In your original design, if I understand it correctly, Mark has to visit other investigators to give them Inspiration tokens which act as surrogate clues. Alternatively Mark can spend them himself in which case they are returned to the box. This sounds far more balanced than Patrice, who is generally regarded as borderline broken.

Some thoughts to consider… The number of Inspiration tokens available needs to be capped - maybe a maximum equal to the gate limit - this gives a balance - with more players Mark won't get as many tokens, with fewer players Mark will be able to get more tokens, but he'll have less opportunity to give them to his colleagues.

Also, going about your daily business isn't very inspiring. ("Day 53 and Mark has gone to the toilet and had two Weetabix for breakfast") Maybe Mark start with two Inspiration tokens and gain one every time he does something cool like closing a gate or defeating a monster in combat. This encourages the player to try and be a hero, which fits in with Mark's general demeanour.

I just don't see the point of creating custom investigators if they're just direct copies of original. 

Stormson99 said:

The general consensum of the forum is that "Patrice" and "unbalanced" mean the same…

It's really unbalanced, especially with such a great focus

Julia said:

Gotta agree with that. The Veteran investigator has interesting stats (low speed is always an interesting downside, it's one of the few things in the game that forces you to think several turns ahead) but if you wanted to do a balanced investigator, don't use the Violinist's ability! That ability is waaaay broken.

Your 'inspiration token' thing was interesting, why scrap it? The Veteran starts with three Inspiration tokens; he can give them to any other investigator in the same space; but when an investigator spends one as a Clue token, it returns instantly to the Veteran. If the Veteran himself spends them, they're returned to the box - sounds ok to me.

He is a little overpowered, but then again I made him for fun and he is Batman after all. You can find the full size versions at my blog here. Also if you look for the Arkham Horror label on the side you can see others that I have made in the past. :)

I would change the first ability so that it only lets him gain a clue token from somewhere else on the board if he ends his movement at a location with no clue tokens. Then it would only be slightly overpowered and board depleting. However, if you wanted to give him a more thematic clue token generating ability, why not have him gain a clue token whenever he defeats a Cultist or Maniac? Beating up Thugs is REALLY where he gets all of his leads.

As for his second ability… why not just give him the 'bravery' skill? Speaking of, I would drop duke (which makes no sense) and give him one random skill at least. Batman is supposed to be made of skills! Then i would change his second ability to 'Richest man in Gotham', and have it Allow him to spend 1 Focus for $1 during upkeep, or something.

His stats are obviously unbalanced, but really, the Batman should have all 5s and 6s and have 3 Focus in order to be accurate to the comics.

 As stated he's over powered on purpose. He's not really designed to be played, more to be giggled with. Also, he's the World's Greatest Detective, he doesn't only get clues from beating people up. In fact in Long Halloween and Hush (two of the true "detective" stories he's had lately) he barely fights anyone.

Oh and it's only Duke until I bother to make Ace. 

Hello all! New here. Just messing around with the Strange Eons program and I haven't seen any Titus Crow related investigators, so here are a couple. Both are most likely over-powered, so what does he need to tone the two down?

I hear people around here like custom stuff.  Well, I've got tons of it.  So much, in fact, that I can't post it all at once.

But I'm gonna try to get as much of it down as I can.  I love critique and praise, and do attempt to make interesting and reasonably fair investigators as often as I can.  Currently, I have the following to my name:

-48 Investigators, one of which is 7 investigator sheets in one.

-8 Ancient Ones, with 3 Sinister Plots per Ancient One

-4 Guardians, 1 Herald, 1 Scenario, and 1 Institution (which is really more like the new set of rules)

-Various Items, Monsters, and extra tidbits to support the other custom stuff.

Since I don't have everything in a downloadable format now, I'll leave a few things now and add more in future posts.  As a fair warning, not all of these investigators look like they belong in the city of Arkham, and I'm sorry if it bothers any of you.

First, I'll start with 5 investigators based on the Odin Sphere main cast.

