Hi everyone, I'm new at the forums and FFG's board games as well and I was hoping that the community here can give me a hand here because I am unsure if I am playing Eldritch Horror correctly...

So, I listed both the situation and questions on the bottom respectively and can someone help me and my friends finally put an end to our confusion when playing? Please bear in mind that we are new to the game and I am hoping I will not receive excited responses.

1. When exactly is the mystery card(s) supposed to become active? Do you pick a mystery when you start the game or do mysteries start appearing after following certain conditions? (this is a frequent problem me and my buds are having a issue with because it seems that every time we play the game, we start with a mystery before the action phase and I feel very unsure if this is correct)

2. When are special encounter cards (one with tentacles) for the gods encountered? How do you encounter these cards? (So, we've played Cthulhu recently but it seemed to us that he was the only one we had dealt with special encounter cards "R'lyeh Risen". The other gods, on the other hand, we haven't dealt with these cards and we don't know what these cards are for, except for putting them in the box.)

3. Once an investigator dies, can he/she play a different character? And when that investigator dies, when the other player takes his/her equipment, can the other player use the equipment?

4. Any limit on how many items you can have?

5. When improving skills, can you improve skills indefinitely or is there a limit? (This seemed to be an issue when one of us were using Lily Chen's abilities)

Uh oh, I accidently double posted this post; Admin, can you close this one?

To the forum, please answer this one instead: https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/index.php?/topic/172046-i-think-were-playing-the-game-wrong/

Hi everyone, I'm new at the forums and FFG's board games as well and I was hoping that the community here can give me a hand here because I am unsure if I am playing Eldritch Horror correctly...

So, I listed both the situation and questions on the bottom respectively and can someone help me and my friends finally put an end to our confusion when playing? Please bear in mind that we are new to the game and I am hoping I will not receive excited responses.

1. When exactly is the mystery card(s) supposed to become active? Do you pick a mystery when you start the game or do mysteries start appearing after following certain conditions? (this is a frequent problem me and my buds are having a issue with because it seems that every time we play the game, we start with a mystery before the action phase and I feel very unsure if this is correct)

2. When are special encounter cards (one with tentacles) for the gods encountered? How do you encounter these cards? (So, we've played Cthulhu recently but it seemed to us that he was the only one we had dealt with special encounter cards "R'lyeh Risen". The other gods, on the other hand, we haven't dealt with these cards and we don't know what these cards are for, except for putting them in the box.)

3. Once an investigator dies, can he/she play a different character? And when that investigator dies, when the other player takes his/her equipment, can the other player use the equipment?

4. Any limit on how many items you can have?

5. When improving skills, can you improve skills indefinitely or is there a limit? (This seemed to be an issue when one of us were using Lily Chen's abilities)

1. You start the game with a mystery, and a new mystery is only revealed after the mythos phase during the turn it was completed. This means that even after you solve the 3rd mystery, you must survive until after the mythos phase for the mystery to be considered completed.

2. The special decks are special encounters that can be had as part of specific mysteries for that Ancient One. If you do not happen to draw that mystery, the deck usually won't be used. Some deck might be used during the Final Mystery when the AO wakes up, but I can't remember.

3. Each investigator that dies is replaced my another investigator at the beginning of the next turn. However, if the investigator that was the first players dies, you must immediately pass first player to someone else (sometimes first player is affected by mythos cards). I'm assuming you understand the "injury/madness" encounters on the backs of each investigator that often allow you to take their equipment. So yes, once you have it, you can then use it as normal.

4. You can have any number of items BUT ONLY the +X bonus of your highest bonus is applied to your roll for each test. Example: if you have an ally that gives you +1 Str, and a gun that gives you +2 Str, you only receive +2 str for your test, NOT +3. The other effects of items stack (rerolls, changing a 4 to a 5, "additional dice" effects, etc)

5. You can only improve each stat by 2. This is why each stat has a +1 side and a +2 side.

PS. I'm not trying to be overly critical here, but you should try to reread the instructions when you have a chance. Some of these answers are specifically addressed there.

PPS. LOL, looks like this was already answered in the other dupe post. WOOOPS. My bad.