Investigators explore the city, encountering places, people, and creatures both normal and mundane. Through these adventures, the investigators hope to gain the clues and resources needed to confront and ultimately thwart the mythos threat.

1. Arkham Horror Final Hour
2. Arkham Horror Card Game Expansions

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Early in the game, investigators seek to avoid more powerful monsters while moving around the city to gather weapons, spells, clues, and other items they will need.

Later, the investigators attempt to close a few gates and seal some of the most active gates.

Arkham Horror Final Hour

Finally, once several gates have been sealed and the investigators have acquired valuable weapons, spells, clues, and allies, they make one last, desperate assault on the mythos, attempting to close or seal the final gates. Either they succeed and the world survives, or they fail and the Ancient One awakens for the climactic battle.

Be warned: If the Ancient One awakens, the investigators are in for the fight of their lives!

• 1Investigator Characteristics

Investigator Characteristics

Each investigator has some unique combination of characteristics which may make them more or less effective in different roles. Due to their statistics and abilities, some investigators will have particular advantages in casting spells, others in physical combat against monsters, others in traveling through the Other Worlds or closing gates, and so on.

Statistics

Arkham Horror Card Game Expansions

Each investigator starts with a certain maximum Sanity and Stamina rating.

Additionally, each investigator has a certain combination of 3 paired Skill value ratings (Speed/Sneak, Fight/Will, Lore/Luck) and a specific Focus value allowing him or her to change them during the Upkeep Phase.

Special Ability

Each investigator has a unique special ability or occasionally more than one, usually conceptually related to their occupation. This special ability gives the investigator a unique advantage of some kind, sometimes with a corresponding disadvantage.

Fixed Possessions

Each investigator starts with a certain list of possessions, including a specific amount of money, and sometimes specific Common items, Unique items, Spells or Clue tokens.

Random Possessions

Most investigators also receive a certain number of possessions, such as Common items, Unique items, Spells and Skills which are randomly drawn from their respective card decks.

List of Investigators

Notes

Investigators that start with an:

Ally: 'Ashcan' Pete (Duke), Charlie Kane, Leo Anderson, Roland Banks

Bank Loan: Finn Edwards

Blessing: Sister Mary

Curse: Rex Murphy

Gate Trophy: Akachi Onyele

Monster Trophy: William Yorick

Retainer: Darrell Simmons, George Barnaby, Rita Young

Silver Twilight Lodge Membership: Diana Stanley

Skill (Fixed; no random): Lily Chen

Arkham Horror: The Card Game is a living card game produced by Fantasy Flight Games. It is a cooperative game set in the universe of Chaosium's Call of Cthulhuroleplaying game which is itself based on the Cthulhu Mythos of H.P. Lovecraft and other cosmic horror writers. The title refers to Lovecraft's fictional town of Arkham, MA which is mentioned in many Mythos stories.

Release[edit]

News of the game was originally leaked in May 2016,^[2] before being officially announced in August of that same year.^[3] It made its first limited public release at Arkham Nights 2016 to a sold-out crowd.

As a game in Fantasy Flight Games Living Card Game line, there is a regular release of non-random Deluxe expansions that start a story or campaign, followed by multiple smaller expansions (known as Mythos packs) that continue and conclude it.

Mechanics[edit]

Campaign play is the default mode of the game,^[4] allowing a player to progress through a series of scenarios. In campaign play, choices made in scenarios have lasting effects, altering the story and how later scenarios play out. Each scenario has multiple paths of divergence offering multiple playthroughs with differing experiences each time.

When players prepare to play, they first choose an investigator of a particular class (Guardian, Survivor, Rogue, Seeker, Mystic or Neutral). Each investigator deck receives cards that represent weaknesses of their investigator, one specific to each investigator, and one 'basic' - drawn at random from a general pool. Investigators will also possess one or more unique cards that represent that individual's specific advantages or abilities, often complimenting the backstory of that investigator. Each investigator also has different starting statistics (Willpower, Intellect, Combat and Agility) which will be tested throughout the game. Players then build their decks from cards in their collection, conforming to the deckbuilding limits outlined by their investigator.

