I'm playing him for the first time in a 3 player Carcosa and his main job is slaughtering enemies. He's hard to hurt permanently and can cycle his defense items (especially Cherished Keepsake and Leather Jacket) back into play easily. I made the mistake of giving him a Fire Axe, I was seduced by the extra damage, but will swap that out for his shovel. In 4 scenarios, he's found less than a half dozen clues, and that's okay. That's not why he's there.

His biggest downside as i get more advanced cards with XP is resource starvation (partially because of the Fire Axe). I'll be adding an Emergency Cache to the deck.

Overall, he's been a blast to play.

Look out Jacqueline Fine got a new signature skill card!

Besides Jacquelines ability to turn this into a +3 on any test she uses her ability on. It's a pretty good neutral card for mystics in general to run especially with the recent releases of Breath of the Sleeper, Eyes of the Dreamer, and Katarina Sojka. As further pairing with old additional chaos token reveals like Olive McBride, Dark Prophecy, and Grotesque Statue it's pretty easy to hit +3 or +4 on a test. From how its worded I would also assume it would work with janky Rod of Carnamagos as well since its checking for how many additional chaos tokens were revealed during the test, although I would argue it shouldn't.

There is also a niche use for Blursed decks since you could reveal a whole bunch of tokens through their effects. Although I think it's too swingy to use compared to something like Unexpected Courage as you need to reveal 2 Blurse tokens to be better than it.

I believe that Double Double has a very powerful combo with this card...as when DD is used on an event that attaches to a card in play its second casting mearly changes the target of said attachment...in the case of Hidden Pocket this is useless ...but with "I'll take that!" the first card is already discounted and in play...so a second asset in hand can now be discounted and played with ITT now attached to the second card ...the first only losing the attachment and illicit trate. All that as a 0 cost free action and exhausting of Double Double! When I used it with my Sefina deck I had my Fence active ...used it to play grift as a fast action beat the task by 5 and put out 2 assets for free while gaining 5 resources and spending no actions lol...power play!

Finally a 5xp Survivor Card and WOW What a Card!!

Perfect Target to use is obviously Resourceful to use it multiple times per Round. Gumption or Brute Force are insane too.

Turns from Silas Marsh can already be very crazy. This Card might get him to S Tier Levels.

Another Investigator can use it Gift with Scroll of Secrets to get your card back from the bottom of your Deck immediately. I use Resourceful to get my Lucky! 3 back to my Hand and have it every turn. The 3rd Card of Fortuitous Discovery is another good target for example. Neither Rain nor Snow as mentioned. The list is almost endless what to get back.

I guess we will see a taboo nerf on this Combo (like the nerf to Scavenging) in a later time. But the Problem with Combo is might not be Gift of Nodens, its maybe more Resourceful. Something like 1x Resourceful per Round or the Card from Gift of Nodens gets shuffled back into the Deck, rather then on the Bottom of the Deck. So play it while its hot. :)

Quite possibly one of the best investigation tools in the game right now. Not only does it have built-in skill boost and clue compression like Fingerprint Kit, but also come with three traits that already have a ton of support and synergies. Here are some of them I personally found interesting:

Item Synergies

• This is a very competitive investigation tool for Bob Jenkins even when pitted against Thieves' Kit or Lockpicks (1).
• Can be tutored with Backpack (and its upgrade).
• Throw it, bash someone over the head with it or crack boxes with it at +3. Unconventional Method + Nautical Charts can be overkill though, unless you're playing 3-player and want to get clues in multiples of 3 is more a novelty though, since you can usually achieve the net +2 boost through less destructive means (see below).
• Skill boost with Jury-Rig or Reliable. You can potentially get a lot of mileage out of the latter.

Tome Synergies

• It's an eligible target for The Raven Quill. Interwoven Ink is especially interesting as the on Nautical Charts is not limited by uses (compared to Grim Memoir which uses secrets for example).
• Double tap with Abigail Foreman.
• Full tutor with the Quill's Supernatural Record or Research Librarian. Also Whitton Greene.
• Throw it, this time to fight, at +3.
• +2 boost with Sleuth and Mystic Vane from the Quill.

Tool Synergies

• Wilson Richards can test at 5 at the very least and the charts is a valid target for Ad Hoc.
• Tool Belt, Tinker or Scientific Studies Grant to hold it. (Also Detective's Colt 1911s if Joe somehow got his hands on one of these)
• Fine Tuning to use it twice, though two discards a turn can be a little hard to keep up with.
• Pushed to the Limit to recur in a pinch if you dropped both in the discard and missed the Scavenging test to get one back.
• Nose to the Grindstone and Crafty for further +2 boosts.

Nautical Charts is perfectly serviceable as the Survivor's answer to Fingerprint Kit (0), but it has immense potential to get better and you'll be rewarded with a tool that can last you the entire campaign if you take the effort to build around it.