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은빛 황혼회. 유명 인사.

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당신이 카드의 효과로 자원을 1개 이상 획득할 때마다, 이렇게 획득한 자원을 당신의 자원 저장소에 놓지 않고, 그 대신 ‘가문의 유산’에 놓습니다.

효과: +0. 그 대신, 자동 성공하기 위해 자원을 2개 소비해도 됩니다.

“내 돈, 내 유산, 내 문제야. 이젠 내 방식대로 해결하지.”
Magali Villeneuve
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프레스턴 페어몬트 - Back

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덱 크기: 30장.

덱 구성 선택지: 레벨 0-5 무법자 카드(), 레벨 0-2 생존자 카드(), 레벨 0-5 중립 카드.

덱 구성 요구조건 (덱 크기에 포함되지 않습니다): 가문의 유산, 교단에 진 “빚”, 무작위 기본 약점 카드 1장.

추가 제한조건: 불법 카드 포함 불가.

프레스턴 페어몬트는 집안의 막대한 부 덕분에 원하는 무엇이든 누릴 특권을 거머쥐고 있다는 정도만 인지하고 있을 뿐, 가문의 부가 어디서 흘러들어왔는지는 생각해 본 적이 없었다. 프레스턴의 부친은 이따금 괴로워하며, 할아버지의 사업에 대해 그리고 은빛 황혼회라 불리는 밀교의 요구사항에 대해 설명하려 애를 썼지만 프레스턴은 전혀 귀담아듣질 않았다. 그러던 어느 날, 부친이 꺼림칙한 자동차 사고로 인해 유명을 달리하게 되면서 페어몬트가의 부는 오롯이 프레스턴의 몫이 되었다. 이제 은빛 황혼회의 교단장인 칼 샌포드가 프레스턴을 사적으로 만나고자 한다. 프레스턴은 이제야 자신의 집안에 흘러들어온 재물의 출처에 대해 난생처음으로 생각하기 시작했다…
프레스턴 페어몬트
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FAQs

(from the official FAQ or responses to the official rules question form)
  • Automatic Success/Failure: Some card effects make an investigator automatically succeed or automatically fail a skill test. If this occurs, depending on the timing of such an effect, certain steps of the skill test may be skipped in their entirety.
    • If it is known that an investigator automatically succeeds or fails at a skill test before Step 3 (“Reveal Chaos Token”) occurs, that step is skipped, along with Step 4. No chaos token(s) are revealed from the chaos bag, and the investigator immediately moves to Step 5. All other steps of the skill test resolve as normal.
    • If a chaos token effect causes an investigator to automatically succeed or fail at a skill test, continue with Steps 3 and 4, as normal. - FAQ, v.1.7, March 2020
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“My money, my legacy, my problem. Let me handle it in my own way."

Me and a buddy did a Diana/Preston run of the TCU. I must’ve read that quote a dozen times on his player card. And it’s absolutely true.

You can’t play Preston like other investigators, that’s clear from his stat line. Decades of indolence have left the millionaire dumber, slower, weaker and less willful than almost anyone else investigating the mythos. He doesn’t even use guns, finding most of the rogue illicit weapons too distasteful to consider.

But the years have left him far better at accounting. And whether you’re on the university campus or somewhere in space and time, being rich is all the power you need. Well Connected and Money Talks came with his set. Recent additions like dark ritual and faustian bargain mean that he can pay off his teammates and take care of the fallout indefinitely.

Once you get XP, you can use Lola and Delilah to buy your way to victory. Don’t forget an old key ring or other tools that let you lower the shroud of locations, those give you discounts.

But even with those bonuses, you’re gonna be facing tests you have no business passing. You might go with the Dark Horse route, convincing everyone you're an underdog while still taking family money. But that gets your stats to two, you’re still not gonna pass those willpower tests... But as a rogue, you don’t have to. Let the mystics play their upgraded wards of protection. First Watch and "I’ll handle this" are helpful from guardians. And you can always kick your feet up and say "You handle this one!". (Ironically, when I was playing with my buddy, Diana had a mob enforcer weakness. The easiest solution was always to have Preston pay him off for a single action.)

When you play as the millionaire, everything that you need can be bought. Cards that were once useless extravagances, like hard knocks or dig deep, let you pay to win.

So should you go rich or play dark horse? Take Ally cards with let me see that and Chance Encounter? Will you slot haste, grab the skeleton key?

It’s your legacy, your money, your problem. Go handle it your own way.

MrGoldbee · 1388
Only thing I would add is that Preston is super card dependent, so I recommend strongly that you run some sort of card draw engine. Drawing Thin, Rabbit's Foot, probably both. — StyxTBeuford · 12917
True! — MrGoldbee · 1388

Lola Santiago is incredibly powerful in a Preston Fairmont deck. I’d say she’s an auto-include.

With Preston’s Family Inheritance Lola lets Preston discover one clue per turn on a shroud 4 or lower (5 or lower if he’s a Lonewolf...) without taxing his resource pool.

In solo, where many locations are single clue locations, this lets Preston solidly hoover up clues while tooling up / drawing cards / moving around the map with his three actions.

Lola is better than Leo in a Preston solo deck. She also gives you a free action a turn, albeit limited to investigating, but that action is test-less, and one you’ll often want to do every turn anyway.

Finally, how does she compare to Streetwise? Sure, streetwise is far more flexible, as it lets Preston boost either Intellect or Agility to 7 once a turn by spending all of his Family Inheritance. Lola boosts those stats too, albeit only to 2, but at least it’s a permanent boost. I’d rather be investigating testlessly than pumping my Intellect via Streetwise and still risking drawing an Autofail.

Streetwise’s main strength is that it’s permanent, so you really have to buy it first. But once you have I’d save up your next 6XP for two copies of Lola

Especially when you add in her damage / horror soak which effectively puts Preston up to 8 in both.

darkskyman · 16
Why did you double post a review for Lola? — Myriad · 1201
Does Preston's initial 5 resources during setup go on him or family inheritance? — Caligula · 1
Start up ressources aren't added by a card effect, so i've always played that are in his normal pool — Django · 4859
I'm trying to build a Preston deck but somehow can't add the multi-class Rogue/Survivor Tennesse Sour Mash. Can't understand why it would be forbidden... — SimonG · 1
Ah, I figured it out. "No Illicit cards." :) — SimonG · 1

The side-mission called Curse of the Rougarou has a reward card called Monsterous Transformation. I just got this for Preston and and I can't help but feel it's too broken to be allowed. But as far as I can tell it's fine. I'm going to play it through and laugh as everyone dies to the filthy rich wolf.

jmccrary · 15
It IS too broken. That's why opt to not do that mission when Preston (or Calvin) is in the team... — Nenananas · 241
It's probably even better if you manage to get Body of a Yithian in City of Archives (TFA), as well — Zinjanthropus · 223