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. 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.
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