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Treasure hunter has found a good home in || Jim’s spirit deck, since +1 intellect is relevant (with other spirits and cards like st. hubert’s key I consistently had 4-6 intellect baseline), and it discards itself, so your most important spirits can stay in play for longer

Excellent video. I haven’t played these cards much (only got them earlier this year), but I agree that many of these cards fit better in today’s card pool than when they were released. Older podcasts and video from 2018 were somewhat meh on the TFA cards, but a lot of these cards compliment archetypes that were later fleshed out.

Three pieces of insight from me (at the halfway point): 1) I dont necessarily think that BAR needs to measure up to boss killer weapons, while it can be avsolutely built to do that. The advantage of BAR is its flexibility: you can kill 1-2-3-4 health enemies as they come, without "wasting" any damage. With Flamethrower, you have to have a plan in case a rat engages with you, if you dont want to use one of the precious ammos on a 1-1-1 enemy, and before Brand of Cthugha this was a major consideration, as even Bandolier didnt help you. With BAR, you can just fight whatever comes at you, and with a littlw bit of buildaround you'll have ammo to spare for the boss fight. 2) I have found Treasure Hunter quite good in Leo, when we were playing 4 players. Whenever I had a turn where noone drew any enemies, I could pop down Treasure Hunter for a +1 book boost for three investigates, and just get rid of him as soon as an enemy appeared, usually a turn or two later (hopefully even taking advantage of some of the soak in the meanwhile). It definitely wasn't the highlight of the deck, but if you have some space to flex with Leo, he does come in handy. 3) Hemispheric Map might be trending up, just on the account of more Big Maps existing (Innsmouth to some extent, and big-ass maps on EOTE).

Thank you Daniel. Really dig these vids.

Handcuff gets a little love from parley cards

Great summary - I appreciate your why explanations.

I love the Old Hunting Rifle. Took it in Hank during blind Hemlock with a Kohaku and Alessandra that used curses quite a bit. Good thing Will to Survive exists!

Hamdcuffs is Nathaniel Cho signature card, it's easier to cuff his weakness than kill him. And works sometimes in the scenario as well

I wish these cards would be making me dinners :D

Listen to this while at work, perfect thing to keep my mind occupied. Thanks for the great videos! Also I know how you feel about Old Hunting Rifle, I desperately want to put it in a deck but it’s so hard to

Finally, someone who knows to how pronounce Coup de Grâce.

It annoys me to an unreasonable amount that the tier classes are not a partition of the set of cards. You could put a little mark on the ones that are trending up or down instead of creating 2 new tiers that make no sense. A 2-dimensional cartesian-style plane could cut it as well.

The Far Sight + Hunch Deck interaction is huge.

I recently played Amanda and for whatever reason assumed you couldn't just commit that weakness to any skill test and had to let it go under her to go away. Is that even a real weakness in seeker? Edit: Wait why don't seekers have weaknesses? Trish just plays disguise and a manual dex or just use her lockpicks to remove hers. She wants to evade enemies/avoid AoO most of the time anyways....

What's the key binding on tts to move the top card of a deck to the discard pile? 🤔

You made this one look really easy, and your Diana is really overperforming I think.

On this "return to" version, I think it can be easier to kill the conductor (at the right moment) than just go as fast as possible, because the main difficulty here is the damage the conductor deals. You also take some risk by discarding "dodge" instead of "dig deep" but you handled it very well anyway.

What's even worse than the "when" and "after", is that "if" happens AFTER "after". This is why you cannot discard ice picks for an extra clue, then scavenge them, because scavenging happens "after" and ice picks can be discarded "if". Which is completely counterintuitive, that "after you succeed" happens before "if you succeed".

Poor Tony, even though he managed to pull it off. Lonnie failed him for the first time, but I think this just shows how delicate the engine for him could be: if you get no draw from the very start, you can potentially get killed by a very random stupid encounter card. On another topic, for a second there, I was really thinking that the smoking pipe could come in full clutch :D

That was a tense one!

Where do you get the campaign guide that you pulled up on the left side of screen? It looks like the campaign guide from Arkham Cards app, but I don't see that in tabletop or know how to put it on my PC.

The Plan of canceling the aforementioned rite of seeking with Diana is a bold move But we here for it haha

So true! My wife tends to play Milan all the time, playing a bit slowly and a bit selffishly, and I tell her "hey you could do this! Oh please no you should do that instead" so often etc... But hey, we' re still playing together after several years

This was a very well made and thought out video. Kudos to you.

