Play with the Black Goat herald and I assure you that corruptions will be everywhere. In my last game one of my investigators had 7 coruptions, and 2 out of the 3 investigators had a cult membership. I had 3 cult encounters that game.

thecorinthian said:

The way I keep track of max stam/san losses is I keep san/stam on each character's card.  If it's off, it's assumed it's lost.  If it's removed due to lowered max, I return it to the bag where I keep those chips.

P.S. The idea of monsters that do permanent damage is a good one in my opinion.  Adds to the game's mood :')

Does anyone have ideas for more Mask monsters?  There were some good ones on the old boards, but I don't know if they still exist.  I think adding Mask monsters is a great, simple way to make Nyarlathotep more interesting.  

Played with her in our ongoing series last night where she's evil. We didn't draw her from the cup, just started her out at Silver Twilight Lodge and let her roam. Proved to be a real pain in the balls.

avec said:

I came up with a couple for Cult Of The Golden Scarab. One of them was just a big tough crocodile (not that interesting in retrospect) but I'm quite proud of this one. It's a sort of mini-Nyarlathotep that eats clues.

The evade modifier might be a bit harsh, now that I think of it.

There's an ally whateley and a monster whateley so why no monster william bain?

Flavor: William Bain drags you to his house.

kroen said:

This seems like it could potentially be a great boon, in regards to the Great Seal.

That's pretty good. If that was wandering around Arkham, obviously what you'd do is wait for someone to be able to afford the Great Seal (is that how that works, I forget) and then run into Bain and deliberately fail the check. He probably only ought to work once for each time he appears - so if you fail the check and get sent to the Strange High House, Bain should go back in the cup at the same time.

On the other hand, this guy is a real pain if you meet him in an OW, since he's got a hard combat check and if you fail it, you're sent back to Arkham with no chance to close the gate you went in through.

thecorinthian said:

Cool. thanks!  It's a little Shadowy Figure-esque, but I like that it approaches clue loss in a different way.  And yeah, the evade modifier is a bit steep.  -3 or -2 might make the Chaos Mask more balanced.

We have monsters that grant common, unique, spell, money and clues. But what about skill, ally and blessing?

kroen said:

I like Kraken and Cursed Cultist, but I think Pirate is too good. Allies are absolutely brilliant - they're worth ten toughness or two gate trophies. The monster you have to kill to get one for free should be extremely difficult. I reckon it should be 'Kidnappers' rather than pirates, and making it like one of those KiY Riot monsters - 4 toughness, Overwhelming 1, and combat -2, so it represents a whole bunch of people. Then obviously the Ally is the hostage that you rescue. And obviously you shouldn't also get the Kidnappers as a trophy - they should go straight back in the cup or perhaps even back in the box.

Yeah, I guess Pirate is a little too good, but you do know he grants a random ally, right?

Heh...  I'd rather see Cursed Cultist give you a curse if you defeat him.  Then again, I do prefer brutality ;')  Some are into S&M, some are into A&H.

If this one would have been in KiY, you would have learned to fear him: