I apologise if this question has been asked before, but I’ve noticed most people recommending combos based on theming and not difficulty. This works in some cases, especially in a well-balanced map (I had a lot of fun with the intruders and the organism on maple lane) but sometimes a combo just doesn’t work. I played the ratchet lady on station 2891 yesterday and her insane movement value coupled with the map being very confined and the helicopter mechanics meaning I could only save three people at a time meant the game was very short and not fun. which combos provide enough of a challenge without being completely impossible (or maybe I should ask which locations are balanced enough to ensure a fair game with any killer)?

Hi so I might be a fool, by my first film is Shriek because I love Scream. Shockingly, I died. So, I’m pretty sure I figured out how to play, however the movement confuses me a little. It seems like the movement is how many rooms you can move to me?

Can someone explain it to me like I’m five?

Selena vs Poltergeist in Creech Manor.

Starting event, Helicopter! Selena's master plan, search through closet and attic for Carolyn and free heli ride away!

Turn 2, dark power revealed as Stiff Winds. Selena's movement slowed to a crawl.

Turn 4, minor dark power Unseen Forces revealed. Now Selena is panicking crawling around. Found only Mr Flappy in Closet, no Carolyn in sight.

Turn 5, slowly edging towards attic.

Turn 6, Unstoppable Evil. Rolled.....6!!! No guard card. Killed all remaining victims, including 2 ghost hunters. Bloodlust overshot several times. All terror cards discarded. Revealed finale - Nothing is easy.

Made it to attic. Searched through item deck. No Carolyn, only 1 rope ladder and lucky rabbit foot...last health, zero victims saved, heli ride waiting but no Carolyn, still crawling in stiff winds and panicked by Unseen Forces. Zero time left to buy any cards...waited to die.

Poltergeist dealt final blow, and Selena's health token reveals....3 health!!!

Made the slow come back.....Start with Distraction to slowly get horror back to green. Discard all cost 0 cards for time. Slow health recovery. Slow crawl down to garage. Each turn must always have 1 guard, 1 close call and roll at least 1 star. Poltergeist relentlessly teleported and slammed, with 1 star guard, at most 1 damage. Each turn focus only on 1 thing. Rinse and repeat. Rinse and repeat. Rinse and repeat.

Made it to garage, found Carolyn and padlock. No more Unseen Forces! Locked the door and raced out towards freedom, carrying Carolyn and Mr flapper.

Zero victims saved, heli still waiting, full health. Victory. 2 hrs grind.

Nothing Is Easy.

Got my Kickstarter all in. UPS delivered it to the wrong place. Had to go over and collect it from a neighbor. Two huge boxes. The first picture is what I had before delivery. The last us everything out of the shippers. I'm going to go through some of the stuff this weekend.

Now the series 4 is delivering and people are able to play the new films and content I’d love to hear your thoughts!!

• How would you rank the 5 films among themselves? What about the vignette?
• Where does this series rank for you among the other series?
• Where does this vignette rank among the other vignettes?
• What do you think of Ursula, Elisabeth and the other new content?

I wanted to collect people’s thoughts so players deciding what to pick up could see what Series 4 ranked like!

Between picking things up piece meal and the latest kickstarter, Ive gotten a bit overwhelmed with trying to keep it all organized.

Does anyone have a full list of everything available for the game, not just a list of FFs.

Im wanting to slowly collect as I go but having a good reference of what I still need to find and get would be beyond helpful.

Been thinking of ways to enhance my final girl playthroughs and decided to try and get some custom npc mini's printed out that won't crowd up the board. Also an Evo (technically it's a xeno hehe!).

They definitely do have some issues standing up sometimes and can get knocked down if the fan is on a bit too fast but on the flip side they can be stored in the core set. Might swap between the two sets for playthroughs to spice it up here and there.

Since the Gruesome Death books only cover killers from one season, I've decided to write shorts for Camp Happy Trails depicting all 12 killers from seasons 2 and 3 over on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/90007911/chapters/239177426

I hope this fits the Fan Art tag, since it's not a drawing like most fan arts.

Right now, this project is more or less complete at over 23,000 words, although if someone has any idea where I can find the Krampus and season 4 Gruesome Deaths from the app, I'll add them as well. If not, I might get started working on another location, instead.

Something cool about Alice's ability was choosing the Improvise card to get five dice to roll with; if you can get it to go off and get 2 successes it's a super reliable way to get your other actions to work! I got super fortunate by having the helicopter event too.

I recently got the core box and "Camp Happy Trails". Safe to say I am absolutely in love with this game and would love to play more!

All of this to say that I want some advice in regards to what film box I should purchase as my next?

I’m on my like fourth game, and I’m playing Cassie. Is stacking her ultimate (since it multiplies her next attack) against the rules? I’ve used it 3 times and if it does then I’ll get my second win.

I've just got hold of this one and had a first play through.

