Arkham Horror 3E

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Character creation — The absence of character creation in the base box is noted as a significant feature.
• dice pool — A dice pool system is used, with the number of dice potentially decreasing due to health loss.

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Quotes (from this video)

• Gotta shoot for shoot for the moon if you miss you'll wind up with the Stars
• I don't know man I mean it's just like when somebody wants to like get all up in my uh area and and and like and like I said I'm trying to give him empathy and saying I understand you know you have a shitty day a lot of people are like probably all up in your uh uh business about it
• It's just like instead of you could just come up with so many real reasons why why that guy's just an idiot and what's my what's my expression I don't know what's your you have enough ammunition stop trying to load a knife into the chamber
• The convention hall was just so so let me let me ask for I'll ask you how did Saturday feel I didn't I didn't really see it much
• My favorite part of John Conan was this year my hug
• I I love and hate you all in equal my favorite Jenna my favorite line that I've used that I stole from you and I've used it dozens of times is I used to have a friend that look just like you
• I don't know he's got he said he's got a fever and he's got sore throat hopefully he hopefully it's mild
• I was like you know what you know you know what really chaps my ass I'm just G to say this right now this really chapped my ass and I I I realize this is political and I apologize for it and and I'm willing to let people say say what they want to say but you know I think that Donald Trump Trump is a complete and total [ __ ] [ __ ] and I think that JD Vance guy is a complete and total [ __ ] [ __ ] as well and there is in a world where I would vote for either of them I wouldn't put them in charge of a 25 cent pay toilet
• It's like you know like wrestlers who come out and just say you know what I was driving into Minneapolis Minnesota that's where we're from yeah just like he said the name we're in the city we're in it's just it's just and so what it does then is that it gives the people that like are are are gonna vote for them it gives them all of the like ammunition in the world to say those idiots blah blah blah couch jokes you know it's just like instead of you could just come up with so many real reasons why why that guy's just an idiot
• I mean you guys pay attention to me but nobody else wrong again SC okay by the way also Twitter I hate that site
• I mean you guys told everybody to f off and they did and now you're suing them because they like what world is this now I don't know if anything they did is illegal not not a lawyer yeah but uh I suspect they probably didn't really do anything illegal in my just observations I don't know they're like oh so much has come to light I'm like huh really
• So Scott we we really need to do that well I forgot what you sent me the the lifetime VIP oh lifetime badge didn't we try to do a lifetime v no we just need we just need Gen Con hot games room VIPs for life bch
• There's a lot of games those see did anyone see the game it was there just demo I think um String Theory I saw it yeah that thing looks ridiculous it's basically there are it's they're hex tiles with these like spools on them I see it and you get actual string and you string together uh all these conspiracy theories
• I was like I'm not gonna play it probably so oh the big bucks yeah it was it was a definitely like i i i i i 50 bucks for a car I hesitate to say this it's a steep hill I hesitate to say this if if I had seen Ted there I would have tried tooo him first TR trade yeah and then I would have felt bad about like I don't know just you would have got over it
• I mean you know when I think about it the booth that was ridiculous for us from my my booth they had so many games at the end of the C they had to pack back up and take home
• I mean you know it's like oh yeah we you know we offered to pay more we offered this with that and just like yeah nothing you can do like you'd think there was only one convention in America it's crazy
• I mean you know it's like oh I I I I I I 50 bucks for a car I hesitate to say this it's a steep hill I hesitate to say this if if I had seen Ted there I would have tried tooo him first TR trade yeah and then I would have felt bad about like I don't know just you would have got over it
• People are still going to get really really sick from it and people are going to get really are going to you know die from it as well right but it is one of the nice things about viruses is that you know viruses are with us forever is that they do you know as they mutate and change and whatever you know our bodies adapt and and and grow more used to fighting it because you're just get exposed to it you get exposed to it you get exposed to it just except when long Co would hit you w you know you're believe everything you read
• they're hex tiles with these like spools on them
• you get actual string and you string together all these conspiracy theories
• sold out every day fairly quickly
• how's your hand he's like it really started to cramp up
• The Cat In The Box hat they had in the booth 50 bucks
• it's a really good game
• it's so good brilliant
• You're gonna be sad you passed on that
• perfect game for me
• it's a meaningful ending apparently
• and then you can start over with different characters different race different um class tons of classes tons of races tons of quests
• was landmarks one of the very few games I did play was things in ring
• if you don't advertise with me f off
• I will not be blackmailed with money but I will be blackmailed with chocolats
• there's a lot of dark chocolate

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• action phase — Each investigator performs two actions per round from a list including move, gather resources, focus skill, ward, attack, evade, and research.
• Anomalies — Triggered by doom accumulation in spaces or neighborhoods. Encounters in these locations have special resolutions. Anomalies are removed when a neighborhood has zero doom.
• clue gathering — A 'good thing' in the game. Clues are gathered through research actions.
• Conditions (Cursed, Tainted, Fatigued) — Negative status effects that impact player abilities, such as only succeeding on sixes (Cursed) or suffering penalties during tests.
• Doom placement — Spirit monsters place doom in their spaces. If all spirit monsters are gone, one spawns. Doom accumulation in spaces or neighborhoods can trigger anomalies.
• Encounters — Drawn during the encounter phase, these present challenges or opportunities based on the investigator's location.
• Focus tokens — Tokens that increase skill values and can be spent to reroll dice during tests.
• headlines — Special cards drawn during the mythos phase that present global effects or challenges for the investigators.
• Item Management — Players can acquire and use items like weapons, tools, and artifacts that provide bonuses or special abilities.
• Monster activation — Monsters activate during the monster phase, usually by moving towards investigators or specific locations and engaging them.
• Mythos phase — This phase involves drawing tokens from the mythos bag, which can result in spawning clues, doom, monsters, or triggering headlines and reckoning effects.
• Reckoning — A specific event that triggers when instructed by a card or scenario, often involving negative effects like suffering horror or placing doom.
• Remnants — Tokens gained through certain actions or by removing multiple doom with a ward action, which can sometimes be spent for benefits or to reroll dice.
• Scenario Sheet Doom — Doom placed on a neighborhood with an anomaly goes onto the scenario sheet instead of the neighborhood. This is described as a 'bad thing'.
• Skill Tests — Players perform tests using their investigator's skills (e.g., Strength, Will, Lore, Observation) by rolling a number of dice equal to their skill value, modified by focus tokens.

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Quotes (from this video)

• I think like a lot of people, I was a bit unfair on this when it came out.
• I'd say I'm still a much bigger fan of Eldritch and of Arkham Second Edition, but this one has some really cool unique things to it as well.
• It's first and foremost spaces toy.
• We are halfway towards advancing the first nice thing, but it is very likely Doom is going to start getting poured onto the scenario sheet unless we get in gear.

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