Paperclips are used to track two numbers that frequently change: Sanity and Strength. The turns of the investigators are preceded by the "Mythos Phase", where a gate and monsters may appear.

Monsters that appear move throughout the town, attacking any investigators they happen upon; seeing some monsters results in a sanity loss.

In true Lovecraft fashion, if an investigator in the town loses all Sanity or Strength, they are ignored by the monsters.

The collapsed investigator is transported to the Sanitarium or Hospital, as appropriate, for treatment. Such vital losses in the other worlds result in the death of the investigator, and the player must start a new one.

For each new gate that opens, the Doom Counter increases by one; the "Doom of Arkham" occurs if the Doom Counter reaches If this happens, all players lose.

Victory is achieved by closing all of the gates that have opened. Closing a gate requires passing into it to another world, and taking two encounters there; upon return to Arkham, the investigator must attack the gate successfully to close it.

Closing a gate reduces the Doom Counter by one. In the April edition of Dragon Issue , Ken Rolston called the game his "first choice for a board game with [fantasy role-playing game] feel.

It has everything I want in this respect. Each player selects an investigator character that is provided with the game. These characters have three pairs of statistics to represent their strengths and weaknesses, and the ability to "slide" their current focus on each scale towards either extreme or keep it relatively average.

For example, Lore and Luck is one pair - if you maximize your character's Lore, you simultaneously minimize his or her Luck.

Characters are further defined by a starting inventory and special abilities. Most importantly, each character has the stats of Sanity and Stamina.

These respectively measure the character's mental stability and physical health i. The back of each card includes a brief history for the character, in case players wish to add an element of roleplaying to the game.

Each player's character is placed on the game board at the location specified on their card. They are given any items specified as well as their starting Sanity and Stamina tokens.

At this time, the players should also pick which Ancient One they will be attempting to defeat. This is usually done by randomly drawing the Ancient One's card, but can also be selected intentionally if the players choose to do so.

The basic resolution mechanic is to roll a number of six-sided dice equal to the statistic, plus any modifiers. Results of a five or a six on a die is considered a success.

Most checks only require a single success, with the general exception of Combat rolls when fighting monsters. For instance, a card may require a Lore -1 roll.

If the character has a Lore stat of 4, they would roll three dice and if at least one die lands on a five or six the character has passed the roll and may gain a benefit , otherwise he or she has failed and may suffer a consequence.

Characters may also become Blessed, which allows them to succeed on a four or higher; or Cursed, which means they can only succeed on a roll of six.

Throughout the game, characters collect Clue tokens; a Clue token can be spent to get a bonus die during a roll after the original roll fails to produce enough successes.

There are Skill cards that can be acquired, increasing a statistic by one as well as granting an extra bonus die when you spend a Clue token on that particular type of roll.

Each turn, the players move their characters on the board and either have Encounters at a location by drawing cards specific to that board location or fight monsters.

They may also purchase items at some locations, or take advantage of other special features. Either way, it takes the place of their normal Encounter card draw for that turn.

Characters who encounter monsters have the option to sneak past them or fight them. Fighting a monster first involves a Sanity check, needing only a single success but losing Sanity tokens indicated on the monster if the roll fails.

After that check, the character may cast spells or use weapons to affect the combat. If the monster is not immediately destroyed or removed from the board, they then roll Fight plus any bonuses from weapons, items or spells.

Some monsters only require a single success, while others may require several to destroy. At the end of each turn, the first player draws a card from the Mythos deck.

This causes a gate to another world to open, as well as releasing new monsters onto the board, causing existing monsters to move on the board and often adding a new effect to gameplay.

If enough monsters appear on the board, they are recycled, and the terror level of Arkham increases, indicating that Arkham is slowly being completely overrun by monsters.

If the terror level rises high enough, stores begin to close and potential allies flee, and the Ancient One will awaken even faster once Arkham becomes completely infested.

Weather may make it more difficult to move through the streets or a rumor might require investigators to complete an action in a certain number of turns to prevent even worse effects from happening.

After the Mythos card is resolved, play passes clockwise to the next player to start a new turn. Certain events add tokens to the Ancient One's card, representing how close it is to awakening.

