Hello all! I'm about to jump in and buy Arkham Horror. I see that a new printing of the game is forthcoming. There are two copies, both marked "Revised Printing", available in my local shop. Does the upcoming printing have any differences or corrections to copies currently available in the store?

Ludomaniac said:

I think it's just the reprinting of the "usual" game. There are some slight differences - I think - between the first release and the fllowing ones, but it should be something belonging to the past

The "Revised" edition has an updated rule booklet, (mine has version 1.1, and I suspect the latest printing has version 1.2).

Also, in 1.1 they Eratta'd a few of the small cards. The lantern, the spell Flesh Ward, and The Healing Stone (I think). Origionally in Dunwich Horror, they provided reprints of these cards to replace the ones from the original game. With the first reprint (and second I would assume) of the origional game they included the revised cards.

Lastly (at least that I know of) the origional printing of the game had a diferent style of the plastic investigator base.

I would be willing to bet, the only thing different between the current "revised" copies your FLGS has and the forthcoming ones would be the 1.2 rule booklet. (which you can get onlone anyway)

I hope you enjoy the game, I know I do....now if I could just get my wife to play it.......

-J

Thank you both for your responses. I will pick up a copy this weekend. I remember seeing the original Arkham Horror listed in Chaosium catalogs, but I couldn't afford it at the time. I'm looking forward to trying it out.