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After we finish a game, my fiance and I enjoy making silly one or two paragraph stories out of our bananagram boards. Simply use all of your own banagram words and as few additional words as possible. Compete for the funniest, or most interesting story!

A simple house rule I immediately put into effect with this expansion:

When sanity/stamina is reduced to 0, investigator -must- draw from the appropriate madness/injury deck rather than choose to discard half of his items.

Justification:
First off, Arkham is a theme game and I believe the madness/injury cards make a great deal of sense for playing in the Cthulhu universe. You’ll certainly see them if you play the Call of Cthulhu RPG. Honestly I (almost) enjoy pulling a madness card because they are generally interesting and give the character flavor. For example, a favorite is “Drug Addiction: Must pay one dollar every upkeep or receive 0 focus.” Clever.

Secondly, being able to choose to discard half your items I believe is a cheap “out.” Have zero items? Have more-or-less useless items? Often (I’m not saying always, but often) I wouldn’t blink at losing half-round-down my items. Plus, it just doesn’t make sense. What I dropped them on my way to the hospital?