Well, all it really is is a variant that says each character has some common items and skills they can't receive during setup. After that the game plays as normal.
If your Wendy/Flamethrower occurrences become too frequent for your RPG-mind to tolerate, have a look again.
Avi_dreader said:
Weird... But what were you thinking fighting DH & Rhan-Tegoth with only four investigators? That's basically suicide. Did you try sending someone against the monster stack on full fight on a kamikazee mission, then using the trophies gained from it to bless Harvey and have him break through the stack? Or did you just figure if you waited long enough another gate would open? ;'D
Four is what I always play with solo. So thats just habit and to a degree space. And suicide missions never stopped me 
As for the tactic, I did figure a new gate would open, yeah, again and again though this proved wrong. So I was busy gathering all the clues I need for all 6 seals (my tactic since MH increased gate bursts) . I did try to break through, several times, but the problem was high awareness monsters moving to downtown, then flyers like the servitor dropping down, and the dhole, gug and other problematic monsters hanging out there. I had the time bomb but I couldnt get to use it on Indie square. So I dropped it on the streets and ended up wiping out 6 of the 7 monsters in Arkham at once, only to find even worse threats and blockers piling up immediately afterwards. It was REALLY strange!
Tibs said:
If your Wendy/Flamethrower occurrences become too frequent for your RPG-mind to tolerate, have a look again.
Willdo. Part of the fun here is to discover all the house rules of other players, even if I don't use them. And since some players from the RPG-troupe are also into the boardgame, I suspect that at some point the request will come up, even if it's not from me.
Tibs said:
If your Wendy/Flamethrower occurrences become too frequent for your RPG-mind to tolerate, have a look again.
If I get to the end of a game with Wendy and haven't somehow got her two out of Whiskey (preferably traded from Sister Mary), a Motorcycle and Deputy of Arkham, then I haven't been playing right. If there was porn in the game I'd try getting her that, too. 
Wendy is amazing for the innapropriate scenarios that can happen to her, the most amusing being one where she went drinking at Hibbs Roadhouse and drunk everybody under the table and a good portion of her encounters being with creepy old men.
She had the Elephant Gun that particular game, and then the AO woke up, so we realized the most amusing thing about that scenario. To reload the Elephant gun you have to pay money. So when the world is clearly ending there is some guy following you around willing to give you Elephant gun bullets but only if you pay him!
"The world might end if we don't kill the monster and your not gonna give me bullets unless I pay you?"
dj2.0 said:
Four is what I always play with solo. So thats just habit and to a degree space. And suicide missions never stopped me As for the tactic, I did figure a new gate would open, yeah, again and again though this proved wrong. So I was busy gathering all the clues I need for all 6 seals (my tactic since MH increased gate bursts) . I did try to break through, several times, but the problem was high awareness monsters moving to downtown, then flyers like the servitor dropping down, and the dhole, gug and other problematic monsters hanging out there. I had the time bomb but I couldnt get to use it on Indie square. So I dropped it on the streets and ended up wiping out 6 of the 7 monsters in Arkham at once, only to find even worse threats and blockers piling up immediately afterwards. It was REALLY strange!
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That's pretty funny. I would have been amused and annoyed had that happened to me (in a different set up). I actually, probably would have been more amused and enjoyed it (because I would not have been playing with The Black Goat).
It was funny - funny, astonishing, infuriating and finally just ridiculous!
Jedit said:
If there was porn in the game I'd try getting her that, too.
Just thought about it over a cigarette, and came up with this:
Porn Poster (Common Item, $2)
Movement: Discard to ignore the Elusive Monster Ability in a street area. After Combat, make a Luck roll or be arrested.
I assume that the Elusive Monsters would betray themselves by their reaction to the poster pinned up in a public area...
Just wondering... if an elusive cultist can be attracted by a porn poster, what the Hell you should have depicted on it to attract serpent people? (Not so sure I want to know the answer)
Any cultist who can be so easily distracted by naughty bits is a cultist who's not doing his duties.
He's probably like an economics major who has to take Cult Practices for his gen ed credit. Not really in it for the long haul.
or it's a hentai poster. the cultist goes "oooh, tentacles. ia ia!", and is then disappointed, but not before being seen!
Actually, I thought that the Serpent People would neither be attracted to it nor understand the public outrage (we're in the 1920), and thereby betray himself. And I can well imagine a Werewolf getting horny starting a shapeshift.
Serpent People attracted to human porn - that's creepy...
Taurmindo said:
or it's a hentai poster. the cultist goes "oooh, tentacles. ia ia!", and is then disappointed, but not before being seen!
::Laughter::
You know in Munchkin Cthulhu they actually have a card for this. The Necronookiecon.
Veet said:
You know in Munchkin Cthulhu they actually have a card for this. The Necronookiecon.
Into the custom item deck with it!
And out of my house! No Munchkin stuff is going to pervert my set. Pardon the terminology.
The Shadowy Figure (aka Nyarlothotep): Oooh, what's this?
Investigator: Aha! ::Leaps out of the bushes to attack::
SF: Huh? Ooops
How embarassing, an Ancient One interested in porn.
Veet said:
I also once got the encounter where you find a journal and after reading it feel like the person who wrote it is traveling with you which results in drawing an ally card and keeping them for a few turns. I drew Duke. So I had found a journal written by a dog.
It wasn't Duke, it was probably Trixie Koontz!
the first time I played this with my dad and on the first turn he went to inependece square to get clues, mythos phase gate at inependece square. when he finaly comes back, mythos phase gate at inependece square he was unfortunately stuck there the hole game!!!
another time I was playing with my friend and he gets an ecounter were a kid comes up to him and say "sir i think you dropped this"(or something like that) he turn arund to say it dosent belong to him but the kids gone. the item he gave him was a motercycle!! (sorry for any spelling mestakes i carnt spell very well.)
1908drummer said:
another time I was playing with my friend and he gets an ecounter were a kid comes up to him and say "sir i think you dropped this"(or something like that) he turn arund to say it dosent belong to him but the kids gone. the item he gave him was a motercycle!! (sorry for any spelling mestakes i carnt spell very well.)
::Laughter:: nice.
"Thanks kid! But I think this expandable pocket motorcycle belongs to somebody else!"
I swear, that motorcycle pops up in the darndest places! If it's not being handed to you by a kid or thrown over the general store counter being complained about that it doesn't work, you're finding it in a random crate washed up to shore.
Motorcycles in Arkham are mysterious things. =p
its clearly the keys guys. But the game does a lot of odd things sometimes, I agree.
dj2.0 said:
its clearly the keys guys.
Some people are getting good at rationalizing away non-euclidean geometry... Don't let it shatter your puny primate minds!
Speaking of movement items, does anyone happen to know the flavor for how the Ruby of R'lyeh lets you go much faster than a motorcycle would?
Maybe the holder of the Ruby experiences a warped (non-Euclidean) spacetime and he can walk at a normal pace, though to the outside world he appears to be moving much faster.