During the game, the investigators work together to progress their investigation towards a positive outcome by fulfilling the requirements set out by the Act deck. However, there are forces working against the investigators, represented by the Agenda deck and encounter deck. Each turn, a doom counter is added to the Agenda deck, acting as a timer for the investigators to complete their objectives. When the total number of doom in play reaches the doom threshold of the agenda card, the agenda will advance, often to negative consequences.

During the Investigation phase, the investigators each take up to three actions. Among other options, actions include playing cards from hand or activating those already in play, moving to or investigating locations and fighting or evading enemies. Depending on the card, cards played from hand during the investigation phase may enter an investigator's play area as an ongoing bonus (an 'asset') or simply provide a powerful one-time effect and be discarded upon use (an 'event'). Many cards have a resource cost which must be paid to play the card. While cards generally require an action to play, some are 'fast' and do not require an action to be played.

The Investigation phase is followed by the Enemy, Status and the Mythos Phase, representing the forces working against the investigators each round. Investigators may have to deal with effects or enemies that attack their sanity, health or simply their progression towards their main goal (the Act deck).

Investigators will be eliminated from a scenario if they receive horror or damage equal to their sanity or health respectively. Investigators eliminated in this way will receive permanent mental or physical trauma. This means investigators repeatedly defeated in scenarios can become progressively weaker as the campaign progresses. Investigators will, however, receive experience from scenarios (even after defeat), which can be spent to improve each investigator's deck. At certain points in a campaign, failure may lead to investigators being killed or driven insane.

Expansions[edit]

Expansions are grouped into cycles that contain a complete campaign for players to go through. Each cycle is divided up into one deluxe expansion followed by six mythos packs. Deluxe expansions contain new investigators, about 60 new player cards, and the first two scenarios of a campaign. Mythos packs contain about 24 new player cards and a single scenario of a campaign. They are listed below in order of release date which is also the order in which to play a cycle's campaign.

Stand-alone scenarios are scenarios that exist outside of a campaign/cycle and are self-contained. As such, a player doesn't need any other expansions to play them or encounter cards from the core box—only the investigators. Stand-alone scenarios are printed in house at Fantasy Flight Games and are referred to as Print on Demand (POD). This means the card quality is generally lower than the packs shipped from overseas but Fantasy Flight Games can push these packs faster out to players at conventions or for general release.

Upgrade expansions are akin to the 'Nightmare Packs' from the Lord of the Rings LCG. However instead of just increasing the difficulty, these expansions provide an alternate way to play through the campaign with alternate story effects. They also provide player cards with the first one providing 20 player cards. They are also not the Print on Demand quality that is found in the stand-alone scenarios.

The Dunwich Legacy cycle[edit]

The Path to Carcosa cycle[edit]

The Forgotten Age cycle[edit]

The Circle Undone cycle[edit]

The Dream-Eaters cycle[edit]

The Innsmouth Conspiracy cycle[edit]

Stand-alone scenarios[edit]

Upgrade Expansions[edit]

Investigator Starter Decks[edit]

Novellas[edit]

Arkham Horror: The Card Game also has novellas where each novella is focused around a specific investigator and come with 5 promo cards. These promo cards include 1 alt-art investigator card, 1 alt-art mini investigator card, 1 replacement signature card, 1 replacement signature weakness, and 1 card with instructions for the replacement cards.

References[edit]

1. ^ ^ab'Enter the Mythos'. Fantasy Flight Games. 2 August 2016. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
2. ^'Leaked Image of Arkham Horror Card Game'. www.polyhedroncollider.com. Retrieved 2016-09-27.
3. ^'Enter the Mythos'. www.fantasyflightgames.com. Retrieved 2016-09-27.
4. ^'Uncovering the Truth'. www.fantasyflightgames.com. Retrieved 2016-09-27.
5. ^'The Eternal Slumber'. www.fantasyflightgames.com. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
6. ^'Murder at the Excelsior Hotel'. www.fantasyflightgames.com. Retrieved 2019-07-12.
7. ^'Barkham Horror: The Meddling of Meowlathotep'. www.fantasyflightgames.com. Retrieved 2019-02-21.

External links[edit]

• Arkham Horror: The Card Game at BoardGameGeek