Enraptured

Both of the reviews I've read don't really touch on the one investigator who, I think, benefits the most from Enraptured: the good dreamer himself, Luke Robinson.

First of all: he's already /, so he's most likely going to be going at least part-cluever on your team with access to good boosts like Magnifying Glass/Magnifying Glass, Death • XIII, and Dr. Milan Christopher, making the on Enraptured a helpful icon instead of a dud (unless he's investigating with alone off a asset, which... why are you doing that when good investigate events like Read the Signs exist?)

Second, and much more importantly: more Gate Box charges. Hell. Yes.

supertoasty · 40
Upgrade directly to Seal of the Elder Sign for equivalent benefit but tacked on to an auto-succeed. — Difrakt · 1327
Also good with Luke if he takes Pendant of the Queen — rirze · 2
Crystal Pendulum

One thing to note is that Ritual Candles improves your odds of connecting with this card because you can choose to use Ritual Candles ability after seeing the token, giving you a little flexibility with your call.

Also Jacqueline Fine gets extra use from Crystal Pendulum because she can opportunistically select which token to keep.

FBones · 19498
It was really great n a solo expert Jacqueline Fine deck ! — AlexP · 293
Violent Commands

Another RttDL "upgraded" encounter set, Erratic Fear has some great treacheries. This one isn't too bad, as soak and healing are a thing that exist, and it is very flavorful, so it's almost fun to draw. If your is high enough, you can even carry it for a couple of turns, if you are close to the end of the scenario and not too pressed for horror. Plus you get the fun of eying up the other players and lightly stroking the card while it sits, simmering in your Threat Area.

"O no, dont worry I will just take the damage myself, Its fine, you relax..." — Zerogrim · 296
My AHTCG partner had Tommy stab Sefina 3 times during the campaign! And she keep accompanying him! — LivefromBenefitSt · 1091
Wt+ — Django · 5165
Sorry i accidently hit "post". With peter sylvestre, drawing thin and other fail to win this encounter card is a big economy boost. — Django · 5165
If only my play partner's Tommy had thought of that.... Rather than, you know, stabbing Sefina repetedly. — LivefromBenefitSt · 1091
Sefina with her 5 base health? Ouch. Remember that anyone can trigger cards in your threat area and this card allows dealling damage to anyone. So Tommy could've dealt the damage to himself or Sefina could've done that. — Django · 5165
Haha, it wasn't actually a bad call -- Sefina maybe had 1 damage while Tommy had taken a massive amount of damage due to his weapons/soak getting milled and then Light of Aforgomon showing up to ruin his day (Tommy should not go to Dunwich). I had forgotten that Sefina could have triggered it; that would have been amusing. — LivefromBenefitSt · 1091
Resurgent Evils

Recently finished a play through of RttDL, and I really like some of the "upgraded" cards. This card gives you the choice of playing an Ancient Evils or Overzealous, which is quite the decision, and, being a Peril, you don't even get to try and talk your fellow player out of their rash decision. My regular AHTCG partner has a deep hatred for Ancient Evils, so the other option is always chosen. In one of the scenarios, Resurgent Evils was drawn, followed by two encounter cards. One of which was another Resurgent Evils, the second had surge. We had to stop for a second and diagram out how many cards had to be drawn. Including the original draw, seven encounter cards hit the table before it was my turn to draw one. I feel like one doom would have been less punishing, although fewer than six actions were taken up, so manybe not?

Try and Try Again

IGNORE:

Stella is an amazing support survivor. Her unique card's ability to prevent failure penalties means that you could run low willpower investigators through tougher scenarios. With this, you get the chance to throw those No Fail cards at an ally once a turn. Especially in scenarios that add doom on failure, this combo prevents it. Worst comes to worst, you lose your Neither Rain temporarily until you play resourceful or True Survivor, and a teammate makes a vital but unlikely skill check.

MrGoldbee · 1496
That combo doesn't really work - Try and Try Again pulls the chosen skill during ST.6, and if you pull Neither Rain nor Snow from the check, by the time skill test results resolve the card is no longer there to stop them from applying. So if you use TATA to pull a card (except Defiance and Silas' personal skill, which have effects that resolve before ST.6), it's as if you had never committed that card in the first place. — TheNameWasTaken · 3
afaik grisly totem(3) should serve that purpose — schafinho1 · 55
Pretty certain grisly totem (3)'s effect is an effect of the failed test (rather than a response to a failed test) so if NRNS is in the test then Grisly Totem (3)'s effect gets cancelled — NarkasisBroon · 11
oh, you're right — schafinho1 · 55
@narkasis, not exactly, current community consensus (supported by the rules proofreader who I must disclaim is NOT a formal rules authority but is well-regarded) is that just like you get to choose the order of successful test results in ST.7 you similarly get to choose the order of failed test results. So, you could resolve all your "if you fail" effects and then trigger NRNS to cancel the rest. — Sycopath · 1
@Sycopath while you can choose the order, it doesn't matter. If you choose NRNS to resolve first, the totem's effect is canceled. If you choose to resolve the totem first, NRNS is returned and it doesn't cancel any fail effects. — suika · 9508