by tigerwiccan
xipuloxx wrote:
I'm baffled. In my experience, Elder Sign is generally too easy. Luck does play a part, and more so with fewer investigators; with more of you the luck tends to even out more. But it still shouldn't be that difficult!
The Rog is right that you shouldn't worry about getting Elder Signs early on; your priority should be using easier adventures to build up a collection of clues, items etc. to help you succeed at tougher adventures (which the ones that give Elder Signs typically are).
But the thing that really baffles me is this:
In my copy, the Mythos cards break down like this:
8 do not mention Doom tokens at all (but often bring out monsters or cause some other badness).
14 add a Doom token, but this is avoidable if the right conditions are met. (Some of those conditions depend on luck, some on the players' choices.)
9 add a Doom token which cannot be avoided.
1 adds two Doom tokens, not right away but on the following midnight.
So I don't see how you could have got 3 cards that told you to lay down two Doom tokens. Are you sure you didn't misread them? In the font used, the letter "a" does look a bit like a "2", so maybe that's what happened...
Or maybe you have a newer version of the game, with tougher cards. Do you have the revised rules or the original? You can see both at FFG's site.
The Rog is right that you shouldn't worry about getting Elder Signs early on; your priority should be using easier adventures to build up a collection of clues, items etc. to help you succeed at tougher adventures (which the ones that give Elder Signs typically are).
But the thing that really baffles me is this:
WishItWas1984 wrote:
3 times at midnight we pulled Mythos cards telling us to lay down 2 Doom Tokens. One of them added a monster too.
In my copy, the Mythos cards break down like this:
8 do not mention Doom tokens at all (but often bring out monsters or cause some other badness).
14 add a Doom token, but this is avoidable if the right conditions are met. (Some of those conditions depend on luck, some on the players' choices.)
9 add a Doom token which cannot be avoided.
1 adds two Doom tokens, not right away but on the following midnight.
So I don't see how you could have got 3 cards that told you to lay down two Doom tokens. Are you sure you didn't misread them? In the font used, the letter "a" does look a bit like a "2", so maybe that's what happened...
Or maybe you have a newer version of the game, with tougher cards. Do you have the revised rules or the original? You can see both at FFG's site.
Maybe they are shuffling the Mythos cards all together each time they pull one?