I couldn't help uploading this:

This is the character of an upcoming game, and I made an Arkham "Investigator" out of him just for the fun of it. I made him balanced so the game wouldn't be too easy, but he still is more powerful than any other investigator. The general story for this character is that he entered our world by accident. When a portal to a different dimension opened up, he was traveling using his Lightning Speed ability and got caught up in the rift. That's how he ends up in Arkham. Not a great story, I know, but hey, he's just a fan made investigator created to kill some time. :P

Mykayel wrote: This is the character of an upcoming game, and I made an Arkham "Investigator" out of him just for the fun of it. I made him balanced so the game wouldn't be too easy, but he still is more powerful than any other investigator. The general story for this character is that he entered our world by accident. When a portal to a different dimension opened up, he was traveling using his Lightning Speed ability and got caught up in the rift. That's how he ends up in Arkham. Not a great story, I know, but hey, he's just a fan made investigator created to kill some time. :P

Mageith: He's good but his skill of Lighting (Lightning?) speed is a bit confusing.  Combat is part of the Movement phase. So if he moves to a far location, he engages the monster and misses.  Since he moved with Lighting, he can't re-roll the fight?  Your description leaves in doubt if he can re-use an exhaused weapon?  It appears to me, his combat skill is essentially a re-roll such as the Marksman skill? If he did have the Marksman skill, he could then have three re-rolls?  I'd probably just let him move with lighting speed (similar to Deputy's patrol wagon) and the Marksman skill card. 

Also, I think the attack you are avoiding is both horror and combat, but it might not be clear, but again, just giving him the Marksman skill card with clear that up.  But now that takes away his Bravery skill card.  That might be easier to incorporate into his special skill and also more balanced because he's still going to have to keep his Will up to use it.

 Ok, time to explain some things about Noctis.

Mageith is confused about a few things so I decided to make things right:
 

You are right about the name, it is "LIGHTNING SPEED" not Lighting Speed. Sorry, my bad. It was an investigator made just for some fun (and testing Strange Eons) so I didn't re-check the spelling. Again I apologise.

Now to explain what it can do. It is not a re-roll and you can use only one of the texts. If you use the MOVEMENT part of the text, you can "teleport" anywhere on the map instead of your normal movement. Now, if you fight a monster when you get there, you cannot REUSE Lightning Speed, since you already used it to MOVE. If you use it for COMBAT, then you do not re-roll, you simply skip the monsters attack. It is almost like you never failed. So you get a second chance, but CAN use a different weapon/spell etc. However, if you used a spell to attack the first time that requires exhaustion, then you do not use it again. But this seems awfuly confusing, so I will modify this investigator's skill. I will give him a different one (one that also appears in the game) where he can use ANY number of sword or knifes ignoring the number of hands rule completely. He cam use any number of dual handed or single handed knifes and swords in the same attack, in ANY combination. So I will remove his LIGHTNING SPEED SKILL. I will post the image in a few minutes.

This is the new Noctis, and here is his ability:

A Hundred Blades:

Combat: Noctis is not limited by the number of hand symbols on swords and knifes. He can use as many of them as he wishes when attacking a monster, regardless if they are single-handed or dual-handed.

Tornado Of Blades:

Any Phase: When Noctis is about to take damage to his Stamina, exhaust any number of swords or knifes to reduce the damage by 1 for each knife/sword you exhausted.

 Hundred Blades maybe you could say some like Swords/ Knifes hand icons count as X.  

Like Alien Device and Brass Knuckles.

The 2nd ability.

Any Phase: Exhaust a Sword/ Knife to prevent 1 Stamina loss.

Like the J. Beecher Investigator, nice work.

 This is an investigator made for one of my Scenarios. (I don't usually JUST make scenarios, I add Ancient Ones, Items and investigators)

Just wanted to give you a priview of one of my scenario's investigators:

First the sheet:

Second, the text:

Cursed

Every check that Edward attempts has the difficulty increased by 1.

The One

When Edward enters a gate, put one Doom Token on the Doom Track.

Not Afraid

Edward does not pay any sanity to cast spells.

Finally, the marker:

Nebulon said:

ha ha thanks I thought he turned out better too. It's based of my friend...I'll make sure to tell him...he'll get a kick out of it!

heres another one!

Was wanting to give here a seconds ability that dealt with Lust.

Think it would be cool to make seven investigators and each has a negative ability that deals with one of the seven sins.

For example Polly's might be something like she can't be Blessed.

Would like a better name for here Service Call ability maybe Turning Tricks or something more ambiguous?

Polly is a really great fighter. First thing to do is t have her trade her spells away to other players for weapons, so that she can do her actual job: killing monsters in the street and getting paid for it.

"Oh baby, I love how you stabbed that shoggoth with an enchanted knife before unloading a .45 into a cultist at point blank range..."

-Frank

I always liked The Maniac so had to make a character of one.

Set his stats for these reasons...

Speed/ Sneak ~figured he would not really care about sneaking but would have OK speed.

Fight/ Will ~would have OK fight and good will, after all he needs to get close enough to his victims to "Axe them a question".

Lore/ Luck ~not so great luck but above average Lore, after all what do you think drove him insane in the first place, tasted a just a little bit to much of the Mythos.

Possessions

Axe ~duh!

Summon Monster ~because killing things is fun and getting other poeple killed by things is just heaven!

3 toughness monster ~because every killer has his trophies

0$ ~I'll just take yours! ha ha

one clue ~so he's not clueless

Exhibit ~after the CotDP Mythos card, the one with the Maniacs in Downtown streets

Skill ~everyone gots one

Abilities

Sadistic Glee ~hmmm so thats how that thing kills you...Cool!

