I would be an owner of Arkham Horror for now, except for one blatantly obvious thing: the Horror level.

While I would be plenty content with running around punching out Cthullu, my parents would not. I flipped the idea at them and they sided against it, just to scary when their are other games out there. I don't mind a little horror now and then, but not having my parents play decreases the number of players from 4-5 to 2-3.

This isn't meant to be an insult or reprimand to FFG, they made the game to its target audience and I don't fit there. And its sad.

Oh well. No sense moping anymore.

I'm kinda confused why this is in Fan Creations :S

Sorry to hear you can't get Arkham Horror, but respect for respecting your parents. A lot of people don't and it often ends up going wrong somewhere further down the line.

If the cooperative aspect is your draw for Arkham, maybe try pitching Pandemic or Shadows Over Camelot. You might even want to ask your parents to play.

One of my religious friends was forced to burn his Magic the Gathering collection because his mom said QUOTE: "Evil was emanating from his closet".

Yep that was the last time I went to his house.

My cousin was raised in a non pokemon (show) or football family. He now has to get shoulder surgery thanks to baseball.

One of my friends wasn't allowed to play DnD because it has false deities...so we would lie and say we were playing a Lord of the Rings RPG...his aunt accepted that because Tolkien was a religious man...

Take a good look at the human psyche and you will discover we indulge on the things we are told are bad or forbidden.

Granted some things are never appropriate for kids like GTA, MW2, and naughty sites...but Arkham Horror? REALLY?!!

This may be an insult to H.P., but I concider Arkham a comedy like Scooby Doo. Or Rocky Horror. Or Twilight Zone. Some people need to let go of the chains that bind them. I always found it funny that I was looked at as the weird person for being a non believer in faith...yet these onlookers believe in extraordinary events on par and just as out of this world as Lovecraft's mythos.

Hope I wasn't too personal.

@Ebonrock: The fact that I am playing off the victimizing of myself makes it a fan creation....something about Plato and the philosophies known to man. Just kidding. It's a fan creation because I'm a noob to FFG forums and don't know where it should go. Sorry.

@Jake yet again: We've got Pandemic, and it's one of my/our favorites. Oddly enough my father often goes into spiels about how he prefers "this kind of game" (co-op) to other games because you aren't tearing each other down, etc. Haven't played SoC, I'm trying to borrow it from another family, but things are going slowly.

@Curator: My bad, I did make it sound like they are trying to shelter me from evil influences, but it's not really that way.(or at least I don't see it that way) I'm allowed to pretty much do what I want with myself and my money, but I'm figuring that slicing the player count in half makes it not worth the money for me. Especially since I don't have a job (I'm 16, so not a 32year-old Mom's basement gamer.......yet) and have yet to get Shadows over Camelot, Ghost Stories, or Battlestar Galactica.

While my family is rather religous, it's not a demons-will-kill-your-dog-if-you-play-that-game kind of thing. Thanks for the comi-tragedy stories, though.

Ya, I'll probably work through acquiring the other games on my list and then get Arkham if I find money burning a hole in my pocket. Probably a little after Christmas.

Gotta run! Playing Thurn and Taxis with my Mom!

Thanks Guys!

Yeah I kind of got the impression from his post that Cthulhu just wasn't to his parents taste. But I do understand where you're coming from Curator. I was a preachers kid so I've seen my fill of that kind of attitude. I find it rather easy to deal with though, not only are people with that attitude few and far between these days it helps that you can point to the classic major detractors of gaming like Jack Chick, Pat Pulling and Bill Schnoebelen and show that they are demonstrateably insane.

Hmmm......So, is there a way to compare horrorocity? Cause I deciced to postpone buying it off of a snap judgement from the cover art and website feel. Is that false? Is FFG trying to beef up the horror theme through those?

So, perhaps comparisons are in order. I haven't played Last Night on Earth, but I've drooled over it enough(researched it on the web) to know it's way too scary for me. So that might serve as a benchmark, as well as anything else you can think of.

Or maybe I should just by the game instead of going to all this trouble.

Sorry to say, but I don't get references to people. I live in a cave and don't watch football.

Veet said:

Now now, let's not judge, they might not be demonstrably insane, they might just be possessed by demons ;'D (FYI, I got that accusation from my parents, kind of, it was a Dybbuk in my case, I just laughed and laughed and laughed).

starwars8 said:

http://www.arkhamhorrorwiki.com/Main_Page

Go there, click around, read some of the encounters there. All text from the game is there, so you can get a good idea of what's in the game if you're willing to spend the time.

Hey, thanks! I'll check it out.

I checked out the encounters, and they don't seem too bad. Slightly creepy, as oppossed to zombie creepy.

But I have found a solution! There's a board game store that I can rent Arkham from, 4 bucks for 10 days, so that's what I'll do.

starwars8 said:

Well... If you'll only have it for ten days, make sure you don't try learning it once you get it. Try this. I haven't watched it myself, but I hear it's pretty good.

No offence but how old are you? Because if it turns out you are really really young, and we've all basically said "Oh go for it, it's not so bad" I fear your parents will kill us.

Of course if you are in your teens or such, then this might be the perfect opportunity to demonstrate how grown up you are to you parents and such.

The game isn't really scary, it's just based on scary things.

I say buy it, and blu-tack a My Little Pony Boardgame cover to the box, then when you are playing, insist that is what you are playing.

@Avi-dreader: Thanks for the tip and video. I won't be near the store until Christmas, so I've got plenty of time.

@Ebonrock: Ha, no offense taken. I'm 16.

Curator said:

Sorry for the out-of-topic answer.

these stories are extremely interesting and at the same time quite strange from an oversea point of view. Although I do love US (and lived there for several years while enjoyed it a lot), there are some extreme (religious?) behaviors that I still cannot understand (I mean really understand :-).

Seriously, I don't really understand this kind of attitude myself, but then, I'm far removed from any kind of religion. I suppose, certain video games and movies may promote some kind of extreme action-reaction in certain individuals, , but that's because visual stimulation is usually more affecting. As for board games, addiction may be the only negative side effect, if you can call it thus.It's a sort of escapism, but I don't view it as dangerous.

I've browsed through a similar topic on the Descent boards about a seemingly adult guy who was afraid to buy the game, because he read that one of the players has to be assigned the role of the evil overlord and he was scared that this kind of role-playing might turn him into a demon. I mean, come on, this is the 21st century.

Just to clarify, my group/family/parents don't fit into the overzealous religionists category. We've all read Harry Potter, it was quite the rage in our family for a while. Their/mine/our stance is There's enough crepy things in the newspaper, why fill our relaxation time with it when we can avoid it?

There's a point between entertainingly suspenseful and horror, and I'm trying to find where AH fits on the scale.

Ya follow?

But ya, there's nuts everywhere who seem to enjoy telling others what is "proper" for a "true Christian" to do, watch, or play.

zealot12 said:

My favorite response when confronted about those kinds of dangers in gaming was "I know this stuff isn't real, do you?". Kind of turns it all around.

@starwars8: Arkham Horror really is more an action thriller game than horror. The name and source material not withstanding.

That's good to hear. I'd rather have my character blazing away with a tommy gun than hiding in a cornfield.

Curator said:

Okay, this statement makes zero sense, especially on this topic. Your cousin getting a shoulder injury in baseball was caused by not watching pokemon or football? Baseball players are still athletes, and they still stress their bodies, and they are still required to train and work out. Care to explain how watching football mysteriously protects you from injury? Does your television exude an protective energy field?

- Gio

If you're watching football you aren't playing baseball?

Gio said:

I'm a little surprised you said that when you looked into Last Night on Earth that it was too scary for you. I've brought that out several times at my gaming group and everyone thinks it's a riot. If anything, I think it's more humor/teamwork/survival game with a B grade zombie movie theme, which to me at least is far from scary.

Maybe it's just a personal taste thing.