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the previous weekend I purchased arkham horror board game:
this thing has been tempting me for a loong time and as devoted CoC fan* I just couldn't resist any day longer
although before I spent my money (over $60 according to the latest US $ value in poland) I gathered some information about the game - I haven't found a single bad review about it!
moreover the game was recommended by our dear admin so there was absolutely no choice to me - I just HAD to get it**

in the box I found lots of cards and tokens, dieces and large board - everything was decorated with beautiful draws and everything is very sturdy (therefore resistant to damages caused by many sleepless night of gaming)

so far we had only 2 games - in both me and my concubine have been devoured by the ancient ones (on sunday it was azathoth, last night - nyarlathotep, although it was very close to seal the last gate and send back the great ancient one where it belongs)

if You still haven't bought x-mas gift and You like gaming - I think arkham horror can be great choice - I'm sure I didn't waste any single $ spent... and today we'll try to kick ancient one's a$$ once again!!!

*IA, IA, IA, PRAISE YE OLD GODS!!! :pray:
**HEIL CTHULHU, HEIL THE ETERNAL SLEEPER!!!

yep, this one is fun. if you want to have fun with it prepare for several hours of playing (3-4), and the best experience is with 3-4 characters

and if you want to have a more RPG-like experience I strongly recommend the "stormknight variant". game gets slightly slower, longer - so you can develop your characters, and tension is placed in a different way (closing gates without sealing actually makes sense there). but prepare for a longer game

The Kingsport expansion comes out in just a month or two. :wink:

aye, and i still haven't got the second and third expansion...

as for me I'm gonna get other expansions after x-mas - the game brings me memories of CoC rpg sessions 'till the very morning
and also motivates me to paint some more CoC character I have in my cablot so they can be used instead od paper character markers

@Bexley: isn't it too late in states for posting now?

Naw. It's only 3am. I still have an hour until bedtime.

perfect hour to start confrontation against great ancient ones ^^

last evening we finally managed to defeat one of the great ancient ones: ithaqua wasn't really hard to "kill" but otoh how can he be compared to such gods like azathoth, cthulhu or nyarlathotrep?

the 'fast' great old ones like Yig or Ithaqua are the few where it's nearly impossible to win by closing/sealing gates so you need to fight them.

otherwise we don't consider fighting a GOO and winning a real success. the full success is when we can prevent it from coming to Arkham. otherwise it's just the lesser evil...

mahon wrote:otherwise we don't consider fighting a GOO and winning a real success. the full success is when we can prevent it from coming to Arkham. otherwise it's just the lesser evil...

I also enjoy closing gates much more than confronting zee ancient one
but then again - while I was the keeper of secrets* I had NO occasion to confront ancient gods so now there's my chance



*these bastards** had never given me opportunity to play, I was always the keeper
** my players