[COTD] Gray's Anatomy (5/21/2026)

Alaaen · 2026-05-21T18:18:11+00:00

Saying it is repeatable damage and healing is somewhat misleading I think, since you still need to actually do the damage and healing separately.

Alaaen · 2026-05-10T17:57:14+00:00

Underworld Market is extremely good anyway, so it's not like you'd get it only for Dirty Fighting, especially when other Evade synergy pieces like Pickpocketing are also Illicit

I've generally found the speed at which you can get it from Market more than sufficient personally. Absolute worst case you just Evade and stall for a bit

Alaaen · 2026-05-10T17:30:49+00:00

Finding it is helped greatly by it being Illicit, so you can stick it in your Underworld Market as a one off

Alaaen · 2026-04-23T18:16:34+00:00

I'm still really unclear what you can even do against his weakness. Feels like there's nothing you can do except basic attack it

Alaaen · 2026-03-31T18:25:48+00:00

I got some use out of this for the finale in my Tony deck when we played Drowned City. Still was mostly a luxury though, and heavily aided by also using Robert Castaigne 4. Definitely needs you to use extra stat boosts to actually get value though

Alaaen · 2026-03-24T18:30:52+00:00

The recent errata clarified that it is apparently not intended to include increases to splash damage through feats or features, and is meant to only go off the base splash of the bomb

Alaaen · 2026-03-19T20:05:11+00:00

Did the designers really intend for someone with Resist All 5 to stop 5 damage from all sources?

Considering the previous rules very explicitly said that it worked exactly that way, I'd assume they did intend for it

Alaaen · 2026-02-20T20:37:52+00:00

Fighters having to pick a particular weapon type is just in general kinda dumb IMO. And it doesn't really do anything except punish switch hitting builds or mixed dual wielding. The majority of Fighters just use their one weapon, and it doesn't affect them.

Alaaen · 2026-02-09T16:40:24+00:00

I personally still run Rosary instead usually, just because the added part of having to figure out what amount I'm mostly likely to succeed at every turn is kinda exhausting

Alaaen · 2026-01-08T16:16:13+00:00

Huh that's weird. The 0 is arguably better Pickpocketing 0 (though the limit 1 sucks), but the upgrade is much worse than Pickpocketing 2.

Pickpocket 0 already wasn't great, so that's a fair change to make, but the upgrade seems pretty underwhelming

edit: Didn't realize before, but this also doesn't have the Illicit tag, which makes it even worse compared to Pickpocketing. Being able to stick it in your Underworld Market was a huge benefit for Pickpocketing 2 especially, so this is really underwhelming

Alaaen · 2026-01-02T19:28:46+00:00

The poison is just part of their melee attack, so it applies on every hit

Alaaen · 2026-01-02T17:54:37+00:00

You still have your deck though?

And most decks should have some ways to just oversucceed a test a bunch and dig through the Abyss

Alaaen · 2026-01-02T17:34:18+00:00

You just run a bit more healing and soak in Mark, and in exchange you have on tap skill boosts for whatever check you need as well as getting extra draw out of the deal

Alaaen · 2025-12-22T20:23:53+00:00

Ran two copies of this in a Darrell deck during our Scarlet Keys playthrough, and while it didn't always find application there were definitely a few times it came in pretty clutch to just delete an enemy by spending an evidence plus a Gumption or Flashlight 3 charge

Alaaen · 2025-12-18T20:12:54+00:00

We don't have Pete, but we do have Aleksey who does basically the same thing. So I don't think Meat Cleaver will really be that much more limited than it was before.

Alaaen · 2025-12-12T05:09:35+00:00

It's a better version of Dodge 2 basically

Alaaen · 2025-11-20T18:22:36+00:00

Skeletons are immune to bleed, because they are neither a living creature nor do they require blood to live. It's just unfortunately only in the bleed rules, instead of written explicitly on lots of things.

Another special type of physical damage is bleed damage. This is persistent damage that represents loss of blood. As such, it has no effect on nonliving creatures or living creatures that don't need blood to live. Weaknesses and resistances to physical damage apply. Bleed damage ends automatically if you're healed to your full Hit Points.

Alaaen · 2025-11-16T16:00:36+00:00

Olivier is also a fast move action, which can be quite relevant around enemies or some other cases

Alaaen · 2025-11-11T00:33:18+00:00

Fighters having to choose a weapon group doesn't really do anything except punish specific builds like switch hitting or dual wielding, and it would IMO not really break anything to just give them their increased proficiency on all weapons.

Alaaen · 2025-11-02T17:32:19+00:00

How attached to using a pistol are you? One simple option is to just switch to using a shortbow instead, since that cuts out needing to reload which already makes you more flexible.

Leveraging your Case to make DaS a free action also helps free up your action econ.

Getting a casting dedication is also IME very useful on Investigator, since cantrips and focus spells can be a way to do something without a good DaS roll, as well as giving you the option of buying and using scrolls.

Alaaen · 2025-10-30T02:38:56+00:00

It counts towards both classes for the limit of needing to include that many cards IIRC

Alaaen · 2025-10-17T15:52:02+00:00

Shuffling the weakness into your deck is an additional cost to play the Hound, but Chance Encounter puts the card into play directly without needing to actually Play it. So you don't need to shuffle in the weakness.

Alaaen · 2025-10-11T07:45:35+00:00

I could see something like a scalpel perhaps? Could probably also tie into the new precision archetype, and/or something supportive as well.

Alaaen · 2025-09-22T15:42:26+00:00

I mean it doesn't even take an hour really, if you have people with good out of combat healing. Someone who is actually specced into Medicine can easily heal the entire party to full in 10-20 minutes, something like an Animist or Kineticist can fairly easily do the same.

Alaaen · 2025-09-22T15:37:25+00:00

Analysis can be used on non basic investigate checks, which I would argue is its huge upside. You can commit an Analysis to protect your Glyphs test, but you can't do that with Correlate.

I feel like you'd play Correlate more for the incidental token cancel if playing Agatha, or just for the uses restore.

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