New CoCLCG League Kit contains:
1 Adventure League Survival Guide
14 Faction Leader cards - oversized, two for each faction.
55 (approx) plastic Cthulhu 'currency tokens'
2 Cloissonne Lapel Pins (Cthulhu and Hastur)
1 Faux Leather 'Cthulhu' Deck Box
16 CoCLCG Poker Chips
1 Call of Cthulhu Poker Deck
Survival Guide is three pages (six sides) beautifully laid out and color printed. It is almost a League Rules Book, more like a league 'suggestions' booklet. The overall idea is that league participants receive 'currency tokens', one to start, one for each league game played, and another for each win. The currency can be spent to purchase (for one game) special abilities listed on the player's faction leader card.
Faction Leader cards are 4" X 7", color-printed on thin cardstock with nice big illustrations of Thomas F. Malone, Professor Albert Wilmarth, Richard Upton Pickman, Cthulhu, King in Yellow, Yog, and Shub. Below the pictures are three various purchasable special abilities, priced at 1, 2, or 3 'currency tokens'. Most of them are yawnable, the best is Malone's 3-cost choice called "Government Policy - Each time you play a Government character from your hand, choose and wound a character controlled by an opponent."
The currency tokens are 1/2" diameter, 1/8" thick, green plastic disks with the Cthulhu faction symbol laser-cut into one surface. Nicely made, but a bit 'fiddly'.
The lapel pins are very attractive, made of metal, about 1" in diameter, with the faction symbols in green (Cthulhu) or yellow (Hastur) Cloissonne. The background color is a rather cheery shiny silver, a strange artistic choice, but possibly less expensive than black. I'm wearing the Yellow Sign on my lapel right now. These will make GREAT and desirable prizes.
The faux-leather deck box is VERY nice, feels like real leather, Velcro closure, wide and thick enough to comfortably hold lots of cards in sleeves (or three stone domains) . The owner of Gameology said "These will SELL !" and immediately checked to see if he could order them for the store. Nope. Truly an excellent prize choice !
The poker chips are also nice, large, very heavy, feel like they must be made out of some ceramic instead of plastic. Both sides are decorated in full color with the 'running away from the dimensional disturbance' image from Arkham Horror. I like them but don't quite know what to do with them. Guess I'll offer them as prizes.
The Cthulhu Poker Deck is just the BEST. Standard size poker cards with suits of green, yellow, purple and red ! Each of the 52 cards has different zoom-in closeups of faction card art in glorious color. Some of the images I don't think I've seen before ! Yes, Victoria Glasser is on the yellow queen card. Four jokers carry Kovalic art. There is NO way I'm going to offer this deck as a league prize, I'm afraid I like it much too much to let it go.
The kit is overall great value, imo.
Comments ?? Questions ??
Chick