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Arkham Horror LCG: (Return to) The Ghosts of Onigawa (v2.0)

@castagnopolis
Unfortunately, Myriad has passed, hence the deleted websites. While I cannot cross reference everything in the github, everything looks to be up to date on that.

Hello,
I finally wanted to print the cards, but your website is down, and with it the link. Naturally, your repository on Github is still working, and I wanted to know if is it up to date to download the content and print it.
Kind regards

We gave this a fair shake in a group of three players but I would advise anyone looking to play it to know that it was probably meant and playtested for true solo only. At least two of the scenarios are terribly unbalanced for more than one player, while the final scenario is relatively easy in a group, especially compared with some of the earlier scenarios . A large part of this is an unusually large amount of high-health, high-fight elite enemies in the encounter deck, and in one scenario, a bunch of encounter cards that all add copious amounts of curse tokens to the chaos bag . I feel bad for saying anything negative because there was obviously a lot of time and effort put into making this, but it was by far the most frustrating experience our friend group has had playing an Arkham campaign.

After rereading it for the umpteenth time I think I can finally make sense of it. Yeah, having the encounter set and the card have the same name causes some confusion, but if one is actually paying attention, one step is specifying the encounter set and the other is specifying the location.

thanks for the notes but i've just looked at the HotH setup and i can't figure out what you're actually talking about -- it sounds like you might be confused by the fact that there is both a location called Darkened Manor (which is part of the HotH encounter set and begins in play) and an encounter set that called Darkened Manor (which contains the interior locations and the ivory handmaiden enemies and which setup explicitly tells you to set aside out of play). i'll consider renaming the Darkened Manor encounter set in a future revision to avoid that mixup, but there doesn't appear to me to be an issue with the HotH setup instructions as written

I imagine a lot of players just use the automated setup to play this, but there are some issues with doing it manually. There's a lot of bugs and inconsistencies in the setup instructions and on a lot of the scenario cards. I only played up to scenario 3, but it was most noticeable in scenario 2. For example, having you set aside the Dark Manor and then immediately in the next step telling you to put it into play. And not telling you what to do with the Darkened Manor encounter set. And neglecting to tell you to set aside the Ivory Handmaiden set. There's also a load of grammatical errors and rules language inconsistencies. Altogether it makes it a very hard campaign to run.

thanks for the notes, sorry you didnt enjoy the campaign

The finale was also okay. Liked it better than 7, at least. Sacrifice rules were a bit confusing, with the rules being spread out over many cards. Narrative continued to be weak. I don't like this random Semitic entity being the big bad in an Eastern-inspired campaign, and implying he's the same as the Aztec Tlaloc is bad (and you misspelled Tlaloc). Was there no other Eastern deity to use? Like Kagutsuchi, perhaps? Overall, this felt like two disconnected mini-campaigns smashed together.

7 was... okay. This is the one time where your high clue amount to advance the act felt a little too high. Don't like Boiling Point with how often you get scorched. The Mayu thing may have been horrible, but we were responsible adults and didn't bring her with us, so I can't comment on it.

Cut down the location amount and randomize some of them, make the doom threshold higher, when the last agenda resets have it be frost tokens rounded down maybe... any or all of those would be good. If the Yuki-onna respawned we honestly would have ignored the proceeding resolutions, since there's nothing you can do about it. We can't afford to sit around and wait for her when Thin Ice doesn't go away!

Hopefully the final two scenarios aren't wracked with as many issues.