I have got my copy of Miskatonic Museum Mythos!

[Scagl001 4]

As it is after 9am ,16 Feb in Adelaide, Australia I picked up my copy just now at Gamesworld.

Can't wait to play it.

Cheers from down under.

[Buhallin 4,563]

Care to relay which encounter sets it uses?  I'll have mine soon enough, but I'm itching to know what the chances are that we'll be able to keep a full build with X copies.

[Scagl001 4]

Encounter sets required:

 

The Miskatonic Museum

Bad luck

Sorcery

The Beyond

Chilling cold

Locked doors

 

[dewbie420 1,632]

Just got my confirmation email!!! ...from Games & Gizmos in Kirkland, Wa:

"We are writing to let you know that your special order for Arkaham Horror LCG Miskatonic Museum has arrived in the store. Please come in any time in the next week to pick it up. To coordinate other arrangements, please respond to this e-mail or call the store"

:-)

[Network57 561]

7 hours ago, Scagl001 said:

Encounter sets required:

 

The Miskatonic Museum

Bad luck

Sorcery

The Beyond

Chilling cold

Locked doors

 

So there is literally 1 Enemy in the encounter deck? Interesting.

[Hedgehobbit 419]

Do Mythos packs contain any player cards? or are they just like the standalone adventures thus far? 

[Network57 561]

10 minutes ago, Hedgehobbit said:

Do Mythos packs contain any player cards? or are they just like the standalone adventures thus far? 

Always both. 60 cards total, split for about 20-26 player, rest scenario/encounter/story assets.

 

The POD scenarios like Rougarou or Carnevale are encounter cards only.

[KrisWall 966]

I just talked to the guy at my local gaming store.  My copy came in and is waiting for me.  I guess I know where I'm headed during my lunch break.

[Hedgehobbit 419]

Quick card count ... A single 34 card set for the adventure plus player cards. Two copies of two cards for each of the five current classes plus neutral cards with an additional two copies of a third survivor (red) card for a total of 26 player cards. 

Edited February 16, 2017 by Hedgehobbit

[KrisWall 966]

...and my lunch break is done.  I have the pack in hand.  I skimmed through the upgrade cards and they look pretty good.  I'm hoping to play the scenario soon.  I also picked up one of the play mats.  They're so pretty.

[Hedgehobbit 419]

I have to say I'm annoyed with the scenario sheet. We now have three different sizes of books: the regular sized rulebooks, the small square campaign books, and now the full sized scenario sheets from the Mythos packs. 

[Buhallin 4,563]

3 hours ago, Hedgehobbit said:

I have to say I'm annoyed with the scenario sheet. We now have three different sizes of books: the regular sized rulebooks, the small square campaign books, and now the full sized scenario sheets from the Mythos packs. 

Very much this.

It's also really obnoxious that they're not providing them digitally, as they did with LOTR.  I inquired with FFG's customer service about full digital versions of the campaign guides, and was told they have no plans to release them.

[zooeyglass 327]

14 minutes ago, Buhallin said:

Very much this.

It's also really obnoxious that they're not providing them digitally, as they did with LOTR.  I inquired with FFG's customer service about full digital versions of the campaign guides, and was told they have no plans to release them.

Definitely keeping an eye out for a handy solution for bringing together the three different sizes. 

As a first mythos pack, I'm impressed: the player cards are excellent and the scenario is pretty striking in playstyle.

[Buhallin 4,563]

I'm probably going to end up scanning them myself, but it's still really annoying.

[Goseki1 637]

Please share them when you do. It's weird as they provide  a bunch of other stuff as a PDF

[Buhallin 4,563]

I'll have to see how that runs into copyright, but I'll check.

 

[Buhallin 4,563]

I just checked to make sure, but...  they actually put up the "new rules" for Dunwich Legacy - they posted the front page of the campaign guide in PDF.

I swear, the whole thing seems insultingly greedy and lazy at the same time.

[TalisDiorn 23]

2 hours ago, Buhallin said:

<snipped>   I inquired with FFG's customer service about full digital versions of the campaign guides, and was told they have no plans to release them.

 

That is extremely annoying.

[xchan 66]

4 hours ago, Buhallin said:

Very much this.

It's also really obnoxious that they're not providing them digitally, as they did with LOTR.  I inquired with FFG's customer service about full digital versions of the campaign guides, and was told they have no plans to release them.

They need to release them by the time the second chapter is out, or the official standalone rules won't work at all.

They are selling chapter packs with the only requirement to own the corresponding Deluxe and a copy of the Core, but in order to play them by the book, you need to know the campaign resolutions of all previous chapters. If they don't release them online, they will be false advertising the chapters as "standalone" products.

