True horror

[kinkomaster]

The problem was, the player that reacts the best wouldn't do the peeking, so I didn't get her squeal... well, until the shambling zombie came around the corner. You don't know how rough it is to keep a straight face during their moves, but figuring out the lines of LOS helps.

Don't worry about using Heroquest, it is a game we are both obviously very familiar with (you've been to their big fan site, right?). Well, the reason that I have them moving randomly around is that they are pretty much single-minded and if they are looking for food, they'd probably wander a little. When I first thought about movement, I went back and forth between rolling once and having them do that until they couldn't do it anymore, or the way I have it where they do it each round. Ok, why not leave them in place? Well, they would end up sitting on the spawn pits and the Heroes could just avoid those. Remember, in HeroQuest, most of the adventures take you thru all the rooms, so you end up going to all the monsters anyways. They don't really need to move.

Hmmmm... maybe what I'll do the next time I run it is have the zeds start off in a random direction and they will go that way until the way is blocked or they are alerted. If they are only blocked, we'll roll for a new direction for them to stagger off in, or they can just stand there... depending on the roll. If they are alerted or have LOS... it's a moot point.