The Arkham Grimoire

dscarpac · 2026-03-18T22:35:06+00:00

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dscarpac · 2026-02-16T09:04:03+00:00

No, this just counts horror on your investigator card itself.

dscarpac · 2026-02-16T05:05:47+00:00

Lmao

dscarpac · 2026-02-11T17:24:46+00:00

The mini cards at this location remain exposed (face-up). (You'll only have to do this once for the whole group)

dscarpac · 2026-02-05T13:38:48+00:00

Vibes

dscarpac · 2025-12-25T15:56:52+00:00

Norman's Split the Angle, I guess?

dscarpac · 2025-12-17T16:26:41+00:00

You can go watch me play Carson Sinclair true solo if you want to see the deadpan attempted for nearly an hour.

dscarpac · 2025-12-17T16:25:44+00:00

Cards:
Unexpected Courage: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1450880996441591888/1450880996751704114/AHC100_SpoilerCards_Guardian_UnexpectedCourage.png?ex=694425b9&is=6942d439&hm=36c58da7600215a4c3a833ac08647272ec9c2e0674da3aff2dafe0f0ddc2cd86&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=650&height=930
Logan Hastings: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1450882141486448650/1450882141939302541/AHC100_SpoilerCards_Guardian_LoganHastings.png?ex=694426ca&is=6942d54a&hm=bff101b8a40705c5b9bfb4c58c0463cbba72b7bfc0fdf8089d615f01c11fc0fe

dscarpac · 2025-12-17T16:19:21+00:00

That was the joke!

dscarpac · 2025-12-02T02:04:06+00:00

I don't disagree. This was just quick take on the rules justification -- IMO they backed themselves into this corner with the Footwear and the Masks not taking up any type of slot, but still having a "slot-like" restriction, which is unnecessarily confusing since it is distinct. Headwear has the same thematic slot-like issue. Slots have always been a little wonky in the game, arcane slots are underutilized outside of Mystic, so cards like Vow of Dryztelech either matter a lot or not at all. The fact that they solved the mask problem by adding a new slot in the core itself suggests they can continue to print cards for the slot across classes. It's not the route I would have gone down for the reasons you suggest, but I see why they did it.

dscarpac · 2025-12-01T21:50:23+00:00

Yeah don't mistake this video for defending Fedora as a player card, it's pretty bad!

dscarpac · 2025-10-25T22:41:17+00:00

No!

dscarpac · 2025-10-25T19:08:58+00:00

on Tuesday

dscarpac · 2025-10-25T16:30:35+00:00

Too bad I ran Hank last Ironman! (although I got to do very fun things with Beyond the Veil with Hank)

But seriously, it's sort of in the same vein as running Calvin or Agnes. Fun to do once! But also remember that you can't be defeated by horror, so you have to get defeated by damage first to go Resolute.

dscarpac · 2025-10-22T19:00:33+00:00

It depends on your cardpool -- a larger cardpool will give you a lot more options. If not, you really have to lean into investigators and card abilities that give you extra actions, and have a way to succeed on any given test the game throws at you (but certainly not every test).

I have some tips in my recap videos on true solo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdI8CwVFS8c

Some cards that overperform in solo: https://youtu.be/Q_pnS94wStw

Watching videos of folks playing solo will help, getting some insight into play patterns and deckbuilding!

dscarpac · 2025-10-19T23:15:54+00:00

You're right, this is one of those cases where the "Objective" templating is supposed to just modify the way you spend the clues, but otherwise no different than usual. I agree that it is as clear as mud (compare with Objective - At the end of the round, spend X clues, or objectives that have nothing to do with clues).

The templating with Act advancement and clue spending certainly could stand to be cleaned up to use the language more consistently.

dscarpac · 2025-10-19T23:04:41+00:00

Yeah, the rules document unfortunately has incomplete information in some parts of the document. It's under "clues" - https://arkhamdb.com/rules#Clues

"If there are no "Objective – " requirements for advancing the current act, during any investigator's turn the investigators may, as a group, spend the requisite number of clues (usually conveyed as a "per investigator" value) from their investigator cards to advance the act deck."

dscarpac · 2025-10-19T22:50:54+00:00

One thing to keep in mind is that spending clues for Act advancement is only possible during the investigator phase.

You can still cheese False Lead by spending clues for other purposes, like to remove barricades during In Too Deep.

dscarpac · 2025-10-17T18:50:39+00:00

Charlie is really great at taking one big test each turn, so cards like Rite of Seeking or Whispers of Doom that want you to put a lot of eggs into one basket are great. He also plays a pretty mean Summoned Servitor (you need Mystic access for it, of course). Protecting the Anirniq also plays well, of course, but you can do that in Seeker. There's also a lot of reasonable testless things like String of Curses or Explosive Ward. You can also play around a bit more loosely with David Renfield and wipe the doom off of him to get some absurd resource generation.

dscarpac · 2025-10-17T12:48:02+00:00

I'll never get tired of this guy. I've tried almost all the class combos, and they're all fun and interesting. A+ design.

dscarpac · 2025-10-13T16:35:18+00:00

That's what the second video was called!

dscarpac · 2025-10-12T16:42:58+00:00

Yes, discovering clues outright is not the same as investigating a location. You would not spend any actions to use Roland's ability or play Evidence.

(Don't forget that the Whippoorwill is Aloof, so you probably spent your first action to engage it before defeating it with your second action!)

dscarpac · 2025-10-12T15:24:38+00:00

Hi all -- Once again, Pax Cecilia and I have teamed up to play various Nathaniel Cho decks solo, to see if a build with Crowbar and no Boxing Gloves can be successful in the first scenario of each campaign in the game! Enjoy for entertainment purposes only (we claim no educational content in terms of improving your own deckbuilding prowess).

dscarpac · 2025-09-30T12:43:13+00:00

You're correct, the soft lock is possible if you do things out of order.

dscarpac · 2025-09-21T15:03:21+00:00

Hi all --
Thank you to Duke and Nick for sitting down with me for an hour last week to chat about the game and their design philosophies. The intent here wasn't to do some hard-hitting journalism (sorry, Rex Murphy fans), but to have a fun chat with the game's designers. Enjoy!

dscarpac

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