Kingsport design notes

[zenithed]

There are a couple of new articles on the Fantasy Flight Games site about new mechanisms in Kingsport:

- Rifts
- Guardians

Looks like Guardians are much as expected (anti-Heralds, basically), but the Rifts mechanism looks pretty nasty, they're like roving gates floating around Arkham which you need to go to Kingsport to close. Since Kingsport is

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[al_fruitbat]

[thecesspit]

And buy a new table for the new board and spaces for the card.

Not sure about adding more to the final battle though... seems, well, unnecessary...

[zenithed]

I guess that using all three boards will dilute Dunwich to the extent that it becomes pretty pointless (assuming that these Rift things are activated via the Deck of Blame), so that would be the first to go.

I don't mind the idea of randomised final battle changes, it adds a bit of uncertainty to those times when you're all tooled up and ready to give a god a kicking. Just so long as it doesn't end up turning into the Talisman alternate endings.