Check them out ! FFG will release them later this year, if the promo is to be believed.

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=1488

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/545514/resin-domain-markers-fall-2010

Some nice artwork, but at $60 to cover your minimum three domains I don't think these are going to sell well for that purpose.

Twenty Dollars is what the original stone domain markers sold for way back in CoC Collectable Card Game history.

I think I may still prefer them to this nice Resin domain, because the new design is so 'busy'.

But you KNOW I will purchase at least one Cthulhu resin domain marker.

If FFG go ahead and make a resin domain for each of the seven factions, I'll be excited to get one of each.

chicklewis said:

I agree. I mean, yeah the game is Call of Cthulhu, but I would really prefer to mark my domains with the visage of Yog-Sothoth instead. But, like you, I'd probably just end up blowing a paycheck on the seven factions.

How ought the human factions be handled, I wonder? Police station for the Agency, campus building for the University, and speakeasy for the Syndicate?

Twenty-one resin markers, three per faction, like that great cthulhu, would cost me a willing $420. But how can that ever be? Thrones had one or two stone markers, the Martells maybe, and another. To extrapolate seven faction scenes is sheer madness. Shriek! I will not have it! Just kidding. There were four of seven factional stone domains. Never officially finished. The felt tokens are rarities. Admittedly, cool cthulhu is honking! It would get in the way, cutting like the iron throne, while you strain over the monument to see your cards. Still, three please. R'yleh is great, though perhaps too uniform. I might like a flat carven image for domains. The announcement is ambigous about its use as a domain or drain token. How would you drain cthulhu? Just toss a marker on R'yleh, I guess.

They said it was a two part marker, so I'm guessing the big guy is not attached to the basic plate.

That's a shame. If he were affixed as the photo seems to suggest, it would make a fantastic cosplay prop.

Evil Jim said:

I am a fairly fanatical collector but even I will probably balk at that price. That is pretty ridiculous.

johnny shoes said:

If you look closely at the marker, it appears that the Cthulhu statuette rests upon (and can presumably be removed from) a square groove set into the base.

Shoes wrote: "There were four of seven factional stone domains. Never officially finished. "

Almost right, there were five, missing Agency and Yog, probably because undyed stone which is blue or purple is VERY expensive.

Well, we know, in a now infamous feigned insane rage, Chick disappeared for some time between CCG and LCG. And we suspect from the blue and purple rocks he displayed upon his improbable return that he had indeed been somewhere distant, blue, purple, and loathsome. The two (my error, not three) priceless missing domain markers he apparently mined only served to feed the long held rumors that he conspired to ensnare the unsuspecting. It is alarmingly alleged that he himself forged the very first Yuggoth Contract. None dare guess these domains' cost. Indeed, it may have yet to be paid.

We wanted new domain cards and they gave us this ...

Imagine a set of ten different domain cards... high quality print (even better than our cards...) for maybe 10 or 15 bucks. And now compare this to this clunky domain plastic piece they are offering us.

FFG made a lot of good decisions for their LCG but this one I cannot understand.

mischraum.de said:

I'm tempted to agree. We already have our Cthulhu markers, and while this Cthulhu is most certainly more detailed, it offers nothing that the existing markers do not. Especially since most people are looking for a cheap, efficient means of tracking their domains, and this is neither cheap nor efficient. It's expensive and unwieldy.

It looks like the statue turns: Faces forward, then turns to side when resource gets drained. Cthulhu is cthulhu. Its a cool image for the game.

This is kind of a miss for me, almost too much for a card game. Im scratching my head about where it would go though with other factions. Yog? shug? ok, I can see those as resins, but Miskatonic? or Syndicate? I dunno about a giant gangster or school teacher. I may lose games cause every time the resource gets drained, I'd laugh, especially three giant professors beetle browing me every turn..

Id have liked a flat one, like AGoT style, more...like just the faction image. That would be cooler IMHO. <shrug>

More likely, the trend toward resin cthulhus is connected. There were three in core, the bag of cthulhu, the larger cthulhus, now the awesome domain monster, which is very much the best of them all. Seven flat rectangular factional reliefs of classic illustrations would be amazing.

johnny shoes said:

Do you mean something like the bas relief from The Call of Cthulhu ? That would be outstanding, though again, what would you do with the human factions?

No, just lots of random cthulhus popping up aligned with the game, but not directly card related. This one is a rectangle like a domain, so has cred.

The deck box was great. That leather cthulhu box was great. Those felt faction pieces of old were nice enough. And this too is cool, and not very two dimensional.

I'll probably pick one of these up when it becomes available, tho' for my mantle, not my deck. The markers that came with my set are just the right size for play.

Somehow I doubt they'll manufacture these huge resin markers for every faction. Cthulhu does have his own faction in the game but he is also largely representative of Lovecraft's mythos in general, which is why he's our domain marker included with the core set.

A nice resin bust of Lovecraft however, would be appropriate all around.

Evil Jim said:

That's what I'd do if I had the room. For use in the game it appears to be too unwieldy. I prefer the domain cards from the CCG days which I managed to get hold of.

There's also supposed to be a set of domain cards given away at Arkham Nights in October, is there not?