Ashcan Puns

Hiya,

For the next campaign I'm playing, Innsmouth, I would like to play Ashcan Pete. My brother will play Jacqueline Fine, so it's a 2player campaign. We played the base game, Dunwich, Carcosa and TFA on easy, so we are not experts in the game :D Also, I’m not a native speaker, so please apologize mistakes.

My plan is a Dark horse deck, but with On your Own (the permanent one), because I'd like to try the cool survivor events and I think the staying-poor mechanic synergizes well with Dark horse. Also I think it's very thematic for a survivor, who doesn't need allies besides his loyal Duke.

I read very much in this subreddit and I'm impressed about all the knowledge in this community, so I would love to hear your feedback for my plan. My card pool: Base game x2, complete Dunwich/Carcosa/TFA/Innsmouth, Before the black throne, all investigator packs except the rogue one.

My raw Deck plan: Maybe 12 Assets, 10 Events, 6-8 Skills.

• Assets: Because there is no soak from allies, I think leather coat and cherished keepsake are mandatory. Also Fire axe and Dark horse. Scrapper (lv 3) after the first scenarios as a permanent. Before I get On your Own, I would include Madame labranche.
• Events: Look what I found, Lucky, Live and Learn, Perseverance
• XP-Events: a selection from Will to survive, Eucatastrophe, Alter Fate, Look what I found (lv 2), True Survivor, A test of will
• Skills: Unexpected courage, Live and learn, Resourceful, Guts or manual dexterity

A few questions, feedback is appreciated:

1. Magnifying glass or Newspaper? Newspaper would save an off-class slot and is upgradable, Mag glass is fast and more reliable…
2. Other off-class asset? I fluctuate between Lone wolf and Fieldwork. Lone wolf helps to get 2 ressources every turn, which I could burn with Scrapper, but also use for a strong fire axe chop or for will to survive, for example. Fieldwork could support the good mobility from Duke, I liked this card in my Ursula deck very much. Maybe combine it with shortcut for even more mobility?
3. Is mariner's compass a good idea? Only 2 base intellect from Ashcan, so I'd need at least 2 ressources to boost at 4, which isn't that good. Also 3 ressources to play. But 2 clues in 1 investigation is great…
4. Maybe Scavenging for economy for Duke? I’m a bit scared that without Rabbit's Foot (because of cherished keepsake) I’m running out of hand cards to discard for Duke really soon.
5. Is Will to survive in the basic ve

First post/trade here and really like the community so giving it a go!

Looking to trade this unique comic for something for a sub-one-hundred FF or Iron Man.

I'm looking for specifically:

Iron Man: 4,7,10,17-20

FF: something between 50-100 - I know its vague but quality of comic will quickly rule out most trades below #50 in FF :-)

Open to suggestions also!

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If you've been itching to play an rpg that combines monster hunting, dungeon delving, anti-capitalist corpo killing, and crust punks, then we've got you covered!

CRUST is a game that has been in the works for nearly 9 months, and we've finally reached a point where we've decided it's time to get some funding under our belts for our long term goal of a 100 page full scale system.

At this point a good chunk of the bones are finished, and a ton of the writing, so we're releasing an Ashcan of the game to help fund our next steps!

Contributing to the ashcan will get you all the very basic rules you need to jump into the world of M-0847, make a crustie, and kill some shit. But the game in the future will have FAR more than that. You'll get regular updates to the game files as well, up until our full release is ready to launch.

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CRUST (TR)ASHCAN

CRUST is an OSR inspired hexcrawling, dungeon delving, monster slaying rpg, set in the 1990s. You’ll be playing as crust punks on a hostile planet owned and mined by the CORPOS.

The game uses a dice pool system I’ve developed similar in vein to the YZE system. But most, if not all of the rest of the game is overly OSR inspired.

This ashcan contains all the rules you’ll need to get a game going at the table, but there is A LOT to come, many updates to the ashcan, and a full scale release in the near future.

The game is explained in more detail on the game page so take a look if you’re interested, and if you’re unsure about the $5 price tag, there’s a $1 “curious about this” option!

Thanks for your interest in advance! 🤘

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Dear Alan Moore Redditors,

Thanks to one of you, I have now seen the fourth and final 1963 ashcan and can now offer my compleat index of all four issues and their contents...

