I'd like to get some more info about the Arkham Nights event from those who went there, specifically about the roundtable discussion with Kevin Wilson and Richard Launius and the other guy from FFG. Were there any questions asked/answered about future expansions? About a collector's edition? Anything interesting discussed??

Ill second that. Dont tell me you guys let them get away without a total grilling!

I will field this question as well as I can. Unfortunately, I didn't take any sort of notes, a decision for which I am now kicking myself. I will be posting a detailed event report of the whole affair, and it was very good. Aside from some scheduling issues inevitable to gaming conventions, Fantasy Flight's customer service is unparalleled.

Other than the questions you just posed, is there anything else you can think of we might have asked him? I suppose also I might have asked you guys for questions before going, but I was probably too starstruck to ask any of them...

To answer your burning questions there, there was no mention of future expansions or collector's editions. Their lips were pretty tightly sealed about any such things. Although, as one fan put it, "Fantasy Flight Games never does expansions."

The other designer was Tim Uren, who was very influential in developing later expansions of AH, as well as Mansions of Madness.

Kevin Wilson's favorite investigator is Ashcan Pete. Kevin and Richard were both very fond of Wilson Richards (as you might expect), as they created him as the investigator who starts with everything an investigator should need. Apparently, Richard's gaming group hates having encounters.

They are very fond of Cthulhu and Ghatanothoa as far as Ancient Ones go.

Kevin indeed mentioned that if he could go back and do something over, he would take a closer look at balancing spells, but that he is very happy with how it all turned out.

flamethrower49 said:

Thanks much for the update. So I guess I'm wondering if it was just them talking, or if there was a Q&A period. And if so, I'd be surprised if nobody asked the questions about more expansions or a collector's edition. I would think those things would be on the minds of a lot of AH junkies, but then again, maybe that's just the AH junkies who post on these forums and not necessarily those in general. It also wouldn't surprise me, though, if, having been asked those questions, they declined to answer.

Though to be fair, "what will the next expansion be like?" is probably a question they never stop hearing. They've already put out 7 expansions. They could put out 17 expansions and people will still be asking, "what's next?"

Oh, you can bet we asked them about expansions. But they just didn't say anything about them.

There was a Q&A session after they finished talking about the design in general. It was really neat to hear them talk about it, and extremely cool of them to come around to do it.

Gah! You mean the entire mob let them get away with it?!! Call yourself investigators?!!? What about body language, did noone look for the tells - the twitches, the itchy noses, the swirling vistas of pure chaos behind their eyes?

Telling me no-one there was at least a lil bit psychic?