I've run games of SotM at local game stores a few times and gotten good response from people in-store, but recently I had an encounter with another player who absolutely insisted that The Sentinels should add four to the H value of any game in which they are used, since there are a total of four character cards with that deck. This had never occurred to me. I've always operated under the assumption that one deck = 1 H, but this guy loudly insisted otherwise.
I can't find my printed rulesets anyplace, so for the sake of my sanity: The Sentinels still have an H value of 1, right?
The Sentinels totally only count as 1 for determining the value of (H). While they have four Character Cards that are targets, the hero deck belongs to The Sentinels, which would be the "Hero".
Wow, that would be ridiculous if they counted as H=4 all by themselves. If they did, apart from the difficulty of the game in general going through the roof, it would break some stuff - for example, Plague Rat would never be able to flip (unless you just had the Sentinels and one other hero).