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“So what do you think, doc?” said Harden, leaning over his shoulder and blowing a cloud of toxic smoke into his face. “Wild animals, right?”

Vincent coughed and lifted the skeletal arm. He peered at a number of deep striations in the bone.

“It certainly looks like something ate the flesh directly from the bones, but the bite marks don’t look like any animal I know that would devour a human being.”

“So don’t keep me in suspense, doc. What do they look like?”

Vincent hesitated. Though he was no stranger to the darker underside of Arkham, he knew better than to draw unnecessary attention to it. Yet this was the sixth body to be discovered like this in the last few years.

“They look like bite marks from a human jaw,” he said.

Fantasy Flight is pleased to announce Ghouls of the Miskatonic, a novel by Graham McNeill. Something terrible is stirring in the fathomless depths of the ocean, and dark days are ahead for the sleepy town of Arkham. A young college student dreams of ancient powers best left forgotten. A determined professor searches for answers as he becomes embroiled in a series of harrowing events. All the while, a heinous plan is slowly unfolding…

From the pen of New York Times Bestselling author Graham McNeill, Ghouls of the Miskatonic is the first book in The Dark Waters Trilogy. With a large cast of familiar faces from the Arkham Horror board game and an engrossing tale of mystery and horror, Ghouls of the Miskatonic is sure to please fans of Arkham Horror and H.P. Lovecraft, as well as readers of mystery, horror, and suspense alike.

Author Graham McNeill is well-known for his work with Black Library, including such books as A Thousand Sons, False Gods, Fulgrim, and Mechanicum. Ghouls of the Miskatonic will be his first novel published by Fantasy Flight. He had the following to say about his latest work:

“I’ve been a huge fan of H.P. Lovecraft’s work for many years now, and his influence extends into all my work like the tentacles of Great Cthulhu himself. The eldritch horror, the cosmic bleakness and the mass of slimy, horrible monsters so terrible they’d drive you to madness just by hearing their name strikes a real chord in me. Lovecraft’s writings have influenced so much in the worlds of horror, SF and fantasy, that to be given the chance to tell stories of the mythos is just about the most exciting opportunity I’ve ever been offered. I mean, who wouldn’t want to write stories of witch-haunted Arkham, with its sagging, gambrel roofs and crooked streets, where the mist clings to the buildings and all manner of abominations might lurk in the shadows…?”

Check back for more information regarding Ghouls of the Miskatonic and The Dark Waters Trilogy, coming in 2011 from Fantasy Flight Publishing!

Der Autor Graham McNeill ist einigen vielleicht durch seine Warhammer-Romane bekannt.  Ob es eine Übersetzung der Romane geben wird ist mir übrigens nicht bekannt. Ganz ehrlich, ich erwarte auch nicht besonders viel, aber das Cover ist ganz hübsch ;-]

Das alles erinnert mich ein wenig an die Hörspiele zu dem Brettspiel Scotland Yard. Kann sich da noch einer dran erinnern?

Through the murky streets of Arkham, unnatural gates are opening to connect our world with strange other dimensions. Out of the depths of these eldritch pathways have begun to crawl profane creatures that even now haunt the innocent, dragging away the unwary and causing havoc on silent midnight streets. At the epicenter of this living nightmare roil whispers of arcane magic cults, ancient family secrets, and a truth too terrible to behold. Join as one of a team of intrepid investigators committed to rooting out these otherworldly portals before an ancient evil reawakens, bringing its ancient horror back to destroy the world as we know it. Welcome to the horror of 1920′s Arkham, Massachusetts!
The Lurker at the Threshold is the newest boxed expansion set for Arkham Horror, the classic cooperative board game for 1-8 players, set in a world of gothic horror created by author H. P. Lovecraft. This expansion will bring new levels of dread to your table top, with the addition of a brand new Herald Sheet for “The Lurker at the Threshold” – a powerful and malevolent being that has appeared to prepare the way for the Ancient One, plus more than 200 components and some extraordinary new game mechanics to boot.

One of the highlights is the full set of 18 Gate markers that are designed to replace those from the Arkham Horror core set, as well as those from The Dunwich Horror and The Kingsport Horror. They are treated exactly the same as the previous Gate markers, except that each Gate now has an additional characteristic. For example, the “Gate of Madness” will cause an investigator to lose one Sanity when they fail to close the Gate, and a “Moving Gate” that can move along with monsters during the Mythos phase.

