My Newbie Question Thread

By DQuartermane, in Arkham Horror Second Edition

Greetings!,

I am a newbie to the FFG forums as well as to AH as well. I just picked it up a couple of weeks ago and so have only got to play it a couple times solo. And as such I have a few questions if you veterans wouldn't mind. Now I have looked around and some of these I think I have figured out but I am wanting some confirmation. I have looked around here and on Board Game Geek for my questions but have had no luck. Thanks in advance to everyone.

1. Silver Key-It says take token from the bank, this is referring to the ones not in play correct?

2. Monster Limit/Outskirts-If I defeat a monster in Arkham, does any of the monsters from the Outskirts come into town?

I can't remember the rest but I will add to this later when I come up with it.

DQuartermane

DQuartermane said:

Greetings!,

I am a newbie to the FFG forums as well as to AH as well. I just picked it up a couple of weeks ago and so have only got to play it a couple times solo. And as such I have a few questions if you veterans wouldn't mind. Now I have looked around and some of these I think I have figured out but I am wanting some confirmation. I have looked around here and on Board Game Geek for my questions but have had no luck. Thanks in advance to everyone.

1. Silver Key-It says take token from the bank, this is referring to the ones not in play correct?

2. Monster Limit/Outskirts-If I defeat a monster in Arkham, does any of the monsters from the Outskirts come into town?

I can't remember the rest but I will add to this later when I come up with it.

DQuartermane

Welcome to the Carnival DQuartermane!

Anyway, to answer your questions.

1) Yes, place any token not in use on the Silver Key. Closed markers work well for this purpose.

2) Nope, any monsters in the Outskirts stay there, unless of course the Outskirts limit is surpassed in which they are returned to the cup and the terror level shoots up by one.

Thanks for the welcome and the answers mi-go hunter. Going to dive into a game right now!

On the tokens: it helps us to just find a token type that isn't getting any use (and may not even be from Arkham Horror) and use it for any of the cards that say "place (token) on this card." Prevents some confusion. We usually use Power tokens from Lurker, or if we're using the Lurker herald, we just get out some mini poker chips I have and use those.

Sdrolion said:

On the tokens: it helps us to just find a token type that isn't getting any use (and may not even be from Arkham Horror) and use it for any of the cards that say "place (token) on this card." Prevents some confusion. We usually use Power tokens from Lurker, or if we're using the Lurker herald, we just get out some mini poker chips I have and use those.

we usually use the yellow sign tokens as they're **** nice looking. when needing more, the eihort ones are only used against one ancient one and they come in tons. i recommend them.