1. THE UNBELIEVABLE N-MAN Ashcan

Cover: Sketch for the full-page poster on page 25 in the published comic.

Inside Front Cover: 2 sketches, one from the published cover (the N-Man cameo for “Tales From Beyond”) and one early sketch made as the N-Man was being developed, along with a welcome note (apparently from Stephen Bissette).

Pages 1-22: Excerpt from “Showdown in the Shimmering Zone” - first page, just pencils, followed by the same page with lettering, and then with inks. After that, penciled pages alternate with inked and lettered pages, ending with the pencils for page 11.

Page 23 & 24, inside back cover, and back cover: “The Birth of N-Man” by Stephen Bissette, sketches and notes

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2. THE FEARLESS FURY Ashcan

(Title changed to “No One Escapes The Fury” upon publication)

Cover: Sketch for the full-page poster on page 25 in the published comic.

Inside Front Cover: Sketches related to the Fury and 1963, and notes probably written by Stephen Bissette.

Page 1-15: Excerpt from “When Wakes the War-Beast,” pencils only, no inks or lettering

Pages 16-17: “The Fury Sketchbook” notes and sketches by Stephen Bissette about the genesis of this character.

Pages 18-22: Pages for several of the 1963 titles, beginning with “Mystery, Inc.” - illustrations by Rick Vietch and Dave Gibbons, notes by Bissette.

Page 23: “USA - Ultimate Secret Agent” (renamed “Ultimate Special Agent” upon publication) - illustrations by Vietch, notes by Bissette.

Inside back cover: “The Hypernaut” - two sketches, on by Bissette and one by Moore, with notes by Bissette.

Back cover: Cameo sketch of N-Man from cover of “Tales From Beyond,” also illustration by Veitch of Anubis from “Horus.”

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3. HORUS LORD OF LIGHT Ashcan

Cover: full-color reproduction of the cover of “Horus.”

Inside front cover: “1963 is Coming!” blurb with text about the series.

Pages 1-5: Color reproductions of pages from “Horus” - pages 1, 4, 5, 6, and 7.

Pages 6-9: Interviews with Moore, Veitch, and Bissette.

Pages 10-16: Color reproductions of pages from “Horus” - pages 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12.

Inside back cover: parody advertisement - “Turn Your Armpits…”

Back cover: black, no illustration, text: “Hero Premier Edition #6”

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4. MYSTERY, INC. Ashcan

Cover: Cover of M

There were four ashcans related to the 1963 series. One for the "Fearless" Fury, (a change from the published title), and one for N-Man, and a third for Horus. The last of the four was "Mystery, Inc." I'm wondering if anybody here has a copy and can share details of the contents. A banner on the cover (at the top) reads: "First Look! At 3 All New 1963 Features!" The first three ashcans offered a wide range of features, including preliminary sketches and penciled pages... what about the fourth?

Hey, I'm playing my first campaign beyond the core set and working on building a Mark Harrigan deck to work alongside Ashcan Pete who is pushing towards a Dark Horse clueverer kind of build. I'm working with two core sets, all of Dunwich, all of Forgotten Age, all of the investigator starter decks, and the initial boxes for Insmouth/Carcossa but none of the later card sets from those. Currently I'm really liking the idea of using and updated Grete Wagner/updated Beat Cop build with Charisma then working towards getting flamethrowers and well prepared running to allow me to be a decent off-clueverer main killer. I'm thinking about running the following starter deck to achieve this with the double prepared for the worst being in place mainly to assist with the slow development towards double flamethrowers in the deck. Thoughts and critiques very much so appreciated!

