(minor spoiler for scenerio 3) If you move with monsters engaged with you and their attacks kill you, where do the monsters end up?

[monorico 30]

If you move with monsters engaged with you and their attacks kill you, where do the monsters end up? At the location you attempted to move to? Or the location you started at?

 

Also we played the last scenario, if my wife was eliminated but I ended up winning by sacrificing Lita. Does my wife's investigator take any of the bad effects for that resolution?

I ruled that she didn't have to, since she really didn't make the decision to sacrifice Lita, and wasn't even there for the last battle, so it made sense to me that she wouldn't be "haunted" by the events that I did.

 

Thanks,

 

[ForAiur 13]

Grim rule. She takes the bad effects.

[Network57 561]

All investigators take the same resolution.

 

And it remains where you were moving from. An attack of opportunity takes place between the triggering action (moving) and the resolution of that action, so in this case you haven't completely resolved the move before you are defeated.

[mplain 129]

- Move action initiated

-- Attack of opportunity interrupts the move action [and defeats your investigator]

- Move action [never] resolves

 

 

There is nothing in the game rules that would suggest that investigators defeated over the course of the scenario are not affected by the scenario resolution. Actually, if that was the case, being defeated would also prevent you from gaining XP for that scenario, which would be pretty sad, wouldn't it?

Edited November 24, 2016 by mplain

[monorico 30]

I was thinking more with the feel and role-playing element of the game.

 

She still participated in the scenario, so she gets some experience. But maybe not the experience of things I defeated after she was eliminated...

But she doesn't take the bad effects from making the decision to sacrifice lita, since she didn't make it. If there was other resolutions things that didn't directly relate to that choice it would make sense...

 

But then it seems like it just gets way to complicated and I could see people abusing this if you weren't focused on the story aspect of it.

 

Anyway, those are just my thoughts.

Thanks for the responses.

[wolfien8 143]

At the end of the day, you aren't hurting anyone with your interpretation. You own the game and can do whatever you want. If it helps you have more fun or enhances your enjoyment do it. Rules as written she gets the same effect, but screw the rules it's a cooperative game with storytelling whatever makes sense for you, do it.

[rsdockery 537]

But she doesn't take the bad effects from making the decision to sacrifice lita, since she didn't make it. If there was other resolutions things that didn't directly relate to that choice it would make sense...

 

But she was still present. Perhaps she was overpowered by cultists or monsters, or perhaps she simply broke down from the stress, but however it happened, she was still there to witness Lita's fate. She was simply helpless to do anything about it.

[shosuko 2,174]

I think, being that the story ends at that point, and it's purely a private affair with you two, it doesn't matter what you say.  According to the rules - Each player can Resign or become Defeated independently, without effecting the outcome.  The "no resolution" only plays out if every player resigns, or is defeated.  If you reach any other resolution, it effects the entire party.

So in Story 1 if you are in a 4 player game, and 2 players run out of the house (resign) and a 3rd is defeated from damage, but the 4th finishes off the Ghoul Priest - then every player gets R1 if the lead investigator picks it (I assume sharing an example of the first mission isn't spoiling much)

 

As to your question about where the monsters end up, mplain covered it but for reference:

Page 5 of the reference book - Attack of Opportunity - First bullet point
An attack of opportunity is made immediately after costs of initiating the action that provoked the attack have been paid, but before the application of that action's effect upon the game state.

 

So if you say "I will move to this location" then you will lose the action you spend to do so, pay any other costs associated with movement (if there are any) and then, while still at the initial location you will endure every attack of opportunity.  If you are then still able to move to the next room, then you and all of the engaged monsters will move there.  If you are unable to move, all of the monsters stay where they were.