The rules say that no monster in Dunwich count for the monsterlimit, but what happens if a monstersurge happens in an location in Dunwich and the monsters in Arkham are at there max?

The rules say that when a monstersurge happens you have to devide the monsters at the opengates. When the monsters are at max put them in the outerskirts. But monsters from Dunwich never go to this outerskirts. So where are the monster go to then?

Thx.

You divide the monsters among the gates, the "surging" gate cant get less then the other gates. If the monsters placed on arkham gates would bring it above the monster limit, place the too-many monsters in the outskirt (eventually raising the terror level).

Thats how we do it.

Yeah, this has come up before. It's a bit odd, and the rulebook is unclear in a few places, but as far as I can tell from FAQs and clarifications, it works like this:

A monster surge effectively has two "steps". First, before drawing any monsters from the cup, you work where the monsters will go, by assigning a number of monsters to each gate and making sure that no gate will have more monsters placed on it than the surging gate. (If there will be excess monsters, you have to distribute them as evenly as possible, with the First Player ultimately making the decisions. This is the part which you can sometimes manipulate to your advantage, although usually not much).

Secondly, you actually draw the monsters and place them where you've already worked out they have to go. You're not meant to decide which specific monster goes where; you just draw random monsters for each gate until that gate has the number that were assigned to it in the first step. HOWEVER (here's where I actually answer your question, heh heh) if the places you're putting monsters turn out to be non-viable for any reason, you just don't put that monster there. "Non-viable" locations are usually non-viable because the monster limit has already been reached on that board, in which case the monster goes in the outskirts. Monsters being placed on expansion boards won't have this happen to them and are placed on those boards as normal. However there are a couple of other reasons why any location might not be able to have a monster: Kate Winthrop's special ability, or a Warding of the Yellow Sign. In those cases I think the monster just goes back in the cup.