We are having a Call of Cthulhu Regional tournament on Saturday, June 12th @ the Compleat Strategist in NYC (212) 685-3880 to register (plug, plug) and we are wondering: Is the Secrets of Arkham fair game for deck construction? What about the new story cards? Can players use them if they want to? My gut says, YES you can use the play cards and, YES you can use the story cards IF both players agree.

Is there an official ruling?

Got a ruling from FFG: Secrets of Arkham CARDS are fine, but they don't want the story card deck in play.

That's weird because the sheet included in Secrets of Arkham says that the story cards are the official ones for the 2010 season.

Yes - that does seem strange! But, as they say, Rules are Rules.

I got this by phone from FFG. They said the new story cards would be used at GenCon but they prefer if they were not used in the local regionals. Ours is not to reason why, ours is just to slowly go mad as we contemplate the unending horror of the outer void.

Just to inform you, the whole Secret block will not b included in the legal format for the French Nationals : The pack is not yet in shelves in the french edition and we're only a bunch friends to have it ordered from US. So, no Secrets of Arkham allowed for our event !

Hmm. We've been given the go-ahead to use Secrets of Arkham CARDs but no STORY CARDS.