Just something that popped up in tonights game....

For items like Throne of Carcosa which instruct you to place it on a street location is it still considered in your possession? When needing to discard items can you choose that item or does it become part of the board?

I'd say that once it is placed, it is impossible to track its original owner, so it shouldn't count as anyone's equipment in particular. It also should count as "discarded" in this way, since it has left your possession. I imagine Joe Diamond failing his story instantly when receiving that item.

heh yeah the reason it came up was because we were doing a rumor where we had to discard unique or exhibit items once per turn...and that would have been the passing item...so we didn't know what to do lol...

another question that popped up was a card that allowed the guy with infinite focus to draw spells up to his focus... does he get the whole deck?...the card also didn't say to just take one

With that particular character, you should use '4' as the number for obtaining items, including spells.

Officially, Wilson Richards has 4 focus. This means that if he obtains the correct cards, he could have a higher or lower focus (although it doesn't matter for his sliders) for purposes of things that check your focus number. This also means that he can hold on to a Bast token or refresh the Endurance skill or the Yithian Rifle, but still be able to change his sliders!

The revised Dark Pharaoh has sadly capped "draw your focus" effects at 3 or 4. I could see Wilson, with Sarah Danforth and the right blessing of Nodens, drawing six cards.

Tibs said:

…and Corinna Jones…and the yellow Innsmouth R’lyeh Encounter…and Camilla’s Ruby. So…NINE cards. (Or nine CLUES with a different Encounter.) For a guy who has “minor” issues with odds-defying collections of specific cards, I’m not sure why you fail to have them with this one. I don't think there's anything sad at all about those caps.

The specific reason I'm sad about them is that it seems the cap was added to be a "fix" for Richards's infinite focus. In fact, the issue has already been resolved because Wilson was official clarified—long ago—to have a focus of 4.