WHEN YOU WISH TO USE ONLY PARTS OF THE DIFFERENT EXPANSIONS, THE RULES INDICATE THAT YOU CAN EASILY COMBINE ANCIENT ONES, INVESTIGATORS, INVESTIGATOR CARDS, ETC. HOWEVER, CAN YOU JUST AS EASILY COMBINE ALL THE MONSTERS IF YOU WISH. FOR INSTANCE YOU WISH TO PLAY THE COMBINED ARKHAM AND KINGSPORT VERSION, CAN YOU INCLUDE MONSTER, FROM INNSMOUTH AND DUNWICH?

Erm, yes. That goes for Black Goat too.

Contrary to what I said in the past, each set of monsters ties with its expansion in a thematic way (for the most part). Innsmouth and Black Goat are the extreme examples.

Innsmouth and Kingsport offer aquatic monsters. If you're not using either of those boards, then this special movement type will never occur (since the only two aquatic Arkham locations are River Docks and Unvisited Isle) but there is absolutely nothing restricting you from freely combining expansion monsters into any game you like.

Tibs said:

Yes it will, it can move from the Docks to the Isle and back

I always keep all monsters in the cup, too.

Yeah, I deliberately chose "never" to indicate that it's not going to happen, even though it can in theory.

There would have to be:

1. An aquatic monster on Unvisited Isle. This is plausible.
2. No investigator in that monster's space. This is highly likely. But...
3. An investigator in the River Docks. Now who ever, EVER goes there?

Even with the two aquatic boards out and the full set of monsters, I still only rarely see aquatic movement.

Tibs said:

Lol! In about 45 games I've played, I've seen maybe two times an investigator move to the docks

in my next game I'm going to make it my top priority to take a trip to the river docks

In the very rare instances that I find myself with nothing useful to do I do my best to have encounters at locations where I rarely visit - like the docks. I also try encounters at locations where I'm using the special ability 99% of the time (shops).

Back to the original poster, I'd say you paid your money so you can mix things in how you like.

I'd say as a minimum add all monsters and all new items.

Krawhitham said:

::Laughter:: that's what you think. If you pick and choose components, the Arkham Police will bust down your doors and shoot your boards until they are all dead. Beware!

Avi_dreader said:

Do you think I'm scard of Deputy Dingby? He would shoot himself in the foot before he had even left the station.

A guy whose ability is that his gun goes off randomly is a pretty scary guy.

Agreed, it's very rare.

Er. I meant to hit the quote button. To clarify, aquatic movement is very rare.