All the combos of Professor William Webb are explained in the level 0 reviews. The review "olahren" made is very complete. This was 2 years ago, now, with The Scarlet Keys Investigators Expansion, Fingerprint Kit, Alchemical Distillation and even Grim Memoir made its appereance and Webb gained even more value because he can target more items with secrets/supplies/charges.

The weakness of the level 0 Webb is that, if you use this card as a sort of Scavenging for Seekers you'd lose at least 1-3 succesful investigate actions just for recycling items during the scenario. The upgraded Webb works the same but it has more sanity soak and an extra icon. The real upgrade of this version is that you still get a clue when an succesful investigation triggers this cards to recycle your items, so you won't lose actions. If you use Webb for his combo potential this upgrade means he won't slow you down, and Seeker class is all about improve action compression with and triggers using your EXP, so this is good enough for me.

On the other hand, if you play the "seeking for afar" archetype, this card does not improve the archetype unless you want to recycle items. Maybe Luke Robinson can use this to recycle the Grotesque Statue, since he has 3 and some token manipulation can make this kind of decks more viable for him on Hard and Expert Mode even with his small .

Webb (2) is Scavening for the Seeker class except for those seekers who have some sort of access to the Survivor class (Rex Murphy, Vincent Lee, Mandy Thompson and Minh Thi Phan). Webb (2) does not require to pass the test by 2 or more, so it is more reliable in Hard and Expert Mode. The other way to get 1 copy of Scavening for this class is paying Versatile, but your deck gets bigger and that can be a problem is you want to use specifically one or two items. Another problem of Webb compared to Scavening is that he uses the Ally slot, but playing as a Seeker usually means buying Charisma or Miskatonic Archaeology Funding to play two or three at the same time. The last problem of Webb is that he has limited uses, but all his recycled assets have major impact on the game and you can always run cards to forget about the secrets that also synergises with some powerful Seeker assets.

To sum up, Webb (2) can be good in some decks, but he is not an autoinclude nor and staple of the Seeker class. He has limitations you have to sort out to make him work. Even though, he is fun and I recommend to try him at least.

For me, Harvey Walters is a strong candidate to run Webb (2) in his decks since he can abuse the hell out of this card. He usually runs Miskatonic Archaeology Funding because he is very durable and he usually plays some Miskatonic allies in his decks, so Webb (2) ally slot problem is instantly solved. Webb (2) + Magnifying Glass is a good deck engine to discard and recycle your empty The Necronomicon and Ancient Stones.

On the other hand, I'd love to see some Joe Diamond decks using this in a cluever deck. He loves the 3 horror soak of Webb (3) because of his poor Mythos defense, and the possibility to recycle Fingerprint Kit 1-3 times during a scenario doing the Magnifying Glass discard tech sounds good! If you manage to get your Detective's Colt 1911s on the table you can even play a Hawk-Eye Folding Camera to enhance your while cycling through the Magnifying Glass and the kit. The only problem is the money, so you'll need to run cards like Crafty, Burning the Midnight Oil and Crack the Case or even running Charisma + Dr. Milan Christopher. He can also "Webb recycle" the Police Badge to support other investigators or cycle through 2 copies of Eon Chart with his good enough card pool.

Previous reviewers have mentioned the ability of this card to get rid of Weakness cards from your draw pile. This is a very powerful use, since a weakness not only sucks up effort to overcome, but also means you didn't draw a useful card. When done right this only slightly restricts your play for a single turn.

Here's the super-clear "how to" for new players:

• Turn 1: put this into play with your last action during a non-emergency moment
• use the ability to look at the bottom 3 cards of your deck, discard any weaknesses, draw 1, put remainder on top of your deck
• Turn 2: before you take your first action, repeat the procedure above, and for just this turn don't do any searches or effects that shuffle your deck
• Turn 3: repeat the procedure above to use up last charge before your first action

This will draw you 3 cards, look through 9 cards, and conceivably discard up to 3 weaknesses found there. If you do any searches during the second turn you ruin the work of setting up your top cards and make it likely that you're surfacing the same cards twice instead of unique cards.

Happy hunting!

