Lara Croft for Standalone

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Jenny Barnes is: Lara Croft, Tomb Raider 4 1 1 1.0
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ProfessorTribble · 7

First and foremost, I wanted a fun deck where Jenny could pretend to be Lara Croft using the Ornate Bow and her Twin .45s that was under 20xp. I tried to compensate for the natural inefficiency of the bow as best I could, but I'm not sure any Jenny + Bow deck will ever be better than using the other options for upgraded Rogue weapons.

Basic idea is that you use Dr. Elli Horowitz to find and hold your Ornate Bow, which you can nock an arrow on as a free action using Venturer. Dr. Elli Horowitz can also be used to find The Skeleton Key, which along with Lockpicks can be used for clue gathering. Streetwise can pump up the bow or investigating using resources generated by Lone Wolf, Emergency Cache, "Watch this!", and Jenny's extra resource each upkeep.

I used No Stone Unturned as my fifth splash card to help find cards in the deck. I considered Prepared for the Worst as another way to find the bow or the Twin 45s - I'm not sure which is better. Backpack is another possible option that I considered.

This deck seems to perform pretty well so far - I'm going to keep testing it in different standalone scenarios. Things that I'm still working on:

(1) Willpower tests will be consistently failed - no idea how to fix this. More than once, Frozen in Fear has stuck around for multiple rounds, even when I use a Guts. Maybe replacing Borrowed Time with an asset that gives a permanent boost to willpower?

(2) I'm not sure what a 0XP version of this deck would look like. I'd probably have to start out more exclusively focused on fighting using Hard Knocks, and I'd maybe pull some kind of shenanigans with Adaptable to start with different allies, as Dr. Elli Horowitz is completely useless unless the bow is in the deck. As of right now, there's a good chance of me being mostly useless for the first scenario or two, until I have at minimum the 12xp required for two bows, streetwise, and charisma.

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