I have everything that's come out for Arkham so far, but i keep that all in a big organizer.

So if I pick up Return to Dunwich, Return to the Night of the Zealot, and Return to Carcosa sets what packs do i need to buy to have a complete set of needed cards for each box...

thanks

mal

29 minutes ago, Mserabian said:

I have everything that's come out for Arkham so far, but i keep that all in a big organizer.

So if I pick up Return to Dunwich, Return to the Night of the Zealot, and Return to Carcosa sets what packs do i need to buy to have a complete set of needed cards for each box...

thanks

mal

If you have everything that's come out (except for the Return To boxes), then you already have all packs you need for the Return To boxes.

The Return To boxes include about 10 or more player cards and new scenario cards for each scenario of a campaign. That's it...so you just insert your old campaign into the dividers included in each Return To box and you can play either 'original' or 'Return To'.

so if i want to keep my original set together and have a second set for return to... i'd need to rebuy it all, right?

Each return set has space and dividers for the Return encounter sets and all the sets required to play the campaign. You need one copy of the core, the deluxe expansion in question, and each mythos pack in the cycle

thanks!

that's what i thought...

Why store them separately? "Return to" is just a small amount of cards that can be swapped in each scenario. No reason to rebuy the whole cycle for that. I actually am of a mind to just always play "Return To" at this point if I have the option. It's harder on average but not that much harder and often they do fix things that felt wrong (or un-thematic) the first time around or patch things that were being exploited by the players.

Yep, just keep you ‘Return to’ cards with their relevant scenario. My Night of the Zealot and Dunwich Legacy sets have moved out of ‘general population’ with the rest of my scenario cards into their respective ‘Return to’ box.

The thing I’ve felt the need to keep buying is core sets for the original sets of encounter cards. Rather than raiding my Night of the Zealot box, I like each campaign to have their own complete set of required encounter cards, which generally seems to include the majority (if not quite all) of the core set encounter cards. As a result I have a core set per campaign now, but I minimise the cost by selling the extra player cards to friends who don’t want to buy a second core.

If you’re playing primarily ‘Return to’ versions, these do tend to reduce the need for core set encounter cards, but I don’t think Dunwich eliminates them entirely. Who knows with Carcosa, though!

Clearly, with just a little inconvenience, you don’t need to take this approach, and just reuse your single set, but I think that seems to answer the question you’re asking?

I wish there were a convenient way to match collectors who just want the encounter cards from an additional core with ones who just want the player cards.

Marvel Champions seems to be doing that by separating hero and villain packs (with each being complete decks in the box). Also that game was announced with 1 core providing a full play set of cards. So they've been listening to criticism and are improving their distribution model. Unfortunately I doubt any of that will be implemented in AH:TCG at this point.

50 minutes ago, phillos said:

Marvel Champions seems to be doing that by separating hero and villain packs (with each being complete decks in the box).

The leaked Learn to Play guide may have had some relevant information there. Does this forum support spoilers at all?

I'm not sure where or if its documented, but I'm pretty sure you can do spoilers in this forum if you manually include the [ spoiler ] and [/ spoiler ] tags.

E.g.: