Quick Shot

As it's not specified that you have to draw it from your deck, you can use Katja Eastbank to "store" the 3 copies of Quick Shot and then use her action to draw them during your turn. This way, for 1 action (her ability), you play Quick shot for free (the trigerred ability).

Of course, if you are engaged with the enemy you take an attack of opportunity, but it's in a Tommy Muldoon deck so you should be able to handle it and it works without AoO against Aloof enemies or enemies engaged with other investigators.

More costly than OrionAnderson's combo with Hunting Jacket (resource- and action-wise), but with the added benefit that you replace the - then useless - draw of Quick Shot by the draw of an other card.

AlexP · 262
Nautical Charts

It seems obvious but as no one has written a review yet ... Use the action on this card to discard Winging It: you gain 2 clues with Nautical Charts and then you can play Winging It from you discard to try to get 2 clues in a single action. If you play a solo deck, you can of course do this with the other Improvised events (Improvised Weapon and Impromptu Barrier).

And use Tool Belt to stack Nautical Charts, Hand Hook and Anchor Chain. Then you need a good card draw to get the events back.

AlexP · 262
Inquisitive

Does this card just not… work? If I recall correctly “IF this skill test is successful” resolves in step 7, while “AFTER” in step 6. It so happens to be that most effects that depend on how much you succeed by trigger before Inquisitive has a chance to have any effect: Lucky Cigarette Case, Antikythera, Precious Memento, Alton O'Connell, "I'll take that!"

Nenananas · 267
You are correct. — Eudaimonea · 5
Dr. Christopher will never believe this! — MrGoldbee · 1480
Yes, and no. A quick filter indicates that there are 49 player cards with "if you succeed by" printed on it. So there are a lot of cards it works for. But it does seem like an oversight that there's also a bunch of cards it doesn't work for and really should. — NarkasisBroon · 10
I don’t think it works on those 49 either. The phrase “(If/After) you succeed by” refers to the timing point at ST.6 when you determine success and failure. “(If/After) this test is successful refers to the timing point at ST.7 when you apply the results of the skill test. Within each of those steps, the “ifs” go before the “afters.” — Eudaimonea · 5
I'd say this is a replacement effect, not a separate trigger. The thing it tells you to do isn't a new game effect, but a modification; you succeed by up to 2 more or less INSTEAD of succeeding by the original amount. So it's not going to use normal timing for if triggers. — OrionAnderson · 111
Yeah, to me this is a clear case of harmful overthinking while the idea behind this card is so obvious. — AlderSign · 370
@AlderSign, that’s just word salad. I don’t know who or what is “harmed” and it doesn’t take much “thinking” to apply the rules rather than personal vibes of my subjective sense of what a card should do. Vibes are subjective, so when you sit down with another player and try to use a card that you think “obviously” does a thing based on your sense of grammar and other players find it less obvious, you’re in trouble. Rules exist to solve that problem, but the devs have to know and for the most part faithfully apply them. Once they don’t, we’ve got a Babel of conflicting interpretations. Talk about harmful. — Eudaimonea · 5
The spirit of the game is harmed, as are design guidelines, if you have to ask. You can find plenty examples in the meanwhile of "devs" being contradictory (see the "as if" ruling for example) due to unclear wording or oversights. This card (and issue at hand) is exactly one of the cases where either the "devs" and/or people supporting the claim of this review bring "conflicting interpretations" to the table. But that's just my opinion, you are welcome to have your own. — AlderSign · 370
@OrionAnderson, if it’s a persistent rather than triggered effect, when do you imagine the player deciding whether “to succeed by up to two more or down to two less”? I suppose the answer would have to be immediately when the card is played? — Eudaimonea · 5
Ascetic

Ascetic is also useful for inviting new players to join mid-campaign, like to replace someone that is suddenly busy and will not available to play for short or long period of time. Instead of fearing miserable time dropping into high stats enemy and high shroud locations and outright denying the invitation, they now immediately able to have fun with the XPs as if they have been with the team since the start. If a card allow more game time for more players I'd say it's a great card.

It is also fun for that invited player to create a deck within 10 XP (or 13 with In the Thick of It) and try out any combos they've been itching to test, but don't want to fully commit a full campaign run and climb from 0 XP then get stuck with that idea for too long.

Here's an another idea : If campaign kills a player, you can be strategic about the replacing investigator to come in with exactly what the team needs with this 10 XP, because you got to learn real interactions of your team members for about half a campaign now, while at the start of campaign, you all might have built your decks separately in vacuum. For example :

5argon · 11080
This review requires you to have enough friends to make sense, though. — AlderSign · 370
Jacqueline Fine

Tremendously annoying that Jacqueline breaks the convention of 'Ignoring' tokens being when you draw in a batch, and 'Cancelling' being when you return them to the bag and draw a new one, which I'm pretty sure is universal except for Jacqueline herself. Mostly because that makes Breath of the Sleeper and Eyes of the Dreamer not work with her ability. Seems unlikely that it's intentional, considering the gap between them, and it's something I'll probably houserule just to work, but it's something to consider.

SSW · 216
I don't think it actually matters in the case of those two cards, because you can just choose to cancel tokens that don't match the one you're resolving and ignore the one that does. — Thatwasademo · 58
oh I guess that does stop you from possibly getting the bonus after spending 0 charges — Thatwasademo · 58