Sliding versus adding

By Stenun, in Arkham Horror Second Edition

Just a thought that's occured to me ...

But when we play we rarely add tokens to the Doom Track or the Dunwhich Horror Track, etc. Instead, we just slide the one token up to the next space on the track. So one Doom Token goes up and down but no more actual physical tokens are added to the sheet.

Anyone else do this or is it just us?

I've done that a few time when I was too lazy to get a Doom Token out of the Box that was right next to my hand.

I tried it once, but quickly realized how satisfying it was to actually TAKE AWAY a Doom Token from the creep and place it after an Elder Sign was played. (Instead of what I guess you would do: move your Doom Placer back one, and grab a different one from the pile.) Same feeling applies to the Final Battle.

The only technical problem I can see is if you have the Curse of the Dark Pharaoh expansion and have to do OW combat with the AO your game is against. You're supposed to flip the doom tokens to the elder sign side to indicate damage, flipping them back when you win or lose.

On the practical side, if you bump the AO and the doom token slides around, that could suck trying to retrace your steps to remember exactly how many he should have.

Oh we have the dark pharoah. That's easy. Just use a dice at the start to mark what he has as you fight him.