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Cooperative Board Games: Scotland Yard, Arkham Horror, the Fury of Dracula, Last Night on Earth: the Zombie Game, Descent: Journeys in the Dark
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-04.
ISBN 9781155523460
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Scotland Yard, Arkham Horror, the Fury of Dracula, Last Night on Earth: the Zombie Game, Descent: Journeys in the Dark, Pandemic, Shadows Over Camelot, Minion Hunter, Break the Safe, Lord of the Rings, Betrayal at House on the Hill, Doom: the Boardgame, Vanished Planet, Cooperative Board Game. Excerpt: The box cover of the revised edition of Arkham Horror Arkham Horror is an adventure board game designed by Richard Launius, originally published in 1987 by Chaosium and most recently published in 2005 and revised in 2007 by Fantasy Flight Games . In both editions, players take on the role of investigators in H. P. Lovecraft 's Massachusetts town of Arkham . Gates to other planes open throughout the town. If too many gates open, a powerful alien being will enter, likely destroying the town and possibly threatening the world. The investigators must avoid or fight alien creatures that enter Arkham through the gates, enter the gates themselves, survive the alien places beyond, return to Arkham, and close the gates. Overview The game board is made up of locations in Lovecraft's fictional city of Arkham during 1926. Street, building and outdoor locations are featured, as well as otherworldly locations that investigators can venture into. Players each have an investigator, represented by a character card, several attributes, and cards representing items, spells, and other things. As game play progresses, gates to these other worlds open and are represented by tokens placed on the board. Monsters from the other worlds enter through the gates and wander the city. The investigators travel through the city, avoiding or fighting the monsters, visiting city locations to acquire tools, and ultimately entering the gates. After traveling through the other world and returning, the investigator ca
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Cooperative Board Games: Scotland Yard, Arkham Horror, the Fury of Dracula, Last Night on Earth: the Zombie Game, Descent: Journeys in the Dark
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