We played a game once with Hastur and one of the Heralds (I think Tulzscha) and the game was just dragging on, but the Terror Level never went up. So when I drew Call (Summon?) the Ancient One, I cast it so we could defeat Hastur and get the game over with. So I agree, most if not all the original AOs are not that difficult to contend with.

mi-go hunter said:

Check out page 47 of the Ancient Ones thread in fan creations.  Just ignore the parts about starting them off with doom tokens (except for Azathoth who should start off with three doom tokens).

mi-go hunter said:

Oh god...  You should see the Nyarlathotep variant I made recently.  It should be somewhere on the first three pages of the fan creations section (I'll eventually post it, once I clean up the text, into the heralds section).  I've played it once so far, and a few other people have too.  It's brutal, and loads of fun.

Tibs said:

Thanks for the precisation about the Serpent People, I didn't know that. As far as killing them... well, depends on where they do appear. If they're on a board with vortices, I generally try to kill them. Besides, SP trophies are something nice to have in case of need.

Any piece of news regarding Cthulhu's wife / bride / whatelse?

Julia, who wonders what the Hell should a Cthulhish reproduction be like (hey! beware! whose that tentacle? It's mine?)

Sdrolion said:

Yep, Strange Eons is something incredible :-) In case, surf a little the fan creation section of this forum (or follow the links in the signature of some regular writers of this forum). You'll find tons of new Ancient Ones, Heralds, Guardians, Scenarios and whatelse to see the infinite universe of Arkham under a new, enhanced perspective ::smiling::

avec said:

I love this one. It's great, it has a lot of sense, it would also be better if the corruption would be drawn instead of adding the doomer. I mean, there are two AOs I don't like at all: Y'golonac and Rhan Tegoth, simply because their doom track advances on the basis of bad luck. And if it is true that it's rare to be forced to draw Unique items, and so you can play against Y'golonac simply without going curiosity-shopping, you cannot do anything strategic to avoid drawing cultists from the cup. If both these abilities could have been changed into "draw the top corruption card", that would be better. In my humble opinion, at least

@Mi-go: In case you need, here you'll find a Herald I created to be used with Nyarly. It's made to make things a little more complicated with Masks in play, and his Start of Battle ability is a little tougher

JerusalemJones said:

I use Next Act Begins cards only when I play against Hastur.  I also use an anti-dilution mechanic (so the NAB cards are actually dangerous).  Even then, he's not extremely brutal.  

Thanks Avi, Avec, and Julia, for all your suggestions to boost Nyarly. Very nice ideas (especially the herald. Brutal!) I'll definitely implement some, if not all of these modifications the next time I fight him.

Julia said:

Good one!

mi-go hunter said:

In case you have time, let us know how it goes :-)

Julia said:

Thanks!  Avi had a good suggestion over on the Fan Creations board to draw two or three corruption cards with each tome.  If there were multiple corruption cards per tome, it would compensate for not adding a doom token.  

avec said:

Yep, I read his suggestion and liked the idea. 2 corruptions seems fair to me. I'm gonna give this a try in quite a short time (hopefully)

For Rhan, I'll try something like this: each time a cultist is drawn, the first player must draw the top red corruption card. Every time an investigator enters combat with a cultist, he has to draw the top green corruption card. I know I'm totally hijacking the AO, but honestly, I don't like it at all.

Rhan-Tegoth is my least favorite. And according to the stats reports, it's a safe bet that he's Innsmouth owners's least favorite as well.