Assets

2x Grete Wagner:The Purifier (Nathaniel Cho)

2x Safeguard (Nathaniel Cho)

2x Guard Dog (Core Set)

2x Flashlight (Core Set)

1x Smoking Pipe (The Miskatonic Museum)

2x Painkillers (The Miskatonic Museum)

1x Sophie:In Loving Memory (The Path to Carcosa)

2x .32 Colt (The Path to Carcosa)

1x True Grit (The Path to Carcosa)

Events

2x Dodge (Core Set)

2x Emergency Cache (Core Set)

2x Taunt (The Dunwich Legacy)

2x Shortcut (The Dunwich Legacy)

2x Prepared for the Worst (Blood on the Altar)

2x "Let me handle this!" (The Path to Carcosa)

2x Trusted (The Forgotten Age)

Skills

2x Vicious Blow (Core Set)

1x The Home Front (The Path to Carcosa)

Treacheries

1x Random Basic Weakness (Core Set)

1x Shell Shock (The Path to Carcosa)

Can someone explain me in depth what is an ashcan RPG, if that is good or bad, and when one should release something as an ashcan?

This has really bugged me out because the word itself sounds kinda offensive, and I can only find definitions in the context of comics.

Not the best deck builder by any means, and to be honest I only play AI and Lab these days. But, with AI's huge bump up in quality I think this deck could do well.

Zil is there because I just don't have a third Akshan yet, I could grab him if I wanted but just prefer actually getting use out of vault chests. Anyway, this is Akshan and Soroka. They are a perfect match. Get Akshan out and use Astral Protection on him ASAP. Then continue hammering while counting down his landmarks (goes surprisingly quick). I've leveled him every game and some games had multiple landmarks go off. It's fun and satisfying to do it...yet I don't think the Landmark effects are that OP. There are probably other cards released in the set I could add, and I just recently threw in Star Spring for an Alternate win con, but don't think it's actually that necessary. Enjoy! ((CMBQEBAJAQCQGBAHFRUHQBADBEPCSLJXAIBAGCJDGQCAIBY6EJBIEAIBAECAOJY))

I’ve seen it on a few comics from different publishers but have no clue what it means and on some comics the Ashcans seem cheaper than regular printing but on others seems more expensive.

Effective the 23rd.

My boyfriend and I are about to start our first Dream Eaters campaign and I’m planning to play as Ashcan Pete. This is my first time with a Survivor - what’s a good pairing for Ashcan Pete in a two person group?

I'm not a native english speaker so maybe it's just a way to refer to people without home, but as I understand, ashcan is the same as a trash container. Why does he have this alias?

Just thought I would post about my experiences playing Novella Roland in true solo, building around the flamethrower - what worked, what didn’t, and a comparison with Ashcan

All of my plays were on “easy”

So firstly I took Roland through Dunwich. He fell down toward the end of where doom awaits. I then decided to take him through a standalone of lost in time and space using 19 xp for the build which was what I had at the end of where doom awaits. He failed

I tweaked the build and tried lost in t and s again. I did this about 8 times. He failed again and again etc until I finally got a moderate win - closed the gate but didn’t escape.

For comparison, I then built a deck for ashcan and played him through lost in t and s. I only used 16 xp for him. This was the first time I had built and played Ashcan in Arkham Horror. He got the complete win with quite a few rounds spare before Yog Sothoth was scheduled to show up

Admittedly, I knew the scenario well by then, but I knew the scenario well after the first few goes with Roland as well

Coming back to what worked well with Roland, without going into every card, for clue gathering I relied heavily on fieldwork, inquiring mind, perception, working a hunch, mysteries remain, art student and keen eye. Also Roland’s kill monster and get clue ability

I used 2 x disc of itzamna as a support “weapon” and it worked beautifully alongside the flamethrower. In fact, because it is actionless and testless it was a life saver. The only real downsides being you can’t earn vp and you can’t activate Roland’s ability. But there aren’t that many vp rewarding enemies and you don’t always have a clue on your location when facing an enemy so the upsides are significant especially when facing a 5 or 6 health enemy. With the flamethrower it’s a minimum of 2 actions to deal with them. With the disc it’s zero actions with no tests. In some ways it was the star and the flamethrower felt like the support weapon

I didn’t run pathfinder. This might have helped pick up the pace, but it competes with weapons and horror soaks, both in terms of xp to put it in your deck and available actions and resources to play it in the game

With 2 x flamethrower, 2 x extra ammunition, 2 x disc of itzamna and keen eye, that’s 19 xp right there.

Also if you want 2 pathfinders in play that’s 6 resources and 2 actions to play, competing with weapons and horror soaks in an investigator who relies heavily on weapons and horror soaks and who isn’t flowing w