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생존자

: 조사. 이번 조사에서 당신이 위치한 장소는 -1 장막값을 얻습니다.

‘랜턴’을 버립니다: 당신과 같은 장소에 있는 적 하나에게 피해를 1 줍니다. 이 행동은 틈새 공격을 유발하지 않습니다.

Ilich Henriquez
카르코사로 가는 길 #36.
랜턴
  • Lantern (2) (Return to the Path to Carcosa #9)

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Reviews

The Survivor's Magnifying Glass. useful to a clue minded investigator who needs something to do with his/her hand. The net effect of +1 is not always a worthwhile bonus but depending on your character and other cards you may stand to gain a lot if you can hit the magic numbers (2 above the difficulty for Standard, 3 for Hard). Wendy Adams can put this to use till she gets her Lockpicks, the other survivors all suffer intellects of 2- or preferable alternatives. For them Flashlight is a better pure-investigation tool.

But Lantern has an extra use. Automatic damage! Autodamage is always good, a guaranteed dead Swarm of Rats or Acolyte can be absolutely critical, or as a finisher to a foe that you managed to tag with a punch or to end a foe that you've chipped at with a proper weapon. This is the real kicker for this card, say for example you hit someone with a .45 Automatic leaving them with 1 hitpoint, say you wanna avoid some particular tokens in the chaos bag, the Lantern got you covered.

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A note unmentioned in a review of this card insofar.

A -1 Shroud value will affect tertiary card effects, by this I mean Double or Nothing, Lucky!, "Look what I found!" ETC.

I.E, if you reduce a 3 difficulty location to difficulty 2 and fail, your minimum value (0) ensures that you can play "Look what I found!" on the test you just failed by 2 points.

Tsuruki23 · 2469

Given the arrival of crafty there is something neat about the humble lantern that allows it to shine above all other investigate tools.

Lantern is the only tool which investigates your location without having uses or exhausting, this means that along with crafty you always have a reliable, repeatable source of tool based investigate actions that also has the benefit of reducing the difficulty by 1. I tried a crafty Bob Jenkins with Scavenging and boy howdy, does having a never ending supply of free key rings, flash lights and lock picks while still be able to boost yourself by an effective 3/5 in an investigate (if you have two copies of crafty) make a pretty reliable investigator.

So lets all give it up for the humble lantern, which can be a zero cost, bonus action to play asset that even allows you to deal with the occasional annoying odd health enemy.

Zerogrim · 284
Totally agree - and Lantern (2) even better - been having a great time playing with Lantern, Crafty, and Rita Young. — Krysmopompas · 349

Technology decides wars. In Arkham's scope, technology decides which cards are being played and which stay in the binder. There are circumstances in which the old-fashioned Lantern beats the Flashlight. Every character that can include Lantern without spending xp should have a look at the following passages, all other character classes can adhere to the neutral Flashlight.

Let me start to evaluate Lantern's worth on the background of it's main use, as a clue finder tool. Reducing shroud can either have a very powerful effect or a mediocre effect - depending of the final shroud value.

Reducing a location's shroud to zero is the ultimate chance for success, because any result will match the test difficulty of zero. Only the auto-fail token lets the test fail (1 out of 16). Currently (with Path to Carcosa just released) there are 23 shroud-1 locations across all campaigns, 6 of which do not have any clues on them. 17 of 147 locations can be reduced to shroud-0 with the Lantern. As a result, it can not be recommended for the powerful effect.

The mediocre effect kicks in if the shroud is still 1 or more after applying the modificator. Investigating at that location gives you a bonus of 1 on the skill test, comparable with having a +1 Intellect boost on your investigation attempt. While on Hard/Expert mode failure is unforgiving, this marginal bonus is absolutely neglectable, it can make all the difference in Easy/Normal gameplay. Even better, Lantern does have unlimited uses! So, if you play a Survivor in Easy/Normal mode, add Lantern to your deck!

The Lantern also serves as a throw-away combat tool. For one action you can once inflict 1 damage to one target at your location. Not overly powerful, but a decent weapon against Whippoorwills: Lantern absolves you from spending one additional action and executing the skill test.

Pros

  • Unlimited uses to boost investigation tests by 1.
  • With the lantern, shroud-3 locations can be conveniently cleared with the help of Look what I found! or Lucky!
  • Decent install cost.
  • Has an alternate one-time usage as weapon, either as coffin nail for bigger foes or against nerve-janglers: list
  • Combo with any skill commitment card.
  • Works best on Easy/Normal mode.

Cons

  • Almost never sparks the really powerful effect that Flashlight can ignite.
  • Can not be combined with Flashlight, because both require an action.

Recommendations

  • In Extracurricular Activity there are two shroud-1 locations, spoiler and spoiler.
Synisill · 783
Why is 0 shroud the "magic" number? And how can you guarantee that you can succeed a Shroud 3 via Lucky! or Look What I found? Let's say you have a location with Shroud 3, use the Lantern to lower it to 2 and you have a skill of 3. If you pull a -4 token, you have a net skill of -1. That fails by 3 so neither Look What I found! nor Lucky! applies. — franzel · 22
Nearly, but not quite! Once all of the modifiers are applied in a skill test, any skill value which has sunk below zero then becomes zero. So in your example, you'd actually succeed perfectly well. See the 'Modifiers' section of the rules ref. So this is why in some situations, Lantern is almost (but not quite!) an auto succeed. — Orangerequired · 1
Lucky! wouldn't make you succeed in franzel's example though, right? It would make the skill value 1 against a shroud of 2. Activating Look What I found? would work. — Nils · 1
Yes, Nils, you are perfectly right there. The Lucky!'s effect comes before the result modifiers are applied, if it is not enough to pass the test, it fails. Only Look What I Found! helps all the time against failing against shroud 2. — Synisill · 783
This is the best card for Curse of Rougarou. It does not require engaging the enemy so can deal flat damage. — ArtyomTrityak · 52
"[...] comparable with having a +1 Intellect boost on your investigation attempt" — 11zxcvb11 · 3
"[...]comparable with having a +1 Intellect boost on your investigation attempt." i think that lantern is better than that, since lowering the shround will give you that +1 advantage even in places where you need to investigate using another skill than intellect. — 11zxcvb11 · 3
Does Lantern’s passive ability stack with the Flashlight for a potential -3 shroud? — dragonwarriorfan · 19
No. You must decide which action you are using. Either from Lantern or from Flashligt. — XehutL · 47