Mystic 0 - 5

Rogue 0 - 2

Neutral 0 - 5

And his "normal" signature cards are Showmanship and Occult Scraps.

Oh good; he can take Haste.

It always bugs me when a character is portrayed on a card that character can't even use, even though I know it's story vs gameplay segregation.

...so pretty much what we all expected, then. Nice.

1 hour ago, SGPrometheus said:

It always bugs me when a character is portrayed on a card that character can't even use, even though I know it's story vs gameplay segregation.

How often has that happened, would you say?

2 hours ago, dysartes said:

How often has that happened, would you say?

Not too often, but I think Wendy is on something she can't take? I haven't really kept track.

16 minutes ago, Soakman said:

Not too often, but I think Wendy is on something she can't take? I haven't really kept track.

Streetwise, which I think was more obvious because the card pool was smaller and there were only 10 investigators released at the time.

I can’t think of any other examples, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there were a few more.

That's not Wendy on Streetwise.

I think that was the discussion at the time, which reached the resounding conclusion of: “It might be Wendy? Her hair is a bit long.”

It’s all speculative anyway. Artists are gonna draw people differently and with a cast of 50+ matches who can say besides the designers.

The person pictured on Cryptic Research is probably Norman Withers (that epic beard!); Norman is not normally depicted with glasses, whereas the person on Cryptic Research is wearing a pair, but they could very easily be reading glasses.

It seems probable that the person pictured on Knowledge is Power is intended to be Father Mateo, with the same hair colour and length, overall age, and wearing a black cassock with a clerical collar. The cassock shown in Knowledge is Power is a little more embroidered than that shown on his investigator card, with a design at the centre of the breast and a patterned belt, but that's hardly much to go on; after all, Mark Harrigan wears a different coat and wields a different weapon on his investigator card than those shown on The Home Front.

That's about it for cards depicting investigators who can't take them, as far as I know.

There's also the issue of Mark Harrigan depicted with a tommy gun, when he can't use the Chicago Typewriter. Of course, the .45 Thompson has now been released, but at the time of release it was a little strange (and the .45 Thompson is depicted with a stick magazine, whereas Mark Harrigan is shown using a drum magazine, but that's really splitting hairs).

8 hours ago, dysartes said:

How often has that happened, would you say?

I'm certain it's happened at least once. I'll have to go look through every card again (but I'm probably thinking of streetwise, which we've established isn't Wendy).

Isn't it the new beginner deck seeker on cryptic research? Harvey Walters? Same thing with the glasses, but the hair matches better and the theme is entirely Harvey.

15 minutes ago, SGPrometheus said:

Isn't it the new beginner deck seeker on cryptic research? Harvey Walters? Same thing with the glasses, but the hair matches better and the theme is entirely Harvey.

Certainly not, no. The person in Cryptic Research clearly has a long, Gandalf-y full beard, whereas the most distinct feature of Harvey Walters is his epic sideburns with clean-shaven chin.

9 hours ago, dysartes said:

10 hours ago, SGPrometheus said:

It always bugs me when a character is portrayed on a card that character can't even use, even though I know it's story vs gameplay segregation.

How often has that happened, would you say?

It always bothered me that Mateo was on Knowledge is Power, if only because he can't take it. With that said, I am glad to see that they are putting more investigators on card art.

9 hours ago, dysartes said:

How often has that happened, would you say?

Isn’t Nathaniel Cho on Brute Force?

1 hour ago, Mimi61 said:

Isn’t Nathaniel Cho on Brute Force?

You can only see the back of his head... so I guess it's possible, but I don't see it.

42 minutes ago, KBlumhardt said:

You can only see the back of his head... so I guess it's possible, but I don't see it.

That’s fair. I thought for sure Cho be a Survivor when he was leaked, so that is probably where I made that leap.

We call him Nacho

9 hours ago, Allonym said:

Certainly not, no. The person in Cryptic Research clearly has a long, Gandalf-y full beard, whereas the most distinct feature of Harvey Walters is his epic sideburns with clean-shaven chin.

Could be George Barnaby?

It's honestly very hard to say what is representative of who unless you know the artist was working from a particular source via the designers or the artist.

22 minutes ago, Soakman said:

Could be George Barnaby?

It's honestly very hard to say what is representative of who unless you know the artist was working from a particular source via the designers or the artist.

Certainly, but we might as well speculate - we need something to talk about during quarantine!

It's muddied further by the fact that FFG has a huge stock of "generic" Arkham/Mythos art - for example, the art presumably depicting Mark Harrigan on The Home Front is also used for Norman Blackwood Jr. in the old Call of Cthulhu LCG (man, why are all my examples about Mark Harrigan? Maybe I need to make another Mark deck...).

5 hours ago, Allonym said:

Certainly, but we might as well speculate - we need something to talk about during quarantine!

It's muddied further by the fact that FFG has a huge stock of "generic" Arkham/Mythos art - for example, the art presumably depicting Mark Harrigan on The Home Front is also used for Norman Blackwood Jr. in the old Call of Cthulhu LCG (man, why are all my examples about Mark Harrigan? Maybe I need to make another Mark deck...).

Add to the confusion that isn’t it kind of a FFG tradition that various designers are actually portrayed on some cards?

On 4/1/2020 at 5:50 AM, Lily Chen said:

It always bothered me that Mateo was on Knowledge is Power, if only because he can't take it. With that said, I am glad to see that they are putting more investigators on card art.

I never saw that man as Father Mateo or any priest actually, mostly because the collar is not a correct clerical collar

On 3/31/2020 at 11:30 PM, Allonym said:

Certainly not, no. The person in Cryptic Research clearly has a long, Gandalf-y full beard, whereas the most distinct feature of Harvey Walters is his epic sideburns with clean-shaven chin.

But before this the only depiction of him was from his boom promo card...which has the long Gandalf-y beard. Which could be from a point in time before he shaved it.

1 minute ago, Hyperjayman said:

But before this the only depiction of him was from his boom promo card...which has the long Gandalf-y beard. Which could be from a point in time before he shaved it.

Assuming you meant to type "book promo card", there is no book promo for Harvey Walters - you may be thinking of Norman Withers , who is exactly who I was referring to as actually being on Cryptic Research.

As for no previous depiction of Harvey Walters, I'm afraid that Arkham Horror Second Edition , Elder Sign , Mansions of Madness First and Second edition (character card and miniature) , the official standalone miniature and Eldritch Horror (character card and standee) , all of which depict him with sideburns, moustache and shaved chin, would beg to differ. He even appears in Arkham Horror First Edition, with a moustache but no sideburns, but since that dates back to 1987 and was a Chaosium product (not FFG, which didn't exist at the time), it seems safe to ignore that incarnation.

Harvey Walters is, in a way, one of the iconic Arkham Files investigators, and was originally an example character from the Call of Cthulhu RPG, so he has a rather long pedigree in the franchise.

2 hours ago, Allonym said:

r. He even appears in Arkham Horror First Edition, with a moustache but no sideburns, but since that dates back to 1987 and was a Chaosium product (not FFG, which didn't exist at the time), it seems safe to ignore that incarnation.

Now that is an impressive bit of knowledge about Harvey.
You may have to start a new thread for all of us in isolation. Some sort of daily Arkham Files Investigator Spotlight or something. Grab one out of the hat, give some awesome tidbit and it’s their day in the sun. Backstories, Art, playability, etc.

It’s a whole month before the Innsmouth announcement and we need have to have something to discuss!