Skeleton Key might be a strong "maybe" purchase for Rogues and off-Rogues in multiplayer, but I'm a little surprised no one has mentioned how excellent it is for Ursula Downs.

• Seekers love this card to begin with, as it makes their job easier, so being able to include it in a deck is fantastic.
• Dr. Elli Horowitz and the rest of the deck searching powers of the card pool mitigate the Exceptional restriction.
• Ursula's action compression allows her to budget the needed for moving the key.
• Her upgrade pool is pretty limited, so not too much competition beyond the big-ticket upgrades.

This card is extremely strong. It's not quite drawing thin bananas, but it is very powerful econ. You don't have to try very hard to get 3-4 cards and resources from this. I almost always buy one of these within the first two scenarios, it just makes the rest of my deck run so much more smoothly.

I didn’t see much potential in Tommy Muldoon, playing him in duo. He wasn’t that great at crime solving and he wasn’t that great at fighting. Three player changed my mind. With some copies of Solemn Vow, Tommy has the capacity to shield teammates from ridiculous amounts of damage. Especially in the Innsmouth Conspiracy, where enemies do damage just by engaging you, he can protect in ways that Roland, Zoey or Nathaniel simply can’t.

When he absorbs hits, he gets cash, or bullets, which let him absorb even more damage. The other players furiously focus on clues. As they ignore problems, he triggers Tetsuo to restore items from the trash or let people search their decks and hit those effects. (A cop who causes a lot of destruction? Clearly the 1920s were different time.)

The thing that Tommy doesn’t do well, which is draw, is much easier to deal with now that scroll of secrets is a fast action. Teammates should also find ways to help Tommy get initial cash, so he doesn’t have to choose later on between soak and damage. With a pair of Reliable’s on Becky, he can let his gun do all the talking his badge won’t.

It's unlikely, I will ever play with this card, because I don't collect the novels, and when the character will be released in a deluxe expansion, they will give her some other weakness. But this looks like one of the mildest signature weaknesses to be released.

I guess, in most scenarios, if they carry Ancient Evils, you will stick them below. It's just so beneficial, to get these out of the reshuffle. If you hit your weakness, one of three AEs will re-enter the game. It will immediately strike for once, but chances are great, you still saved your group a few rounds with it, unless you draw your weakness really early. And the other two copies are save locked away anyway, unless you draw your weakness more than once a game, which I think, Gloria should not be a particular prone character to do so.

I think with other cards, like enemies or /-tests you are much better off with assigning them to the investigator best fitting the task, and scarce special effects like Daemonic Piping can be just discarded to hinder the set collecting of the game. Also, if the weakness strikes, it just opens a new slot for a new card. Maybe I would waste one slot early on, just to make sure, the weakness would not get shuffled back and creates multiple dead draws. But that's about the worst I could think of, this weakness might force you to do. Am I missing here something? Like I said, never actually played these cards.

Ask your friendly neighborhood guardian to leave a Handcuffed enemy for you, so trish can engage it and use her ability all day.

You could help them find it with Eureka!, No Stone Unturned, the new Scrolls of Secrets....