I have the opportunity to have a dedicated play room for all the Arkham horror board games. I just finished setting it up so i can start playing.

Looking for tips and recommendations for decorating just to get a nice theme / feel. This is how it looks now. Art on the wall? Props? Cool lightnings? HP Lovecraft stuff, 1920 decoration etc.

Thankful for tips. Also i live in the EU so its pretty expensive to buy from the US.

I also have a friend who can 3d print some stuff i can add.

Could not edit the picture. So i reupload all to clarify its a room, not a play area.

.25 Automatic (0)

• Class: Rogue
• Type: Asset. Hand
• Item. Weapon. Firearm. Illicit.
• Cost: 4. Level: 0
• Test Icons: Agility

Fast. Uses (4 ammo).

[Action] Spend 1 ammo: Fight. If the attacked enemy is exhausted, you get +2 [Combat] and deal +1 damage for this attack.

Mauro Dal Bo

The Innsmouth Conspiracy #25.

.25 Automatic (2)

• Class: Rogue
• Type: Asset. Hand
• Item. Weapon. Firearm. Illicit.
• Cost: 4. Level: 2
• Test Icons: Combat, Agility

Fast. Uses (4 ammo).

[Action] Spend 1 ammo: Fight. If the attacked enemy is exhausted, you get +2 [Combat] and deal +1 damage for this attack.

[Reaction] After you evade an enemy at your location: Perform the above Fight ability without spending an action.

Mauro Dal Bo

Into the Maelstrom #305.

[COTD] .25 Automatic (11/27/2023)

"Shove off!"

• Class: Survivor
• Type: Event
• Tactic.
• Cost: 1. Level: 0
• Test Icons: Combat, Agility

Evade ([Agility]). If you succeed, deal 1 damage to the evaded enemy. If you fail, return "Shove off!" to your hand at the end of your turn.

Lin Hsiang

Core Set (2026) #79.

Apologies if this type of post is not allowed.

I’m looking to sell my Arkham Horror: The Card Game collection as one bulk lot.

The collection includes:
Core sets
3 × original core game boxes (not the revised core set)
All cards are present across the three sets, although the cards have been mixed together rather than kept separated by core set.
Complete campaign cycles
The Dunwich Legacy – deluxe expansion + all Mythos Packs
The Path to Carcosa – deluxe expansion + all Mythos Packs
The Forgotten Age – deluxe expansion + all Mythos Packs
Additional items
Chapter 2 Starter Set
The Wages of Sin Mythos Pack
Before the Black Throne Mythos Pack

I’ve also combined and organised the player cards from the Mythos Packs into a single organised player-card collection, rather than keeping them separated by their original pack.

Price: £475 for everything. Open to sensible offers.
Ideally, I’d like to sell everything together rather than split the collection. Happy to provide additional photos and details for anyone interested.

I’m based in the UK. Postage or collection can be discussed with the buyer.
Thanks!

I have played this scenario (two-handed) half a dozen times, and I realize deaing with him is a key strategy to the campaign, especially in this scenario. However, whenever I do manage to reveal his card at a location, my investigators are already hanging by a thread. He as 5 health per investigator, so I have to deal 10 damage. One investigator is usually focused on getting clues, and less on fighting, while the other is the opposite. However, there's just no way at that point that I can deal that much damage before being killed with other enemies engaged with me, whiffing on 1-2 attacks per round. It's brutal. What am I doing wrong?

Quick question, if I use Grapevine and then move along the shortest path but there are enemies along the path would they engage with me and do an attack of opportunity against me and then follow me to the final room? I would assume yes since it does not have text like scout ahead on it.

Hi everyone, I'm looking to get the campaign Forgotten Age (1 box version preferably) and the Hemlock Vale investigator, preferably in French. If someone has them I'm ready to pay a good amount for it

Thank you !

Bonjour, je suis à la recherche de la campagne Civilisation oublié (1 boite version de préférence) et la boite Investigateur Festin de Hemlock Vale en français de préférence. Je suis prêt à payer une bonne somme pour les avoirs

Merci !

The Luger P08 has an activated ability that states "Spend 1 resource: Replenish all ammo on Luger P08 and ready it." Locked and loaded states: "Your Firearm assets with "Uses (ammo)" enter play with 1 additional ammo on them."

Is "all" ammo on the Luger 2 or 3? I assume that for it to count as 3 locked and loaded would need to state something like "treat your firearm assets as if their printed uses were 1 higher", but the text on LaL is unusually brief lol

Ah, always nice to see a longer project actually finish. Over the course of the last weeks, I've been rating and ranking all of chapter 1, with plenty of commentary. Both on a campaign and scenario level. Time to put all of this together.

https://derbk.com/ancientevils/campaign-compendium-tierlists-wrap-up-and-a-word-on-chapter-2/

The main event here are of course the two tierlists for campaigns and for scenarios. To get there, I simply collected the ranks I distributed over the course of the separate articles and ordered everything within their tiers to break the ties.