I have a question Does text on this card that says : "Instead of paying that ability's non-[action] costs" means that I can only triggers ability on partner assets like Avery Claypool, Roald Ellsworth and others Resolute partner assets right? So I can't use small radio to trigger others partner assets's ability (who not in the play) that cost [action] to play right? Please help me T-T

FIrst off, some notes. Player cards are not considered to have a level, so you sadly cannot recur Regurgitation with Scrounge for Supplies. Few things can. Technically The Council's Coffer could, but that card's text might as well read "everybody skips their turn and cheats a little bit".

Her devour ability can also only target cards in play unless otherwise noted. While the cards in your hand/deck/discard/under ravenous are technically "player controlled", they are not valid targets for abilities unless specifically stated otherwise. That means you cannot use her fast ability to eat cards from your hand/deck/discard to speed up her growth, nor can you devour cards under ravenous to maintain a high statline. Nothing except Regurgitation or getting extremely lucky with Reality Acid can prevent her from losing control for several turns.

So, what cards does she like?

The obvious category is cards that cost doom or have a similar downside. The Initiate, Renfield, Alyssa and Blood Pact can all do their dirty work and get devoured before you're in danger of advancing the agenda. The Crystallizer is harmless, because you can merely devour it when the Guardian shows up. She can use her ability in support of other investigators as well, devouring their Renfields or Initiates so they don't have to dig for Moonlight Rituals.

The second category are cheap and fast assets to feed her ability. Intrepid can help someone in the mythos phase, buff them for a turn and get devoured before it would be discarded, zero cost/zero actions. Solemn Vow can be played on other players, allowing them to transfer their damage/horror to your own sacrificial assets, then devoured when necessary. Priest of Two Faiths can stuff the bag, soak damage/horror from your vows, and get eaten before he ever adds a single curse, all for 1 resource. She can Jury-Rig things and devour the rigging when it's out of uses.

The third category is anything that benefits from a balanced statline. Suzi can't depend on a static 5 like some investigators, but she'll spend most of the game with a 3 or better in multiple stats. Lockpicks and Suggestion for example fire at 6 or better for 5 turns in a row. Survey, Savant, Occult Theory, Defensive Stance and Dauntless Spirit will similarly be good to great for 5 out of every 8 turns.

In the fourth category, we have cards that lessen the impact of her low-stat rounds. Suzi makes great use of Borrowed Time, letting her essentially bank an entire turn to be spent later with better stats. Old Book of Lore and Encyclopedia can let you slot into a support role, using your weak actions to buff your more effective allies. In theory, the Sledgehammers benefit both buff and scrawny Suzi, using quick but innacurate strikes when you're strong and spending extra actions when you're weak.

Honorable mention goes to the suite of survivor cards like Rise to the Occasion, Against All Odds or Signum Crucis, which will always go off a base value of 1 for maximum effect.

To piggyback on The Wall's extensive review, it must be pointed out how well the HPS works for Darrell himself.

The HPS as a weapon is really only useful for characters with low combat and willpower. If you can already fight, you have more efficient options. Compare to level-0 .45 Automatic; for 2 less XP you get +1 attack and the ability to reload it through other cards. The same goes for attack spells. That means the only characters that really want the Railshooter upgrade have high intellect or agility.

The main problem is, as it uses aether, only Ghastly Possession can reload it, and only for 2 shots even with the Aetheric Link upgrade (which increases the aether it comes into play with, not the uses value). And, if you have access to GP, you're probably better served by attack spells anyway. That means the only realistic way to reload it is to either dig it out of your discard or draw through your deck again, and either option is going to cost you a hefty $4.

Enter Darrill, who has no problem finding it with Whitton Greene, using Scavenging to bounce the empty gun back to his hand, and paying for it with Schoffner's Catalogue. He can even dual-wield it CQC-style with an Ice Pick. Being able to hit 3 damage in a single attack is a huge boost in efficiency, downing the majority of enemies in the game with a single action and significantly stretching your ammo.

Of course Minh has access to the same suite of cards with a slightly less focused stat spread, so it's really a matter of preference between them. For completion's sake I have to add that Minh could theoretically combine it with Gray's Anatomy to really stretch your ammo usage, but that's a whole pile of resources and XP on top, and you'd either need to evade or slap on an upgraded Raven Quill to avoid the opportunity attack. It's really not worth it.