Hugues said:

I'd would advise against playing Kingsport's board. (Although, spoiler alert, there are actually a few scenarios that will use it). Julia uses it anyways, but that's okay ;') I'm not too uptight about these sorts of things. I don't think it will particularly matter. The main reasons I did away with it is A) I dislike it B)I wanted to undilute the mythos deck a little more, so Dunwich and Innsmouth would be more active and C)I dislike it oh wait, no, I meant I wanted to do away with the exploit that allows infinite doom token removal.

Play with everything else if possible. Otherwise you're going to be missing parts of the league. If you're missing just a bit here or there (let's say you're missing CotDP or KiY), improvise as best you can, or let me know and I'll come up with some alternate solution.

I guess I'm glad the stuff's being translated... But... It'd be nice if you found someone who could translate the story too. I think it'll be a much more enjoyable experience with it (and let's face it, it's considerably less time consuming translating than plotting out and writing a 24 scenario story).

I haven't seen the scenario for nearly a year... So you'd know it better than I would. Your translation sounds basically right. All types of cultists and maniacs are just treated as a regular vampire (the whole game). Only the original vampire monster token has strongly amplified powers.

I don't think there are any other monsters in that scenario without horror checks (what else is there? Just a mask I think?)

I would just say all monsters improve their horror check by -2.

Slumbering Ancient One powers apply before and during final combat.

"Restless " ?

Anyway... Looking back in the Fan Creation League website. A lot of these points regarding cultists were explicitly discussed in clarifications?

http://arkhamleague.blogspot.com/2010/03/scenario-one.html

Hugues said:

The wording on Death is " all monsters have an extra -2 for their horror rating" (or at least, this is what was written when I downloaded that AO). This is one of the things I have to clarify with Avi in the next days.

Making a comparison with what was said about the slumbering ability of other AOs, I'd say that yes, the devouring thing is working in both cases. Not that you have the slightest chance to beat Death in case she awakens, I'm afraid

(sorry Avi for answering this message, but I just started preparing a list of things unclear about the first five Scenarios)

Anyway, in case you'd be interested, Hugues, I'm working on the first 5 Scenarios in order to find out all ambiguities & clarifications needed (playtesting those scenarios triggered some problems), and then I'll make them available in a Strange Eons format (if Avi - who should be the supervisor of everything - says it's ok for him). This thing wouldn't take too much time, I hope; so in case you plan to translate them into French, maybe it'd be better waiting a little more and have the "almost" final version of it

Avi_dreader said:

Whitches & Fire vampires, for example (can't say I'm a 100% sure, I'm at work now and I don't have much time for checking it on-line)

Julia said:

Yes. Death's bonuses would effect Dracula's minivampires.

General rule for Janus ;') interpret his ability in the way least favorable to you. He is a herald after all ;'D

Oh no, it's great if you answer the questions ;'D just try to do it before me in the future (save me ten minutes).

I kind of disagree about beating Death. It's difficult, but it can be done with a team of three or less if you work for it. Get everyone blessed, good equipment, allies, loads of clue tokens, attack canceling items, good combat skills (those sort of things). You just have to take him out in the first few rounds with some good stuff, that's all. Ideally, you can recruit an ally or two that ignore resistances.

Generally my attitude for sharing this sort of thing is it's okay, provided credit is given, and there is some level of quality control. I'd be really sad if all the Ancient Ones were replaced by Hello Kitty characters for instance, not that I'm suggesting Julia would do that, but then again, she dislikes Buffy, so, you never know.

Julia said:

::Facepalm:: clearly I'm not playing enough these days... Tied up in all this scenario construction. Sigh. Ah well. Just a few more months.

Avi_dreader said:

Yep, Julia is a big fan of the Kingsport board, although she never ever used the Thomas Olney laundrey, in Avi's league or whatelse. I simply love the city. And I was almost killed by Kingsport during Scenario 6, I had 2 rifts in play, and the other one with three tokens on the track and a serpent people moving everywhere in Kingsport. Not the best time for a picnic on the Harbourside ;-) As far as dilution in concerned... well, you have 22 Mythos cards from Kingsport. This shouldn't change that much the dilution of Innsmouth and Dunwich activity!

