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Arkham Horror

Miskatonic Horror

Amidst the Roaring Twenties a dark shadow rises in Arkham City: the Ancient ones try to find a way into our world. Players are investigators trying to close dimension gates or defeat the Ancient one. A turn comprises five phases; each phase is played by each of the players. Phases are Upkeep, Movement, Arkham Encounters, Other World Encounters and Myths. The game follows complex rules, when the Ancient One awakens, players fight him until he is defeated or all investigators are devoured.

Miskatonic Horror is a new kind of expansion; like all those before it can be combined with the core game, but the more expansions you add the more components and aspects of Miskatonic Horror you can use, because the majority of the components has been designed to augment other expansions. The contents are 450 cards, reference sheets and an Institute variant.

Among those new materials there are new Exhibit Encounter Cards and Exhibit Item Cards for Curse of the Dark Pharaoh, Injuries Card, Madness Cards, Encounters, Dunwich Horror and Dunwich Location Cards as well as a Herald Shield for Dunwich Horror; Act Cards and Blight Cards for The King in Yellow; Blessings of Nodens, Visions of Hypnos, Location Cards, Cult Encounter Cards and Epic Battle Cards for The Black Goat of the Woods; Location and Look cards for Innsmouth Horror and, finally, Relationship Cards and Reckoning Cards for use with the Lurker on the Treshold cards as well as Agent Tokens, Expedition Markers etc.

This expansion is really a must for each investigator in the Cthulhu the Ancient One faction, too, in this intriguing box of scary and helpful extensions!

Players: 1-8

Age: 12+

Time: 180+

Designer: Tim Uren

Art: Brian Schomburg, Dallas Mehlhoff, Anders Finér

Price: ca. 45 Euro

Publisher: Heidelberger 2012

Web: www.hds-fantasy.de

Genre: Fantasy adventure game

Users: For experts

Special: 1 player

Special: Many players

Version: de

Rules: de en es

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Only for use with the Core Game and one or more of the expansion

Extends other expansions

Interesting, impressive new details

Compares to:

Arkham Horror Core game, Call of Cthulhu and other fantasy/horror adventure games

Other editions:

Fantasy Flight Games, USA; Edge Entertainment, Spain

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0