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Sister Mary

Welcome to the Nun Girl, shes got fun and games

She’s got everything you want, honey we know the memes

She’s got the people that can find the token that she needs

So, if you want a gunny, nunny, pack her one of these

Shes a Nun Girl, makes an awesome Gun Girl

Watch her bring em’ to their shun n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n knees, knees

Uh ah, She’s kickin’ ass with creed

Welcome to the Nun Girl, she likes to pray by day

If you want your rosaries, she’s the deck to play

And she’s a very hexy girl, packing spells with ease

She can cast the bright lights, and even get them for free

Shes the nun girl, welcome to the nun girl

See my, my, my, my seraphim

Ooh, ah, I want a holy team

Welcome to the Nun Girl, she gets blessings every day

Covenant em’ hard an keep em’ all, an’ in the bag they`ll stay

You gotta hold some back you see, you'll use em’ eventually

You can spend em if you want, but you wanna seal two or three

Now that Gun Girl has Favor of the Sun Girl

Watch her bring em’ to their shun n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n knees, knees

Uh ah, she packs Guns N’ Rosaries!

Those on high you never ever wanna come down

So down, so down, so down, yeah!!!

…

You know where they are?

They're with the Nun Girl baby

They’re gonna die

Shes a Nun Girl, an’ a tonna Fun Girl

Watch her bring em’ to their shun n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n knees, knees

Shes the Nun Girl, not that priest out in the jungle

See my, my, my Holy Team

Get down with the Nun Girl, Blessings one and done Girl

Watch her bring em’ to their shun n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n knees, knees

Shes a Nun Girl, the fun has just begun girl

Watch her bring you to your

Shes gonna bring it down!

Huh!

6/17/21

StartWithTheName · 71818

Masterpiece — Moleow18! · 1 8/26/21

amazing — FlyingSolo · 1 10/27/21

Nothing more cringe-inducing — bilous · 1 2/29/24

Written in the Stars

This seems like it'd be a powerful card for Norman arkhamdb.com

Also, as it turns out, reviews have to be at least 200 characters long, so that's why this sentence is here, and for really no other reason.

6/17/21

khoshekh · 5

Love your user name. How did you write this while floating in the bathroom? — skanedog · 70 7/20/21

There's a trick to it - you can read about it in the public library... — khoshekh · 5 10/2/21

Colt Vest Pocket

I strongly suspect the way the average player weighs these types of cards, people would paradoxically like it LESS if it had 6 ammunition.

Not because it's not better CATEGORICALLY, but because it would be harder to empty the entire clip like people feel like they need to on these things not to "waste" anything. I could absolutely believe a player would take a worse card simply because they felt they could use it "efficiently."

So sell it to yourself this way: if you don't think you're ever going to be able to shoot it five times, mentally change the text to:

Cost 2:

Fight: +2 fist, 1+ damage as many times as you want. At the end of the first turn you use this action, discard it.

It's functionally the same for you. If that card sounds good, this is that card. Don't worry about not emptying it. Definitely don't feel like you need to commit to playing weird cards in a questionable bid to try to empty it completely and mess up your deck. It's cheap. Need to shoot a lot at something in a future turn? This card can do that for you -- you don't need to add more nonsense unless you want to.

6/16/21

MrButtermancer · 56

I agree this card presents that mental "loop — LaRoix · 1646 6/16/21

" of weighing everything when in truth, you will always have enough, even if you take more than 5 actions, I can't imagine an enemy who can take more punishment than that, at least in solo. I think the real problem with this card is that discarding at the end of the round leaves you without a weapon once again. In a similar way, the Bow also puts you in a position of being "empty handed" when it comes to offensive tech, and that creates a kind of anxiety when deckbuilding because you're almost always trying to create consistency, or at least reliability. — LaRoix · 1646 6/16/21

Then evaluate it more like it's an event card you can spend actions on, geez. There are plenty of playable damage events. — MrButtermancer · 56 6/27/21

Tristan Botley

Some rough math on Tristan's reaction ability, ignoring bag-manipulation/Favor/Covenant/etc effects:

With 10 total bless/curse remaining in bag during the current test, there's about a 5% chance of triggering him.

With 15 total, there's about a 10% chance.

With all 20 in the bag, there's about a 15% chance.

(For a base 16-17 token bag.)

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(Personally, I've only ever seen him get played full-price, but even then the effect is quite strong and flexible, and is an especially reasonable choice for small-collection investigators looking for a generically-useful ally.)

6/15/21

anaphysik · 98

You can somewhat engineer it using cards like Favor of the Sun/Moon — StyxTBeuford · 13049 6/15/21

Also if it's 5% per test the investigators take that adds up quickly. There's a better than 50% chance you will be able to put him in for free over 14 tests. Which in for player is potentially just like 2 turns — NarkasisBroon · 11 6/16/21

Only assuming you don't draw any bless or curses during the 14 tests except the one you succeeded on. In practice you'll be depleting the blesses and curses in 1s and 2s. — suika · 9511 6/16/21

@suika Correct, which is why I focused on a simple at-this-very moment calculation. If the group can consistently keep the bag stocked with both bless and curse (keeping it stocked with only one is worse odds than relying on Elder Sign / Autofail on your tests), THEN repeated-test probabilities play a role. But that's a vastly more complicated analysis. — anaphysik · 98 6/16/21

It’s relevant though because groups can very easily keep the bag filled. — StyxTBeuford · 13049 6/16/21

My group saw him played for free 3/4 scenarios he was in. In 4 player with dedicated bless and curse tech, he will show up with a little patience. — LaRoix · 1646 6/16/21

Segment of Onyx

Too powerful card (even with +3 xp). why?

easy to collect: Deck tempo of most seeker is very fast. It means that it's not hard to find all three segments of onyx.
powerful ability: Pendant of the Queen has three ability, and all three are powerful
- teleport: why Elusive is powerful and tabooed? I think you know the reason.
- clue: you could detour high shourd or investigate penalty. Moreover, you can discover a clue at any revealed location. If your teammate reveal a location and you don't want to go there, you can discover clues at there only by pendant.
- evade: Pendant's auto-evade works with elite enemy. (why? I don't believe.) Also, don't forget this is trigger ability. You can always chance to trigger between 3.2 and 3.3. This means that Pandent can evade any enemy ignoring any ready effect such as TNOZ BOSS.
easy to recycle: After you use all charges, all segments are shuffled into deck. If you make your deck thin, and use all charges. Then, you could replay your new Pendent very easily.

6/15/21

elkeinkrad · 500

I think it would probably be a lot more ok if it was 1 XP like originally, but can only evade non-elites, and segments went into your discard pile instead of your deck when the pendant was finished. Then it would keep all the things that make it cool, but lack the things that make it outrageous, in my opinion — NarkasisBroon · 11 6/16/21

^100% agreed. — StyxTBeuford · 13049 6/16/21

Versatile into scavenging. 5 cards bigger deck is no disadvantage with seeker draw. It would make reassembling the pendant easy — Django · 5155 6/17/21

It’s still a hit to deck consistency making it harder to assemble initially, and scavenging exhausts which would dramatically temper the reconstruction speed. — StyxTBeuford · 13049 6/17/21

now changed as removed. It seems reasonable except elite auto-evade but parallel Agnes with Recharge may be happy :) — elkeinkrad · 500 7/1/21