amikezor said:

Did someone just get caught playing something wrong for years? ;')

amikezor said:

According to DH rulebook, pag 7, yes, they may not enter stable locations

 Interesting... this is only mentioned in the diagram (which I did not looked at). Funny. Though, it won't change so much. I don't think I was ever *really* bothered by stalker monsters. Anyway, good to know ^^.

amikezor said:

If it's any consolation, I made the same mistake for a while.  Maybe half a year, a year?

Jake yet again said:

Ugh! And now I feel retarded for letting this float and forgetting about it. :P Anyways, Jake yet again got the nail on the head about the Reach ability. It's to let the stalkers follow you anywhere. And I phrased the Start of Game mythos thingy (not sure how to term it...) based on the Ghroth Herald base from the Strange Eons program.

Also, the Cultists/Maniacs deal has to do with the MarbleHornets Operator character (A Slender Man), and his follower named totheark. I wanted him to have his own personal 'worshipers' regardless of who the AO had. Both monsters fit the concept, but many AO's have cultists as worshipers. The way it's written is to allow Slender Man his own set.

And I apologize if all I'm doing is making myself seem more foolish. :P

Sorry for chiming in late but I wanted to point out that the Reach ability on the Slender Man changing all locations to unstable may have unintended effects. For example the investigators could now use the Naacal Key and a few encounters to relocate gates to previously stable locations and make some unbustable seals since no mythos card will ever open a gate there. This isn't necessarily a bad thing but something you should be aware of. If you want to avoid unintended effects you could phrase the ability more to the tune of "Stalkers treat all locations as unstable for the purpose of movement".

 Hmmm... Interestingly, I  made a Slender Man Herald as well. It's still a prototype (I made it in about 5 minutes and then pretty much forgot about it until now), and could definitelybenefit from some of the suggestions listed here, but...

And the Token:

It's not shown here, but the front just shows a Moon symbol, and "--" for the Evade Check.

It's not mentioned here, but defeating the Slender Man Monster allows you to take it as a trophy, negating most of the Herald's effects. There are some other things that need clarification as well. Like I said, it's still unfinished. It was also made a while ago, before I knew about things like Spawn Monsters (Hence "put this Token in the Box").

That said, the real reason I'm at this thread is for advice on this:

My first attempt using Strange Eons- a herald for a scenario themed around Dante's Divine Comedy:

Uhm... some comments. First of all, nice picture :-)

Collector of souls: the risk is you have all your party devoured during set-up. Terror can raise for many and different reasons, and one of those is "it's written on the bloody Mythos card I've just drawn". But the idea of the devouring is good. May I suggest you to change it this way? "Whenever the Terror level raises as consequence of the Outskirts being emptied, all Investigators with no Gate Trophies are devoured. If two or more investigators are devoured, add a doom token to the doom track".

Plus. There are many ideas (potentially all of them are good), but if you want a Herald to be functional, you should focus on ONE of them, and build the Herald around it (once Amikezor said: "Heralds are like papers. One idea = one paper = one Herald", and I think he was right ;-)). So... Outskirts being filled creates something bad. If you want to put pressure on your team, you should think of some tricks to make Outskirts really threatening. Hence, you could lower the monster limit by one, and using the "toll" idea not to have your investigators go LiTaS, but to force monsters in the Outskirts (that's nasty). Like: all investigators exploring the OW must deal with Charon. Whenever an investigator returns to Arkham, he must pay 3$ to Charon to do so. Otherwise he's delayed, moved to R'lyeh 1st  area, and a monster (two in 5+ investigator games) is spawned from the gate he originally entered through. Investigators in R'lyeh can return to the gate they originally entered in without paying Charon"

Now you should have a really threatening OW journey, and Outskirts ARE a major problem

On an unrelated note- does anyone have any info on how the forum formatting works? The quote function is a menace :)

Two_Hands said:

Yeah, the quote function (and the formatting) on these forums are quite a PITA ::laughter:: Anyway, if you want to focus on the money issue, that's fair. Just go with something harsher: 2$ / seal on the board aren't that difficult to handle unless you forbid the Bank Loans. Go with that, and add: Start of the Game: the Bank of Arkham is closed for the whole game.

Now, it starts getting interesting ::laughter::

Let me know!

Anyway... as a side note... vanilla Arkham can't really be a challenge. It's kinda too easy winning by closing gates, so technically much less money is required. You only need only three seals on high freq locations and you can work on the closing victory

Two_Hands said:

Also, you really need to upload the image in higher quality.  This thing isn't something that would look nice if printed.  As for the picture, I second that it is very cool :')  Aaaand, now I return to lurking at the threshold of the forums ;')

Avi_dreader said:

Thanks  :)

I will upload it in a higher quality when I can (it was the default output resolution from strange eons, and I didn't really check it)

Unfortunately I can't do that at the moment as we have builders in repairing earthquake damage, so I can't get to my main PC :(