A download link for the original Strange Eons files are listed below.  Included are all 5 investigators, 2 items, and 1 special.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?f6kdapv9ntt2jk4

(All pictures have been shrunk mildly, if there's a better way to get them on this forum I'd love to know)

Here's a few individual projects that stand alone.  These were all made and updated at various times.  Links to all are on the bottom.

Here's a link to all of the Strange Eons files.  Included are all 8 investigators shown, as well as the 6 uniques, 2 commons, and 1 spell that they function with.  A few of their skills and items may require certain expansion boards (Rail Pass from Dunwich, Painter and Panic from Miskatonic).  Additionally, Personal Stories are included for every investigator except Nico Minoru (as I have not constructed one for her).  Comments are always appreciated, and there's plenty more where this stuff came from.

http://www.mediafire.com/?yvbcxla5vo85hbb

Have you seen Gensokyo Horror? It's a manga retheme of the entire Arkham board. I suspect your material would slip right into it. There's also a lot of manga material (Sailor Moon and the like) in the files section of the Dunwich Horror on boardgamegeek (I've no idea why it's under Dunwich instead of Arkham, but there you go…)

I'm afraid my knowledge of anime starts and stops with the classics (Akira, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Ghost in the Shell, Cowboy Bebop and Death Note)

Jake yet again said:

I don't know specifically about Gensokyo Horror, but based on the name I'm guessing it's very fueled by the Touhou fanbase.  Also, funnily enough, I don't have any characters that originated from any particular anime.  Most of these characters are either from video games or American comics/graphic novels/cartoons.

Chimbley, Millie, and Ewan are all original characters created from various users on Deviant Art.  Iliad is an original character of my construction, but the image is one of a different character simply entitled "Red", also from Deviant Art.

Klara Prast and Nico Minoru are characters from the Marvel comic "Runaways", hence their titles as "The Runaway ___"

Zappa is one of many characters from the video game series Guilty Gear (which being from Japan is the closest thing to anime in this pile).

Emily Hayes is from an American graphic novel series entitled "Amulet", created by Kazu Kibuishi.

Shaggy is from an old American cartoon series that I bet you've never even heard of.

As for works previous, the 5 Odin Sphere characters posted earlier are from a video game called, well, Odin Sphere.  Also pretty close to anime, I suppose.

Things I haven't posted include the following:

Isaac, from The Binding of Isaac (video game, American).  That one is 7 investigator sheets that make up 1 investigator.

11 various characters from League of Legends.

6 investigators from the PS2 classic "Persona 4", plus 1 more that isn't really meant to be played with…

17 of the main characters from the Blazblue game

And that just makes up the investigators.  I have other creations of all fashions.

"Gensokyo Horror"? Link please? Sounds neat.

Shining Aquas: these are some really neat investigators and mechanics. Some of them are quite powerful, or have quite powerful items (that Tangle of Thorns spell is just epically powerful, for instance). Love the idea on Zappa, that's just cool. Your previous set was also awesome. Please, do post the rest of your stuff, I'm loving what we've seen so far.

I had a few goals creating this investigator:

1. Make an appropriate translation of the character to AH

2. Make his abilities simple and elegant

3. Only require the base set so anyone can print and play him

4. Balance

I have yet to play test this version of him but this one seems pretty good. Chances are he'll still need some balancing, I have some concerns right now regarding Summon. As a monster sweeper he'll probably gain trophies quickly so I'm thinking of bumping the cost up to 3 trophies but 2 seems fine for now.

Going to toot my horn, I really like how his Reliable Source ability is looking. Of course that  view can change with playtesting but I like the utility of spending a trophy so you don't have to walk to a location to pick up the clues there. It really fits character since he solves cases (he's also a detective) with demonic aid.

Oh geez, I'm silly.  I forgot to put up one of the images on that last batch:

The mediafire link in the post I had earlier should have this in it, but I forgot to put the image up, so here it is now.

Also, I forgot that I had another character lying around that I actually forgot to put in the batch.  Here's an extra investigator:

Strange Eons file for Dizzy can be found here: http://www.mediafire.com/?81cctdad13zw6eb