@Sdrolion

Sigh... Perhaps I'll make a gate burst herald along with that Hypnos herald if no one else does it. I like the bit about it causing investigators to be devoured. Although it could theoretically be gamed by Arcane insight. Oh. Ban Arcane Insight ;'D Perhaps it should have usual gate burst effects along with a monster surge (starting at that gate), and raising the terror level by 2. I'll think up some other constant effects later I guess.

I just saw your text for corrupted seals. It made me think that gate bursts might cause corruption as well, but apparently that's not where you were going with it ;')

Perhaps I'll have closing a gate cause the drawing of two corruptions.

Or perhaps only one corruption, but hitting the red corruptions causes an immediate gate burst.

Avi_dreader said:

Nah...I wasn't going for that. I just wanted to think of a cool name for the effect. I don't have the Corruption cards (just have base and Lurker right now), so I wasn't planning for those.

But hey, if you want to make them even nastier, go ahead.

Hm. Just thought of another interesting alternative.

Corrupted Seals : When a gate burst happens, flip over the Elder Sign on that location to the doom token side (or otherwise find a good way of marking this, like maybe just laying the Mythos card on that spot), and a monster appears at that location. It still counts as a seal. However, that location now permanently counts as an Open Gate as well, for most purposes:

• It counts towards the gate total needed for the AO to awaken
• If a Mythos card spawns a gate at that location, no gate opens but a monster surge occurs
• Clue tokens cannot spawn at that location.
• If a monster surge occurs, that location counts as an open gate for purposes of determining number of monsters spawned, and can spawn a monster
• If an investigator is on that location during Arkham Encounters, draw a gate from the stack. The investigator goes to that Otherworld, but the gate is placed back into the stack instead of being placed on the board. (This means there is a large chance that the investigator will end up being LiTaS.) (Maybe not this, since it is rather nasty...prevents the encounters at the location from ever being used.)
• Anything else I've forgotten that involves gates that are openit is an open gate
• The location cannot be re-sealed...this effect is permanent.

This seems like it could be quite nasty. It has no immediate effect (though I suppose you could still use my "immediately add a doom token" rule as well), and still doesn't reduce your progress towards victory, but makes that a permanent dangerous area instead of giving you an irritating but ultimately solvable situation. Instead of affecting victory/defeat progress, it just makes the situation worse overall.