Brand new to The Lurker at the Threshold are Relationship Cards for use in games with two or more players. Each player draws one Relationship Card at the start of the game, which describes some advantage gained due to how the investigator to your left is related to you. Perhaps you are business associates and mutually reap the benefits of income, or both are Students of the Arcane and gain more frequent access to the Spell deck. No matter how you’re related, these will bring a more interesting back-story to your game, involving your characters in more interesting ways than ever before.

Finally, The Lurker at the Threshold introduces the Dark Pact deck which will tempt foolish investigators to enter into a terrible arrangement with the Lurker itself. Although these Dark Pacts may grant your investigator enhanced abilities, there is sure to be a cost. What happens when the price too high?

Of course with over 100 new Location cards, Mythos, Gate cards and Spells, plus more Common and Unique Items, The Lurker at the Threshold will enhance and expand the enjoyment of Arkham Horror for players of all skill levels, and is coming Spring 2010.

Arkham Horror is a board game of mystery and madness set in Arkham, Massachusetts in the 1920′s. Players investigate the strange happenings about the town and race to prevent ancient evil from surfacing. Playable with 1-8 players.

Aus dem Frühling als Erscheinungstermin ist bislang nichts geworden. Es heißt also weiter warten. Für eilige ist hier noch mal eine Übersicht über den Inhalt des Add-ons:

1 Herald Sheet

18 new Gate markers

110 new Ancient One cards

56 new Investigator cards, including new items, new spells, Relationship cards, and horrific Dark Pacts made with the powers beyond!

Ich muss gestehen, dass ich schon nach dem Grundspiel ausgestiegen bin und derzeit glückliche Spielstunden mit Battlestar Galactica (ebenfalls von FFG) verbringe :-]

An Investigator’s Guide to Kingsport Horror Vol. 1

An Investigator’s Guide to Kingsport Horror Vol. 2

Kingsport Horror is nearing completion, so I thought I’d share with you a taste of what’s in store.

Kingsport is similar in scope to Dunwich. It includes a board, 8 investigators, 4 new Ancient Ones, 2 Heralds, 3 Guardians (like Heralds, but helpful rather than hurtful) and tons of cards and monsters.

The Kingsport board was fun to design. I wanted to tie its activity back to Arkham and the mythos cards more than I did with Dunwich, to prevent too much fluctuation in activity levels between games. The landscape is dominated by the Kingsport Head, a large craggy cliff leading up to the Strange High House in the Mists. There’s a place to get healed, a place to sell items, a place to buy Food and Whiskey, and two places where you can get ‘jobs’ à la the Deputy.

Also, all of the locations in Kingsport are stable (that means there won’t be any gates opening in Kingsport), yet you can play Kingsport Horror alone with just Arkham Horror and have a more difficult game. I’d tell you how that works, but I want to save some big surprises for later.

The investigators are some of the most interesting yet, in my opinion. There’s a bounty hunter who counts all his monster trophies as having one additional toughness. There’s a really nice investigator who starts out Cursed and never makes upkeep rolls to get rid of Curses (he’s still awesome—you’ll see). There are two investigators who break from the SANITY + STAMINA = 10 pattern. There’s even an investigator who starts with an Elder Sign.

The Ancient Ones… well, I won’t lie to you. They are around a Dunwich Ancient One–level of difficulty. Atlach-Nacha, the great spider weaving the web between the worlds, as you may have heard, turns all gate openings into gate bursts, and is extremely hard to beat if he awakens. If you use your normal tactics against him, he will beat the pants off of you. However, my group has beaten him with 3 investigators by the time he had 6 of his 12 doom tokens out. Devising tactics to beat him with the group was a good time.

Last tidbit for today: monsters. The mix this time is heavily slanted away from fliers and immobile monsters, which should adjust Dunwich’s activity level appropriately once these are added to the cup. There are 2 new Masks. There are Leng Spiders. There are monsters who avoid fighting the investigators (I start cackling evilly every time I think of those). Lastly, there are monsters with Aquatic movement. Just a few, mind you, and mostly as a way to be prepared, just in case I need it later…

That’s all for now, but maybe I’ll have a little treat for you guys in time for Halloween.

A new big-box expansion for Arkham Horror. The Great Old Ones return to Massachusetts and this time they are unleashing their monsters on Kingsport. Join new investigators to combat new creatures before battling a new Ancient One. Can you save the world before they stir in their slumber….