Typically, when a new gate opens a token goes onto the Ancient One's card. Gates may be closed by investigators through a die roll.

In diesem kooperativen Spiel schlüpfen die Spieler in die Rolle eines Ermittlers und stellen ihr individuelles Deck so zusammen, dass es ihre Stärken und Schwächen widerspiegelt.

Euer Gelingen oder Scheitern im ersten Abenteuer, Die Zusammenkunft, wird nicht nur den Grundstein für kommende Abenteuer legen, sondern auch entscheiden, wie viel Erfahrung ihr für das Upgrade eures Decks ausgeben könnt.

In seinem andersweltlichen Gewölbe des Todes und der Verwesung schläft der Verschlinger aus der Tiefe. Sollte er erwachen, wird er Arkham vernichten.

Dieser Pack umfasst 60 vorsortierte Karten. Dieses Spiel enthält 60 Karten, mit neuen Spielerkarten, die bestehende Kartensätze ergänzen. Schlüpft in die Rolle von Nathaniel Cho, dem Boxer: Streift euch Boxhandschuhe über und schickt mit mächtigen Ereigniskarten einen Gegner nach dem anderen auf die Bretter.

Die Zeit verläuft im Kreis, sodass ihr euch erneut auf einem vorbestimmten Pfad befindet … nur diesmal sind die Dinge nicht mehr so, wie sie einst waren.

Unweit von Arkham hockt die windschiefe und verwitterte Stadt Innsmouth an der Atlantikküste. Players then build their decks from cards in their collection, conforming to the deckbuilding limits outlined by their investigator.

During the game, the investigators work together to progress their investigation towards a positive outcome by fulfilling the requirements set out by the Act deck.

However, there are forces working against the investigators, represented by the Agenda deck and encounter deck.

Each turn, a doom counter is added to the Agenda deck, acting as a timer for the investigators to complete their objectives. When the total number of doom in play reaches the doom threshold of the agenda card, the agenda will advance, often to negative consequences.

During the Investigation phase, the investigators each take up to three actions. Among other options, actions include playing cards from hand or activating those already in play, moving to or investigating locations and fighting or evading enemies.

Depending on the card, cards played from hand during the investigation phase may enter an investigator's play area as an ongoing bonus an "asset" or simply provide a powerful one-time effect and be discarded upon use an "event".

Many cards have a resource cost which must be paid to play the card. While cards generally require an action to play, some are "fast" and do not require an action to be played.

The Investigation phase is followed by the Enemy, Status and the Mythos Phase, representing the forces working against the investigators each round.

Investigators may have to deal with effects or enemies that attack their sanity, health or simply their progression towards their main goal the Act deck.

Investigators will be eliminated from a scenario if they receive horror or damage equal to their sanity or health respectively.

Investigators eliminated in this way will receive permanent mental or physical trauma. This means investigators repeatedly defeated in scenarios can become progressively weaker as the campaign progresses.

Investigators will, however, receive experience from scenarios even after defeat , which can be spent to improve each investigator's deck.

At certain points in a campaign, failure may lead to investigators being killed or driven insane. Expansions are grouped into cycles that contain a complete campaign for players to go through.

Each cycle is divided up into one deluxe expansion followed by six mythos packs. Deluxe expansions contain new investigators, about 60 new player cards, and the first two scenarios of a campaign.

Mythos packs contain about 24 new player cards and a single scenario of a campaign.

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 . Arkham Horror ‐ Kurzspielanleitung von brettspiele‐bethstreasures.com Version brettspiele‐bethstreasures.com Seite 1 Inhaltsverzeichnis Seite Kapitel 1: Spielvorbereitung 1 Kapitel 2: Spielablauf 2 Kapitel 3: Spielende 5 ‐ Einen Hinweismarker auf alle Orte in Arkham mit einem roten Diamanten legen. Arkham Horror: Das Kartenspiel verwischt die traditionellen Grenzen von Rollen- und Kartenspielen. In diesem kooperativen Spiel schlüpfen die Spieler in die Rolle eines Ermittlers und stellen ihr individuelles Deck so zusammen, dass es ihre Stärken und Schwächen widerspiegelt.