I'm thinking about picking up this expansion but I had a few questions.

1. Can anyone show mathmatically or anecdotally that the dilution issue with Dunwich and Innsmouth was fixed?

2. Do people get Cult Memberships now?

3. Does it have more gate cards for the Other World on Dunwich and Innsmouth?

4. Does it have more Kingsport, Dunwich and Innsmouth location cards?

Thanks to anyone that wants to answer these!

LordZon said:

1: As I do not have a card list and would have to sort out the cards from my pile to answer this I can't give you the numbers but I can say that all the mythos cards that open gates in this expansion will open them in Dunwich or Innsmouth if they are in play.

2: I have not yet played with Black Goat and MH. There are new ways of joining the cult, each expansion board is given a single encounter as is one of the otherworlds, lots of cult encounters allow others to join and there is a skill that allows you to join when drawn I'm not sure how this battles dilution but they are there.

3: Since Innsmouth does not have Otherworlds I'm forced to assume you meant Kingspotrt and yes, every single otherworld card has at least one encounter for an expansion otherworld often for otherworlds from both.

4: Yes.....Oh god yes, there are a ton of them.

Veet said:

I can confirm.

1. There are 43 new mythos cards. 3 are double doom/no gate, 4 are Strange Sightings!, and the remaining 36 are a new type of gate icon- an either/or gate. 20 of them open a gate in Innsmouth if it is in play, if not, it opens a gate in Arkham; 16 open a gate in Dunwich if it is in play, if not, it opens a gate in Arkham. With all the mythos cards available, perhaps this does not entirely fix dilution, but it at least increases the odds of a Dunwich or Innsmouth gate.

2. There are no new Arkham Location cards, so the odds of joining the cult during one of those encounters remains the same. The cult encounters as well as the new Initiate skill increase the odds a bit. In Dunwich, there is one encounter where you can join- at Wizard's Hill; in Innsmouth, there is one encounter where you can join- at Y'ha-nthlei; in Kingsport, there is one encounter where you can join- at Congregational Hospital. There is also one Other World encounter at Another Time where you are able to join the cult. Many of the other Black Goat encounters give you added benefit if you have a cult membership or deal with corruption.

3. Every gate card has a Dunwich or Kinsport expansion symbol on it. So yes, every gate card in MH has an encounter at one of those other worlds. Some gate cards have BOTH expansion symbols on them, in which case they have encounters at other worlds from BOTH expansions.

4. There are 20 new location encounters for each expansion neighborhood: 60 total for Dunwich (3 neighborhoods), 80 total for Kingsport (4 neighborhoods), and 60 total for Innsmouth (3 neighborhoods).