Horror tests with multiple monsters.

By scabbycat, in Mansions of Madness

Ok so played 1 game and everything was great but just 1 question (for now). When you enter a room with multiple monsters do you make a horror test for each individual monster in that room, or do you just make one roll and combine all of the modifiers?

I think it is one roll for each monster.

One for each monster

In case of mutiple horror checks. How many horror points can you get? Imagine these cases:

a) you enter in a room with 3 cultists. Can you get 3 horror token?

b) you enter in a room with a Shoggoth. You can get a horror token.

I am just comparing the amount of horror you can get with 3 cultists and a Shoggoth. I think you should get only one horror token per group of monsters in a room. But, if case a) is correct, it is better to create a lot of low level monsters to get all investigators mad very quickly

Other question but related with horror tests. In case you want to use skill points for the horror tests of case a). Do you have to spend 1 skill point per horror check or you spend only 1 skill point for the 3 checks? For evade test, is it in the same way?

"if case a) is correct, it is better to create a lot of low level monsters to get all investigators mad very quickly"

Not necessarily:

  • A character with high Willpower (like 8) would have a 73% chance of taking NO horror from three cultists (will +1), but only a 50% chance from 1 Shuggoth (they are will -3?). A character with very low will would be the opposite -- you'd want the cultists.
  • Many small monsters are more expensive to move around if you have Command Minion.
  • Eldritch creatures have different combat cards and are harder to fight and laugh at barriers.

OK, thank you. The problem was with the "Summoning" card. I thougt you could convert 4 cultists into 4 zombies by 3 threat tokens. So, when investigators entered into the room they received a lot of horror tokens. This every 2 turns. This makes me think in this way. But it was totally wrong