I would like see a location where player could buy clue tokens with money. Does any of the expansions add this kind of location or other mechanic that would allow this?

In our games (basic set + DH) there is usually a moment when there are no clue tokens, but some money that can not be spent to anything really useful.

Note that we don´t like to fight final battle, so we consider game lost if the ancient one awakens. So it is clue tokens we need to seal gates, not fancy items and spells for final battle. :-)

Thanks!

Haipperi said:

Daisy + Alchemical Process would break things even more than they now do with Avi at the helm. Science Building and trading trophies for Clues is always there (barring Tsathoggua), otherwise you have to chance things via encounters. Shop at Curiositie Shoppe, Elder Signs save Clues, King in Yellow Tome nets you Clues.

Dam said:

If you need clue tokens, get them at the science building. If you need clue tokens and ways to seal gates before the shops close, get bank loans to go shopping. And if you are Dam, it's a good thing I can't trade *you* for clues, you would end up displayed in a formaldehyde bottle in the Curiositie Shoppe labelled Kingsportiphobia.

Yup, never happens to me. Usually, all the money goes into unique items trying to get hold of as many Elder Signs, as possible.

If I find a copy or two of the King in Yellow along the way, all the better. There's also several common items that can be used to generate clues.

I don't think a location that allows for direct conversion of money to clues would be a good idea because of the bank loans.

Plus, it's a bit rotten on theme. You shouldn't be allowed to go and purchase "forbidden knowledge", even if it was some kind of bribery. That kind of thing stinks of the "parental paranoid" '80s, when you could run down to the local bookstore and buy the Necronomicon in paperback.

I think there's an encounter at the Newspaper from DH that lets you buy clues for $2 each or sell clues for $2 each.

There is also a Hibbs Roadhouse encouter or two where you can bribe the bartender into giving you 1-3 clues, depending on how much money you spend.