Would this expansion be a card or box, if it were made? I love Arkham Horror. I have very little that I can complain about. Some text of the cards is hard to translate into game terms, but since I play with a group, we come to a conclusion pretty fast.

I am curious to see if anyone knows if there will be a final expansion? If so, do you agree that the mountains of madness is a good place to finish the line?

The scope of Mountains of Madness does seem like it would cry out for a new expansion board but it is a different scope from the other boards, as has been mentioned in other threads Antarctica is a bit farther than upstate Massachusetts and the current method of travel (pay a buck and spend a movement point) seems a bit easy for traveling to the other side of the planet. Of course the same threads said something about killing shoggoths with shotguns and comparable probabilities. While I'd like to see MoM done there are still stories that follow the current expansion convention that could be mined for content such as The Whisper in the Dark (Townsend Horror anyone?).

Curator said:

I think it definitely would need to be a box expansion. Not only is it one of my favourite stories, it's also one of the longer ones HPL wrote. More material demand more bits! @.@

Also, where are you getting this "final expansion" nonsense from? Innsmouth may have been the last of the expansions they had planned when the game launched, but that doesn't mean it's the last thing they'll ever produce. I haven't heard any indication from FFG that Arkham is done yet, and I don't see why they'd stop if it's still selling.

Curator said:

I'd bet on it. There's a slight problem with suspension of disbelief concerning the distances and time taken. Also, even in Lovecraft's Antarctica there is a great deal of sameness there. So making it feel like a polar adventure without lots of "delay" probably also creates a problem.

The last expansion? I'd bet not. It's one of FFG's best selling games. It has been so for a while. Another expansion won't make it less enticing.

They way I play I can actually handle infinite expansions, but many people insist on combining everything together and that results in lots of homogenizing. Currently 3 big and 3 little expansions feels about right, but I don't think it is.

Big or little box? There would need to be board. I think it could be done on a smaller board, than Dunwich because it's essentially a trek.

Sorry for the scare. I was misunderstood. I meant when FFG decides to end the Arkham Horror franchise, should MoM be the conclusion? I agree that this game still has more to add to it.

I personally think that, should it be made, it gets a new board.

Btw how much time is passed between expansions. I mean when can we expect more products for this line to show up?

Curator said:

Not necessarily the end. There's lots of Horror fiction out there. FFG hasn't been bound by what Lovecraft has written.

I'm guessing AH will end when sales start really falling off. I don't think that has happened.

You totally did not answer my question lol. My last question was, when it ends, what story do you think is most appropriate to end Arkham Horror with?

Curator said:

"I meant when FFG decides to end the Arkham Horror franchise, should MoM be the conclusion?"

mmmmm That's a hard one. It would take some mind reading for FFG to do that.

I imagine Arkham Horror will end with a whimper (if it ever does end) instead of a decision. There's lots of material to draw from, including their own card game.

No, MoM is just the next most logical AH experience. Several have already offered their own homegrown versions.

Okay thanks. Sorry for the confusion.

Sorry for the scare. I was misunderstood. I meant when FFG decides to end the Arkham Horror franchise, should MoM be the conclusion? I agree that this game still has more to add to it.

Ah, I understand now. As far as what expansion "should" be the last, I don't think it really matters. Each one is more or less self-contained - much like the stories they've been drawn from - so it's not like they'd be stopping the story mid-sentence if they published expansions in "the wrong order." I think MoM is one of the more obvious choices for the *next* expansion (certainly among the folks on this board at least) but as far as being *last* I don't think it has greater importance than the previous ones, or whatever else FFG might have up their sleeve.

I think there's a lot of potential to continue the game for the time being, although having said that I think it would also be better to end the game on a high note rather than drizzling off into content entirely generated by third party authors. I realize not everything in the game today is pure HPL, but everything has been at least partly his ideas so far, as far as I know.

So I suppose, in answer to your question, I would say the last expansion should be the last one they can make which still has at least some of HPL's influence in it. Once they've exhausted everything he wrote, regardless of what else might have slipped in along the way, that should be the end.

Btw how much time is passed between expansions. I mean when can we expect more products for this line to show up?

I think it's been roughly one big and one small each year, but I haven't really been keeping track.

Edit: **** exploding posts =/

By my memory its about 18 months between big box expansions, all considered.

Well, for incorporating the mountains why not use a special gate? going through could be like going to dunwhich to kill the horror or innsmouth to deplete the DORT. and if it was Shub at the end of the story you could maybe go to the mountations to attack the GOO or something while it slumbers to remove doom, possibly at the risk of increasing the doom or waking it prematurely.

As for what it should end on, AH is the end in the Lovecraftian world. Anything more definative would be impossible to turn away. Like Azothoth's pipers taking a collective breath. doesn't matter what you do, the earth is gone.