If you’re looking for an additional reason to run this card in Dunwich, consider Whippoorwills and the Pit Boss. They have both Aloof and Hunter keywords.

They will help keep this item topped off with charges during 5 of the scenarios… hopefully just before your group’s fighter defeats them.

While good, I think that Deep Knowledge is overrated. Apart from drawing the cards for other investigators, this card effectively gives 1 card for 2 curses. Why? Because it costs a card and an action, which is equivalent to two cards. You could skip adding this to your deck and have another card instead, then use basic draw action for the second one. Reminder that basic draw is a very inefficient way of getting cards in seeker. This, at it's best, leaves one card for two curse tokens as the evaluation for Deep Knowledge.

Compared to Faustian Bargain which gives an effective 3 resources for 2 curses, you can see how much Deep Knowledge falls behind.

Q: Can Tommy kidnap an ally discarded by an other player, via "a Chance encounter" & Calling in a favor ? First card brings the Ally into his play area, the secound brings it into his hand. So, the condition of "a chance encounter - At the end of the round, if that asset is still in play, discard it. - did not applies. Feels very alien, but follows the wording of the cards.

Why isn't this card like Bandages? For example: After an investigator at your location takes 1 or more damage or horror, exhaust Sound Support: Heal 1 of that damage or horror?

It would make more sense being a Talent, the name of the card, and the artwork. You're not stepping in front of bad thing and taking it yourself. You're consoling them after they suffered a bad thing, so why is the card not an after trigger?

However, since it's not I'm about to rant a bit because I actually think this card is good for non-Medics for the same reason it isn't good in Medics like Carolyn/Vincent because it suffers from five key problems:

1) It can't take damage/horror assigned to Allies

2) It can't take damage/horror investigators away from you

3) It doesn't trigger their abilities

4) It's 3 exp

5) It doesn't trigger abilities of investigators who care about damage/horror being placed on them

Individually they wouldn't be a deal breaker for the Medics as many healing cards have a variety of those issues, and they still run them. It's them collectively together where it becomes an issue. Because at 3 exp both Carolyn/Vincent are teetering on better options to include in their deck that do many of the points this card fails on (cough Girish Kadakia).

Like if you really care about team soak support that covers the Medics as well why not run an ally deck with Tetsuo Mori/Brother Xavier and Charisma? There's already lvl 0 slot-less asset soak with Something Worth Fighting For or True Grit which are meh cards to include with the Medics because they run into the same issues as this card and they have better options.

But the biggest sin of this card is problem 5), despite the artwork hinting to new players the good combo of characters of Carolyn and Agnes... this card doesn't trigger either of their abilities... As Agnes needs the horror placed on her which comes after the assignment step of taking damage/horror, and Carolyn only grants resources if a card heals an Ally/Investigator card. Congratulations you spent 3 exp not helping Agnes deal free damage and Carolyn give free resources, but you sure ignored that damage/horror! Maybe they thought that triggering abilities was too strong for 3 EXP, which definitely is more on the auto-include side for the Medics.

Yet many of those problems go away for the other investigator types that can include it such as Warden. As William Yorick, Nathaniel Cho, Carson Sinclair, and Hank Samson like the slot less protection (especially Yorick who can play it from a Short Supply discard pile). And it is much easier slotting in a great team healing/soak card than something like Spiritual Resolve and Solemn Vow.

TLDR: Consider it for your Warden investigators for individual/team soak. Honestly, I would shower this card with praise if Hank was the guy on the card and was named something like "A True Hero" to match with similar "assign me the damage/horror" cards like Heroic Rescue or Something Worth Fighting For. As that's the better theme and actual effect of the card.

The final agenda card in the core set is . . . confusing. This is doubly so for players who want to have a blind playthrough of the campaign. Having just completed the Midnight Masks with its fantastic reveal, why would anyone want to spoil the finale? That's a problem because this card is easy to misread:

Forced - When this agenda advances:

• If the investigators are at Act 1, put the set-aside Ritual Site into play and spawn the set-aside Umôrdhoth there.
• If the investigators are at Act 2 or 3, discard all enemies at the Ritual Site and spawn the set-aside Umôrdhoth there.

The key to understanding the flow of the finale is understanding that "When this agenda advances" means the forced action happens after the 5 doom threshold is reached and not when this agenda card is revealed. For people who read this correctly the flow is sensible:

1. Agenda 3a is revealed giving investigators 5 doom to either stop the ritual (R1) or prepare for Umôrdhoth's arrival.
2. After 5 doom, make sure the Ritual SIte is in play and only has one enemy: Umôrdhoth.
3. The Devourer Below replaces both the Act and the Agenda. It's no longer possible to stop the ritual, but the investigators can defeat Umôrdhoth by either by giving it 6 + 4 per investigator damage (R2) or sacrificing Lita (R3). There's no time limit, but Umôrdhoth is massive (engaged with all investigators if not exhausted) and dishes out 3 damage and 3 horror so the fight will be pretty quick.

So what happens if you misread the card?

1. As soon as Agenda 3a is revealed, the Ritual SIte comes into play with Umôrdhoth.
2. If the investigators are somehow able to stop the ritual with a massive enemy taking attacks of opportunity, they can still get R1. This is unlikely unless they have made significant progress before Agenda 3a has been turned.
3. If the investigators sacrifice Lita, they can get R3 instead.
4. If they somehow survive 5 doom, The Devourer Below replaces the act and agenda. If Umôrdhoth has been defeated they get R2 but are defeated if Umôrdhoth is still alive when the card flips.

Of course this makes an already difficult scenario even harder. If you read it right the first time, you might wonder why anyone would think the game would be so aggressively mean. One reason might be that The Ritual Begins adds unmotivated obstacles:

• enemies are stronger after the previous agenda spawned a monster with doom on it and
• a very difficult will test that will put a madness from the player's collection into their hand.

A 5 doom timer to kill the big baddie seems like more of the same.

The solution, of course, would be to put the Forced action on the back so that it's only revealed when the agenda actually advances. That would fit with how the rest of the core scenario agendas work. My guess is that this wasn't done because the artwork on The Devourer Below side is so awesome.

At any rate, now that I know how this scenario is supposed to end, I'm going to try it again. Up til now I've just ignored the entire finale as unfun and unfair.