Hi everyone,

I'm new to Arkham Horror, we have been playing the base game and the Black Goat expansion yesterday and two questiosn came up we could not really find an answer to neither in the rulebook nor in the forums...

1) We had four investigators in the portals at the same time, so we would have needed four explored markers to close the gates the next round, but there are only three of those markers included in the game... is this simply a "material problem", so should we ignore the fact and close the 4th gate anyway? Or are there only three markers on purpose so you cannot close four gates at the same time?

I'm kind of suprised I could not find an answer to this question anywhere, I mean, we can't be the first group trying to close for gates at once, can we? ;-)

2) In the basic rulebook, it states two monsters will spawn per portal if there are at least five (or more than five? Don't really remember, but it doesn't matter ;-)) investigatores in the game. In the black goat rulebook, it says you spawn an additional monster from the hexagon cup when spawning a monster "as normal". Does this mean we spawn an extra monster for EACH monster we spawn (so, two additional monsters in our case), or only one additional monster, regardless of the number of players?

Thanks very much for every clarification :-)

1. The Explored Gate tokens are just book keeping, they aren't really needed. Indeed, we don't even use them because it's so easy to keep track of who has and has not explored a gate.

2. The Hexagon cup monster is just a one time deal. So that's 2 total monsters with 1-4 players and 3 total monsters with 5-8 players.

-Frank

Glad that we handled it right than... thank you :-)