subochre said:

That would net fewer dice since with this setup Joe is getting 4 die per clue in a combat check......Which makes me think of something. Could Joe use The Mask of Truth to duplicate his own power and get an additional clue multiplier?

No. Masks only mimic investigators who are not in play.

Oh and I forgot to include serpent people netting an additional 9 dice. for the total minimum of 401 dice.

ok. be prepared for heavy numbers here.

i calculated some to find the best investigator to start with, and decided to present two examples. both are very unlikely (statistically impossible), but the second one is even more so than the first one.

investigator: William Yorick (4 fight)

he get fight from:
skills: fight (+1), wrestle (+1)
allies: basil elton, earl sawyer, foolishness, professor morgan, terrible old man, thomas f. malone (+1/each = +6), tom "mountain" murphy (+2)
blessed, with blessings of nodens: fight (+1)
relationship: friendly rivals (+1)
spells: 3x voice of ra (+3)
exhibit items: eye of light and darkness (+5), mask of wisdom (gain Joe Diamond's ability), scales of thoth (+3)
minh thi phan use the Team Player power (+1)

total: 28 fight.

he get combat from:
weapons: 2x molotov cocktail (+12), brass knuckles (+1), alien device (+2)
allies: david packard, erica carlyle, the messenger (+2/each = +6), professor morgan (+1/weapon = +6 [above row plus 2x chime of ra])
spells: inner beast (+2), 2x call down the storm (by someone else, or in earlier combat.. +4), 2x intervene (+6)
relationship: skullcrackers (+1)
agnes baker casts one of the intervene spells (+2)
exhibit items: 2x chime of ra (+12)
items: cryptozoology collection (+1)

total: 55 combat.

clue tokens: 48 +35 (power tokens). he also, freakishly enough, has all monster trophies except the one cultist he's fighting, which he spends using his secrets of the dead ability for an additional 132 clue tokens.

(according to above): 215 clue tokens.
skills: mythos lore (+1)
allies: granny orne (+1)
items: 2x research materials (+2)
total: 219 clue tokens.

this leads to 28 fight + 55 combat + (219 clue tokens * 2 due to joe's ability *2 due to fight skill) = 28+55+876 = 959

Yorick rolls 959 dice in a +0 combat against the single monster he doesn't already have a trophy. That means 960 dice against the cultist.

and this is disregarding location cards and mythos cards (like +fight weather)

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bonus!

instead of using william yorick, we use "skids" o' toole who accidentally rolls all 1 on his dice, but decides to reroll them, gaining an extra dice per die that turned out to be a 1..

note: i did not count the masks as possible trophies, but i did count the endless ones (as you still can get them by the way of encounters/items). perhaps i should've counted the masks too. also note that you probably could get this even higher by going for spectral razor, but i'm way too tired to calculate that as there are loads of +spell check/+lore items/spells/conditions..

p.s. serpent people only add on a failed die. but amazingly! yorick failed his skillcheck, but amanda/condition let him reroll, so he throws in the token there instead gaining a few extra dice..

edit: i did not add the visions card since that would just be silly. but theoretically, you could have all spells (except the intervene ones) before fighting and use them as additional clues too..

Taurmindo said:

...aaand gets no successes. Dammit!

avec said:

The risk for that is quite low, as it would require him to be blessed (to get the blessing of nodens favor), so.. 0.5^960, meaning 1.06 * 10 ^-289 also known as the "aint happening" chance.

Well, respectfully, after rolling 16 dice and not getting a single success, then burning 3 clues because I was "mathmatically due" and still not getting it, I must respectfully say "Not only is it possible, it's essential!"