This is definitely the most straightforward approach to the card. I feel that simply using the Sophist for the function it offers by itself – to add more secrets to a secret-using asset – is perfectly valid by itself. That said, if you find them useful, please do use them yourself! These aren’t terms I think need to be adopted by the community at large or anything, merely ways to simplify further discussion in this post – though I also think they help illustrate how I look at the Eldritch Sophist. For example, using Recharge or Truth From Fiction is Replenishing, whereas moving a secret from the Eldritch Sophist to another card is Siphoning. Conversely, I use Siphoning as a term for moving Uses via the Eldritch Sophist, where the total number of Uses in play does not change. Replenishing: Increasing the number of Uses on an asset without moving them from another asset – essentially as a way to make it clear that the total number of Uses in play has increased. Typically where both assets perform an important but distinct role in the build, and it may be advantageous to siphon charges from one to the other depending on the circumstances. Typically a card that provides a substantial benefit from its limited uses, such as a powerful enemy management or clue-gathering card.įixing: Moving Uses between cards as needed, where neither card is strictly a Source or a Target. Target: A card with Uses (secrets) or Uses (charges) whose main role in the build is to receive Uses from other cards. Typically a card that does not provide much benefit from those Uses, and/or a card that can provide a lot of Uses, repeatedly provide Uses, or provide Uses cheaply.
Source: A card with Uses (secrets) or Uses (charges) whose main role in the build is to have those Uses transferred onto a different card. I use the following terms as shorthand to broadly define the role of various cards in interacting with the Eldritch Sophist: Maleson, Laboratory Assistant) – so if you’re just using the Sophist for its inherent utility of refilling another asset, you might be underwhelmed by its benefits relative to its cost. Dr Milan Christopher, Whitton Greene) and a number of cheap and disposable allies (e.g. The cost is quite high – Seekers have a number of expensive but powerful allies (e.g. The test icon is pretty underwhelming, but at least Willpower is likely to come up for basically anyone and there will be times when you’ll take any Willpower icon you can get. The Miskatonic trait doesn’t have much in the way of support, but it does work with Miskatonic Archaeology Funding. In general, Seekers tend to have large pools of sanity and lots of means of soaking or healing horror, so this may be less useful than having lots of Damage soak, but it’s still a nice benefit, particularly for builds that use Shrivelling – and is very useful for some of the less obvious builds that can use the Sophist. It also offers quite a lot of Horror soak. However, the Sophist’s ability is substantially more flexible – it can move both secrets and charges, from any card that has them, to any card that can use them.
In this way, he’s a little bit like the Venturer – a card whose role is to refill other limited-use assets.
They are instead there to use his ability to move them onto other assets. So right off the bat, the card has Uses (3 secrets) but no way to actually spend them. Does my interest in this card have anything to do with how handsome he looks? No comment. Once you let go of your assumptions, anything is possible.Īnd the art depicts a very dapper gentleman playing chess with rather unusual pieces in a library. 4 cost, 1 willpower icon.Įxhaust Eldritch Sophist: Move 1 secret or charge from an asset you control to another asset controlled by an investigator at your location.
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