Julia said:

I'm just rationalizing excuses to justify my hatred of Kingsport, shhh ;')

Julia said:

How did you get a Serpent People in Kingsport? Did you get Migo Brain Case again?

Avi_dreader said:

::wearing sunglasses as the best undercover agent ever::

Avi_dreader said:

Nope, a Kingsport Mythos Card made a monster appear in the Harborside street and so...

Sure i will translate the story too. But when i'm playing, i read the story once, could be done in english, but i read the rules often. And i prefer them to be translated. Easier to think about it.

All my questions about the monsters were because i was thinking about making a copy of those monsters with eon, in order to have a food visual of the modifications. Sounded helpfull.

Hugues said:

Wait? What? I wouldn't bother making aeon copies of the modified monsters. Just look at the Vampire that's always on the board to know what their base statistics are.

Heh... I'm not saying you *have* to translate the story... But if you're planning on showing your work to other people, you probably should. If you're serious about translating the story, let me know and I'll send you the overview privately. Although you might want to play through it by yourself once before seeing the entire story ;') it'll be more fun that way, I'd think.

Well the copies for the monsters would be the vampire, the cultist, the maniac, the dark druid and the black goat of the child... Humm... black child of the goat... Well that one. And it would be over.

And yeah, i'd like playing through it before translating everything. But you did a really nice job. And it's a lot to translate. But you pointed something right. As long as i keep it for myself i don't need the translation. But if i want to release a french version, i need to translate every thing.

Hugues said:

héhéhé... Caught you.

You just signed for it, man ;o)

amikezor said:

;') I don't think he signed up for anything if he doesn't want to do it. If he does it, I hope he's capable of doing a good job in French, because I certainly won't be able to evaluate it. (Although I do have three French speaking friends from the offline world who probably could).

And what's up with you Amikezor? You haven't been very active lately. When are you going to play the League? :'D Your Sheldon Gang is coming up in two scenarios.

In fact, we're using another forum on Arkham Horror somewhere else in the cyberspace and i just asked if anyone already started the translation. And no one did. So i got it

And the problem is not doing a good job in French. It's doing the right job from the english source. Cause in the preface, the text is a little bit confusing. Which is meant, cause the "guy" who wrote is a little bit... well... losing sanity.

By the way, the first paragraph is what Mary is reading from the book isn't it ? It should be quoted or something like that, shouldn't it ?

Avi_dreader said:

SPOILER!!! ::SHOCK::

Julia said:

Oh, don't worry ;') you're not going to be really shocked until you see what was done with it. Scenario 8 is the first brutal scenario in this set, but don't worry, there are more ;'D

...

The last one gives me nightmares...

:'D

Avi_dreader said:

Ougtha play the others soon in order to satisfy my sadistic vein ;-)

Julia said:

The faster you'll play, the faster I'll post :')

Avi_dreader said:

I need a couple of weeks for playtesting a couple of things (working now on the flying gates thing. Sounds kinda fun, but needs a strong playtest, since I'm changing a couple of core rules in order to make it works). I'll try Scenario Seven more or less around half of February!

Julia said:

I'll post scenario 9 and 10 in Febuary then I guess. Unless you play faster :')

Avi_dreader said:

It's almost impossible for me to go quicker, February is exams-time at the University ::sob:: I'm afraid I won't be able to play Arkham for a while, now

Julia said:

Well, I won't encourage you to sabotage your education and potential career to play more Arkham Horror, even though I want to ;'D

Avi_dreader said:

well, I do have less free time (and a third child is coming which won't increase it :-). I spent some time writing in french with no translation into english (mostly I published a whole book case and a bunch of scenarios). I still read most of the threads though (of the fan creation section exclusively)... I am writing a second bookcase (I think that is the best of arkham, at least for me).

Recently, I worked on the end of the game, that I found really poor in all cases (stop the game when you have 6 seals/no gates and even worst the "final" battle). Still not completely satisfied with the current version. I will translate it as soon as I found it good.

I am considering playing your league again. Especially using the nice pictures of Julia :-))