Fantasy Flight Games Arkham Horror (Third Edition)

Arkham Horror Third Edition is a cooperative board game. Players take on the roles of investigators trying to rid the world of eldritch beings known as Ancient Ones. Based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft, players will have to gather clues, defeat terrifying monsters, and find tools and allies if they are to stand any chance of defeating the creatures that dwell just beyond the veil of our reality. When starting a game of Arkham Horror Third Edition, you have choices to make as to how you will meet your doom, selecting a scenario and choosing an investigator to embody, all of which have a distinct identity. Players of Arkham Horror: The Card Game and Mansions of Madness will already be familiar with these investigators, as they are some of the most prolific heroes of the Arkham Horror Files! In the action phase, the investigators fight against the dark power of myths. During this phase, each researcher can perform two different actions: move, gather resources, focus, ward, attack, evade, research, trade. The Monster Phase sees the nightmares on the board lurch to life, closing in and attacking investigators. Each investigator has a damage and horror threshold, and attacks from the enemies that you face gnaw at your health and sanity. When health or sanity reaches zero, the investigator is defeated, succumbing to their injuries or utter madness. The Encounter Phase sees the next chapter of your adventure revealed as you draw encounter cards based on your current location. Each neighbourhood features its own deck of encounter cards, and in addition to those cards, every scenario adds its own unique events to these decks, granting even more variety to each scenario.