Dr Armitage and weakness [minor spoiler]

By Paligru, in Arkham Horror: The Card Game

Hi all,

It's great to follow everyones' experiences with the game and, since it's my first post, let me thank to the designers for this amazing mechanic and game.

To the point: Dr. Hermitage's reaction hability can be used when drawing a weakness? I hadn't thought about this possibility but it just happened and didn't know what yo do. We thought it was too overpowered to ignore the weakness and draw 3 resources instead, so we let the weakness to affect the character... We kind of love this weakness idea...

Thanks to everyone!!!

You cannot ever choose to discard a Weakness, either from hand or in play. They can only be discarded as part of a random discard, or if milled directly off the top of your draw deck.

Had this happen during a scenario and I initially used it that way, but after the scenario I reviewed the rules and both myself and the guy I played with realized it wasn't supposed to work that way. Decided just to keep moving forward and remember for the future instead of redoing the scenario.

One of the other key rules I saw was that when you draw a weakness from your deck, you treat it as though you just drew it from the encounter deck instead of your deck.