On one of the cards used in battling the Dunwich Horror, the failure condition/damage is to lose all the investigators items.

But once this has occurred, bad as it may be, done this mean the DH can't actually harm the investigator again and they can keep plugging away at it until they manage 5 successes on the combat roll, or they give up and try and flee the battle?

pumpkin said:

You'd still need Fight 6 or Clues, as that version has -1 combat modifier. DH has a +2 Awareness, so you should be able to flee. Or if unable to (Environment + Yibb-Tstll), you could end the fight, because nothing can happen (if the investigator can't get 5 hits a turn).

Yes, i suppose it is still pretty bad when compared to a "lose half items and stamina 1 or keep all items, take injury and stamina max" resolution of a regular combat.

Well, if you manage to bring in a character with 6 fight (natural or skill-enhanced) or with a weapon that can't be lost, like the deputy's revolver, then you may very well be able to KO the Dunwich Horror at the price of all your items. Of course, you never know which incarnation you're going to get, which is the problem with battling the horror. You're never going to have all of the bases covered.

That's the one virtue, in my opinion, of playing with Michael McGlen. Once he gets by the horror check, he automatically kills pretty much any monster with one stamina damage, no roll required. I call it "Mortal Combat".

flamethrower49 said:

I'm resisting the urge to point out the exceptions to this. In general, that's right.

I would think the DH would be smart enough to stop attacking you the same way. So draw another card.

avec said:

There will always be exceptions, avec, I know that as well as you do.

But usually. Ah, usually, it's glorious.

I know. I'm not trying to say anything about you. I've just noticed that on forums if you make a general statement people are going to jump in with exceptions 1, 2, 3 and 4. And one of those people will probably be me.