Party Like its 1926
Chapter: Season Four
Characters: Brett Kringle, Trevor
Arkham Spring Break: Red Solo Cups and Ritual Sacrifice
There are a few folks who believe I dislike Arkham Horror based on Brett’s comments. Quite the opposite. I LOVE Arkham Horror, as my jam of late has been players vs. board and more co-op games. I am very much into team games where it is us against “the man” (in this case the man being the grudgiest board game I have EVER played).
Full disclosure: I have never won a game of Arkham Horror. Never. I will someday. It is a goal. A dream. An impossible, writhing, maddening dream.
More on Friday (yes, more on Sam and Amy).
Mouseover Text: Come on baby take that top off! DO IT! DO IT! DO IIIIIIIIIIIOOOOOH MY FUCKING GGGGGG— dead
Soooo… are wet t-shirt contests performed with tentacle slime? And instead of mud wrestling, there’s blood wrestling?
Please DON’T show us the thong, Please DON’T show us the thong, Please DON’T show us the ….. owwwe the insanity… dead
My roommate and I have tried to play that game! We have yet to win, though we got sooooo close once! I agree, grudgiest damn board game ever! lol But still, it is pretty damn fun! ^_^
I’ve actually never lost a game of Arkham Horror, and I’ve played a few times. I’ve also never lost a character in Call of Cthulhu RPG, so I might just be insanely lucky. 😛
Here’s a rimshot for that pun… *BadumChing*
I’ve actually GAINED sanity with characters while playing CoC.
I used to play the original Chaosium Arkham Horror with my friends in high school. It was less complicated than the current version but we could never win either. Has anyone actually won the game?
My game group just beat it tonight! We’ve only played it like two times, when got really lucky tonight. We lost miserably last time we played it.
Fan-ftanging-awesome. Id like to try that game. Or have time to try other nerd games for that matter…
I love the coloring of the sky/background in the last panel
Really? I’m not going to argue AH being hard, because it definitely enjoys messing with you, but after my first game I’ve managed to keep my wins ahead of my loses, and i actually had an insanely good game where I essentially one hit Cthulhu
We beat it once and there was SO much dancing. But only once.
Whelp, there goes the last of my San.. And sight..
Would say my soul, but that was years ago, at this Crossroads, where I met myself, and it just got all kinds of weird and sticky after the contract was signed.
Someone please tell Wilbur Whateley to put his shirt back on.
Well we tend to add house rules that make it a lot more fun and winnable (though we still tend to lose). The big one is that instead of randomly giving out investigators we give people 2 or 3 and allow them to choose from those so as to allow people to tailor character choices to their play style. Fantasy Flight actually released some “official” house rules too. http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/ffg_content/Arkham_Horror/House%20Rules%20RL.pdf
AH is my game group’s favorite game. We have gotten good enough me usually have to add an expansion or two to up the challenge. It helps we played 2 or 3 times a week for almost a year. I can’t wait for eldritch horror, the new world spanning take on the game coming soon 😀
A personal favorite. I’ll just leave it here.
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My friends and I won the first 3 games of Arkham Horror we ever played. The guy who brought the game was sputtering in disbelief. We’ve never played again to keep our streak alive.
I’m a security guard on Panama City Beach. Really. That last panel is fairly accurate, not for Spring Break, but when the Snow Birds arrive.
Damn that Brian guy having the gall to shirk on updating his comic because he “has to work a job” in order to “afford food and shelter”..
Here’s hoping we see the friday comic tonight. Loving this storyline.
Red Solo Cups and Ritual Sacrifice would be an awesome album name.
So the ‘Arkham Boner’ joke from the other day turned out (on?) to be oracular?
Wow. I’m amazed at how many people on here have never won Arkham Horror. I, too, usually play with the “official” house rules that Solomon mentioned, which *definitely* helps, but the biggest thing that I have found that improves a groups chances is playing with fewer people. I have played the game a lot, and have some friends who have played *obsessively*, and we all agree: the smaller the group, the higher the chance of winning.
Yes, you read that right. It sounds insane, but maybe that’s the idea. With more people, the threshold for the fatal numbers of monsters and gates is simply too low. With about three people, you actually have room to breathe if all the gates are on the other side of the board and you need time to get there, go through, and then close ’em. You might even have time to do something other than mindlessly run through gates in an attempt to close them before too many spawn (but only sometimes).
The game is a ton of fun, if you’re the kind of person who’s willing to put an enormous amount of work into setting up a game that your group might not win. But then again, you’ve got a much better chance than in a CoC RPG (at least in my experience), so . . . if you look at it the other way, hey! *There’s a chance that you might actually WIN!*