I'm a longtime gamer, and actually got my daughter into AH via a video game. She really enjoyed watching me play my XBox Dark Corners of the Earth game a few years back and wanted to learn more as it was pretty spooky. The HPL stories are a bit too "uninteresting" yet, but the board game was a perfect hook ( Read more... )

Scenario 3 is up Feeding Time

Our team of 6 has completed the first 2 scenarios (16 and 22 pts), although an awful streak of monster surges with Cultists, Maniacs, and Mask monster stomped us in attempt 1 of Masquerade Ball.

How are others faring?

Well, we played this with four players on Sunday and....

...it was a walkover. Completed by sealing gates in 14 turns, terror level on 0, doom level never above 6.  Final score of 22.

We were helped by a couple of Elder Signs popping up early (which must be quite likely given all the Uniques that were taken out), lots of monster surges and the ( Read more... )

Tide of Serpents Scenario

Special Rules:
At the start of each Mythos Phase, if there are ever 2 or more cultists in the same location on the board, Yig immediately awakens.

Ancient One: Yig

( Setup as normal, with the following cards being removed from the decks: )

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ah_league.html

New scenarios will be posted every two weeks over the summer featuring different special rules and combinations of sets, then you submit the results to Fantasy Flight.

This sounds like a genius idea. Anyone up for a bit of a competition? 

So, we played a couple of games of Kingsport over the weekend ( Read more... )

Has anyone actually got a hold of a copy of this? I've just got an e-mail from some of my preferred online games shops telling me it's available, so I'll be making an order, but I have yet to see an actual copy.

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/

Kingsport is out!

The rules are up on the website for anyone who wants spoilers.

There are a couple of new articles on the Fantasy Flight Games site about new mechanisms in Kingsport:

- Rifts
- Guardians

Looks like Guardians are much as expected (anti-Heralds, basically), but the Rifts mechanism looks pretty nasty, they're like roving gates floating around Arkham which you need to go to Kingsport to close. Since Kingsport is ( Read more... )

Fantasy Flight, who make Arkham Horror, have decided to not make their Collectible Card game Call of Cthulhu collectible anymore. it's going to be a 'Livign Card Game ( Read more... )