She has 7 health and 5 sanity, which seems a bit odd for a spellcaster, but actually facilitates her special ability quite well. Having clearly honed her coffee-pot patter, Agnes has a decent 3 Influence, and 2s in the remainder of stats – certainly not strong, but at least there are no 1s. Add all of this to a basic Lore of 4 and Agnes comes out as one of the most effective spellcasters in the game. She can also spend an action to test Lore and (if successful) acquire a spell. It’s a very powerful ability, but you need to be careful about using it. It’s worth noting that there are no casting costs to play spells in Elder Sign, nor does this version of the character have a ‘blood-magic’ ability, so leaving her stats tilted towards mental over physical strength feels like the best approach, all things considered.Įldritch Horror picks up the Blood Magic theme, allowing Agnes to spend a health in order to roll extra dice when casting spells. Spells aren’t generally that hard to come by, but just like any investigator whose ability interacts with a particular type of reward, you’ll need to keep it in mind when choosing which adventure to send her to.Īgnes has 6 sanity and 4 health, following the standard approach of making mystic-types stronger mentally than physically. Of course, the one problem with this is keeping up a suitably steady supply of spells to fuel the ability. Agnes pushes things in the opposite direction, as those ‘saves’ suddenly become an on-demand way of finding a particular symbol. Agnes takes things to the next level, still allowing you to save your dice on spells, but first allowing you to change the face that is showing: in other words, you can save a result you haven’t managed to roll! – really powerful, provided you can keep it fuelled with new spells.Īlthough they probably make up the majority of the spell-pool, these blank, ‘save’ spells are the boring kind and often you’ll be hoping to get the ‘special’ ones with a unique ability that you can trigger. In this context, the large number of ‘basic’ spells in the game can be very useful, as they allow you to save a result you’ve rolled (rather than re-rolling it). Normally in Elder Sign, if your dice rolls don’t allow you to complete a task (or if they do, but you’ve also rolled something that would be useful for the next task), then it’s just tough luck – you can focus 1 dice if you failed (as well as having to discard one dice) and everything else has to be re-rolled. However, the names of her abilities definitely evoke a particular theme: “ Memories of Conquest” and “ Blood Magic.” whoever former-life Agnes was, she doesn’t sound like anyone you’d want to get on the wrong side of!Įlder Signtakes a slight step back from the powerful witch who enslaved demons, and ( given the lack of biography in this game), presents a much more normal figure, albeit one who can cast spells.
Mechanically, this version of Agnes is not especially exciting – she has very high Lore, balanced 5 health and 5 sanity, and the ability to pay the cost of casting spells with Stamina instead of Sanity, as well as getting a slight bonus when casting combat-related spells. That said, even just reading the sheet is enough to get an early sense of Agnes: unassuming Waitress Agnes Baker is first made aware of her past life when she falls from a ladder and hits her head! She wakes up in the hospital with one repeated word whispered in her head: “ Hyperborea” – as implausible a starting-point as this may seem, after trying one of the newly-remembered spells in secret, she finds that it works, and begins to hone her spell-craft. As such, from Agnes forth, any thoughts on investigators in 2 nd Edition are going to be purely theory-crafting. Sadly, Arkham Horror 2 nd Edition was one of the victims in the cull of my games collection – my wife didn’t really enjoy it, and we’d almost always rather play Eldritch Horror. Regular readers of the blog will know that the last year has involved a spot of enforced downsizing/relocation.
ELDER SIGN OMENS FOCUS SERIES
Next up for the Investigators Revisited series is Agnes Baker, the Waitress. Oh, and did we mention that she may also be the reincarnation of a mighty sorceress from Hyperborea? By day a friendly server at Velma’s Diner, by night fearless investigator and challenger of the Mythos.
0 kommentar(er)
