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by WalkdoggerTragicTheBlathering wrote:Shub-Niggurath isn't some additional thing added by other authors as the mythos grew. It is from 1927. One of the original wired tales. It is core to some of his...
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by FunInTheSun Yeah, I may very well not buy the revised version, but if I do it will probably be the core plus Dunwich and many be one other expansion, if I do.Thanks for your responses everyone!
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by pisqueeterTragicTheBlathering wrote:Renaming Shub-Niggurath is the last straw. I'm out... and this is hard for me, as this is my fav game. I own every version of it from the original up... including...
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by TragicTheBlathering Renaming Shub-Niggurath is the last straw. I'm out... and this is hard for me, as this is my fav game. I own every version of it from the original up... including 2 copies of 2nd...
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by Reeedleymentorius wrote:- Magh'an Ark'at: this is Shub-Niggurath... but... with a different name... and this also confirms that the Dark Young monsters were replaced by a new one called "Vile...
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by Green_wolfmentorius wrote:Green_wolf wrote:Guessing Black goat of the woods small box expansion will be getting a modern quality of life change too.It was clarified earlier: in Update 8, they made...
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by mentoriusGreen_wolf wrote:Guessing Black goat of the woods small box expansion will be getting a modern quality of life change too.It was clarified earlier: in Update 8, they made it clear that the...
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by mentoriusRindel wrote:Can't say I've ever heard of Magh'an Ark'at and I thought I'd read most Lovecraft stories. Glad I've still got the original base game if they are replacing...
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by Green_wolf Guessing Black goat of the woods small box expansion will be getting a modern quality of life change too.
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by Rindel Can't say I've ever heard of Magh'an Ark'at and I thought I'd read most Lovecraft stories. Glad I've still got the original base game if they are replacing Shub-Niggurath.
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by mentorius Update Nº 10 in the Gamefound site..https://gamefound.com/en/projects/asmodee/arkham-horror/upda...In this update, they showed 4 investigators from the base game (not the expansions) and 2...
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by GaryPOrcboss wrote:All the other ones are only interesting if you play this game 52 times a year.Challenge for 2027? :goo:
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by Orcboss Only 1 expansion really improves the game imho. Then thats Dunwich Horror. It adds madness and injury cards, 16 investigators , extra cards for all locations and a second board. It completes...
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by Phantomwhale I'd say if the base set wasn't igniting more in you than it has, the expansion aren't going to elevate 2E up enough to make it worth picking up in my opinion. Yes, playing without the...
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by FunInTheSun Yeah, the on-rails story isn't necessarily what I like about 3rd edition. Emergent story telling is part of the reason I like the series as its interesting to me who studies literature...
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by SullivanP I consider the base/minimum experience to be the base game + Dunwich Horror (played w/out exp. board). As the first big-box expansion, it adds a little bit of everything. Crucially, it...
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by dakerjohn There are a couple of things about the base game that are “fixed” in expansions—the way the base game handles becoming insane or unconscious is fixed by Dunwich, and the base game’s boring...
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by cafin8dFunInTheSun wrote:I mostly thought the replay value was thin, especially given how much people rave about itAh well, in that case... yeah, replay is exactly what the expansions fleshed out....
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by FunInTheSun Fair points. It's not that I disliked second edition, I just didn't like it more than third.Edit: I mostly thought the replay value was thin, especially given how much people rave about it
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by cafin8d I'm sure you're going to get the full gamut of opinions, but - expansions basically add to the replayability and the difficulty. If after 1 game, you think the mechanics are thin, the...
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