Chez Cthulhu counter question

nyarlathotep23 · 02-21-2010, 12:10 AM

Bought and ran my first demo of Chez Cthulhu today. First off, I dig the counters coming with it, that's a nice touch. However, I'm wondering if there are plans for making additional ones available. Generally speaking, when I run any of the Chez games, I put Slack tokens on the cards that earn them, so that if something happens to those cards, it's easy to remove the Slack automatically.

With Chez Cthulhu, however, there are 1 and 5 point tokens (for Slack and Madness), and the 5 point ones don't actually come into play that much unless someone rolls a 6 on a Nookie card or something similar. Am I the oddball in stacking Slack this way? What we ended up doing was using all of the packaged counters for Madness and my glass beads for Slack (9 people in the game, which was a problem itself, but the counter problem presented itself in the earlier 5 player game).

At any rate, I can always get more glass beads, but there might be a market for packages of additional counters, so I figured I'd mention it.

RevBob · 02-22-2010, 09:02 PM

There's always the solution of buying the recent Chez Goth reprint, which has Slack and Gloom tokens. Combine all the Slack tokens from both sets, and you've got a fair selection, to be sure. :)

Evil Roy Slade · 03-09-2010, 08:25 PM

I have always just stacked my cards in piles of 5 Slack each. For those rare occasions when a card generates 6 Slack, just mark that with a die or a penny or something. Works great to see at a glance how the scores are, and makes the anal-retentive players (who must have all the Things together and not touching anything else, all the Activities together and not touching anything else and all the People together and not touching anything else) anxious and thus easier to beat.

02-21-2010, 12:10 AM	#1
nyarlathotep23 Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Houston, TX	Chez Cthulhu counter question Bought and ran my first demo of Chez Cthulhu today. First off, I dig the counters coming with it, that's a nice touch. However, I'm wondering if there are plans for making additional ones available. Generally speaking, when I run any of the Chez games, I put Slack tokens on the cards that earn them, so that if something happens to those cards, it's easy to remove the Slack automatically. With Chez Cthulhu, however, there are 1 and 5 point tokens (for Slack and Madness), and the 5 point ones don't actually come into play that much unless someone rolls a 6 on a Nookie card or something similar. Am I the oddball in stacking Slack this way? What we ended up doing was using all of the packaged counters for Madness and my glass beads for Slack (9 people in the game, which was a problem itself, but the counter problem presented itself in the earlier 5 player game). At any rate, I can always get more glass beads, but there might be a market for packages of additional counters, so I figured I'd mention it. __________________ The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind. -H.P. Lovecraft

02-22-2010, 09:02 PM	#2
RevBob Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Here on the perimeter, there are no stars	Re: Chez Cthulhu counter question There's always the solution of buying the recent *Chez Goth* reprint, which has Slack and Gloom tokens. Combine all the Slack tokens from both sets, and you've got a fair selection, to be sure. :) __________________ Find me at @RevBobTnJ * Goodreads Looking for a St. Aosbczkcs medal.

03-09-2010, 08:25 PM	#3
Evil Roy Slade Join Date: Oct 2007	Re: Chez Cthulhu counter question I have always just stacked my cards in piles of 5 Slack each. For those rare occasions when a card generates 6 Slack, just mark that with a die or a penny or something. Works great to see at a glance how the scores are, and makes the anal-retentive players (who must have all the Things together and not touching anything else, all the Activities together and not touching anything else and all the People together and not touching anything else) anxious and thus easier to beat.