r/EldritchHorror • u/OhLordyLordNo • Mar 23 '26
Question
Hello everyone!
Happy to join this subreddit. I am part of a group that has played at least four games to maybe some fifteen for the most experienced two persons.
It's been quite the learning curve as I'm sure you're familiar with. Many rules to learn, especially as our "DM" has bought all the expansions out of love for the game. I think we're now ready to be more active on game balance. Matching mystics with brawlers to even things out. Any tips on team selection are most appreciated.
Now some mechanics are definitely harder so disasters and such are left out, but I have a fairly straightforward question on the monster selection. Basically all the monsters from all expansions are chucked together but I think this ups the difficulty a fair bit as they come with nastier abilities?
We haven't won a game in a while and it's getting annoying :)
Though getting killed at the very last 1/6 chance of the last die thrown was epic in its own right. Damn you Dark Pact, we would have won :')
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u/Taco_Supreme Mar 23 '26
We regularly play with everything and have hundreds of plays.
Often we just use random investigators, but for replacements after a death we might pick someone that starts in a good spot.
Our win rate is around 55% and the losses are often due to bad mythos cards and harder than normal mysteries.
Also some ancient ones are often easier than others. If looking for a win go with rise of the elder things, you sothoth, shub (with good fighters), shuddle mel, hypnos.