Overlord Player for Arkham

[G.Prep 0]

I like Descent and Arkham very much. And I always wondered how it would be to have a "Overlord" player at Arkham(1 player playing to HELP the great old One agains the other players).

Sometimes i do fell that the game could be a whole new kind of entertainment if one of the players where to be an Cult leader playing against the other players.

Does someone knows if an set of rules of this kind were ever created by a fan?

I will try to figure something in the mean time and maybe comeup with something. If anybody have any ideas for a brainstorm or happens to know where to find a set of rules like this, please inform me.

See you soon.

 

[Avi_dreader 64]

G.Prep said:

 

I like Descent and Arkham very much. And I always wondered how it would be to have a "Overlord" player at Arkham(1 player playing to HELP the great old One agains the other players).

Sometimes i do fell that the game could be a whole new kind of entertainment if one of the players where to be an Cult leader playing against the other players.

Does someone knows if an set of rules of this kind were ever created by a fan?

I will try to figure something in the mean time and maybe comeup with something. If anybody have any ideas for a brainstorm or happens to know where to find a set of rules like this, please inform me.

See you soon.

 

 

 

I haven't seen any.  But I have thought about having a controlling player.  You could specify the creation of a mythos deck (that would still be shuffled) with a certain number of cards and minimal gate distribution (i.e. there must be at least three of one gate, four of another, whatever).  You could also potentially ignore monster movement, allow the Overlord to control them have a custom monster cup, or possibly allow the overlord to spawn monsters.  You could of course play with additional effects for mythos cards with movement types or something. Anyways.  Good luck :')

 

Hmmm...  You could also have pre-set mythos cards and have the main aspect of overlording be how the monster movement is controlled.

[G.Prep 0]

That is Great!, but i was thinking something more in-game. A card deck separated just for the Overlord  would require the creation of a new deck.

A few ideas that i just had would be the Overlord could be when monsters come into play, the overlord get to roll a die and that would me the Toughness os the monster he could put in play. Then the overlord got to Choose a monster from the cup, Im still not sure about the odds for each toughtness. Since the overlord would probably choose the worst challenge. So its only fare that the worst monster apear with least frequency.

  The movement of monster could be same as the normal rule, with the exception that the Overlord could move the monster with a given symbol to wherever he wants...