So we have Roland and we've drawn Nyarlathotep as our AO. Has there been any rules clarification there that I missed, or is it still virtually impossible for Banks to lose to the Crawling Chaos in final combat?

Solan said:

I think there was an faq post somewhere saying R.B.'s ability doesn't function during final battle (yep, proto-FAQ says it doesn't work during final battle).

Is there any way to get a copy of the proto-faq up on arkhamhorrorwiki or someplace with a big "unofficial" tag on it?

It seems like most people are wanting to play by those rules, and they've been noted already.

Forgive me if this has already been hashed out, but given the long lead time of getting a prettied-up FAQ up on the site, maybe having a wiki page would be a good way to tide us over?

shofixti said:

We've never been given official permission to share the proto-faq. ::Shrug:: we've posted most of the significant answers to game questions from the proto-FAQ. If there's a question that still isn't asked, and if it's in the PF we'll answer it, and if not, we'll try to include it in the next version of the PF (probably). There are *many* bugs in the PF, and it'd probably be a bad idea to publically post it anyway (since it would possibly end up in even more ruling errors the way it's currently written).

Avi_dreader said:

Thanks! I appreciate you letting me know, since we ended up having to fight the Final Battle. Sadly, we were ill-equipped weaponwise and three of the four investigators were devoured. The fourth one managed to hang on all the way through the green Final Battle cards and into the reds, where the Sinister Plot "Join Me!" came up. Naturally, being the last one left and having no hope of defeating him, I joined Nyarlathotep at once. At least I won .

Forbidding Roland's ability isn't enough. There are other effects that can supply endless clues during Final Combat. I would just play that you can never receive clues during final combat, period. This will solve all potential cases like this, and also give poor Nyarlathotep a much-needed power boost.

Poor Tommy Muldoon, dying for (almost) nothing in final combat .

Dam said:

Yeah well, Tommy can unleash a barrage when he goes down, removing a doom token from the AO. However, there really isn't plausible time to examine the evidence and clues he left behind!

Tibs said:

I agree. I think I might have suggested that as a general rule, but it's been a few months since I wrote all my comments and I don't remember much of what I said. Except about Kate. I have three bags of WTF for the Kate suggestion...

Tibs said:

Yes ;') because this game's all about plausibility ;'D

Dam said:

Dam it ****! I can barely recognize you now that you've plastic surgeried your e-face!

It is my mission (not task ) to drive you ever deeper into the insanity-abyss.

Dam said:

And the reward... the Kingsport expansion ::laughing::

Avi_dreader said:

And it's very much appreciated, all the work that's gone into it. There's a gold mine of info in the threads here, sometimes it's just tricky remembering which nugget was where. The sooner it's up in one place, the better.

If someone were to put up a page with a big "Unofficial!" header on it and slip all the PF references onto it, would that ruffle any feathers on either the fine folks of this forum, or the FFG staffers?

Well that's another conundrum. Since we three are not FFG staff, we can't say for sure whether or not that'd be okay. But I'm going to fall back on my NDA and just avoid distributing the document. However, we will be answer rules questions that have been clarified in the FAQ beyond any shadow of a doubt (as it stands, there are many responses that are contradictory, unclear or—in my opinion anyway—unreasonable).

Dam said:

Keep it up and I shall delve beneath the bottom of the bottomless pit ;')

Julia said:

::Laughter::

Tibs said:

Ditto. But. Um. Did we sign NDAs? Or was that a figure of speech?

I thought there was a clause in the email. Better safe than sorry, anyway.