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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Crichton" data-source="post: 4940345" data-attributes="member: 4779">I'm assuming by ritual you mean rumor mythos card name <a href="http://www.arkhamhorrorwiki.com/The_Great_Ritual" target="_blank">The Great Ritual</a>. It sounds like that was the first one you pulled at the very start of the game. If so, the rules actually prevent the players in a deeper hole right off the bat from happening. If the very first Mythos card is a rumor then you discard it and only open the gate and place the clues indicated on the card. Also, it takes 5 full turns until the fail effect kicks in so you should have had that long to get the spells needed to get rid of it.Also, with the environment cards, you were making sure to just have one of each category (urban, mystical & weather) in effect at at time right? The new one replaces the old one the moment it is drawn. So the maximum amount of rumors and environments one can have out at any one time are 4. 1 rumor (any new ones are discarded if there is one already in play) plus one of the 3 environment conditions.The Private Eye/Detective <a href="http://www.arkhamhorrorwiki.com/Joe_Diamond" target="_blank">Joe Diamond</a> is okay at best.  He has to burn skill tokens to get a use out of that ability and you'd much rather be using them to seal gates.  So pairing him up with Patrice is actually not a very good combo in the end.  Her clue should almost exclusively be used for sealing gates otherwise much of her biggest asset is wasted.The Professor is good for casting spells but his ability does not stop sanity cost for casting spells. So Heal still costs one sanity. His ability stops sanity loss but not sanity costs (which is tricky, I screwed it up my first play, too!), which all spells with a 1 or greater sanity cost are. He's not my favorite character to play but I'd much rather draw him than either <a href="http://www.arkhamhorrorwiki.com/Vincent_Lee" target="_blank">Vincent Lee</a> (The Doctor) or <a href="http://www.arkhamhorrorwiki.com/Carolyn_Fern" target="_blank">Carolyn Fern</a> (The Psychologist). Their abilities sound really good at first but really aren't that helpful. But while we're on characters, <a href="http://www.arkhamhorrorwiki.com/Patrice_Hathaway" target="_blank">Patrice Hathaway</a> is nearly a broken character as I mentioned above.  I forgot about <a href="http://www.arkhamhorrorwiki.com/Akachi_Onyele" target="_blank">Akachi Onyele</a> who closes gates at a +1 bonus and costs her one less clue token to seal them.The investigators in the expansion are a great addition to game.  Many of them, like <a href="http://www.arkhamhorrorwiki.com/Image:ZoeySamaras.png" target="_blank">Zoe Samaras</a> are just awesome for flavor and feel.If the <a href="http://www.arkhamhorrorwiki.com/Azathoth" target="_blank">Azathoth</a> awakens techinically the investigators enter the final battle which means all rumors/environments are discarded and the investigators all team in one place in Arkham so there shouldn't be any characters left in the Other World locations.  But yeah, it doesn't really matter.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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