Just think about it: Small box expansions with mini-boards... would be so cute! A mini board can consist of a single neighborhood with 2-3 locations, or maybe even a single location with a special ability. These mini boards can be accesessed via the train station like other boards. How awesome would that be! And more importanty- think of the cuteness that a tiny board can be

Thoughts?

kroen said:

Not that awesome, to be honest. What are these tiny boards supposed to be? And what is this apparent obssession with cuteness (something Arkham Horror is hardly know for, nor is it thematically appropriate). Obsession with cuteness, constantly encouraging conversation with posts . . . no offense, but are you a girl?

Umm no... when I said "cute" I meant a tiny board can be cute. it can still have horrifying pics on the locations.

I have one of those. "At the Mountains of Madness". It was inspired by a similar idea on BGG. It's not really a neighborhood but a trek. It has three locations. At the end a gate can be sealed. It's an unbreakable gate (unintended consequence) in that no Mythos card calls it or can burst it. OTOH, it doesn't remove a gate marker either. Even Little Emily has not called it cute.

I don't think it's that great an idea.

Even the large expansion boards are a bit of a pain and neither of them works as well as it should. The method of getting to them (travelling through the train station) is very artificial, presumably because when the original board was designed, there was no plan for expansion boards.

What exactly do you imagine a small board would add? If you want to design a new neighbourhood, you can just write a load of replacement Encounter cards for existing Arkham neighbourhoods. Alternatively, you can design heralds and guardians which add new special abilities to locations (I did this with my expansion).

There's no point adding additional boards when all the types of content that you'd put on them could be easily added to the original board instead. I don't like to shoot down an idea without providing a more helpful suggestion, but unless you've got a really stellar idea for what happens on the tiny boards, I don't think this one's gonna fly...

Here's a nice idea: A tiny board that would only contain this location: (no encounters, as there's no point of making an encounters deck for one location)

edit: oops the background is white

A sure way of transferring letters (clues) and items to anyone without proximity? hellz yeah! Anyway, the posibilites are endless. A small-box-sized board can even contain an entire neighborhood, and even some sort of track (day/night anyone?) if it's a folding board. Also for a neighborhood there would obviously be an encounters deck.

Arrgh! He had to use the Post Office. I guess that sucks me in.

Although there are some points being brought up -- like Board Movement. With Innsmouth coming out, Ii'm sure that we're going to have to take the Train there, even though the story explicitly states there is no rail stop in Innsmouth, and the only way to get there is by the bus. I think it would be a neat idea if a) there were Bus Stop in the game, making movement back and forth from expansion boards easier and b) giving some locations a separate ability. It always irks me that the only way to get a Rail Pass is to draw the encounter. I've felt you should be able to buy one instead of having a normal encounter at the Train Station.

Post Office. Priceless. (though to be honest, they couldn't pay me enough to deliver a package to Rl'yeh).

This reminds me of this comic.

http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF202-Post_Apocalyptic.jpg

ps: Dont scroll trough the rest of these comics, some of them arent that apropriate

The 'Post Office' board is ok, but I stand by my original comment - this doesn't need to be an additional tiny board. Hellz no! It might as well just be a location-shaped marker that you stick on the main board somewhere. Or better yet, just put the abililty on a herald, thus:

Post Office

The Train Station gains the following special ability: " Delivery Service: During the Arkham Encounter phase, investigators in this location may spend any amount of money. For every $1 an investigator spends, that investigator may give 1 of his or her items or Clue tokens to another investigator in Arkham or in an Other World."

Anyway I wouldn't worry about the size of the small expansion boxes or anything like that, Kroen, since I think the chances of your idea being talent-spotted by FFG are pretty much zero, and if you want these things to exist, you'll have to make them yourself.

(Not that it's any reflection on the quality of the idea. After the whole Rhan-Tegoth/McGlen thing, I'm pretty sure that these forums are a more rigorous playtesting/quality control filter than the official cards get...)

JerusalemJones said:

Thanks. And I think a better ruling for the Rail Pass would be that when you spend $1 and 1 movement point to take the train, you may pay $3 instead of $1 and if you do then you take a Rail Pass. Clean, simple, and elegant. No need to have a psedu-encounter at the train station.