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Dunwich By Book or by Crook: "Skids" O'Toole | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 |
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BY BOOK OR BY CROOK: "SKIDS" O'TOOLE
DECK OVERVIEW
This deck is designed to be part of my "By Book or by Crook" partnership, in which the unlikely pair of Daisy Walker & "Skids" O'Toole stick together for mutual benefit, as several cards in both decks can benefit other investigators at the same location. Both investigators have action advantage effects enabling up to 9 total actions each round. This action advantage lets them investigate locations & deal with enemies more quickly and compensates for not splitting up. Daisy focuses almost entirely on investigating, while "Skids" focuses on engaging enemies and either fighting or evading them.
FIGHTING ENEMIES
"Skids'" job will be to engage and deal with any enemies that appear, including any that engage Daisy, unless he can take it out with one shot. His additional actions come in handy for the extra step of engaging an enemy, when needed. The .41 Derringers & .45 Automatics will be his primary methods of eliminating enemies. In addition to his gats, Beat Cop, Overpower, Unexpected Courage & Vicious Blow can boost his . With a firearm and Vicious Blow, he can deal up to 3 damage in one attack. Evidence! lets him discover a clue after defeating an enemy.
EVADING ENEMIES
Alternately, he may wish to use his best skill, , to evade an enemy. Then, after that enemy exhausts & disengages from him, Sneak Attack can deal 2 damage to it. Manual Dexterity & Unexpected Courage can boost his to evade or to fight with Backstab and deal 3 damage.
DEFENSE
When engaged with multiple enemies, On the Lam can protect "Skids" from all of them, while Dodge can protect either investigator from a single attack. When wounded, First Aid can heal damage/horror from either investigator. Daisy can also heal damage with her Medical Texts.
RESOURCES & CARDS
Since "Skids" won't be investigating, Burglary was not included in the deck. Instead, resources will come from his Elder Sign effect and Emergency Cache. He may wish to spend one or more of his first-round actions to gain resources to pay for some of the more expensive cards in the deck. Card drawing comes from Pickpocketing & skills. Daisy can also use Old Book of Lore to help "Skids" get key cards from his deck in a more timely manner.
EXPERIENCE OPTIONS
1XP: Upgrade 1x Leo De Luca to Leo De Luca I; Cat Burglar in lieu of 1x Beat Cop for +1 ; or Extra Ammunition in lieu of 1x .45 Automatic. All are good choices.
2XP: Upgrade 1x Beat Cop to Beat Cop II; or Police Badge in lieu of 1x Leo De Luca. Police Badge can give the investigators a possible total of 11 actions in one round!
3XP: Sure Gamble in lieu of Unexpected Courage; or Bulletproof Vest in lieu of 1x First Aid. I'd want to get 2x Sure Gamble eventually. Imagine turning a -4 chaos token into a +4! And a Sure Gamble in hand means he'll have to commit fewer skills/cards to a test.
4XP: Hot Streak in lieu of 1x Emergency Cache for additional resource acceleration.
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Dec 10, 2016 |
Dec 10, 2016
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Dec 12, 2016This the duo I've been trying to build towards. Do you find you have enough resources without Burglary? Elder Sign abilities aren't exactly reliable, although Burglary isn't a guarantee either. Plus I'd want to fit in a Flashlight at that point as well, which goes against the 'pure' combat build you have outlined. I suppose if Daisy is gathering enough clues then Skids can use any 'downtime' not dealing with enemies to drips resources and that would be enough? |
Dec 12, 2016
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Dec 13, 2016
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Dec 29, 2016Great deck! I'm just finished with the first scenario and have 6 points to spend. My wife and I ended up running Skids/Daisy as well, and after one playthrough I saw the same basic strategy as yours, Skids muscles while Daisy investigates. However, I only have 1 core (and the two side adventures). Can you make any recommendations on what you'd change from your decks with that in mind? |
Dec 31, 2016
Assuming you're using the suggested Core decks for "Skids" & Daisy, I recommend the following 0-Level changes: Swap "Skids"' Guts with Daisy's Manual Dexterity, and replace Daisy's 2x Knife with 2x Unexpected Courage. This allows each to play to their strengths more consistently while still aiding each other. For experience upgrades: First & foremost, I like Encyclopedia for Daisy and Police Badge for "Skids" [pickpocketed, perhaps?]. The former is a great card that can be used (and re-used each round) as Daisy's free Tome action, and the latter adds even more action advantage. Both can benefit either investigator and, combined, can give one of them 5 actions with +2 to one skill. Great for a last-minute scramble for clues or taking out several enemies... or one big one. Otherwise, for Daisy, Disc of Itzamna has a nice effect as well as 3 test icons that can provide +2 or . Upgrading Magnifying Glass and/or Blinding Light are good, too. Mind Wipe is also an option that can help protect both investigators. For cards to replace when not upgrading to a new version of the same card: 1. Forbidden Knowledge, since Dr. Milan Christopher does a better job of providing resources and Daisy doesn't benefit from taking horror the way Agnes Baker does. 2. Hyperawareness, since she won't usually need its boost and Arcane Studies can give her the same boost. Additional options for "Skids" include: Extra Ammunition [for the cost, pretty much a no-brainer] and either Bulletproof Vest since he will likely take a lot of damage and is not using his "body" slot, or Sure Gamble--a great card; even more so because it may be played after a chaos token is drawn. Cards to replace: Switchblade would be my first choice to go; then, one or both copies of Knife. Elusive could also be a candidate to replace, since using it will leave Daisy behind to be engaged by the evaded enemies. Apologies for the long response. I do like thinking (and writing) about this stuff! Happy investigating! Would love to hear how your "Skids" & Daisy do on the rest of the Core scenarios. |
Dec 31, 2016
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Feb 02, 2017"Burglary is certainly more reliable, but it begs for the addition of Flashlight and/or Perception." Actually it doesn't. You can't use Fashlight with Burglary. If you meant that you would toss the flashlights for the +1 int, that's terrible. |
Mar 09, 2017
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Why no machetes? Both of his weapons require ammo and that can be problem late game right? Derringer just doesn't see worth it in my opinion. Machete is probably the better option cost wise at a cost of 3 also without the need of ammo.