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Cheapest way to get into Arkham Horror LCG?
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this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
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The best way is buying campaign/investigator expansions. Note that both are necessary for a complete cycle. Fantasy Flight have also starting reprinting older (and harder to find) sets in the campaign/investigator expansions; purchasing both these sets is equivalent to buying all mythos packs for a cycle. If you search „Ermittler-Erweiterung" or „Kampagnen-Erweiterung" for your preferred cycle, you shouldn't have an issue finding a set.
The „Return to-" sets are further expansions to a cycle and intended to give a campaign greater replayability. I would not recommend them instead of the original campaigns.
A note on card sets. While your current 1st Edition Core is still useable, it is a 2-player box. There is a revised version which accommodates 4 players (and includes some cards from expansions as part of the core) though if you are solo or want to play with just one friend, then the original core set will work.
Edit: While I don't endorse this method, I have played with a friend who grabbed high-quality card images from an Arkham Horror module for Tabletop Simulator and then printed out playable sets on cardstock.
Yes, most of the time I play alone, 2p max. Is this game fun with more players? At the moment I don’t have a player group that would like such a long game, unfortunately.
Sigh, 50€ for an expansion is a lot of money, even if it’s cheaper than buying the mythos packs. But maybe I just budget and buy them a few month apart to save money.
Thank you for your ideas, I already live this community.
(Btw, I can’t see my own posts, and even this instance doesn’t show up in my descriptions, shit, even when I search for this community and find it, it doesn’t show my own posts. This fediverse stuff still feels a bit confusing to me…)
Oh, I just remembered as I played one of these last week. There are a lot of standalone scenarios which are cheaper. Searching „Arkham Horror Einzelszenario" should reveal these. They cost about 20-30€ each which is expensive for a single scenario but I find that some have a lot of replayability. The three I have played are Karneval des Schreckens, Mord im Excelsior-hotel, and Der Blob, der alles fraß. All are fantastic.
Googling the standalone scenarios, I found a free fan-made cruise ship scenario which is print and play. Unfortunately, it is only available in English. Perhaps if printing is an option for you, you could find some scenarios this way.
Edit: I did the googling and found pages dedicated to fan made scenarios here and here.
Wow, thank you so much, I didn’t even think of standalone scenarios!