Was in my friendly (not so) local gaming store, and they had 1 copy on the shelf, SNAG!

Tons of new cards! Only 8 new encounter cards for each color (purple, green, orange) and only 4 new generic encounter cards. 6 new expidition cards (love them, never have time to go after them!). 2 new mysteries for existing old ones, 6 for Yig, 24Yig clues so 16more clues for existing old ones. Yig has 8 special encounter cards, C'thulu gets 2 new special encounters, Yog gets 10! new special encounter cards! Go Yog...

Do not know why, but the cards feel slightly different. Dunno, maybe its just the voices... Lots of new artifacts, many let you spend sanity to buy off conditions in game, or other effects. More conditions with new flip effects, got to love them and a few new spells (healing!), as well as old spells.

Awesome value for the price, imho. Now if my store would only !#$%^ restock #4 card sleeves!

Tons of new cards! Only 8 new encounter cards for each color (purple, green, orange) and only 4 new generic encounter cards.

Yeah, The count for these encounters is still somehow low, but point is that probably every further expansion will expand those a bit more, while we won't have easily other expansions increasing further Research decks or Special Encounter decks specific to the AOs. So, good for now

I'm happy with increasing the card pool in small increments. Especially the mythos deck cards.

8 Artifacts and only 6 Mythos cards. Fantasy Flight's priorities are WAY off here. We barely ever get artifacts, but we've stopped playing the game because we've seen all of the same encounters and mythos cards so many times. We were desperately hoping for more mythos cards than 6. This is a very big disappointment.

IMO it's the best approach. Throwing tons of new card for each deck wouldn't do any good to this game. I think FL is a great first addition that'll refresh the game bit more before the next big expansion.

Heck, I am still open to some small board additions to the game. The board, as is, is beautiful and works well, but feels like it could support more locations of interest easily. Mechanicaly it would probably be a game breaker, though.

8 Artifacts and only 6 Mythos cards. Fantasy Flight's priorities are WAY off here. We barely ever get artifacts, but we've stopped playing the game because we've seen all of the same encounters and mythos cards so many times. We were desperately hoping for more mythos cards than 6. This is a very big disappointment.

I've only played the expansion once so take this with a grain but it does appear to increase the number of artifacts drawn. Perhaps that is why they needed to add more.

I could see remote locations depicted with large tokens the shape of the current locations on the board that we could have access by boat or maybe planes (with new plane ticket tokens) via cities. It wouldn't add new rules, just new means of transport and new locations.

8 Artifacts and only 6 Mythos cards. Fantasy Flight's priorities are WAY off here. We barely ever get artifacts, but we've stopped playing the game because we've seen all of the same encounters and mythos cards so many times. We were desperately hoping for more mythos cards than 6. This is a very big disappointment.

I've only played the expansion once so take this with a grain but it does appear to increase the number of artifacts drawn. Perhaps that is why they needed to add more.

I guess that makes sense then, I haven't played it yet, planning on playing saturday.

Do not know why, but the cards feel slightly different. Dunno, maybe its just the voices... Lots of new artifacts, many let you spend sanity to buy off conditions in game, or other effects. More conditions with new flip effects, got to love them and a few new spells (healing!), as well as old spells.

Can you elaborate on this? We actually have a thread going in the Descent forum about the Shadow of Nerekhall expansion having flimsier feeling cards than the previous base game / expansions. I really hope this isn't the case with this game as well as it would indicate a possible trend going forward with FFG card quality.

The cards seem fine to me

Anyone know when this will be released in the UK?

I'm not happy with one or two of the cards, but there isn't much to be done.

Considering how fast this expansion hit the shelves, I think FF did a great job with Forsaken Lore. I expect new expansions, assuming they are developed with more time, will have more to offer, but I am satisfied by the content and price point of this particular expansion.

#4 More reasons to go to the expedition space. I've only played through FL once, so I haven't seen everything, but they did a nice job making go to the expedition space, but nothing to make you do an expedition encounter. (again, I just might not have seen it yet though).

In some ways they made it worse. Two of the new expedition cards provide 2 Clues and two spells, respectively, on a successful encounter. Two spells is not worth going half way across the globe and getting trapped there, potentially having to fight and extremely nasty monster for the privilege.

I noticed that FL is following Arkham Horror's motif of "don't put expansion symbols on monsters." How odd.

At least there's only one you really have to remember: Cultist.

I highly recommend everybody buys this box.

Big changes for Yog and Cthulhu (don't want to spoil it, but Yog gets a second special deck, akin to, but unlike Key and Gate) much more variety all around (except for Mythos cards, which you only get 6 of, but this is forgiveable due to the overall quality of the pack) and Yig is a perfect addition to the game as a lesser, but still considerable threat with a unique and interesting flavor. He is pretty easy for 2-4 investigators, but perfect for a solo game or 5+ (where the scaling really starts to kick your teeth in.)

Good all around job FFG. Bring us more of the same. Hastur or Nyarlathotep (or both) next please.

I think it depends which 3 mysteries come up for Yig. If he awakens, he becomes a serious issue.

I also think Cthulhu now has the hardest mystery in the game to solve. Its like walking into a wall of spikes.

I still have only encountered 5 of the 6 Yig mysteries in our 4 games. I don't want to spoil the last one for myself. They aren't too serious in terms of difficulty thusfar.

I think it depends which 3 mysteries come up for Yig. If he awakens, he becomes a serious issue.

Depends. We won easily once after he woke up, simply because we had Diana in the party ho cleared the space from Cultists for others to destroy Yig. It lasted one round only

Yeah, Diana is the bane of the Yig game. We always randomise characters, but have started removing her from the running when playing Yig.

I lost my first game to Yig, but I was playing with another person who I'm teaching the game. Hopefully future exploits will fare better.

May the Blessing of Nodens make Yig not being your second Shub...

I doubt he will be.