I go to a location where there is a monster and a gate. I pass the horror check but decide to flee the combat. Do I enter the gate immediately or stay in the location to encounter the monster on the following turn?

Entering gates only happens during the Arkham Encounters phase (not the Movement phase). In other words, as long as you are on the open gate, whether or not there is a monster and whether or not you want to enter the gate, you will enter it.

Of course, you won't enter if you have an Explored token, and gates can always open on you during Mythos phase and draw you in.

Tibs said:

So I don't even fight the monster in the first place? I always thought I would have to fight my way to the gate to enter it

Dynamite Joe said:

Think of it as running or sneaking past the monster to enter the gate it was guarding ;') So ninja!

Thanks for the answers!

Yeah, basically you just have to still be in the location by the Arkham Encounters phase. The way things usually go, this generally requires that you either kill, evade, or flee the monsters by the end of your Movement phase, but, as always, there are exceptions (monsters with the Elusive ability, for example, will just hide there and watch you waltz right through the gate)

Dynamite Joe said:

To clarify: the only way you'd be on a gate during the AE phase with a monster and without an explored token is if you evaded the monsters. And since Movement comes first, you have to fight/evade all the monsters before you even get to the next phase and enter the gate.

Wait! You have to make a horror check even before you flee? Looks like I need to re-read the rules. If so, we've been playing this wrong

electronicham said:

Whenever you encounter a monster during your movement phase, two options are given: fight or flee. If you flee immediately, no Horror check is required. But let's say you enter combat with the monster. First of all, you have to make a Horror check, then combat begins. Let's say you have a powerful weapon to use against this monster, like the Powder of Ibn Gazi. You attack the monster, roll the required dice but fail in killing the beast and lose some stamina. The item is single use. You now don't have any weapons left to fight your enemy, so in the next round of combat you want to flee. So here we are: horror check + flee. Entering combat and then fleeing is an option always possible! And I think the original poster referred to similar cases

Awesome! That clears that up. We haven't run into that situation yet, so I guess we did it well. The situations where one of us didn't kill the monster, we took the damage and just kept trying to kill them.

Appreciate it!

electronicham said:

You're welcome :.smiling::

Julia said:

While being the same check, Evade before combat vs Flee in combat should not be mixed in together.

Dam said:

Very true. My bad, poor wording