We have some friends that have finally agreed to try a round of Atkham...

Whoops - posting from phone and stuff went screwy. We have some friends coming over who have agreed to join our madness and visit Arkham for the first time. We're trying to decide which expansions we should play with. Does anybody have any good ideas for how best introduce new players who might be kind of competitive when you've got all the expansions? We're thinking of adding in Lurker because it seems easy enough and doesn't add too many rules but can add some danger when people make too many pacts.

The best way to introduce new players is Tibs' beginners league. Here . Great theme, good scenarios and an interesting difficulty change along the way

Thanks Julia, but those pics appear to be broken (it was before I discovered imgur).

Here's the most up-to-date version:

Introductory and Expansion Scenarios

The hyperlink's not working, Tibs. Or is it just me?

No it was broken. In these forums, you highlight text and then use the link button to attach a URL. I thought it was the opposite.

It should be fixed now.

Yup, perfectly working!

Thanks Tibs and Julia - we ended up going with the base game+Lurker (mainly because it's one of our newer expansions and we haven't gotten to play with it enough), but we're hoping we can get them interested in playing again and if so, we'll probably start playing through these scenarios.

The game was pretty tame - we drew Azathoth with Norman, Ursula, Tommy, and Jacqueline. I don't think anyone ended up unconscious or insane the whole time and the Reckoning deck was kind. (Our last two games with Lurker devoured a total of 4 characters, so I was kind of disappointed Norman, who took a pact first thing didn't end up in more serious trouble. I think Avi's league has corrupted my sense of 'fun' in Arkham ).

Scenario 1 is designed to be easiest, and to only allow investigators with simple abilities. It looks like your playteam has experienced more complicated investigators, so I think you can skip right to scenario 2.

Something cool to point out is that the scenarios each focus on one expansion, however the "Lurker" expansion is played with the Dunwich board, so your players will not experience a "repeat performance."