is successful while Last Chance is committed to it, draw 2 cards."

My first thought was that it is an unnecessary clarification, but on reflection I think it exists so it cannot be abused by Silas Marsh in the same way as Unrelenting. If Last Chance is returned to his hand using his , then at the timing point where the skill test is passed, the condition is no longer met, so he cannot draw the 2 cards. This is promising and shows the devs are carefully considering possible interactions and abuses.

Most of survivor card draw has historically been a bit janky, like Drawing Thin, Unrelenting, Take Heart and At a Crossroads. This card is a welcome addition to the pool as it provides some straightforward draw.

Patrice Hathaway and George Barnaby will love this card to keep their small hands going.

7/4/25

snacc · 1025

This is not correct. Silas Marsh cannot draw a bonus card from Overpower or Perception after yanking it back. Unrelenting is a special case with a much earlier timing on its card draw. The clause in question is indeed utterly redundant, and the subsequent statements about the devs’ carefulness and the game’s promising future that their meticulousness augurs should unfortunately be reconsidered in the light of the fact that this card is, like dozens of other cards from The Drowned City, very sloppily worded. — Eudaimonea · 6 7/4/25