Arkham Horror - Tips & Strategies

When we are taking the area cards, we pass it to our next friend so they can read out loud to provide a nice atmosphere for every other player and whatever happens in the card they`ll just know what happens if the investigator pass/not pass the skill check depending on its skill check result. We use to read everything out loud and slowly to make things even more interesting too.

When going into random encounters, you’re going to need Luck far more than you’ll need Lore. Keep Luck as high as you can, and only pump up the Lore when you know you’re going to need it that turn.

In the general rules, it is stated that clue tokens can be used to roll addition dice for skill checks. This excludes using clue tokens for rolls on anything else, such as blessing/curse checks, retainer checks, bank loans, and certain mythos events. For those rolls, you only get one chance, and that’s it.

The extended clue token house rule simply allows a clue token to be used to roll a die in these circumstances; one clue token for one roll of the die, but it must be done one at a time (no spending multiple clue tokens to select the result you want). Be warned: this rule will make blessing and curses much easier to deal with, so it can alter the difficult of the game significantly.

In games that I host, we usually pull out all of the Rumor mythos cards and play without them (especially in small games). I find they are more of a distraction from the story than an interesting challenge and they make the game less fun.

While having physical weapons is good there are a lot of physically immune monsters but relatively few magically immune ones. This makes shopping at the Curiositie Shoppe generally a better idea than the General Store.

My group and I are always looking to up the difficulty on Arkham Horror, especially when playing the base game. I noticed that the game has 20 doom tokens. The longest doom track possible is 14 and the rules state that you have to seal 6 gates to win. Now, you can never have a full doom track and 6 sealed gates at the same time, so you always have one extra doom token. So I thought: why not make it a house rule to have 7 sealed gates to win, instead of 6? Sure enough, it makes the game a bit more difficult, and we never run out of tokens (Once we won with 7 sealed gates and 13 on the doom track).

This is a silly house rule, but sometimes it’s the silly little things in life that make it worth living, no?

This House Rule adds a minor additional punishment for a player having his character Devoured, and adds a Drinking Game Component to the game. Simply put: Any character who is devoured (and thus will force said player to create a new character), the owner of said player must take a Shot of liquor… oh but not just any shot. The key is to find the most odd/foul/noxious beverages that can be found for dirt cheap in an ABC Store (We’ve used Pickle Juice Vodka) and just have it sitting in a corner… waiting… taunting. The horror… the horror!

This Rule adds an additional “Uumph!” to already cruel fate of having your character devoured, and it can be an excellent in the expansions, when you add in Madness and Injury Cards- as a character can survive onwards, but the Devoured’s Draught punishment is still in play- so should a player keep sustaining Madness cards, they’re actually going to be affecting their own real time sanity as well!

*This rule also helps to add a small appeal for the Social/Casual Gamer who might be more willing to try this game out as well!

A large number of players complain about very long games. But the problem occurs when players are sealing gates. Then Mythos Card are still bouncing from Elder Sign seals. It is why nothing speciall happen, and game could be boring. Better choice is to only close gates conserve clue tokens for fight with Ancient One, and from the beginning of the game prepare for Final Battle, which is very interesting with Epic Battle Cards from Kingsport Expansion.

Uma dica importante no jogo é: Sempre que um portal (ou mais de um portal ao mesmo tempo, dependendo da expansão com a qual estiver jogando) abrir, tenha um jogador disponível e pré-disposto a entrar no portal.

Muitos jogadores ficam acovardados ao querer explorar um portal (principalmente se está com pouca vitalidade e sanidade), mas às vezes ao entrar em portais você pode ter a sorte de pegar uma carta que lhe dê dinheiro, itens únicos, magia ou itens comuns… ou até mesmo passar sem acontecer nada no local.

Já ocorreu em um jogo em que eu jogava de um jogador passar totalmente ileso 2 vezes (sim duas vezes) pelo reino do Abismo (!!!). Sim, foi uma baita sorte mas aconteceu, isso sem ele fazer sequer uma única rolagem de dados.

That is all.