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I’ve always been tempted to get either AH or EH and replace the counters with minis. It could be a fun, focused project. So thanks a lot, now I’m tempted again…
I’ve always been tempted to get either AH or EH and replace the counters with minis. It could be a fun, focused project. So thanks a lot, now I’m tempted again…
FFG had a range of minis for AH and EH. They weren’t cheap though, and I don’t know if they’re still in production.
Obvious contrarian and passive aggressive old prat, who is taken far too seriously by some and not seriously enough by others.
Made me think of The Fury of Dracula, the old GW game.
Does this also have RPG-like elements, or is it something else that brings it to mind?
I feel like my usual board and card gaming group is finally coming around to adventure-oriented games like I’ve been wanting them to for the last decade (our old fare being grand strategic area control type games and wholly inoffensive Eurogames, both of which are fine by me but I do crave a bit more storytelling and adventure) so all this talk about AH, EH and FoD is really resonating with me right now. Oh, I can already see myself loping in blind panic down dark alleys, chased by something hungry
Took a bit longer than I expected to be able to sit and play the first episode of this: daughter arranging university stuff, two family birthdays, sick cat etc but eventually got round to it after one false start/quick run through the mechanism (major error while being distracted – forgot to draw a card from the Encounter deck at the end of the first turn – wondered where the bad guys were!
).I emerged eventually without major trauma (despite several unpleasant encounters this time!), a bit skill test jaded, but feeling okay about the game.
I played solo and wondered (and still wonder) if this was a mistake and if should I have waited to corral a friend to play along. I’d be happy to restart with company although, having played the first scenario through, it would remove the tension of where the thing is heading and the enjoyment would have to rely on the card draws and interaction with the other character/person.
It’s a great looking game, it moved along quite well but a couple of things are niggling away in the back of my mind:
The price is pretty good for the basic set but I can see clipping through the story quite quickly and then the expansions look like a commitment to potentially two hundred quid or so.
Now it was quite fun but I can’t help the feeling that the mechanism ends up being a bit like a Wizard of Firetop Mountain type game which could be done much more reasonably priced in a different format. I wonder if part of my problem with it (I wouldn’t overstate this – I enjoyed playing) is that I wasn’t in an immersive environment – lots of family interruptions – and I may have lost my Cthulu mojo. I read a lot of Lovecraft when I was c19, which is a very long time ago, but not a lot since, and the inherent problems with the genre may worry me more now than they did then.
I’m looking forward to playing the next two scenarios of the campaign and the ability to tweak the investigator’s deck looks interesting but at the moment I am not sure whether I will go on to buy The Dunwich Legacy.
But thanks for the heads up on this and if nothing else it has been fun exploring it.
I’ve ordered mine from a place that has it considerably cheaper than the other alternatives hereabouts, but they seem to be having trouble getting it back in stock, so I’m still waiting
I’m not sure I’m going to buy many of the expansions. For now I’m just intrigued by the novelty of RPG elements in a card game. If I love it, I’ll invest myself deeper.
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