Having just discovered Strange Eons I feel the need to fool about with it a little in order to get good at using it and balancing stuff I make with it. TO that end does anyone have any requests for anything? If not I'll just be throwing out random stuff to see what people think.

i like darker characters that are so numerous in Lovecraft's fiction but not in the game, tainted people, half humans, crazy horror authors, mad painters, half monsters, etc. And how about lovecraft as a herald or ao?

Would HPL be better as a Herald or a Guardian?

I just uploaded 2 Heralds and some monsters I've been translating for the game (5 Ancient Ones will be coming). Since there isn't room on the cards to explain new abilities here they are:

Weaken: Any characters in this Monsters Location or an adjacent Location are -1 on Combat Checks.

Bleed: If a monster with the Plus Dimensional symbol is in the same space as a Monster with this ability and it takes damage, this monster may be returned to the cup to avoid that damage. If a Monster with this ability is still on the board during the Final Battle, the Ancient One may remove it from the board to reduce the number of successes an Investigator makes on his Combat Check by 3.

Incubate: If an Investigator defeats this monster it is not collected as a Monster Trophy. Instead it is returned to the cup, and a new Monster is placed on teh board.

Manufacture: If an Investigator is reduced to 0 or less Stamina by this monster he/she is Devoured, and a random Monster is drawn from the cup and put in the same Location.

Taskmaster: Any monsters in the same or adjacent Location as the Monster with this ability move an additional space.

Bhu said:

I have a HPL herald :')

By the way, Bhu, the terror track never lowers. There are no game effects for that. So Destructive Rampage is somewhat redundant. Add on some other ability, and photo-edit the picture so the sky is not light blue (oh what a happy looking day!) and you'll have a better herald. Tower of Corruption is pretty good as it is, but you really ought to find a better picture for it. And of course, these things belong in the heralds thread.

Well if someone has done HPL as a Herald I guess I can do him as a Guardian or a character. One of the five Ancient Ones related to this I'll be doing does allow the Terror Track to lower (however at a cost to PC's). I'd love to edit the photos but alas i have no photo imaging software.

Let me fool about with the pics for the Heralds and see if i can find something more appropriate, and I'll repost them in the Herald thread.

A possible list of Investigators from HPL's stories. I tried to restrict myself to ones that didn't die (which in some cases means htey were very minor characters). Anyone want some of these:

Eunice Babson
George Birch
Enoch Bowen
Randolph Carter
Paul Choynski
Mary Czanek
Mr. Desrochers
Doctor Dexter
Landlord Dombrowski
Doctor Drowne
Professor William Dyer
Professor Ellery
Frank Elwood
Joseph D. Galvez
Father Iwanicki
Sir Philip Jermyn
Kid O’Brien
John Raymond Legrasse
Doctor Malkowski
Joel Manton
Joe Mazurewicz
Father merluzzo
William J. Monahan
Mwanu
Father O’Malley
Frank H. Pabodie
Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee
Professor Wingate Peaslee
Richard Upton Pickman
Ammi Pierce
Anna Tilton
Professor Upham
William Channing Web
Henry Anthony Wilcox
Albert N. Wilmarth
William Channing Webb
William Dyer
Francis Wayland Thurston
Frank H. Pabodie

Bhu said:

That's no reason to not make another HPL Herald :')

You don't need anything sophisticated to do really basic color adjustments. Freeware programs allow you to play with hue, saturation, color balance, brightness, and contrast. I think photobucket also has built in basic photoediting capacities.

i want evil characters!! lol

Define Evil.

I could do evil too. How about these along with a few of HPL's work:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Ball

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Fish

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Marie_Hahn

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._H._H._Holmes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axeman_of_New_Orleans

I've also been asked to do The League of Extraordinary Gentleman, Scooby Doo, Gru and his minions, Jack Rebney, Ed 'The Strangler' Lewis, and Liver Eating Johnson. Where to start is now the question...

Ah what the heck heres a quickie of my first attemp (keep in mind this is just me fooling abvout to get used to the program)t:

Some thoughts:

I did jut notice the games creator saying he avoided any effects that lowered the Doom Track, so I'm revising the Ancient One I'm working on and tthus Tentacles of Osheroth will also be redone.

I'm thinking of lowering the cost of the Winnebago, cause really how often would anyone take advantage of it?

So are these first four brutish and evil enough for you? If not Barnabas Marsh, Old Castro, and Herbert West will be coming next.

what about creating some location cards? I am looking for contributions to use in the Arkham Horror Companion. At the moment it deals with plain RTF documents, but I am contemplating using files created in Strange Eons.

Anything in mind such as Locations for an expansion, or just new stuff for Arkham?

i like your characters but they all seem to have abilites that would be relevent once out of ten games. i think the abilites need work.

The abilities are mostly rough drafts put up to get feedback. I do a lot of this stuff in the wee hours before bedtime when Im not at my best decision making wise, so I just post em to see what people think and then revise based on commentary.

My current thoughts are:

The Winnebago is over priced. Using it's ability would be unlikely, so the cost needs to come down to maybe a 6.

Jack seems possibly overpowered as he can max out Fight and use it for 4 different skill checks

Sir Philip Jermyn isnt held back by his lack of spells/tomes, because with his low Sanity/Lore he's not destined to be a caster anyway. But he's only got 1 common item, and another skill, so Im thinking the +1 Bonus he gets to Fight/Combat checks needs to be higher.

Im uncertain on Mr. Noyes. The Mi-Go ability wont be used too often, but the no penalty to Will/Horror Checks is pretty nice (especially with his decent will)

The Terrible Old Man is meant to be a casting machine. Since he can substitue money for Sanity, his Credit Rating skill ensures he will never run out of Sanity to power his spells. I might want to up his FIght by 1 and lower his Will by 1 tho.

Ghoul Born will be of iffy usefulnes to Pickman, but Grave Robber is nice when you need money (I may change that to clue tokens). And theres plenty of gmaes when I wish I'd had stealthy.

So suggestions for tweaking?