Raps Thawmus on the knuckles with a ruler.

Don't be bringing back my Catholic school days. Lutherans in Catholic schools don't have the best experiences with nuns. Although that's usually completely our fault.

Should we update our character list post with the items that were drawn for us?

I already did

Than so shall I!

Yes, please!

I have already drawn the first Mythos card, and the monsters, but I wanted to wait for you guys to all get a chance to get settled, before I tell you what's up.

I also wanted you guys to take note of your starting locations, and I still need suggestions on the board. GIMPing....while most effective, is the least efficient. I know those of you who either own or play the game will have no problem, but I don't know about everyone else. Changing a board with GIMP will be too time consuming. It'll burn me out faster than....something comparable to burning in a short period of time.

My current idea is to take a page out of the online Heroclix leagues, give you all an image you can look at whenever, and just tell you where everything is. That shouldn't be so hard. All I have to keep track of is where you 8 are, where the gates and monsters are, clue tokens, and rumor locations. The rest, I've left to you guys to manage, so I suppose I could handle that, if that was sufficient for the rest of you.


Also: Doom has yet to make an appearance. I know he gets busy, so I'll play for him for a little bit. If he misses too much action, I'll replace him with Quebbs or Wade, or I'll just replace him myself.

I'm one of the players who does not own the game (and thus only barely know what's going on), so I'm always open to taking advice from other players.

If the advice turns out to be bad, I'll rap the advice-giver on the knuckles with my ruler.

Here's an adaptation of one of Lovecraft's stories done on the radio show Suspense in 1945:

THE DUNWICH HORROR

I'll try, but to be honest, my confidence in my knowledge of the rules is a little shaken, now that Melk's corrected me twice. Somehow, I'm certain I've been doing other stuff wrong as well.

Oh well.

Honestly Thawmus, I'm not even sure what GIMP'ing is so I'm trusting you on this.

Trying to think if I've any way to scan and upload my gameboards when I return to the house where they're at but I'm not the most tech savvy person....plus I'd force you to use the Dunwich, Innsmouth and Kingsport boards.

I'm the gimp. Once we really start playing, you'll see.

You should know how it is with me and rules

If anything comes up, or anyone is unsure of anything rules-wise I'll be more than happy to help.

GIMP is an open-source program that rivals Photoshop, and is precisely 800 dollars cheaper. I got a lot of experience with it when I tried doing my MSPA stuff, and I have an electronic tablet to draw on, etc. My idea was to take an image of the Arkham board, and then just draw markers on it whenever stuff happened, and update it. But, since I can't do that at work, and it's unreasonably time consuming to constantly upload a garbled image with a bunch of scribbles, I'm disinclined to do it.

What I think might be easier, is to give you guys a high-res image of the board, so that you can print it off for your own convenience, or keep a local copy, or whatever, and just simply copy-paste a listing of where everything is on the board. Every space on the board has a name, so it's not like we have to come up with a grid or something.

Yeah, I think it comes from when I was such a rules guru with Heroclix, and had it nailed down cold. I never went that in-depth with any other games, so when I get corrected, my initial subconscious reaction is: "Like hell I am!!!"

When, really, um, yes, I am.

By the way, based on the fact we've got ol' Yog as our first game I think the next one should be the Dunwich expansion as it just seems apropos.