I have just finished playing through Shattered Bonds and would like to find out how others treat a monsters phasing ability. I had the instruction " The Hound of Tindalos moves 3 spaces towards the nearest investigator" , the monster was in a downstairs hallway and the investigator was in an upstairs room , however the tiles were adjacent to each other. Does that mean the monster could have moved from downstairs to upstairs using 1 space of movement ?

Yep. When a creature has phasing, try to sort of "defocus" on the details of the board and just look at the squares. The monster treats the whole board as if it were a big, open, featureless plain.

Phasing is scary.

9 hours ago, pklevine said:

The monster treats the whole board as if it were a big, open, featureless plain.

I think that's a great and simple explanation.

It reminds me of the phasing ability in Magic: the Gathering. Long time ago it had a very long and complicated explanation how it works. When it was reprinted recently the main part of the summary was "When it's phased out treat it as thought it doesn't exist." The ability works the same as years ago but someone finally came up with simple description.

That is a brutal ability then. So it would just move across the map from space to space as the crow flies.

Small Spoiler :

It makes me wonder now why the scenario gave me so many barricades to use , although I never purposely attracted the monster so maybe they would be useful then. This scenario definitely lives up to it's difficulty rating , I'm looking forward to playing it again though.