Time to thresh some olds! Let's Play Arkham Horror: Lurker at the Threshold!

Across Arkham, strange doors to other worlds have been opening. They seem to be a living part of an ancient and arcane creature that has been reaching out, tempting the unwary with eldritch power. Now people are vanishing without a trace, and it’s up to a handful of bold investigators to confront the profane being who dwells just beyond these passages. But even working together, will they be able to destroy these unnatural and deadly gates without themselves striking a terrible bargain with the Lurker at the Threshold?

Arkham Horror is a cooperative board game designed for 1-8 players where they battle eldritch forces to save the world from evils. Yes, evils. We’ll also be using the Lurker at the Threshold expansions, which adds some new rules to make things easier but at the same time harder for our intrepid investigators. I hope everyone likes Heralds.

RULES!

By golly I hope y’all know how to play because I really don’t want to explain the base rules. There are so many of them. But if you need a refresher…

Arkham Horror rulebook
Arkham Horror FAQ
Lurker at the Threshold rules
Arkham Horror rules summary at Headless Hollow
The Arkham Horror wiki is a good site for reference

Lurker at the Threshold Rules

In addition to new Commons, Uniques, and Spells, the expansion introduces some new elements.

Relationships – These cards represent the ties the investigators have with each other. When playing with more than two players, each player gets a Relationship card and will tie you to the next player.

Ex: Players Pete, Jenny, and Joe each draw a Relationship card. Pete -> Jenny -> Joe -> Pete

Pete not only receives the benefits of his relationship card but also the benefit of Joe’s Relationship card. You do not lose your Relationship card unless you are devoured, in which case the devoured player loses their Relationship card and the player who has a Relationship with the devoured also loses their card. New investigators do not receive Relationship cards.

Ex: If Pete was devoured, Pete and Joe lose their relationship cards.

Dark Pacts – Go on, sell your soul to some unknown force! Look at all you can get!

� Blood Pact
� Soul Pact
� Bound Ally

When you enter into the Dark Pact, you can choose one of those three. You can take the Dark Pact three times and gain one of each card.

Power Tokens - These represent arcane resources and insight provided by the Lurker at the Threshold. Players gain these through the Dark Pacts.

What downsides could there be? Oh right.

Reckonings – This deck affects only those that enter into the Dark Pact with the Lurker. These are drawn when an investigator makes the Dark Pact to cast a spell or whenever a Gate opens.

Gate markers – These gate markers replace the ones that come with the base set. They work the same way as the original gates but these have an additional attribute assigned to it.



Split Gates – These gates lead to two different Otherworlds. The player going through the gate can choose which world to travel to. When this Gate is closed, all monsters in Arkham, the Sky, and the Outskirts that have either of the dimensional symbols on the marker are returned to the monster cup.

The Herald – The Lurker at the Threshold – The All-in-One and One-in-All

We're going to go for a game of 8, so I'm looking for 4 more players. Holla if you're interested!

1. The Giant Head is Roland Banks
2. sraymonds is Mark Harrigan
3. Queen Possum is Akachi Onyele
4. dussssstin is Patrice Hathaway
5. CaptBlasto is Luke Robinson
6. Sarcasmorator is Ursula Downs
7. Mogri is Jim Culver
8. Poetfox is Minh Thi Phan

Alternate 1: Buge
Alt 2: Gerad
Alt 3: Cyan
Alt 4: Destil
Alt 5: PapillonReel

Once the players are all lined up, we'll choose characters and then a GOO.

We all know the rules, but we're going to change things up just a bit here. The players are all supposed to take each phase at the same time, but this being a forum game, it's going to take way too long.

So for the purposes of speeding up the game, the player will post their Upkeep and Movement actions at the same time. Don't post your Upkeep actions and then wait for other to post their Upkeeps.

ex:

If you need to evade a monster, put that into your post and do what you need to do. Same for combat. If you just say end turn, then you'll get the location encounter. If you want to use a location's ability, be sure to say so.

Once everyone has posted their Upkeeps and Movements, I will then have a long post with each encounter on it. After all of those have been run through, the new Mythos card will be drawn and bad horrible things will happen to us.

Gates Open to Start Final Battle: 5
Elders Signs to win: 6
Arkham Monster Limit: 11
Outskirts Monster Limit: 0
Terror Level: 0

Man, you're bringing the pain with this one.

I'm in, unless I would edge out someone else who really wants to play because I seem to end up playing every board game LP around here and don't want to be an LP hog.

I'd gladly play. I do own this game, but not Lurker, so if someone who hasn't Arkhamed before wants the slot, I can bow out.

Time to dust off my Arkham Horror boxes!

I'll volunteer to play. Have yet to play any version of Arkham other than the base set.

I'm in. But I have not really played with any expansions past Black Goat of the Woods I don't believe, so if I make stupid rule errors, apologies. I will try to catch up on the wacky shit they've added.

And we've got 8 players! Sign on up if you want to be an alternate.

I'm going to use random.org to determine the turn order and the order in which we choose our investigators.

1. The Giant Head is Roland Banks
2. sraymonds is Mark Harrigan
3. Queen Possum is Akachi Onyele
4. dussssstin is Patrice Hathaway
5. CaptBlasto is Luke Robinson
6. Sarcasmorator is Ursula Downs
7. Mogri is Jim Culver
8. Poetfox is Minh Thi Phan

Choose any investigator on this list. All investigators from all the expansions are available. Except Calvin Wright. He was from the league games and I'm going to say no to him.

I'm still deciding about whether or not to use Personal Stories in this game. Once I've made a final decision, all investigators have been chosen, and a GOO selected, I'll update the second and third post of the how's of playing this game.

I'll play! I can totally learn a new variant for funs.

EDIT: FFFFFFUUUUUUU--

But hey, you'll be Alternate number 1!

My goodness, there are like 3 million investigators now.

I like the teamwork behind Minh Thi Phan. I'm prepared for this decision to screw us over as opposed to me picking the more powerful dudes I am familiar with, like MANDY THOMPSON, who is the best.

I'll be alternate number 2, if only to help stop the LP from dying if people need to drop out. I've never played before but always enjoy the LPs.

I will play as Agent Dale Cooper Roland Banks.

I'll be the soldier Mark Harrigan.

dussssssssstin's going to be Patrice Hathaway

Damn, I never notice these in time.

Put me down as an alternate.

Can I be an alternate? Can I can I can I?

BAM! You've just been alternated

Hooray!

You should poll the audience for the GOO.

Whether or not this is a good idea depends on how much the audience hates us.

I'll play as Luke Robinson

Ok, Sarc's turn to choose.

As for polling a GOO...well, I'll think about it.

Ursula Downs!

Jim Culver, musician extraordinaire.

And Poetfox is Minh Thi Phan.

Ok, we can do a poll for which Ancient One we'll be facing. I'd prefer for non-players to do the voting and we'll see if there are enough people to actually do that.

The Ancients Ones! Choose wisely!

I'd suggest PMing sraymonds your vote instead of posting it, so as to surprise the players.

Maybe vote for three and choose the highest? There are enough of these that there might not be much overlap if everyone just votes for one.