To the best of my knowledge there isn’t yet an online form that people can use to record play stats for Arkham Horror 3rd edition like the ones Tibs currently runs for AH 2nd ed. (If there is please let me know). The possibility of having one was raised in a separate post for this forum but as best I can tell never reached a resolution.
Since I’m not a novice at working with Google Spreadsheets, I figured I’d take a try at creating a form (shamelessly cribbing from the style Tibs used for Eldritch Horror).
Most of the work is already done with just one major item left to figure out. Namely, how to categorize “victory”? In AH 3rd edition the victory really varies by scenario and there is no cut and dry “we won by doing X”.
One option would be to just have a single “Victory” option. But I feel that this doesn’t really do justice to calling out when the investigators do really well versus just barely managed to scrape by. For example:
In Approach to Azathoth, did you need to travel into the future? Or did you manage things before they got that bad? Similarly, did you seal the breach before Cthulhu appeared or did you have to take down the big C. himself?
In Eldritch Horror victory could be easily segmented: you either won before the Ancient one awoke or not. Something similar could be done here: Have a “Victory (without facing Epic Monster)” and “Victory by defeating Epic Monster”. However this is still not perfect.
The only way to win “Feast of Umordhoth” is to defeat Umordhoth. Whereas the “last ditch” victory for “Approach of Azathoth” doesn’t involve facing Azathoth, but instead going to the future.
But at least it allows us to divide victories into types.
One option I considered and rejected would be to have branching questions depending on which scenario was played. But that would be a lot of work and there is still the problem of summarizing the results without spoilers.
So, if you have read this far and have any thoughts I’d love to hear them. To recap, the main question I am grappling is whether to have a single option for reporting victory vs. multiple. Of course all other thoughts are welcome (things to add, etc).
Thanks in advance!
Note: this is cross posted to BGG. I will be reading replies to both so no need to answer in both places.
Updated title to make clear that form is not yet created. :)