Horrified: Custom Monsters III - Modern Horror Continued

Here is my review of the second half of the modern horror set of custom monsters for the Horrified board game.

Pennywise

While this shapeshifting monster basically hovers around his (rarely) moving balloon (which is also the space you need to interact with), he is more a target of opportunity than anything else as the specific items required to weaken him might take some time to pop. I really like that to beat him afterwards, all the players must gather on his space which is both very cool and really dangerous. We lucked out getting good movement cards and finished this clown last.

Freddy Kreuger

The Nightmare of Elm Street has a good mechanic of being in the dreamland maze (along with numbered tokens representing each players "dream" space) where he always seems to be within arms reach of attack. Pulling him into the real world requires 3 excellent dice rolls OR being geared up enough to auto-success the dice rolls. Alas for him, once he's flesh and bone and no longer protected by his main power he becomes very easy prey.

The Fly

This scientist turned giant fly was somehow more scary than the previous two and that's possibly because beating him requires MATH! Using item strength values you just have to fill in the simple formulas of (a - b = x,  c + d = z) and then defeat him with a strength x * z item. This made him the "weakest" monster to defeat for us, as our x * z = 3 but he was a fun critter nonetheless.

While Pennywise can potentially be a huge threat as someone would potentially need to tank the clown awhile (monsters move after each player does), this trio was not as bad as the first three and we won without much trouble.