Is there a rule that states that if you close/seal a gate any monster on the gate's location are returned to the cup, regardless of their symbol? (just to be clear: I'm not playing with this "rule", obviously, but I just have a feeling I'm missing something)

I can't find any rule that would make this happen. I agree that it always seems a bit odd that you can seal a location and still leave monsters there, but that's how it is.

There's a rule in the "official" house rules from the support page, so it obviously is a houserule, not a "real" one.

I think the houserule s designed to make the game easier. As I read, the offical houserules, I think most of them were the alternate or original rules and playtesting caused them to be dropped, but just barely. It seems to be if monsters at the location were sucked back INSTEAD of monsters of the same symbol, the game wouldn't stretch my ability to suspend my disbelief as much.

I watched The Mist last night. It really fit into Arkham Horror. There are tentacles.

mageith said:

New or old version? Also, doesn't anime have tentacles as well ?

EDIT: Err, seems I confused Mist with the movie Fog, which has 1980 and 2005 version .

mageith said:

Yeah, that's pretty much Arkham Horror: The Movie . A gate opens at the military base, several monsters move into the streets outside the Mall, and an Environment (Weather) reduces the investigators' Speed or Sneak so they can't get out. Even the monsters all match: there are Leng Spiders, Byakhees and Mi-Go. I suppose the tentacle thing could be a Shoggoth. At the end, you even get a glimse of the Ancient One - ok, I'll stop there, too many spoilers already.

Haven't watched it, but according to IMBD it's based on a story by Stephen King . How is that have to do with Arkham?

Stephen King wrote a lot of stories that relate to the Mythos. His short story, in the night shift collection, "Salem's Lot" makes explicit reference to "The mysteries of the worm" as a plot central element, for example.

On a side note, I am currently making a few Heralds inspired by his work....

("The Mysteries of the Worm" is the English name of Di Vermis Mysteriis , in case anyone didn't realize)

How does the movie NOT have to do with Arkham? Stephen King's biggest literary influence is H.P. Lovecraft. He's a huge, HUGE Lovecraft fan. He's written essays and articles about Lovecraft, he's written homages and pastiches and tributes to Lovecraft. He sets his horror stories in the rural backwoods of America. His stories involve unspeakable, unnameable, ancient horror, and occasionally there's even a specific Cthulhu Mythos connection.

This movie 'The Mist' is about a dimensional rift opening in a small town and spewing out horrible monsters. Seriously, Kroen, can you not see how that might resonate a little bit with Arkham Horror?

Is there a way to post polls on this forum? It's about time we found out which horror authors people have actually read.

What is your problem?! As I've said, I haven't seen it yet.

kroen said:

Doesn't stop you from wetting your underoos about Innsmouth, with multiple spam-threads a day though.

You didnt see it, thats true, but he had just finished posting a word-by-word comparaison of the movie with elements from Arkham to make the point that it is basicly the same thing.

So either you didnt read his post, or...

Either way, he just explained the link yet again. There's no reason to get agitated. So YOU should calm down

Hmm, What authors... I tell ya, I read a lot of Horror. But i am very bad at keeping track of Authors. You'll have to start the Poll, then I will look up my books

Dam said:

Sorry, I wasn't trying to be confrontational. I knew you hadn't seen the movie, but I did explain what it was about in the previous post. I don't expect you to take my every word as gospel, but the post you responded to did actually contain the answer to your question. And anyway, it seemed to me that once someone had learned that a story was by Stephen King, the connection to H.P. Lovecraft is pretty much self-explanatory, since Stephen King is a massive Lovecraft fan. Make like Mandy Thomson, and do your research.

Sorry, I didn't know that. And I did read your post, but then I got to IMBD and the summary was nothing like what you said, and then I saw it's from King and I thought maybe you got it wrong or something.

Just seen it. Cool movie, but it has the worst ending I've ever seen. Couldn't he waited 5 minutes before he shot his son to death?

Also, who was that AO at the end?

ForgodsakeKroenspoilyourcomment!!!!!!!!!

AHHHH!

Some people may not have seen the movie! Like me! and may have wanted to see it! like me! WHY would you spoil the ending!?

ps- to be fair i may have expected something similiar, but still

change your comment asap! edit it out or something! if you want to talk about the ending of the movie, make a specific thread in the "Other" arkham forum!

Let's just say i have a peculiar way of reading, the sentence was too small for me to read it in parts

"The Mist" was always my favourite Stephen King short story. It's very Lovecraftian, but that's only half the equation. The story's setting is Lovecraftian, but the human dynamic is straight out of George Romero - confined, barricaded space, siege mentality and a lack of cooperation leading to disintegration.

If you want pure, no-holds-barred Stephan King-does-Lovecraft, read "Crouch End". They also made a "Masters of Horror" hour-long version starring Clair Forlani (yum).