I haven't got any of the expansions.

I'm a bad person, I know.


I'm actually gonna order the King in Yellow tonight or tomorrow. I've been wanting to get that one for a while.

I've been cruising teh interwebz for one of these (figured it would be easier to follow along) and haven't found one
that is as clear as I would like. If I happen upon one, I'll let you know.

The expansions all add great stuff to the game, even if you aren't planning on using all the maps all the time (bad idea really!), especially Insmouth adds a TON of great stuff to update many of the original elements too, including personal quests for all the investigators currently in the game

Oh, I already have one.
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo...eat=directlink

The King in Yellow was both my most sought-after and the hardest at the time for me to obtain (fortunately it's much more common now). Fantastic expansion but, I admit, I'm biased.

I do have to echo Melkhor that Innsmouth adds a lot to the game with the personal quests if you're wanting one of the bigger expansion sets but aren't interested in using the extended board. If you do want to go with the extended board set-ups than Kingsmouth may be the better bang for your buck as it delves heavier into the dimensional-scapes.

I would save the Black Goat of the Woods for the last. It's alright - none of the sets are bad - but outside of lots of combat it probably adds the least to the game.

It could be because I'm more used to the board than I should be unembarrassed to admit but it looks just fine to me Thawmus; perfectly legible and not "glaring".

(This is where I have to come clean and admit it'll be nice to play Arkham with actual other players as opposed to solo games.)

Agreed, Kingsport is by far my favoured add-on board as well. Excellent expansion.

And no, I can't possibly imagine playing Arkham Horror with yourself would be nearly as interesting as with a group of friends which is how I semi-regularly play it

Just updating my character!

"Ashcan" Pete, the Drifter

Unique Ability: Scrounge - When Pete draws from the Common item, Unique item, or Spell deck, he may draw from either the top or the bottom of that deck, his choice. Pete may look at the bottom card of those decks at any time.

Status

* Sanity: 4
* Stamina: 6

Fixed Possessions

* $1

* 3 Clue tokens
* 1 Ally (Duke)

Random Possessions

* Map of Arkham
* Elder Sign
* +1 to Speed

* 1 Common item
* 1 Unique item
* 1 Skill

Focus: 1
Skills Speed 0 1 2 3
Sneak 6 5 4 3
Fight 2 3 4 5
Will 5 4 3 2
Lore 0 1 2 3
Luck 3 2 1 0

Awesome. That's exactly what I was looking for.

Yeah, well...you guys are the only people I know with similar interests. I did debate once telling interns that part of their grade would be based on how well they could play games but figured that was wrong...

...though not as bad as the time I thought it would be amusing to play Arkham Horrour or Call of Cthulhu with psych patients.




(Note that I just -thought- it....I would never do it.)

It looks good, I just think that's all you guys are gonna get. While I'd like to be perfectionist and use GIMP to draw stuff on the map board, it's not realistic for me to think I'll have the time, nor that I'll want to spend the time. If I'm sitting there at night going, "Video games, board games, taking a nap, or drawing stuff on the board for the PbP?", it's going to get passed up. But drawing cards and playing stuff out? Trumps everything.

Us kids with ADD gotta work with what we got.

I pretty much always play it by myself...


Oh, and the truth is, much like how Heroclix introduced me back into comics, this game introduced me to Lovecraft. I do stuff backwards. Before you ask why, remember my name.

Eh, Lovecraft's over-rated as it is. The mythos he created is brilliant, of course, but as an actual *writer* he's honestly awful!

He's pretty much the ONLY writer I've ever encountered I would rather read translated than in his own language, but that's just me.

Something can only be "indescribably Cyclopean" so many times before you get tired of it :P

Okay, so, LET'S GET THIS PARTY STARTED!!!!!!!!!!


Mythos!

Vigilante Guards the Night!
Headline

1. A gate to Yuggoth (-2) opens at The Unnamable

2. Two monsters spawn at the gate - A Warlock, and a Ghost. Both of them are yellow, so they will never move.

3. A clue appears at the Woods.

4. All monsters in the downtown streets are removed from the game. The whole zero of them.

5. Yuggy has one doom track token. He is 1/12th of the way done.


Placement:

Map of Arkham

Investigators:

Bob - General Store
Ash - River Docks
Darrell - Newspaper
Harvey - Administration
Vincent - St. Mary's Hospital
Michael - Ma's Boarding House
Sister - South Church
Amanda - Bank of Arkham

Clue Tokens:

Independence Square - 1
Hibb's Roadhouse - 1
Graveyard - 1
Black Cave -1
The Witch House -1
Silver Twilight Lodge -1
Historical Society -1
Woods -2
Science Building -1
Unvisited Isle -1


Monsters:

The Unnamable - Warlock, Ghost

Gates:

The Unnamable - Yuggoth

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It is the upkeep phase. Since this is our first time, I'll remind everyone what their upkeep stuff is.

1. Everyone may make incremental adjustments to their skill sliders, using their Focus points. For example, if you have 3, you may slide one skill by 2, and another by 1, or one by 3, or three by 1, or none at all, etc.

2. Darrell gains $2

3. Vincent heals someone in his space for 1 Stamina. Which does nothing at this point.




Once everyone is done and ready, we will begin the Movement phase. Please signify you are ready and upkept by saying "Ready". If everyone is ready, and we still haven't heard from Doom, I'll handle his upkeep.

You don't roll for Blessings and Retainers in turn 1 Thawmus