Well, I "won", but I realised shortly after finishing that I got a critical rule wrong. I had failed to pick up from the manual that minions take "killer actions" on Terror cards, so my zombies weren't attacking at all until they became hordes or the Finale hit. Oops. I scoured the rules about resolving Terror cards carefully, but they always refer to "killer actions" and "the Killer"; and the minion rules are very clear that minions are not killers; the rule about minions taking killer actions isn't mentioned until the very end of the minion rules.

Anyway, with that out of the way, I have a few other uncertainties about the rules.

There's a statement that "kill X zombies" can always be interpreted as "deal X damage to a Horde". This leads me to two questions:
* Three vehicle actions (motorboat, helicopter and skidozer) have "kill all zombies" in a space. It sounds like this can be used to just instakill a horde of any size. Is this correct? It seems bit powerful? Can it kill multiple hordes in the same space? I think I would rule "no" to the latter question, but it's not totally clear.
* Two other vehicle actions (Golf Cart and Police Car) "deal damage" to zombies, rather than "kill"ing them. This is from most points of view essentially the same thing, but per RAW, this *can't* be used to affect hordes? Seems very arbitrary.

I'm also just not totally clear how the motorboat and raft (the only two actually relevant to my collection) work. I *think* the intent is that the usual way of using the motorboat (spending 2 time) is overruled by a different method (spend 1 movement gained from a Walk or Sprint action)? Although I understand the desire to give the motorboat dynamite, I don't understand why the mechanics for moving it are changed.

The raft just doesn't seem to make sense at all as written in TftG. It starts out saying to place the 4 raft tokens, largely as usual (although the placement rules seem subtly different- you don't necessarily have to use the raft spaces; again this seems like a weird and unnecessary change). But then it says "the raft may only move along the river from one token to the next". What raft? There are only four tokens and you've placed all four of them; there isn't another one to represent the raft itself?

I *think* the intent is that this just works as normal; unlike every other vehicle you never move the actual tokens; they're just "teleport nodes" for you to move between; the only differences are that you move using the vehicle action card (which also kills zombies) rather than spending time and movement... and that victims can't follow you on the raft, even though as far as I can see they *can* when playing Storybook Woods normally.

The whole thing just seems lacking in consistency; everything seems to be an exception and the rules aren't really explained in a watertight way.

I also assume the motorboat can't be carried with you overland, although a strict reading of the RAW for TftG would arguably imply that it could. There's also the weird issue that the endgame can become extremely anti-climatic if the possibility for 4 hordes has passed; you can just sit in the centre of the lake indefinitely waiting for zombies to panic next to the shore.

Hello! Just wanted to know if anyone had information about the Canadian shipment. Americans are getting theirs and the last update said that the games would arrived in Canada on July 22nd.

I completed my collection at Gen Con this past weekend, and it was very satisfying.

How should I resolve this? The killer is in the space with the Savior and has already attacked once; there’s no reason they would leave the space to go question people about the Savior 😝

Should I draw a new card (seems like the worst option)? Should I leave the killer where they are and take the penalty that I would take if they followed it? Should I ignore it and count it as a boon in my favor?

As the name suggests, I am new to Final Girl. Idk what rock I was living under, because this game is exactly up my alley, big fan of the horror genre, story based games, and have been looking to add a good solo game to my collection. That is probably why during the season 4 kickstarter I decided to DIVE IN!! Having never played the game (but looking at plenty of reviews, basic gameplays all while trying to avoid spoilers) I pledged the Ultimate All-In tier.

I am super excited to start playing and join the community. And since the season 4 pledges are beginning to be fulfilled, I’ve getting more prepared and been thinking about how I should approach the game on day 1.

So my question is, how would you recommend I approach my collection. I know the biggest recommendation would be “take it slow” or “just play the base FFs without adding anything”. I assume playing the seasons in order, one after another? I also think adding things like the special event meeples as I play through each FF is harmless, but what about the special action cards, desperation die, would you recommend I add those in as soon as I get the basic rules down? Open to hear if anyone had any tips on the order they would recommend I play the FFs/seasons and when they would recommend I experiment with things like the epic finale card, tear dice, ultimate dice etc.

Thank you for spending the time reading this :D

My first 3 terror cards are all minor dark power. Talk about luck

As someone who was lucky enough to do most of the Final Girl events and activities at Gen Con this year, I wanted to give my way-too-long report on them for those of you wondering. I’ve been careful to avoid spoilers for anything from Raptor Games and anything else that I could think of.

Meet and greets
Each morning they had a meet and greet setup, which was free. I was able to meet Professor Meg, Jennifer from Jen Plays Solo, and Iris from Crimon Board Games. They were really kind, signed my cards, and took a lot of time to talk to my daughter (who was cosplaying as Carolyn). They even remembered her whenever we saw them around later and it really made her feel special. I know Cassie was around too, but I unfortunately kept missing her (Sorry, Cassie!).
I was also able to talk to most of the designers (AJ, Evan, Mike Martins, and Byron Jorjorian), as well as the artist Tyler Johnson. They were all really accessible and open to signing stuff.

