.45 Thompson is, as another reviewer put it. The Dr. Milan Christopher of weapons. Talk about nailing it!

The thing that .45 Thompson does is create an extended capacity combat option with a large +, it is really good in the hands of dedicated fighters and 3 characters who grab it to keep their attack bonus high.

.45 Thompson is more of a niche, and it's a strong one!

As a weapon that pays for itself, it makes extended combat even easier! You can battle it out for rounds on end, you can use the extra cash to fuel hits via talent use like Physical Training or Keen Eye and/or the cash will let you keep the ball rolling by helping pay for the next gun. .45 Thompson is a good enough card in of itself to warrant a deck slot in dedicated fight builds, the kind of builds that shoulder the burden of taking on every single enemy that spawns.

In faction cards that synergize:

• Extra Ammunition pays for itself and nets you 1 bonus resource from .45 Thompson.
• Well-Maintained is a fine method to recurse the gun, it traverses the issue of cost thanks to the gun paying for itself.
• Reliable, as a gun that has lots of ammo and begs for more, Reliable is a good option.
• Other big guns! Weapons like Lightning Gun arent "banished" when you slot .45 Thompson, rather the self funding ability and great speed at which you spend ammo makes slotting other big guns a perfectly valid deckbuilding direction. All those ammo and gun-support cards you might slot alongside .45 Thompson will do the other big guns good too! Top it off with Bandolier to dual wield 2 big guns!
• Vicious Blow gains priority in a build that is limiting itself to 2-damage attacks.
• Venturer keeps the bullets flowing.

Out of faction:

• Act of Desperation can top-off the resource gain by refunding the whole damn thing! Style points if you then immediately re-equip via Well-Maintained.
• Contraband, obviously.

One important bit: You dont actually need all of those other cards, .45 Thompson by itself is a grease card thank makes your deck run more smoothly in it's enemy killing role, it doesn't need any combos to actually be good on its own.

Funky.

Guidance isn't a card that generates anything, it just moves one action from you, to another player, and it costs a card. This is basically a card that lets you give the monster killer an extra attack action in place of your investigative actions. It's quite useful actually, when the going gets tough and your friend is just drowning in monster guts you can give them the leeway that can be the difference between dealing 6 damage in a round and dealing 8, or just more securely landing those first 6.

Guidance is a fight card, it's pretty cool because instead of having to equip a system of combat tools yourself, the booster talent and ally boosts and weapon and so on and on, you just tap into all the pent up power that someone else is working hard to foster.

So why don't people like it that much? Its a -low priority- use for a card slot, seriously between the "upgrade quests" which pretty much all the seekers take all the time and the clue tools, clue cheats and card draw and the few real good support cards, yeah you get it. SPACE, it's not infinite at all!

Let me tell you this: Guidance is not a bad card, in higher player counts actually I've got to say, it can be terrific! It can mean that a gets to move before emptying a whole clip of Lightning Gun at something! In 2 player its quite helpful when the team organisation is: Fighter & Cluever. It's definitely best in team comps where your friends can muster high-value actions, that mention of Lightning Gun is by no means an accident.

Awful, awful card. Out of all the TCU skill cards, this one ranks dead last. (EDIT: See below)

The problem is that 3 icon trigger. To get 3 icons off this card and therefore make it trump Unexpected Courage, you need to both have 8 cards in hand and then only commit Curiosity. This demotivates you from playing skill effects like Deduction or Eureka! as you drop an icon as soon as you commit any card alongside this one. If you only commit this card, it becomes 3 for 1 card, but if you want to commit anything else with 1 , you drop to 3 for 2 cards, which is abysmal for a skill card that only gives icons and has no other effects. To add insult to injury, with 8 cards in hand you probably do have something like Deduction or Eureka!, in which case had you run Perception instead, you'd still effectively get 3 for 1 card, but you'd also get the trigger of the other card you committed. Situational cards that you run for icons most of the time like Ghastly Revelation or Connect the Dots become worse as well, as again you're demotivated from using them when they're useless.

All of that was just analyzing this card for when you get the most value out of it- at 8 cards. This effect get so much worse once we take ourselves out of being at 8 cards. At 5 and 6, you really don't want to use this card with anything else, and if you have a particularly hard test to pass and need to commit your whole hand, be ready for this to drop to 1 icon. To add insult to injury, the icons it gives are the most common across Seeker cards: and . It's incredibly rare you'll ever need the flexibility of Curiosity being able to commit to either test when your hand is already that full.

That said, I can think of exactly one investigator who could use it. Minh Thi Phan needs skill cards, and she could run a heavy card draw strategy with Grisly Totem, Laboratory Assistant, Cryptic Research, Glimpse the Unthinkable, etc. all of which help Curiosity's stock go up. She can even run Able Bodied alongside it, which covers all 4 icons, and Minh isn't particularly item hungry either. Outside of that specific build though, you as someone with access to Seeker cards are spoiled for choice: Inquiring Mind might as well be 3 (and occasionally even better than that), Eureka! is crazy good card filtering, and Deduction is almost an autorun skill card in multiplayer for the tests it saves you. I would take all of those, Perception, Guts, and Unexpected Courage before I took this card.

Avoid. If it helps, you probably are not the cat.

EDIT: Well fast forward six months and already we have a way of making this card work. Dream Diary has an upgrade that depends on you having 8 cards in hand (it also gives you Essence of the Dream automatically every turn to facilitate this); Dream-Enhancing Serum helps you maintain duplicates, which is particularly great for Myriad cards; and A Glimmer of Hope can, on demand, help fulfill the condition as well. Again, this suite seems to point to Minh Thi Phan as the best candidate for such a build. I'd still say outside of such a build you should avoid Curiosity, but in this build it could be an absolute cornerstone, much like Cunning in a big money build. I'm happy the card might have found a place.

This is a very strong signature card. It provides the equivalent of Emergency Cache L2 and it's Fast, and it has two wild icons. That's the equivalent of a figurative 4-5XP card, and Lola gets two of them!

This is monstrously strong for Daisy. I had really hoped that the last couple tomes would offer significant build flexibility to my old favorite — that wasn't the case. It's just very hard to be better than Book of Old Lore. Here, I'm hoping we see the first inkling of a card that at least defines a solid shift in the viable archetypes.