Julia, as always, you're very kind.  I don't post often, but when I do, I surely hope that I'm on firm ground based on a careful reading of the rules, interpretations from the various fora, and a lot of games! 

The Professor said:

Read your post as that…..

I'll also say something useful in that Kate has prevented several monster surges be being purposly 'parked' at a high gate probability location.

Full Doom Track said:

She can't just hang out at an existing gate though.  If she's at a location with a gate during the encounter phase, she's sucked through.

FullDoomTrack,

     The commercial would start…he rolls as many dice as he wants to…he never fails a Horror Check, he selects the three skills he wants every Upkeep…he is, the most fascinating Investigator in Arkham.

Time to print a custome Investigator card I think.

DarknessEternal said:

I guess FDT referred to the case of Kate having an explorer marker.

Full Doom Track said:

I should have rephrased this to "prevented several gate openings by being purposely 'parked' at a high gate probability location without a gate yet."

This, in no way, relates to what this thread is discussing and I'm not sure what exactly I was trying to say.  Julia is right, Kate has to have an explored marker to prevent surges at that gate.  Even then it's better to close/seal the gate instead of using her special ability to prevent a monster from spawning, due to a Surge or a Surge spawning at that gate and having it prevented altogether.

The new FAQ has answered this, and it seems to disagree with this entire thread. =P

Q: When happens during a monster surge when Kate Winthrop has an explored token in the same location as a gate other than one that has the monster surge?

A:  The surge is resolved as it normally would be, except monsters do not appear at Kate’s location. The total number of monsters is distributed as evenly as possible among the remaining open gates, with no gate having more monsters placed on it than the gate where the monster surge occurred this turn. (Note: her ability does not reduce the number of monster tokens drawn as a result of the surge, it simply redistributes them to other gates.)

I agree that it totally upends our discussion…but, given that her ability is rarely used, I'll still ignore the monsters that would have appeared at her location.  Thus, a Monster Surge throws four monsters into Arkham.  Kate's standing at one of the three available gates (not the one in which the Monster Surge occured).  The four monsters would be placed as follows…Monster 1 on the gate which experienced the Monster Surge; Monster 2 on the gate with Kate ~ no, back to the cup; Monster 3 on the other gate; Monster 4 on the gate which experienced the Monster Surge.  I'm not a big fan of her Flux Stabilizer deflecting the monster to another gate. 

The Professor said:

… and then I came across this little number:

Unique Items

Q: What happens if there is a monster surge on a gate with the Warding of the Yellow Sign (Unique Item)? Since no other gates may receive more monsters than the surging gate, do no monsters appear at all?

A: The monster surge is resolved normally, except the monsters tokens that would normally be placed at the gate with the Warding of the Yellow Sign are not drawn, even though they are included in the total number of tokens drawn as a result of the monster surge.

     No, no, no ~ a Unique Item shall NOT be more powerful than an Investigator…

The Professor said:

Well spotted, Prof! As for me, I'll keep on playing Kate as I've always done. Still have to read the whole document, though

(am I the only one here with the commands for text editing written in Spanish?)

The Professor said:

I concur! I will probably house rule Kate a little bit.

Julia said:

Are you referring to the icons above the texbox? Bold, italic and underlined are called "negrita", "cursiva", "subrayado" for me, so I guess you're not the only one. ;-] Is Firefox still being mean with you, btw? =P

eiterorm said:

Firefox seems to work now, thanks for asking :-) Sometimes I see everything a little distorted (imagine to cut the monitor into two parts, following a vertical line, then swap the right side with the left side and then have move the left part down and the right part up), but it happens very rarely, fortunately

And yes, negrita, cursiva, subrayado and all the rest. But "negrita" is still ctrl+b. Oh, well, I'm happy a forum about AH attempts to my Sanity…

Julia said: