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“Mansions of Madness” is a game set in the Arkham Horror Universe: One player is the Keeper, the others are all Investigators. Investigators go to a location in order to solve a puzzle, win or lose as a team and need cleverness and courage to find artifacts, weapons and clues. The Keeper has different goals, ranging from Madness for the Investigators to the End of the World. After one round for each of the investigators with two moves and one action comes one move of the Keeper. The Forbidden Alchemy expansion introduces new investigators and figures as well as new monsters and figures, plus new investigator, traumata, mythos and combat cards as well as three new scenarios on the horror of science; in new rooms you encounter new monsters, items, hints, door locks and puzzles. Some of the new cards and markers are necessary for certain scenarios, others can be used with any scenario or story, also with those from the core game. The Keeper has his own Keeper Guide Book to create the scenarios for the individual stories. Some of the map parts show white dotted lines, those lines are boundaries that you as an investigator cannot cross  unless a game effect explicitly allows it. The line of sight necessary for some other actions is not influenced by those boundaries and Flying Monsters can cross them as well. A new type of Puzzle is also presented; Alchemy Puzzles; Investigators must use Puzzle actions to move and replace Puzzle Pieces, and you must pass a test for an Alchemy Puzzle to solve it.

Mansions of Madness and this expansion Forbidden Alchemy are perfect for fans of the Genre, dense, sinister, challenging and eerie!

Players: 2-4

Age: 13+

Time: 90+

Designer: Corey Konieczka

Art: Christopher Burdett, Henning Ludvigsen

Price: ca. 35 Euro

Publisher: Heidelberger Spieleverlag 2012

Web: www.hds-fantasy.de

Genre: Fantasy Horror

Users: For experts

Version: de

Rules: de en es pl

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Topic of the core game is expanded intensely and thrillingly

Fits the genre and the Arkham Horror topic perfectly

Rather only  for fans of the genre

Compares to:

Mansions of Madness and other games in the Arkham Horror range

Other editions:

Mansions of Madness Forbidden Alchemy, FFG

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 1

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0