Axe Murder ~this is my Axe and it's my friend...and he's thirsty!

Is it weird that I like the Maniac Investigator?

albert fish killed and ate kids.........

Hi

I'm totally new to the game. Last sunday I played my first game and I was totally fascinated. When a co-player told me about this program to create custom chacters, I just had to download it and make my first character.
I have looked through the posts in the old Forums and noticed a somewhat (in my opinion) overpowered simillar characer. However I made this one even before reading the post.
The character is designed as the alternate Evil Dead ending / Army of (Arkham-) Darkness beginning.

Comments and Critic is welcomed.

- bat

Character:

Front:

img388.imageshack.us/img388/9458/ashleyashjwilliamsfrontzs6.jpg

Back:

img388.imageshack.us/img388/3717/ashleyashjwilliamsbackpo9.jpg

Items:

img388.imageshack.us/img388/7734/necronomiconexmortisfrolr4.jpg

img388.imageshack.us/img388/6214/boomstickfrontpx3.jpg

img352.imageshack.us/img352/3895/chainsawfrontjg1.jpg

P.S.:

On a side note this Forum kinda sux. I tried hosting Images but it didn't work any way I tried it. A small tutorial on how to use this Forum would be great, esspecially the image hosting. Or alternatively revert back to the old one. Which was way better in my opinion. And really simple in usage.

I see several things wrong with the book you've got there:

• It's not a combat item, so its number of "hands" is irrelevant.
• Using the book makes seals, but only opens gates. So if you just use it over and over again you will eventually win the game.
• It's in there as a Common Item, but it should clearly be Unique.

You should have it do something a lot less crazy. Like:

Any Phase: Exhaust and roll a die. Success: gain a clue; falure draw a monster and put it at your location.

-Frank

batmobil said:

I belive I should try and help ya out a little bit:

First of all the forum isn't so bad. If you want your images to be seen here directly you should use Photobucket (google it) and use the second link of your image when uploading the link on this site (but use the ADD IMAGE button when commenting, don't just add the link) and remember to change its size so that it can be properly displayed. Also, it would help to copy/paste the text under your image of the card for those that can't see the images because of their internet connection or screen size.

Second, lets analize your cards and sheets:

Ashley is ok, but the abilities don't really sute him. (but this is just a personal opinion) the main problem with him is that you used wrong game terms and that can be...uncomfortable. You should learn the game terms before making your own stuff. For example, you wrote Horror test instead of Horror Check.

Next, the Chainsaw, it's a UNIQUE item even tho it shouldn't be. Yeah, it is his chainsaw, but come ON, the necronomicon is COMMON but the chainsaw unique? You should see a problem with this. The effects are preety cool, but don't make sense. Why is Physical Ressistance not affected? It should be since it is a Physical Weapon. (when you will play this game doing ROLEPLAY, you will see WHY this is an issue)

The boomstick is uncalled for, it's just a copy of the Shotgun, the only difference is that it's one handed. I noticed your boy can't use two-handed weapons but still, it's kinda strange to print out an extra card just for a one-handed version of the shot-gun. Also, got a question, you don't want him to use a double-handed weapons because he has one hand sawed off right? (seen Evil Dead 2) Well, the fact that he can use 2 guns will sorta make the whole "no double-handed weapon" thing kinda pointless wouldn't it?

Necronomicon Ex Mortis (Ha!) that's an easy one, and I can see i'm not the only one who noticed some issues with that card. First off...ITS A COMMON ITEM! And it's even got a hand symbol. Question: How exactly do  you use this item in combat? Next, why is it a tome with no Lore Check? Tomes have lore checks and you usualy loose sanity for using it. Anyway, that aside, the effects have some issues:
Beside the fact they are unbalanced....What exactly is a Demon portal? Do you mean a gate? (Exactly what I was talking about earlier) Next, a Monster appears in the streets....What streets does the monster appear in exactly? How do you decide? What if you are in a location?Also, teleporting yourself to lost in time and space and back to the city is kinda.....strange. Why would you want to give the player that ability? It might as well tell you to teleport wherever you want. One problem, that is RANDOM and makes the tome very risky to use. The consequences of being teleported to LOST IN TIME AND SPACE can be very large. Number 5 is also kinda weird: What does BANISH refer to ? Do you just put him back in the cup or do  you keep him as a trophy? Do you send him in the box? (remove from the game) What if  you are lost in time and space? It doesn't make sense to send a monster from the street out of the game when you are in a completly different dimension. Also, the ANCIENT ONE is NOT a monster, that is why they call that type of creature ANCIENT ONE, because it is NOT a monster. you fight it differently, it appears differently..anyway, you should just use (Discard this card when the Ancient One awakens) that way a player can't use it against an Ancient One and you can't confuse the ability with a instant-win ability. As for number 6, do you CHOOSE a gate? Any gate? If you are lucky enough to use that ability 6 times in a row...the game is over. If those 6 times are in the first 7 turns. Even IF you start the game delayed (and you do) that means you can't move, but you should still be able to use the card. Anyway, the thing is, that most of the times I play, there are usualy gates opened in the very unstable locations. If those locations are completely sealed by your card, then the game becomes TOO easy. One last questions: Does the Necronomicon explain itself? Because I can't see why you don't use ANY movement points to read it. You just open it and something happens?

So over all, you should play the game a few more times before making your own cards. But don't let my words get you down, it's just constructive critisism, nothing more. Don't take it personaly, take it as advice. You should try 2-3 solo games and THEN make yourself some cards. One thing I recomend, if you truly MUST make cards from the Evil Dead (army of darkness) series, then modify the effects on these cards before making new ones.