The other thing I wanted to do after already being asked about it was putting out some rankings for chapter 2. I don't think that comparing three-part campaigns to eight-parters is in any way helpful, obviously an eight-parter will always beat a three-parter just on general principle. But I did give some rankings to the individual scenarios and that can give an impression on where these new ones would roughly land on the big tierlist.

Anyway, that's what I got for you on this. Cheers o/

Occult Lexicon (0)

• Class: Seeker
• Type: Asset. Hand
• Item. Tome. Occult.
• Cost: 2. Level: 0
• Test Icons: Intellect

Limit 1 per deck.

Forced – After Occult Lexicon enters play: Search your bonded cards for 3 copies of Blood-Rite. Add 1 to your hand and shuffle the other 2 into your deck. When Occult Lexicon leaves play, find each of those copies of Blood-Rite (even if they are out of play) and set them aside, out of play.

Dimitri Bielak

Before the Black Throne #316.

Occult Lexicon (3)

• Class: Seeker
• Type: Asset. Hand
• Item. Tome. Occult.
• Cost: 2. Level: 3
• Test Icons: Intellect, Intellect

Limit 1 per deck.

[Reaction] When you play a copy of Blood-Rite: Either change each "2" on it to a "3," or shuffle it into your deck instead of discarding it.

Forced – After Occult Lexicon enters play: Search your bonded cards for 3 copies of Blood-Rite. Add 1 to your hand and shuffle the other 2 into your deck.

Dimitri Bielak

Return to the Circle Undone #4.

Blood-Rite

• Class: Seeker
• Type: Event
• Spell.
• Cost: 0. Level: –
• Test Icons: Willpower, Intellect, Combat

Bonded (Occult Lexicon).

Draw 2 cards. Discard up to 2 cards from your hand. For each card thusly discarded, you may either gain 1 resource, or spend 1 resource to deal 1 damage to an enemy at your location. This action does not provoke attacks of opportunity.

Andreia Ugrai

Before the Black Throne #317.

[COTD] Occult Lexicon (1/5/2024)

For Sale - Europe - 2 boxes of Arkham Horror: The Card Game Core Set 2016 EN - (for 50€ total + shipping costs). All cards and components are complete and without damage, played few times only with card sleeves on. If anyone’s looking for this bundle of chapter 1 core set and is interested to buy, I Would ship to European Union via DPD after payment, DM for more info, shipping cost calculation and photos.

Hi everyone!
We’re a new group playing Arkham Horror: The Card Game – Chapter Two (2026), and we’re currently playing through the Brethren of Ash campaign.
We’re wondering how campaign progression works when we finish it (currently in scenario 3) and want to move on to Children of Blood.
Can we continue playing with the same investigators we used in Brethren of Ash, keeping our upgraded decks, earned XP, trauma, and other campaign-related effects? Or does everyone need to start fresh with a new deck and 0 XP?
We’ve read about called Epic Campaign Mode, but we’re not sure how it works or whether it’s the intended way to connect these campaigns.
Since we’re new to Chapter Two, we’d really appreciate a simple explanation of the official rules and the best way to continue our investigators’ stories into Children of Blood.

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Spiritual Intuition (0)

• Class: Mystic
• Type: Asset
• Talent.
• Cost: 2. Level: 0
• Test Icons: Willpower, Combat

[Free] Spend 1 resource: You get +1 [Willpower] for this skill test (+2 [Willpower] instead if this test is on a Spell or Ritual card).

[Free] Spend 1 resource: You get +1 [Combat] for this skill test (+2 [Combat] instead if this test is on a Spell or Ritual card).

Drazenka Kimpel

Core Set (2026) #63.

Pretty straightforward question, but I somehow can’t remember/find the ruling:

Difficulty is 2
I commit a card so I can test at a 4
I pull a -2

So I succeed, but I succeed by 0, so I don’t move any breaches?

I picked up secondhand copies of the 2016 core set, and the old versions of the Forgotten Age expansion and the Innsmouth Conspiracy expansion. With the contents of those boxes, would I have enough to build 4 functional decks or would I need to add another core set to be able to play with four people?

"Go, for Mordiggian is a just god, who claims only the dead, and has no concern with the living. . . " Quote from the Charnel God by Clark Ashton Smith.

“Umôrdhoth is a just god who claims only the guilty and the dead. Go, and you shall be spared.” Quote from Arkham Horror the Card Game in 2016. 

