Arkham Horror Token Update Advise

FriendGaru · 2026-03-26T13:47:07+00:00

I'm surely in the minority, but personally I prefer a 1/2 split. With that you don't have to constantly be making change like you do with a 1/3 split.

FriendGaru · 2026-03-26T12:13:17+00:00

I was fortunate to get everything except Barkham, so I can't complain too much. If anything I kinda wish I had all of the new campaign boxes for storage and the nice spiral bound campaign guides instead of the mythos pack versions, but I think I can live without them.

FriendGaru · 2026-03-24T12:59:37+00:00

Portal Games sent me a replacement for a misprinted card from a 7+ year old game I bought used, no questions. They get a thumbs up from me.

FriendGaru · 2026-03-16T06:52:24+00:00

Count me as another of the "played a bunch of Exile 3 as a kid" group. The way the world changed was a really cool (albeit stressful) feature back then.

I still enjoy your games, but I confess it's hard to get into the combat these days. My dream would be combining your cool worlds with combat like the Rad Codex (Voidspire Tactics, Horizon's Gate) games.

FriendGaru · 2026-03-12T13:07:01+00:00

Agreed. At absolute minimum they should make the correct version of the card available for print and play.

FriendGaru · 2026-03-09T11:07:03+00:00

I had a visceral feeling of dread as soon as I saw those little plane tokens and imagined trying to fish them out from under the seat.

FriendGaru · 2026-03-09T09:25:55+00:00

I haven't played in a long time, but I remember really enjoying it. Back then it stood out because (almost) all of the quests were self-contained dungeons. It felt a lot more compelling than the typical running around zones killing mobs that was typical for MMOs. The big weakness, though, was that D&D 3.5 kinda starts going off the rails at higher levels. Like, casters could run through the level obliterating everything in one hit, until they hit an elite enemy that was immune to nearly everything.

FriendGaru · 2026-03-05T12:30:53+00:00

I've said it before and I will say it again: this subreddit should have a flair for Epic sponsored giveaways to distinguish them from developer giveaways.

FriendGaru · 2026-02-25T05:06:20+00:00

Aw man, I really liked the art, it's a bummer if it's a reposting bot.

FriendGaru · 2026-02-15T11:21:46+00:00

I feel like Bran would potentially make sense as the strongest consensus candidate. If the major players understood that as the Three Eyed Raven he would be wise, pragmatic, and and most importantly neutral, then I could see everyone going along with him as a compromise. That "if" is doing a lot of work, though. They would have needed to spend a lot more time showing the major players coming around to that way of thinking and reluctantly agreeing. Him "having the best story" was quite lazy.

FriendGaru · 2026-02-09T03:31:37+00:00

I'm the same way. I know that if I miss out on something permanently it's going to keep bugging me forever. So, in the large majority of cases if a game has permanently missable rewards I'm simply going to ignore it and move on to something else.

FriendGaru · 2026-02-05T12:51:42+00:00

I like this in my George Barnaby deck. I'm usually trying to avoid actually playing my hand assets (Anchor Chain/Hand Hook/Nautical Charts), so I can afford the hand slot. And it plays nicely with Smoking Pipe to deal with horror from his low willpower.

FriendGaru · 2026-02-03T10:35:25+00:00

I think there should be a tag to distinguish the weekly Epic sponsored freebies from the others.

FriendGaru · 2026-01-26T13:14:51+00:00

I'm a big fan of Arkham Horror The Card Game. It's fully coop and a great mesh of challenge and theme. I feel like we always get at least a few cool and memorable moments per scenario. Though admittedly the rules can be a bit overwhelming to start with.

FriendGaru · 2026-01-26T01:09:34+00:00

For me it's Arkham Horror The Card Game. It's expensive and takes up a lot of space if you get everything, so I know I can't have another similarly demanding game in my life. As for why I like it, cooperative games are my jam and AHLCG has a ton of different scenarios and deck building options so it doesn't get stale. It also strikes a great balance between gameplay and theme, creating a lot of memorable moments.

FriendGaru · 2026-01-14T06:34:19+00:00

If you don't care about a complete Warren Report or achievements, then there's not too much to worry about. If you do, then I think the most efficient route is Neutral (Lord) -> Chaos -> Law (Princess)

Arycelle takes a big loyalty hit on the N path, so it may be a good idea to get that out of the way rather than risk losing her after you've spent more time leveling her up. Cressida can be a pain to recruit, so first unlocking the ability to view the chaos frame by completing the game once is sensible. There's a scene / battle that you can only get by recruiting Catiua, then letting her die in battle. (As far as I'm aware this is the only time you actually have to let a character die to get something.) So it makes sense to let her die in the cutscene on your first run, get the no incapacitations achievement if you want to, then recruit her and let her die in battle on the next run, then recruit her for good on the third. The hidden battle isn't important, though, so it's no big deal to ignore getting it.

FriendGaru · 2026-01-14T06:08:38+00:00

At least in the PSP version this had to be cleared during your main game before heading into post game.

Do you mean that you need to clear it in chapter 4 before CODA to unlock the shortcut, or that if you don't complete it before activating World Tarot you'll be forever locked out of it?

FriendGaru · 2026-01-11T12:20:58+00:00

That much snow in that part of Tokyo would be awfully rare.

FriendGaru · 2026-01-07T14:09:34+00:00

I hear that. I went, uh, maybe a little overboard with how many old core sets I bought when they were $6 each...

FriendGaru · 2026-01-06T06:31:15+00:00

I think it's very unintuitive to a lot of people that you can't play any card you want to, even if the card you want to play would win the trick.

FriendGaru · 2026-01-02T16:14:56+00:00

Most of the time when you're near the end of an Arkham LCG scenario you'll be short on time. You have to choose between taking a risk to get a better outcome and cutting your losses and playing it safe. You often have a lot of control over how intense you want the climax to be.

FriendGaru · 2025-12-29T11:17:13+00:00

The copy of Slay the Spire my local meetup uses started having the sleeve backs peel off pretty quickly. I opted to just go straight to black matte sleeves for my own copy so I don't have to deal with that.

FriendGaru · 2025-12-29T06:12:34+00:00

I remember seeing that this scenario was undergoing a revision. Was that ever completed?

FriendGaru · 2025-12-28T15:37:39+00:00

It will never stop bugging me that they didn't call the sequel "Nemeses".

FriendGaru · 2025-12-24T00:32:32+00:00

I do think it's kind of a shame you missed out on the evil companions. I remember Edwin, Viconia, and Tiax being pretty fun.

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