While I've been waiting patiently for the Dunwich Legacy to be reprinted (because I was an idiot and did not pre-order), I've been obsessing over this game. One of the activities I've been doing is carefully reading the campaign guide FFG has posted online without reading any spoilers.

One detail that piqued my interest was the lack of any "theme" with Dunwich Legacy. I know that this is a set that is supposed to kick off a new campaign, but all of FFG's past LCG expansions featured one of their "factions", like Star Wars, Netrunner, and A Game of Thrones. In Lord of the Rings, each expansion focused on a different race, and we also typically only got 2 or 3 new heroes. Having 5 new Investigators, one from each class, seemed a little too generous. What was the "theme" of Dunwich Legacy?

Another thing that piqued my interest was the encounter sets that are needed to construct each scenario.

Being a huge fan of Lord of the Rings The Card Game, I bought multiple core sets and expansions so I didn't have to deconstruct the scenarios after each play. Naturally, when Arkham Horror came out, I also bought multiple core sets. One thing I found fascinating about Dunwich is that it reuses encounter sets from the core set, which LOTR didn't do past the Mirkwood cycle. The set that REALLY stood out for me was "Agents of Yog-Sothoth." Not having played Dunwich yet, I would assume that Yog-Sothoth plays a major role in this campaign ("Sacrificed to Yog-Sothoth" also in the campaign log). "But what about the other 3 'agents' sets?" I thought to myself.

Then it all made sense. Yog-Sothoth is the theme of the Dunwich Legacy! FFG is probably going to recycle those sets in future expansions, just like they did with Dunwich. If Dunwich is a campaign dedicated to Yog-Sothoth, we're probably going to have one dedicated to Shub-Niggurath, one to Hastur, and one to Cthulhu. So don't throw out those extra "agent" cards! They just might come in handy soon!

What do others think of this theory? Which of the Ancient Ones do you think will be featured in the next campaign? I just hope that FFG come up with more imaginative titles for their expansions other than "The Kingsport Legacy" or "The Innsmouth Legacy"

Well, trying to say this without giving spoilers away, the Dunwich Legacy is inspired by Lovecraft's novella: The Dunwich Horror. If you read it you'll note that there are characters (like Dr Morgan) and settings (like the miskatonic U) in common. In the Dunwich horror you follow events surrounding yog-sothoth's meddling in reality (or maybe someone's meddling with yog-sothoth). In this case the Dunwich Legacy is set after those events as kind of a follow up or resurgence.

If you want to see where they're themes might be drawn from I'd recommend reading Lovecrafts work, I'm guessing they'll be writing new stories based on those events.

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This may contain spoilers, if you can spoil something published 88 years ago.

Anything with a Dunwich theme/name also has to have a Yog-Sothoth theme. Anything else would be the equivalent of naming something Walking Dead: Legacy and not including zombies in there or setting a LOTR game in the Shire and not having Hobbits there.

I suspect that future supplements will be themed around stories or collections of stories. That being said each story tends to be based around one GoO (although sometimes there are no goos), so the distinction I am making may be moot. Call of Cthulhu and Innsmouth both tie into Cthulhu. The King in Yellow is actually a collection of stories by Chambers around the Yellow Sign, Lost Carcosa and Hastur; Lovecraft just name checks them in one story. There are quite a few stories with Nyartholtep in them as well. Yog-sothoth also "shows up" in a few other stories.

The one that is absent is Shubie. There isn't an actual story in which it plays an overt or behind the scenes role, its usually just named checked or invoked in a chant. This can be a good thing as it gives the creators a lot more latitude, but on the other hand it also gives them less source material to draw from. For Example: The inclusion of Whipporwills in Dunwich is a nice touch. They are mentioned in the story and its a direct callback. When you don't have little elements like that to call back to, things end up appearing to be more random and less part of the world. I would be interested to see what they do there.

Shub-Niggurath gets plenty of development by other Mythos authors in the Lovecraft circle, as well as some by Lovecraft himself not writing under his own name. There should be more than enough to work with.

Cthulhu will definitely show up in an Innsmouth cycle. I expect Innsmouth to show up relatively soon.

Not sure the rules on leaks, but some details of the 2nd cycle have been spoiled. To be vague, you theory is valid into the next cycle.

9 hours ago, BD Flory said:

Shub-Niggurath gets plenty of development by other Mythos authors in the Lovecraft circle, as well as some by Lovecraft himself not writing under his own name. There should be more than enough to work with.

I would be interested in reading those. Maybe I will pick up the Shub-Niggurth cycle from Chasosium. Is there a specific story you would recommend? The internet states that Shub is developed elsewhere but is vague on where.