petewyse
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Haha, Buenos Aires Horror. That sounds like a plan!
Hahahaha!! The Shadow Over Sydney? The Call of London?
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I have absolutely no idea HOW to upload images to this forum, they don't exactly make it easy to find.
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With most I agree that too much content can hurt a game, but this game requires new cards to stay fresh. I'd shell out $50 or $100 just for fresh cards for all of the existing decks. I'll literally buy anything they release for game. Heck at this point I just want some news. Come on ffg!
Yeah I was thinking the same. Small box expansions tend to add to the decks, but only the core box decks. A small box expansion without investigators / tokens / Great Old One, but say 15 new cards for every deck so far.
Whoa there! An expansion without an AO?! I hope not. That said, once they've introduced most, if not all, possible AO's I could see them releasing something like Forsaken Lore again (without an AO), just as a final boost to the game's stock. I suppose with regard to investigators they might downsize the additional numbers per expansion at some point, as there's plenty of those to choose from already.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm thinking they're releasing one small and one big box expansion per year? Given that SR came out around August and UtP in December I figured there may be a bit of a break in the next announcement, but as zeromage said, I just want news!
Maybe they wanna take a bit more time to make sure they redress the balancing issues and get things just right.
Crazy right?! But I don't think it's totally insane to release a deck booster at some point. As for running out of GOOs at some point, might take a while longer than we think. FFG is already using expanded mythos, and technically Syzygy wasn't a GOO, it was an event to summon Azathoth. We might see more events and minor villains introduced, I mean who wouldn't want to chase the Whateleys around?
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So far none of the expansions have increased complexity, in my opinion. The big box expansions add a sideboard, but only one can be used, and only if you draw a specific prologue card / use a specific GOO. Otherwise, they add a couple of new features, such as the aforementioned Focus tokens, Unique Assets and Adventures, but nothing that adds to the complexity. If you've already got a handle on the core game, it is well worth your time picking up any and all of the expansions. They add a lot of diversity
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With most I agree that too much content can hurt a game, but this game requires new cards to stay fresh. I'd shell out $50 or $100 just for fresh cards for all of the existing decks. I'll literally buy anything they release for game. Heck at this point I just want some news. Come on ffg!
Yeah I was thinking the same. Small box expansions tend to add to the decks, but only the core box decks. A small box expansion without investigators / tokens / Great Old One, but say 15 new cards for every deck so far.
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Overlay sounds better though. Those stickers will have to be very big to match the dimensions of the existing locations. Speaking of pandemic, a virus is small whilst a city is not so
Oh I wasn't thinking of big city stickers, more the smaller generic locations, only linked to a specific place. Space 3 for example is linked to Easter Island (or is it Space 7??) so you could do a small sticker with a train link that you stick above London, location 22 / Generic City. But it could also be linked to Scotland or Wales.
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2. As an expansion though, I, personally, wouldn't like to pay 30-50$ in order to play an expansion that is like a tutorial and you are conditioned to use just some cards on the sideboard(if I understood correctly) and all of them on the mainboard or do just some actions on the sideboard and everything on the mainboard. It would seem too much of a hassle.
I was more thinking along the lines of components being the same, so you could play the simpler version standalone, but if you already own EH (or purchase it afterwards) all of the components simply get shuffled into the rest of it, much like the two existing big-box expansions.
I smaller version would be nice, but at what point does market confusion enter the picture? Eldritch is already almost an expansion of Arkham Horror so making an Arkham version of Eldritch means we'll have two card-driven, encounter-based Arkham games at the same time. I'd expect a new simplified version of Arkham Horror is in the works.
Arkham was my first thought because I've seen people asking for it (and it makes sense, being the more popular location). Any of the other cities could also work, saving confusion.
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I wouldn't be surprised if in the future we see stickers that add to the main board, a little like when Pandemic added a fifth virus. New locations would add a lot to the game; say 3 locations, stickers to add them, location decks, gates, etc etc
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So here's an idea I had for a standalone expansion, that also doubles up as a way to teach new players and ease them into the main game.
A sideboard for say Arkham, with a small selection of item / condition / spell cards, all the rules needed to play without the main game, a dozen or so locations and relevant location cards, monsters etc. etc. In short, Eldritch Horror on a smaller scale. This can be used to hook new players, teach them the basics, with the win condition being something small... closing 3 gates for example. You could even use the adventure cards to add randomness.
The standalone game can also be added to the full game, much the same as Mountains of Madness or Under The Pyramids, using the adventure cards to draw characters there in much the same way (when not using a relevant Great Old One). There could even be a bunch of these in the same vein; Dunwich, Innsmouth, Kingsport etc.
What this would do is a) ease new players into the full rules, b) provide a small scale (and cheaper) version of the game, and c) add new expansions for the main game. Creating just one of the sideboard expansions with standalone rules would be a great way to get more people into the game, especially those who're intimidated by the sheer amount of stuff you get in EH. I personally don't find the game difficult to play, but some gamers see all those tokens and the large board and think "wow that looks complex".
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I use a range of music when playing Eldritch Horror and Mansions of Madness, but the two favourites are: In The Mouth of Madness (OST) and Eternal Lies Suite - which is a soundtrack for the RPG Trail of Cthulhu.
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I went with Imgur
so here's a typical setup for us. This is a two-player game, our table isn't massive however, we can fit a four or five player game if we don't use a sideboard and use a small table for Mythos and GOO related stuff. Essentially everything you see on the right hand side gets relegated to a small table, and everything on the left hand side is spread out. I'm sure we could make use of the space a little better, however we like this setup as it gives room to breathe on the table. Typically my GF prefers to play as Lead Investigator so she has all the GOO related stuff on her side, we also play using the "player to your right reads your cards" rule. Gives something for other players to do and prevents the active player from reading the card and forgetting to narrate the story.