I'm curious to know how people deal with a problem I've encountered. When one of your investigators is defeated and you choose a new investigator at the start of the next round; what do you do if one or both of your new characters starting assets is already held by an active or defeated investigator? There aren't multiples of each asset (eg. Weapons) so what do you do? Your new investigator needs their starting weapons but you don't want to just remove it from an active investigators inventory or take it out of the defeated investigators assets?

Thoughts please

Thanks

According to the rules - Reference guide pg3 "An investigator can gain a card or token only if it is available" and " Cards and tokens on a defeated investigator's sheet are not available" Then if the asset is not available, he/she will start without the asset.

That also counts for nasty rumors like "Faded from society" where you discard all assets by failing it.

I play it this way, but I think you could easily houserule it by drawing a random asset of the same type (ally, weapon,...) if you think it cripples your investigators. Hope this helps :-).