[Matthos 11]

Wow, the worst thing that could happen it seems is for FFG to use smaller packaging and thus different formated rule sheets to fit said packaging.

If it was the other way and they used larger packaging we'd have the other complainers saying FFG is using too much packaging for 56 cards. 

The idea is that the game is a mystery. They haven't put the full campaign online yet because, wait for this shocker... it's meant to be a surprise!!!

Please be grateful for all the time and effort these diligent workers went through to make you such an awesome and emmersive experience.  And as the best usually say, "if you don't like how they're doing it, why don't you do it yourself."  Go create something with all this extra critical energy you have.

Also, let's get this thread back on what it was titled.  It's released!  Yay!!

[Buhallin 4,563]

The packaging for the Mythos packs is, as near as I can tell, no different than what they've used for a while.  I don't believe anyone has an issue with the Mythos packs.  While one or two people have expressed annoying at the variety of sizes of the books/insets, it's the same size/format they've used for LOTR, which has generally been fine.

Nobody is asking that the full guides be released early.  LOTR tended to lag putting up the digital versions - sometimes seriously so.  That was annoying, but again, fine.  I don't even know where the whole "It's a myyyyyysssteerrryyyyyy!  OOOOOoooooo!!" thing comes from.  It's not like they print the pamphlets with invisible ink that can only be revealed by dousing it with the blood of a virgin who'd completed the scenario.

The issue is that they've taken a serious step backwards in terms of player convenience here.  They've stopped putting setup instructions on the cards, as LOTR did, and put them in the book - which is another thing I have to carry around, which doesn't fit well with everything else I have to carry around.  So the books that were optional in LOTR are now mandatory.  Which wouldn't be so bad if I could do what I did with LOTR, and have digital versions on my tablet.  But they've also decided to stop doing that.  And why?  Other than sheer laziness on their part, there's really no reason not to provide them in PDF format.

Is it the biggest deal?  No, of course not.  But it's a pretty sad move for them, and if you weren't busy trying to get a golf ball through a garden hose to impress them, you'd recognize that it's possible to have an issue even with an otherwise solid game.

[Matthos 11]

What would anyone have to gain from "impressing" them?

Im just sick of people who just clog the forums constantly complaining.  As a community it's nice when there is a bit of positivity around something. Cause the thread here expressed excitement and then you came in to poo poo on everything.  Go poo poo somewhere else. 

[Network57 561]

Or it could also be that an RPG campaign-based game requires more text than can easily fit on a handful of cards, and they'd rather give the players more cards and figured fewer people would ***** about the inconvenience of having to carry a sheet of a paper around than would about getting only 50 cards in a pack instead of 60.

[Buhallin 4,563]

17 minutes ago, Network57 said:

Or it could also be that an RPG campaign-based game requires more text than can easily fit on a handful of cards, and they'd rather give the players more cards and figured fewer people would ***** about the inconvenience of having to carry a sheet of a paper around than would about getting only 50 cards in a pack instead of 60.

This is perfectly fine - the rules inserts for LOTR also commonly matter, even if they're not as universally required.  I don't actually have a problem with them being necessary, although I am sympathetic to the hassle of having to carry them all around.  For people that want to play standalone games that's probably going to be mandatory.  Again, not something that'll affect me, but I can be sympathetic to that without going all rampaging troll on anyone who dares harsh Matthos's buzz.

Where I really dislike the books is that I'm forced to carry them due to the completely unjustifiable decision not to provide them in PDF.  Somehow they manage to keep doing this for LOTR - the Mumakil released a week ago, and the rulesheet for it is available digitally.  If anything, it's MORE hassle for them to provide what they are - snipped and cut pages rather than the whole document.  They choose a harder path, and then are incredibly laze implementing it - "Hey, here's the new rules for Dunwich Horror!  Sure, it's got the flavor text intro, and half the campaign setup, but it's the page that had that "Additional Rules" block in 1/4 of it, so that's what you get!"

This is something FFG has done in the past, and continues to do for other games.  I'm disappointed that they've decided to stop, and think they can do better than this backsliding.

1 hour ago, Matthos said:

Im just sick of people who just clog the forums constantly complaining.  As a community it's nice when there is a bit of positivity around something. Cause the thread here expressed excitement and then you came in to poo poo on everything.  Go poo poo somewhere else. 

First day on the internet, eh?  Don't worry, you'll get used to people having opinions you disagree with eventually.

[Hedgehobbit 419]

We do need to let everyone know that the setup rules are hidden inside the packaging of these Mythos Packs. I could easily see someone throwing away the plastic box along with the rulesheet.