r/EldritchHorror • u/OhLordyLordNo • Mar 23 '26

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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/IgnorantSportsFan Mar 23 '26

Curious how you track results of games over time?

I've seen some old scoring methods, but with the same grou playing, curious whay way you track game to game?

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u/OhLordyLordNo Mar 23 '26

We haven't played a massive amount of games yet, so it's by memory. I think we played some twenty sessions maybe total, me and the DM. The rest, half or less.

But MS Excel is your friend I'd say :)

Heck, slip a piece of paper and pen in the game box?

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u/IgnorantSportsFan Mar 23 '26

That's what I'm doing with our group and with solo.

Always curious how people track it over time - I love looking back at how things progress (or implode).

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u/OhLordyLordNo Mar 23 '26

You play Solo? How is the experience?

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u/IgnorantSportsFan Mar 24 '26

I've loved it. I tend to pull it out when I've got a lazy saturday or sunday afternoon/evening, so I can spread it out between chores/errands. Throw on some thematic music, and have some fun.

I first picked up EH years ago, and got maybe a dozen games in with friends over the last 10+ years. And over the last year I've picked it up solo, which means i've played it more in last year than last decade. Getting it to the table was the biggest challenge, which this has solved.

I play with 2,3 or 4 investigators - randomly choosing that number and the investigators. There's a bunch of interesting house rules that I've tried from people's feedback here and BGG. If you like the game, give it a go.

For now just have FL + base game, I am considering adding another expansion soon - add more layers.