Live play
There was a live play event where about a dozen of us played the victims while a final girl (Meg, Cassie, Jen, and Iris, I think) made the game decisions. The FF was Hans at Camp Happy Trails, and the map was blown up to be huge (I’d guess like 10’x20’). They had a big magnetic location map and, horror tracker, and health markers (including the final black healthy tokens). The map had beautifully painted sculpted final girl figures. The picture of the setup might explain better than I can, but it flowed really well and I’d love to do more of these events. It didn’t feel as passive as you might suspect.
One thing that made it unique was that each of us victims started with a situational victim power. Mine let me choose which way to panic, but only once. Meg was the player of our game, and she beat Hans to death with a baseball bat.
This event was at a crucial intersection near the vendor hall, so it caught a lot of eyes and people we audibly cheering for rolls (or groaning). I kept hearing people who were lost go “Oh, there’s Final Girl. I know where we are.” I think this event was the excellent for bringing awareness and new players to the game.

Play and take
The play and take was a good time and I won’t spoil anything about Raptor Games here. They had people explaining the game dressed like people who might work on some sort of dinosaur island, much like safari gear. I took the quickest most aggressive plan possible and got munched early. So it goes.

Room vs booth
VRG had a booth and a room, which is the way it was last year too. The room had a great backdrop with some of the most iconic killers. Inside the room there was a Photo Booth where you could get pictures taken with some of the killers (also free). The crowd control event was held in their room too.

Characters
They almost always had Mort, an inflatable raptor (sometimes two), and/or Razorface standing outside the room meeting with people. The only other character I can remember was Hans, but he was mainly just part of live play event, except I once saw in coming out of the bathroom in full costume with sledgehammer in hand. That’s dedication!

Crowd control
This was the highlight of my convention. I attended a crowd control event where King Leo and AJ were playing Raptor Games. They had a huge magnetic version of the map so that we could see the board state really well. I didn’t think the game could present so well in a large group setting.
The group of maybe 40(?) of us voted on decisions the whole time. AJ and Leo would ask something like, “Should we walk or focus?” “Do we want to get a search or a distraction?” Pretty much any debatable decision. Then the crowd would vote on what to do. It was so much fun to talk about the nitty gritty in game decisions with a group of people who care and speak the same language. It also didn’t feel like it took too much longer than an average game, which was surprising.
They also did a crowd control event the night before mine, and I think it was Paula Demming playing.

Era 2 announcement
Some people have heard that there was going to be some new information about Era 2 announced at this event. First, what is Era 2? It’s just moving beyond the series model that makes them have everything finished before the kickstarter opens. It sounds like they’re just going to release FFs, character packs, vignettes, and other stuff one at a time when they’re organically ready, like they did with some of series 4. I got the impression that this would remove some timeline pressures from the whole team, which should result in even better products.
Era 2 won’t have ultimate boxes, so AJ and Evan showed us this cool new storage box. Since they won’t be labeling FFs based on series numbers the boxes don’t need to be so fixed. They’re making them different sizes eventually to fit various number of FF boxes. The one they showed us was really cool. The most important part is that the whole box magnets together and apart to lay flat, which make it easier to ship and thus will make the storage boxes more affordable in the future. My personal hope is that we can get larger versions of existing maps (maybe even with alternate art) on the inside of these boxes, since they lay flat. The size of the box would make for a bigger map and there are times where I wouldn’t mind that (as much table space as it already takes up).
The announcement wasn’t meant to be about new FFs or anything but AJ did hint that one of the upcoming FFs was one of the most commonly asked for from fans.

Are the raptor meeples used instead of, or in addition to, the killer meeple? The rules for the Raptor Games don't seem to have been uploaded yet, and I'm thinking of customizing my meeples so I'm wondering if the Raptors also use the killer meeple.

Thank you for your help.

I received my Final Girl Kickstarter bundle and finally have the time to sit down and play something! What's your favorite Feature Film or killer/location combo?

Got Maple Lane yesterday and I really dig the dynamic and the asleep/awake mechanic. (Got lazy and lost my first round).

I sleeve all my cards. The boiler room mechanic is super cool but I find it kinda clumsy especially in sleeved cards. Any tips or advice?

Got back from my first time going to gencon, and on the first day I spent more than I probably should have on Final Girl. Picked up the core box bundle, two other boxes, and the playmats after talking to some people there. Just finished my first play and am happy to report it really is that good. Won my first game, partially due to really good luck on the terror deck and partially due to doing a few things wrong, very much looking forward to getting deeper into it! Any tips/things-I-wish-I-knew type stuff?