Hi All fans of AH,

Recently I stumbled upon a problem with instruction understanding and I need a clarification. In the Guide it is said that when playing with more than two "big" expansions you should use rules for one player less than actual for each expansion above the first one. What I understood is that if there're 5 of us playing Dunwitch, Innsmouth and Kingsport we should be playing using rules for 3 players. But in the instruction it is also said that "new rules" concern number of maximum opened gates and monsters limit (both city and outskirts). Does it mean that after new gate opens we still have to draw 2 monsters, or all of "3 players" rules are used and we're drawing only one monster?

Regards

KB

Hi Kami,

welcome to the board The answer you're looking for is included in this FAQ entry (if you want to check it, it's on pag 24 of the complete AH FAQ) (emphasis mine):

The rules are unchanged when using more than one expansion city, except that the number of players should be counted as being one less for each expansion board in play beyond the first. So, if six players are playing a game using both Dunwich and Innsmouth (for a total of two expansion cities), they are counted as having one less player, for a total of five players. This modified number of players is used only for determining the monster limit, the maximum number of monsters that may be in the Outskirts, the maximum number of gates that can be open at once, and the number of monsters that are drawn and placed when a gate opens. It reduces the level of difficulty for the players since they have so much more ground to cover. However, it does not apply to various card effects (such as Rumor mythos cards), to the number of successes needed to remove a doom token in the Final Battle, nor to the number of gate trophies the investigators must have for a victory by closing all the gates on the board.
This handicap cannot drop the modified number of players below one, and it is recommended that players play with more investigators if it would do so.