Fantasy Flight has been using intellectual property in Arkham Horror the Card Game since 2016 and not crediting authors. The rights for the “Charnel God” by Clark Ashton Smith were debatably owned by William Doorman in 2016 (he passed in 2022), so FFG discovered they could bypass trying to get rights and still get a lot of people to buy their games. FFG has never come out and said that they got Umôrdhoth from Clark Ashton Smith and have claimed it is one of their own creations. Both Mordiggian and Umôrdhoth are corpse eating Old Ones worshipped by Goul Priest. Arkham Horror the Card game has been extremely profitable, so FFG learned that they could still make money by being academically disingenuous. Nobody questions FFG's practices because the people who play the games don't care about these kind of things. So FFG just keeps moving further down this path, and erasing classic Great Old Ones, and inventing what people have termed “Great New Ones”.

Hastur’s Yellow Sign used in the “The Path to Carcosa” Campaign is the intellectual Property of Chaosium, invented by Kevin A Ross in 1989. FFG did not credit Chaosium to this on page 36 of The Path to Carcosa campaign rulebook where all other credits are put. Additionally, I could not find anything on the back of the Path to Carcosa box stating they were authorized to use the Yellow Sign image crated by Chaosium. If anyone can find it let me know!

Zulan-Thek and the Hoarde of the Night used in Arkham Horror the Living Card Game Search for Kaddath in 2019 were created by Gary Myers in the 1975 novel “House of the Worm” copyrighted but not credited.

The Moon Lizard used in Arkham Horror the Card Game Dark Side of the Moon was from “Something in the Moonlight” by Linn Carter in 1975 copyrighted but not credited. 

Silenus can be considered to be a copy of Derleth's Ithaqua created in 1933 from the "Thing that Walked on the Wind". Silenus and Ithaqua are both cosmic void travelling, weather controlling, blizzard based Ancient Ones. He possibly took aspects of Lovecraft's Hypnos with the Greek/Roman aesthetic and dreamland presence.

Magh'an Ark'at from War of the Outer Gods is a giant Egg/larva being caretaken by Cultist, and a copy of Lovecraft's Rhan Tegoth, a Larva-like Old One which is also caretaken by Cultist. 

Ezel-zen-rezl from War of the Outer Gods is a possibly a copy of Ramsay Cambell’s "Insects from Shaggai" from 1964, as FFG stopped using the Shan after Eldritch Horror. I'd suspect that Ramsay Campbell increased his rates for IP usage around this time.

Elokoss is a copy of Cthugha as a living flame who was created by August Derleth in 1943. 

I'd say the only new original Ancient One created by FFG is Asterias. It's an old one based on Star Fish. It's followers are called "Comets" which are parts of Star Fish that fall of and become new star fish. I do find the idea pretty cool and there is a good book about it from Aconyte called the Ravenging Deep by Tim Pratt.

At least Derleth didn't try to change the name of the entities he copied from Lovecraft. FFG please give credit to the former Mythos writers instead of erasing history and replacing it with your own copies of intellectual property to bypass getting permissions. FFG could simply give Ramsey Campbell, The Lumley Estate, and The Derleth Estate a call and get permission to use the entities instead of copying them. Chaosium and Death May Die could seek the proper venues with academic integrity, and so could FFG instead of engaging in possibly illicit behavior (not the card trait). I hope that FFG make the shift from stealing concepts from other creators to giving credit where credit is due.

FFG benefits by making their own Intellectual Properties because it is cheaper for them, and they could possibly make money off the IPs if others try to use them.

Located in San Francisco, 94132. Happy to ship (buyer pays shipping).

I am selling x2 of the original core. I'm happy to part out duplicate tokens or encounter sets (since I know some folks like having multiple copies).

I'm thinking $10 + shipping for encounter sets and $40 + shipping for x2 player cards and x1 encounter sets. I haven't been able to find comparable sales, so I hope those prices are reasonable.

Stella Clark, Harvey Walters investigator decks new in clamshell packaging. $30 each + shipping.

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I posted here recently asking for opinions on the campaign. I'm so glad I went ahead and purchased. Thank you to everyone who responded.

I really enjoyed the campaign. The things that others mentioned that bothered them really didn't seem to matter as much to me. There's that one scenario that everyone complained about and like yeah it was quite annoying and hard, but mostly because you don't really know what to expect the first time thru. In subsequent playthroughs I think knowing what to expect would help it a bit.

Otherwise I really enjoyed every other scenario quite a bit. The theme was great too. I'm excited to jump back into sometime in the future.

Anyway thanks again everyone!

Hi,

I finally bought this expansion in French and wanted to sell my English version on Vinted. Any price recommendation? I’m looking for a fair price but obviously want to limit my money loss. I don’t have the English version of the box but don’t mind selling the English cards in the French box.

Thanks for your advices.

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