Hallo everyone,

my question is following:

During the movement step, when I enter an area containing a monster, Ive two possibilities. To evade the monster or fight it. When i choose the first option, to evade the monster, can fight the monster in the same round or i can stay or leave, but i cant fight it? Because there is one subsection in the rulebook on the page 14, which says:

.... If the investigator successfully evades the monster in the first place, he never needs to make a horror check at all.

Ty for your answers and opinions :-)

During the movement phase, if there are one or more monsters in your space (whether you start in it or enter it) you must "deal" with all of the monsters, in any order you choose.

Each monster must be evaded or battled. If you successfully evade all monsters, you're avoiding fighting them, and can even continue moving. However if you fail to evade, the monster deals its stamina damage to you and then you enter combat. Combat (usually) begins with a horror check.

If you enter combat at all during movement, whether you chose to or whether you failed an evade check, you can not continue moving that turn, and can't receive or use any more movement points. Even if you successfully "flee" a monster, that is, pass the evade check after you've already entered combat, you can't move anymore that turn.

However, you always have to deal with all the monsters on a space, unless one of them sends you away (usually to the hospital or asylum) before you can face the other.

Hope this helped.

So if i understand it right, when I evade a monster, I dont have the possibility to fight it the same turn.

We played it this way: Ive evaded a monster, so I dont have to make a horror check and then I fought with the monster, avoiding to make a horror check and to lose any sanity. But if there isnt the possibility to fight the monster, when I evade it, the situation is clear and we played the evade/battle step for the whole time wrong :-/ :-D

"Evading" means you're avoiding the monster, so that you don't have to fight. Whenever you do fight a monster though (whether you wanted to or not), you have to make a horror check (unless the monster doesn't have a horror check, such as a Fire Vampire) before you can even attempt to defeat it with a combat check. You can never really skip the horror check.

This is one reason why Michael McGlen isn't a universally good fighter, despite his high stamina and good starting weapon. McGlen's low sanity is his Achilles heel.

Do you need to make a horror check before you attempt to evade?

romfox said:

AFAIK...

If you are attempting an evade check to avoid initiating combat with a monster then NO.

If you have Failed your Initial Evade Check then combat has been initiated... So you will need to make your Horror Check (once), and then attempt to fight or evade.

Lord_Nerdhammer said:

In the latter case, the Evade check is called "Flee," probably to avoid confusion on this very issue.

Ty for answers, the problem is cleared. :-) Hf with AH guys and another stuff u like to play :-)