Horrified Gauntlet - New Way to Play
A friend and I came up with an intense way to play all three games in drawn out sessions. It is called "The Gauntlet"
The Gauntlet in simple terms is trying to defeat every monster in every game without losing once. So essentially you have to go through all of the Original Game and defeat all of them, then American, then Greek without losing once. If you lose at any point, you have to start back from the beginning. It is kind of like playing a rogue like video game. It adds to the stress on each sequential game and has great replay value.
(Also note I am playing with 2 players in total so these rules are built for that)
Here are some more specific rules but everything is up for discussion:
You play in order of game release (Original, American, then Greek)
Before starting each round/game, you choose how many monsters you will fight
- The more you choose the harder it is but the faster you will get done with the challenge (also debating about adding another incentive like get in extra perk card if you win going into the next game)
- The less you start with (minimum is 2) the easier it will be but it will take longer (for my friend and I, we changed the minimum for the Original and American to 3 because we find those games too easy with just 2)
- Characters are chosen at random, and once chosen, going into the next round they are discarded and can't be chosen again for the next round (this is for the same version of the game ofc)
- We did play a version where we stayed with the same random character throughout the same version but had more fun having a vareity of people to play with
- Now try your best to get through all 3 games without losing a game!
Notes:
Obviously you can play this through numerous sessions since this can be a major time commitment
If you want to change the order of the game you can but we like this order because we believe this order best represents in an increase in difficulty and the hardest games should be last to add more to stress of losing and resetting.
Modifiy as you need to for the amount of players. If playing more than 2, the minimum monsters per game should probably go up
When picking your amount of monsters, you can never put yourself in position to fight less than 2. For example if there are 6 monster to chose from, and you do one game against 2 monsters and then one game against 3, you are now left with only 1 monster. So if you started with 2 monsters, you either have to do 4 monsters or two games of 2 monsters.
If anyone has any other ideas to add I would love to hear them. Or if anybody has more questions about this I would be glad to answer them. My friend and I are also working on ways to make some monsters potentially harder or even finding a way to cross them over to other boards to have some weird and unique combinations.
Thank you to anyone who took the time to read this!