Hi, this card turned up tonight and wasn't 100% sure how it works.

it says to get 3 maniacs (or as many as you can get) and put them on a street.

It then says investigators who defeat all 3 get an exhibit item, before the end of next turn.

Does this mean any investigator who moves to the street and faces (and defeats, evading doesn't count) all 3 in combat gets to take an exhibit item (but not the monster trophies) and the maniacs stay on the board so that a different investigator can also head along to the street in their movement turn and try and defeat all 3, also gaining an exhibit item?

then at the end of next turn the maniacs are simply taken off the board and returned to the cup

this was the way we played because from reading the card (several times!), its the only thing that made complete sense, the wording isn't very clear though.

I've played it as 3 Maniacs there (if you can get them, i.e. none on the boards and monster limit allows it, etc.), 1 investigator has to kill them all (yeah, that's a challenge ) to get the EI. Said investigator also gets the Maniacs as monster trophies.

Dam said:

ah, so if an investigator kills them all they get the EI and all 3 monster trophies at the same time, but if then somehow manage to beat one or two of them but then through some terrible die rolling end up at 0 stamina and fail to beat the third, all 3 maniacs stay on the board for someone else to try and defeat?

it was the "investigators" wording on the card rather than "an investigator" made us think perhaps more than one person could fight them (and we backed this up with the fluff that the card represented an escape from the asylum and presumably it had more than 3 inmates!)

you still remove the 3 cards at the end of next turn though if they haven't been defeated by then, right?

No, I think you get each trophy for each that you kill, but only get the item when you kill the 3rd Maniac.

Tibs said:

So if one investigator kills the first two (then can't defeat the third and ends up in hospital, with 2 trophies) if another investigator comes along and defeats just a single (but the final) maniac, it is this investigator that gets the EI (and a single trophy)?

Yes, I'd say so. Luckily, since the game is cooperative, it would be in the interest of the two involved investigators to trade it around if needed. Additionally, since all three of those monsters appear and would move together, if a second investigator was needed to take out the third Maniac, it was likely because the first investigator was unable to. This would be a supportive gesture, working towards the same goal.

Ive always played it that a single investogator must defeat all 3 or no EI.

dj2.0 said:

Yep, me too. Upon another reading of the card, I could probably be come to accept a different view.

"Investigators who defeat all 3 Maniacs before the end of next turn may draw 1 Exhibit Item."

The plural throws me off. I could see this card being 3 Maniacs at Downtown, kill 3, get EI, but no trophies, Maniacs remain. That way, you could fulfill the plural aspect of it. Of course, we are talking about a CotDP card, so all interpretations are equally valid .

Dam said:

Aye, that's how we took it when we first encountered it. It worked ok for the investigators because 2 of them could make it to downtown that round, with enough fire power to comfortably take on the 3 maniacs and so each investigator came away with an exhibit item (but no trophies).

It didn't seem too much of a bonus for the Invs so I think we might keep that interpreation going forward.

Cheers

Interesting take. I kind of like it. Wasnt this cursed card and the other one with ghosts clarified by Kevin back on the old forums? I think he said t had to be a single killer.

Oy, curse was well named...