Good insights. Thank you!

How come another investigator in your location can get rid off the Dreams of R'Lyeah card?

In my opinion this has got to be one of the best videos for Arkham players, new and seasoned veterans. Definitely guilty of these points too some extent or another in my 35+ years of card games and board games. So important though especially for co-op games like Arkham , especially punishing hard games like Arkham. Thank you, really value this.

Does bringing flex Amanda to a 4 player Carcosa run (Finn/Rex/cho) count for this list?

Not only have you described bad habits for the game you’ve clearly described bad habits for all the other aspects of living a life. Cheers and keep on playing!

Allow yourselves house ruling like cancel one fail token per scenario if playing with young or novice players. Don't be a rules nazi. And as in every game taking hours - get a shower before sitting next to other people.

out of all of this the biggest thing im trying to be better about is whining, everytime i draw the autofail i cant help it, but i definitely want to be better about it

I can testify that studying library science is much safer in our world than in that of Arkham.

#1 sounds a lot like every seeker player I’ve played with, lol.

So much needed video! 😁 Personally I would had under point #5: "worrying too much about failing a scenario". In our first/blind runs of a campain, me and my friend were used to restart a scenario if we did not win it. This was a little boring/frustrating and basically the only thing that we didn't like about playing Arkham. Now we undestood that failing a scenario is fine, because you can usually still continue the campain....and we are happy ever after 😁

I run an open-play/learn-to-play campaign at my FLGS and our sessions usually has two tables, one with experienced players and one with newer players. I always try to tone down my deck plays, as I often sit at the new player table and I don't want to overshadow them. My goal is to guide their play and support them as needed, and this is a humbling reminder to keep my players' fun as my ultimate goal.

Thank you for making this video! All great advice.

Excellent advice

I have only played solo, but everything here sounds sensible to me, and plenty of it definitely sounds like the sort of mistakes I would make =)

My bad habit is pulling -4's from the bag (sad)

Daniel: don't grief by building ineffective decks My family: adding dynamite and grenades to their deck and then camping the resign

Social awareness video let's gooooo

I guess "staring at your phone and checking out of the game when it's not your turn" could have made the list but that's also just a bad habit for social interaction and board games in general, IMO, but hey we've all been there.

Loving these series thank you so much! I also copied your lay out thanks to the video "two handed lay out". The only thing I can't figure out is how do you get rid of you hand at the bottom? Thanks again for sharing.

Hey, thanks for the gameplay. Cool to see both these investigators in action. Never tried them. BTW, gotta ask, are you Canadian?

"Oops!" -- the Hunted card should make Diana draw the enemy, not Tony, which doesn't really matter bc Tony had the free engage action... but I also forgot about the tablet's effects immediately afterwards (and maybe later in the video too, I forget). I think the tablet has auto-effects even on standard throughout this campaign.

G'day Daniel, sorry to ask this on this video, I don't really know another way to contact you. I have a question got you as someone who knows the rules fairly well, as I've not been able to get answers elsewhere on the forums. Thank you for your time if it's something you can help answer. I'm playing through tsk and am wondering if you would be able to make clear the rules difference or reason for Rex Murphy's clue ability being able to proc/ trigger off of an expose test against a concealed mini card at a location, whereas it seems people say that scavenging and pickpocketing talents do not work after an expose test, using investigation and evade respectively, just as in the rex example. This is really confusing to me and winding if you've ever covered conceal in videos or are knowledgeable in this area, as I know you've said you like the rules interaction side of the game. Thank you. Love your vids and helpful content.

Never Eat Soggy Worms :D

Lucky you got the clues from the cardroom on second try. I failed so much on it last night, eventually failed the scenario without even getting to the darkened rooms (played solo Ashcan). At least got 2 XPs from monsters...

I really enjoyed playing diana the first time. I was new to the game so looking on the internet for rules changes on a card hadnt crossed my mind and so deny existence was really good and coming from mtg that timing made sense. Second time I read the faq saying deny existence only could stop 1 damage and played her again. Her weakness is crippling. You either lose your draw engine and willpower boost or just take 4 to 5 horror to the face if you get it after turn 3 or so. Mystics have high sanity and decent horror soak but that is brutal.

Cool video. Second Wind and True Understanding are often my 32nd to 34th card. I really like Logical Reasoning 4. Expensive, sure, but often wins the game either with its symbols or the effect.