Hi everyone! My group and I have been planning to revisit the King in Yellow Herald after a long time of not using it; but as it hasn't had much of an impact in our games (the terror level can easily remain virtually untouched sometimes) we were wondering if there was some combination of elements (ancient ones, expansions, etc.) that could potentially boost its activity a little bit.

Any recommendations? I own all expansions, including Miskatonic, so I'd like to try mixing some official stuff without using custom components.

Thanks!!!

Weyoun said:

Well, go for a Touring Performance King in Yellow game, banning Ashcan Pete from the investigator pool (otherwise you can easily control the terror track via multiple buys of the Director's Diary). This should grant you some extra fun.

Thank you Julia! We were toying with the idea of a Touring performance, but as we're keen on using at least a couple of expansions and Miskatonic if possible we were trying to find some combination of ancient ones and different components that could (potentially) boost the KiY herald without resorting to the KiY expansion on its own.

Wouldn't using the Touring Performance pretty much kill most of the other expansions, at least the board ones? The Kingsport board would somehow survive that dilution I guess, but i.e., what if I wanted to add the few encounter cards from Miskatonic that have both the Kingsport and KiY symbols to the mix? I guess it could end up being a matter of "taste", but would you place cards on top of the Kingport encounter cards as if they were part of the "touring" elements?

That's a good point. Yeah, maybe you could hybrid the touring performance with some cards from Miskatonic. Uhm. Not so sure about this. generally speaking, the terror track has always been a matter of disappointment for me, it's really too random, and often I tried some games in which I was supposed to see some blights arriving, but nothing happened. There are some good things created by fans (especially one Scenario for Avi's league was designed with the specific intent of having terror boosting in an uncontrollable matter), but if you prefer not using custom creations.. really, not many ideas in my mind, sorry

I find that the Terror always increases at least three or four times when I play all-expansions games, so you could go for that. If you're talking specific expansions, Innsmouth is the "best", what with Devil Reef and Y'ha-nthlei sending monsters straight into the vortices. Or, if you're a masochist, there's always Rhan-Tegoth.