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Tony Dehner
United States
Waterloo
Iowa
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Saturday night, Gretchen and I had our good friends Matt and Deidre over for dinner, along with their teenage girls Kevynne and Alix. Afterward, we played a game of Arkham Horror, which is always a hit with this group.
Our cast, in turn order:
Deidre - Mandy Thompson
Alix - Harvey Walters
Kevynne - Mark Harrigan
Tony - Jim Culver
Gretchen - Vincent Lee
Matt - Diana Stanley
Nyarlathotep was the Ancient One. We played with the full Dunwich Horror expansion (well, except for the downloadable Herald) and most of the Lurker at the Threshold expansion (again, leaving out the Herald and its related components).
It was a fun game, and we managed to win with no gates on the board. Everyone really enjoyed the Relationship cards and the new gates, although we agreed we'd only use the latter with experienced players. The Doom track made it all the way to 7, but the Terror track never advanced at all, which we thought was odd. (The Dunwich Horror track never advanced either, but that's not too unusual.)
It wasn't until I was casually flipping through the rules the next day that I discovered we had made two critical rules errors. Since we were playing with more than 5 players, we should have placed 2 monsters on each gate instead of just 1. On top of that, a monster surge results in placing one monster for each open gate or for each player, whichever is greater. (For those of you that are into documentation, my source is pages 9-10 of the base game rules.)
It seems like we should have gotten this right, but I don't think we've ever played with this many people, so it's possible it never came up before. (I do remember one 5-player game where I think we forgot these rules too, but that game went all the way to the Ancient One battle, so I'm not too worried about it.)
Everyone involved in the game has discussed it, and we're all planning to reconvene for another 6-player game in order to redeem ourselves. Here's my question to you: how far should we go in "re-creating" the circumstances of the last game? Everyone seems to agree that the rematch should be another Nyarlathotep/Dunwich/Lurker game, but if it were you, would you also use the same characters, Relationship cards, turn order and so forth? Should we "punish ourselves" for the previous game by adding a Herald, or using a Difficulty card, or something?
Or are we over-thinking this? It's entirely possible.
Anyway, what would your group do?
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). We've re-created only once- same characters, same AO, etc, and it was fun, but not any more or less informative of the "would've been" outcome than using a whole different setup. So I'd opine that you just move on and try to do it right the next time.
