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2005
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Best with 4 players
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240 minutes
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Arkham Horror
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The year is 1926, and it is the height of the Roaring Twenties. Flappers dance till dawn in smoke-filled speakeasies drinking alcohol supplied by rum runners and the mob. It's a celebration to end all celebrations in the aftermath of the war to end all wars.
Yet a dark shadow grows in the city of Arkham. Alien entities known as Ancient Ones lurk in the emptiness beyond space and time, writhing at the gates between worlds. These gates have begun to open and must be closed before the Ancient Ones make our world their ruined domination.
Only a handful of investigators stand against the Arkham Horror. Will they Prevail?

Arkham Horror is a cooperative adventure game themed around H.P Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Players choose from 16 Investigators and take to the streets of Arkham. Before the game, one of the eight Ancient Ones is chosen and it's up to the Investigators to prevent it from breaking into our world. During the course of the game, players will upgrade their characters by acquiring skills, allies, items, weapons, and spells. It's up to the players to clean out the streets of Arkham by fighting many different types of monsters, but their main goal is to close portals to other dimensions that are opening up around town. With too many portals open the Ancient One awakens and the players only have one last chance to save the world. Defeat the Ancient One in combat!

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More Information Edit | History

Revised printing in 2006; these can be identified by "revised printing" on the cover.

Remake of Arkham Horror (1987)

'See also: Arkham Horror Series

Home Page:

http://new.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_minisite.asp?eidm=6

Product information at Edge Entertainment - French version:

http://www.edgeent.com/v2_fr/edge_minisite.asp?eidm=127&enmi=Horreur%20%E0%20Arkham


Arkham Horror League

Fantasy Flight Games released Scenarios.

Season 1
Season 2 - Introduced Story Chapters with Scenarios.

Arkham Horror Spanish League

Edge Entertainment released Scenarios (Translated into English)

Season 1
Season 2

BGG Arkham Horror Play By Forum

Play-by-Forum Waiting List (Wiki)

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Components (Revised Printing):

  • 1 Rule Book
  • 1 Game Board
  • 1 First Player Marker
  • 5 Dice
  • 16 Investigator Sheets
  • 16 Investigator Markers
  • 16 Plastic Investigator Stands
  • 198 Investigator Status Tokens:
    • 56 Money Tokens
    • 35 Sanity Tokens
    • 35 Stamina Tokens
    • 48 Clue Tokens
    • 24 Skill Tokens
  • 189 Investigator Cards:
    • 44 Common Items
    • 39 Unique Items
    • 40 Spells
    • 20 Skills
    • 11 Allies
    • 35 Special Cards:
      • 8 Retainers
      • 8 Silver Lodge Memberships
      • 8 Bank Loans
      • 8 Blessing/Curse Cards
      • 3 Deputy Cards
  • 8 Ancient One Sheets
  • 20 Doom Tokens
  • 179 Ancient One Cards:
    • 63 Location Cards
    • 67 Mythos Cards
    • 49 Gate Cards
  • 60 Monster Markers
  • 16 Gate Markers
  • 3 Activity Markers
  • 3 Explored Markers
  • 1 Terror Track Marker
  • 6 Closed Markers

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Japanese edition
Publisher: Arclight
Artist: Anders Finer, Henning Ludvigsen
Year: 2010
Size: 12.00 x 12.00 x 4.00 inches
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Czech edition
Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games
Artist: Anders Finer, Henning Ludvigsen
Year: 2010
Size: Medium Square (e.g. Ticket to Ride)
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Polish edition
Publisher: Galakta
Artist: Anders Finer, Henning Ludvigsen, Brian Schomburg
Year: 2009
Size: Medium Square (e.g. Ticket to Ride)
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Russian edition
Publisher: Smart Ltd
Artist: Anders Finer, Henning Ludvigsen, Brian Schomburg
Year: 2009
Size: Medium Square (e.g. Ticket to Ride)
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Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games
Artist: Anders Finer, Henning Ludvigsen, Scott Nicely, Brian Schomburgmore»
Year: 2008
Product Code: VA09
Size: Medium Square (e.g. Ticket to Ride)
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5 Printable Arkham Horror Shoplist v1.1
Arkham Horror Shoplist DELUXE 1.1 Minor modifications and corrections.
2012-01-18
12 Printable Arkham Horror Shoplist v1.0
DELUXE version of Printable Arkham Horror Shoplist: included Arkham, Dunwich, Kingsport and Innsmouth Horror shops. With this short list of shops you can quickly check what kind of things you can get in each shop/location and what things you have to collect/pay for them. The PDF contains 2 small shoplists on a single A4 sheet. Fold the list after cut to reduce its size. Print. Cut. Fold. Enjoy.
2012-01-05
2 Gathering Darkness: Multiple Ancient Ones Variant
Fight multiple Ancient Ones in one game in this variant! Nyarlathotep's meddling has put the world in peril, and you must foil several Ancient Ones before they awaken! Includes Ancient Ones for All Expansions and the Arkham Nights Exclusive Ancient Onces. High-Quality version available on request.
2011-12-27
9 Arkham Money v2.0
This is the second version in my Arkham Money series. I decided to go a little more "realistic" and a little more vintage as well. Just print each page out, flip the pages over and print again on the back to create money you can then cut out and use during game play. Let me know if you like them! Thanks!
2011-12-14
9 Arkham Money v1.0
I decided to create these money sheets so that they could be printed out and used to play in AH. They are a simple design and I am thinking of possibly making different versions depending on the response. Just print each page out, flip the pages over and print again on the back to create money you can then cut out and use during game play. Let me know if you like them! Thanks!
2011-12-12
4 The Mayor of Arkham
A fun variant, playtested several times, that adds an Election Cycle into the game. One of your investigators will be the nominee against the corrupt incumbent Mayor Atkinson. Will your team be able to canvass for enough votes, and will corruption play a part on your side as well? Includes a rules sheet, 4 Mayor Cards and 24 Campaign Cards. You'll need to provide several tokens or coins or cubes in two different colors, as well as a "Swing Vote Bag" and "Election Cup."
2011-12-07
41 Promotional Content
Promotional content reconstructed in Strange Eons. Contains revised Cthulhu and Daoloth (from Arkham Nights 2010), revised Hastur (AN 2011), three custom-made Sinister Plot cards for Daoloth, the Oliver Grayson ally card (Ghouls of the Miskatonic mail-in), and the Dance of the Damned starting rumor Mythos card (Dance of the Damned mail-in). Additionally, the Ancient One back image has been improved.
2011-10-19
20 Hastur from Arkham Nights 2011
This is the version of Hastur released at FFG's Arkham Nights 2011 event.
2011-10-17
3 Ancient Ones rebalanced
These are overlays for 8 of the original Ancient Ones. I made the weak Ancient ones more powerful, and weakened the combat stats of those that were unbeatable in combat. I cut the overlays the whole length of the paper and wrapped them around the text, so that the picture and doom track is visible from the original card, but only the abilities from the overlays. edit: Glaaki does probably not work well with original rules (we use different terror track rules). i didn't think about this, i just posted my file. there shouldn't be a "compatibility problem" with any of the other ones, but it should be mentioned that we usually don't use epic battle cards.
2011-10-06
3 Arkham Horror Game Tracker: For Base Game
A small chart used to keep track of open gates, sealed gates, monster limit and monster outskirts limits.
2011-10-04
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