Avi_dreader said:

Funny, I was just talking about how students in my wife's elementary school cannot be held back a grade without parental consent. This, ultimately, does not help the "stupid American" stereotype.

Speaking of undervalued characters, have anyone anything to say about Tony Morgan?

I manage the Bureau's Asian Language Program...here's a joke that stings a bit...

What do you call someone who can operate in three languages? Trilingual

What do you call someone who can operate in two languages? Bilingual

What do you call someone who can operate in on language? an American

The Professor said:

Sadly, I wish this were not the case. I know only English. There is no need, where I live, to learn a second language. Spanish may come in handy once in a rare while here.

First things first, I guess.

I know 3 languages.

Russian - because I live in part of country very close to Russia and everyone speaks russian here.

Ukrainian - because it's my native language.

And English - because from my deepest childhood I was playing games. And at this childhood games didn't get localized in our country so I was forced to learn english. It served me well. Now I'm playing games only on english and watch movies and tv series on english most of times purposely to keep some level.

The Professor said:

It's a good one, Professor ::laughter:: It reminds me to a very similar (but with a slighty different unsaid meaning) British joke:

"If a person is bilingual, then his other language is English.
If a person speaks only one language, then he is English"

::rofling::

Tibs said:

Stupid americans? So wut if i can't speak nothing but english we got all the guns and Jesus on our side!!1!

Now if you'll excuse me I must get back to watching Nascar while quaffing the rest of my Bud Lite.

arkhamresident said:

You're an imposter. No American uses the word "quaffing."

Swedish joke: Why is Bud Lite like sex in a canoe? Because it's ******* near water.

avec said:

I was going to call him out as an impostor on the grounds of using "excuse me" ;') well, there you have it.

Ok, folks. Check the thread title once again, and then check what are you posting there.

avec said:

::laughter::

Tangents are the tenet of the Arkham Horror forums. Also it's a sign that we're out of ideas.

Or maybe we're just talking about how Americans are the most undervalued characters ever.

Tibs said:

All we need is a new Expansion to argue about!

I wonder why they haven't done any Print on Demand (or whatever it's called) expansions yet that just feature new Investigators, AOs, Items, ect.?

Master Fwiffo said:

My two cents on this point... I don't think is as easy as for other games creating POD content for Arkham. I mean, at the moment we have adventures written for Mansions, two expansion packs of cards for Space Hulks, and a card deck for the LotR LCG. I cannot say anything regarding Space Hulks, but I play on regular basis the other games and this kind of expansion shouldn't be that difficult to design.

In Arkham we don't have things like adventure packs or similar that can be so easily designed (let me specify that I'm not implying that designing any game is easy, but: Mansions has such a huge potential that infinite adventures can be designed without replaying the same Scenario, and all LCG have expansion packs released monthly, so one more shouldn't be that heavy burden). On the other hand, releasing a bunch of 4 or 5 AOs or investigators possibly is not as much interesting as selling new "regular" expansions.

I think in the future we'll see many POD projects, but none of them related directly to Arkham Horror. Or, at least, as long as the series sell so well

I think perhaps the main issue with PODs is theme. Sure, they could just create "Arkham Horror Unique/Common Item Expansion," but it wouldn't be compelling theme-wise. Thus, you would have to find something that sort of fits the stuff together. On the other hand, they might feel like creating a POD with a particular theme would be to cheat themselves out of making a small-box with the same theme.

Although, by that logic, we should have at least one more small-box on the horizon by this point (I'm guessing, anyway). Hmm...it's an interesting situation, because profit-wise, any sort of expansion is bound to be a good move. As soon as they announced it, it would be trumpeted all around this forum (and I suspect elsewhere), and they'd get a lot of people buying it. Perhaps they want to make sure to give themselves time to make any potential expansions the best they can be (and hopefully to do more tests for balance so we don't get another Patrice or Bureau of Investigators). That's certainly a noble motivation, but if that's the case, I would like to at least know what's going on....

If we get a small-box, I really want either At the Mountains of Madness or Whisperer in Darkness to be the theme.

Master Fwiffo said:

I don't think Mountains would work as a small-box. You'd need a new place to travel to. The entire game could take place in Antarctica.

Likewise with Whisperer: you'd need a Vermont location. Someone made Vermont Horror, which includes a board. Go check it out.

I don't like small boxes because they don't contain new invests'n'aos.

Tibs said:

Not necessarily!

ATMOM could revolve around the expedition launching and then returning, with something bad happening when it returns (think that one Mythos card). Rather than going to the Mountains of Madness, you'd be talking to the participants and dealing with whatever elder horrors they accidently brought back.

As for Whisperer, while the story takes place in Vermont, Arkham isn't bound by the stories rules. You could have a similar plotline take place in Arkham.

After all, the King in Yellow didn't take place in Arkham either.

Tibs said:

Vermont and Horror aren't usually words that I see together. It makes me think of Ben and Jerry's for some reason.

(I've seen the board. It's nice work.)

Master Fwiffo said:

This is a good point. Whenever someone suggests a MoM big box, I get hung up on how to design a board expansion that doesn't make absurd claims about how long it takes to travel to Antarctica (to say nothing of having an interesting variety of locations and encounters and so on), but they could completely just pull a Dark Pharaoh instead.

As for PoD stuff, I'd actually be most interested a few new institutions (but, you know, good ones) and the associated materials (and maybe also a Herald or some more revised base set AOs or even more investigators (revised or otherwise--new Patrice anyone?))

avec said:

Being a former Vermonter, I can say I haven't seen that much Horror ::laughter:: but I like Ben & Jerry too, so... ::laughter::

Julia said:

Julia said:

Wait. Did I know this?