A couple of interesting points about The Harbinger (Norman's weakness): - It's not clear that any investigator at your location can clear it (pending a rules query I believe). It says it counts as being in your threat area, but only "while the Harbinger is on top of your deck." If you're not Norman, then it wouldn't be on top of your deck and so then arguably wouldn't count as being in the threat area to remove it (as "you/your" refers to the investigator interacting with the ability). This would mean only Norman can clear it if so. - As Mattastrophic points out, the "cannot" on The Harbinger is an absolute restriction (barring something explicitly overriding it per the Golden Rule). This would mean that The Harbinger would also block encounter card effects that would have you search or manipulate your deck, such as "The Yellow Sign" that has you search your deck for a madness weakness and draw it if you fail. That part of the effect would whiff because of The Harbinger.
The problem is, that the text is part of the action triggered ability. If it were in the constant ability above, everything would be fine, because it would "constantly" put it in Norman's thread area, not just during his turn. They might provide an erratum for the card, because the intent is clear, that they want others to be able to clear the Harbinger. Otherwise, there would be no reason, why the printed the sentence on the card in the first place.
I almost skipped the part where you Talk in length about the extremely powerful Atlas/Livre-Combo. You basically don't need any clue-tech anymore (At least in 2p) besides deduction because you can recycle it again and again. And with cards like Practice makes perfect, plan of Action, promise of power...he can deal with enemies even if he has no Shrivelling or sth like that in play.
Of all the only zero level primary class investigators, Norman can make this work out better than the others. He has to be piloted carefully but once he get better mystic cards he can kick ass.
A couple of interesting points about The Harbinger (Norman's weakness):
- It's not clear that any investigator at your location can clear it (pending a rules query I believe). It says it counts as being in your threat area, but only "while the Harbinger is on top of your deck." If you're not Norman, then it wouldn't be on top of your deck and so then arguably wouldn't count as being in the threat area to remove it (as "you/your" refers to the investigator interacting with the ability). This would mean only Norman can clear it if so.
- As Mattastrophic points out, the "cannot" on The Harbinger is an absolute restriction (barring something explicitly overriding it per the Golden Rule). This would mean that The Harbinger would also block encounter card effects that would have you search or manipulate your deck, such as "The Yellow Sign" that has you search your deck for a madness weakness and draw it if you fail. That part of the effect would whiff because of The Harbinger.
The problem is, that the text is part of the action triggered ability. If it were in the constant ability above, everything would be fine, because it would "constantly" put it in Norman's thread area, not just during his turn. They might provide an erratum for the card, because the intent is clear, that they want others to be able to clear the Harbinger. Otherwise, there would be no reason, why the printed the sentence on the card in the first place.
I almost skipped the part where you Talk in length about the extremely powerful Atlas/Livre-Combo. You basically don't need any clue-tech anymore (At least in 2p) besides deduction because you can recycle it again and again. And with cards like Practice makes perfect, plan of Action, promise of power...he can deal with enemies even if he has no Shrivelling or sth like that in play.
Of all the only zero level primary class investigators, Norman can make this work out better than the others. He has to be piloted carefully but once he get better mystic cards he can kick ass.