Though light, the gameplay is fun and potentially exciting. Imagine a Cthulhu co-op where your goal is to kill monsters and close gates. The difference is that The Cards of Cthulhu does it with cards. Each turn they get played to one of four different cults: gates increase the draw of cards; minions wake up horrors and ultimately the Great Old Ones ; and horrors cause the player problems. A simple dice system allows players to destroy them. The theming is … OK. There were similarly some bizarre minions and horrors.
And the gates-and-minions trope does get a little old. The gameplay is … also OK. Feed the Shoggoth! A Take-That Cthulhu game with a twist. The primary objective is to sacrifice minions to a shoggoth. You do away with enough minions and you win! So of course your opponents play cards to move the shoggoth away, attempting to prevent your dark rituals. But, if the game lasts long enough, minions become few and far between. This bipartite play structure is quite innovative for a Take-That game and keeps it from going on forever.
The theming of Feed the Shoggoth! As an old-time Chaosium fan and Cthulhu editor, I find that pretty cool. However, Feed the Shoggoth! This is a pretty mundane word game. You draw cards and you spell words. The cards have beautiful Cthulhoid monsters on them, from A-Z.
This is theoretically a deduction game. The gameplay is nicely minimalistic is the style of Love Letter — or more notably, Lovecraft Letter So, the theory is that you can make deductions about what your card may be based on what people tell you and whether they give you cards or not.
Still, this can be a fun activity. The theming is the strong point of the game. The cards are well illustrated with attractive monochromatic palettes. There are characters, Great Old Ones, and special artifacts that have fun powers.
Take Risk. Add beer, pretzels, Cthulhu, and a huge wad of randomness. Cults across America is the result. My memories of this are fuzzy because the last time I played it was in , not too long after its release.
And as of , I suspect that Cthulhu Wars has entirely replaced it. This is pretty much the definition of an American take-that game. It can also really drag on, as I find is generally true for the category. This kind of game depends almost entirely on color to succeed, and there are too many silly in-jokes for it to work for me. I thought Cthulhu Dice might be better than most, because it has cool sided dice that could multiply the possibilities.
But it turns out to be worse: you choose a target and you roll dice and you each either gain or lose sanity.
There are no strategic decisions other than who to target and there are no tactical decisions once the dice have been rolled. This is a very weakly themed Cthulhu game. Beyond that, Building an Elder God is very simplistic. As this overview suggests, the gameplay is a little bit simplistic, but the real problem is that the game is totally unbalanced. There are: a card that let the deep ones know precisely where the human is; a rule that then let them totally dogpile that human; and another card that pulls back all of their casualties which would be the whole pile.
Javascript Disabled Detected You currently have javascript disabled. Please log in to reply. Posted 24 January - PM. Hi, here is a list of cards that I have. Posted 28 January - PM. Posted 02 March - AM. List updated. Ability: Any investigator may spend 2 gate trophies, 10 toughness in monster trophies, or 1 gate trophy and 5 toughness in monster trophies to remove 1 Being of Ib from this sheet.
Add 1 clue token to Bokrug's sheet per turn. If the number of Beings of Ib and Clue Tokens equal 8 or more, all investigators are devoured. Worshipers: Place the 4 Beings of Ib on Bokrug at the first turn.
Each Being of Ib gives Bokrug a strength when fought. Ability: Shuffle the 3 Dust Decks and place them on this sheet. Once per turn, the first player pays 2 Clue Tokens or must draw 1 Dust card from the lowest number Dust Deck. Attack: All allies are returned to the box. At the beginning of every turn, the first player is devoured. Investigators do not collect Clue Tokens from defeating a Warlock unless they can ignore the Endless ability.
Ability: If any player moves over 3 spaces in a turn, that investigator loses 1 stamina per space. All weather cards are discarded, and a new card drawn.
Attack: Roll a die. Any weapon used in an attack against Cthugha is discarded after the attack is made. Afterwards, a new monster is drawn. Attack: The investigator with the highest stamina rolls dice equal to his stamina, and loses 1 stamina per failed roll. For each stamina that Rhan-Tegoth takes, the investigators must deal 1 extra damage. Worshipers: Gnoph-Keh gain Nightmarish 1.
Ability: When a new gate opens, roll two dice. If doubles are rolled, immediately draw and resolve a Mythos card. If awakened, one awakens, then the other. This ancient one must be beaten twice, and when beaten the first time, refill the Doom Track back to Attack: When battle starts, Lloigor has Magical Immunity and must be defeated.
If defeated, Zhar awakens and has Physical Immunity. Once per turn, the first player loses 1 hand to cast with. Additionally, that player cannot pass the first player token to the next player. On the next turn, that player is devoured and the first player token goes to the next player.
Ability: Any investigator with an Elder Sign in their inventory who also happens to be in a neighborhood with an Elder Sign suffers -1 to all skill checks.
Attack: Each investigator must remove either 3 clue tokens or 1 Ally, or be devoured. Chaugnar Faugn ignores more than 3 damage per turn. Ability: Place the Tendril of Nyogtha monster token on Nyogtha's sheet. Each time a monster and not a gate appears during an encounter, the Tendril of Nyogtha is encountered instead.
If it is defeated, return the Tendril to this sheet. It cannot be claimed as a trophy. Attack: The first player rolls a die. If the player rolls 1, nothing happens. If the player rolls anything else, they are devoured. Nyogtha's combat rating is -3 only for the first player. When a gate opens, draw a monster from the cup as normal, then draw a second monster from the hexagon cup and place both monsters on the gate's location.
When a monster surger occurs, draw half round down from the hexagon cup. Hexagon monsters are not removed from the game when a hexagon gate is closed.
Each time an investigator defeats a hexagon monster, he or she draws a corruption card. Each time an investigator gains a Unique Item including starting equipment , that investigator loses 1 sanity. Each time an investigator gains an exhibity item, roll a die. On a failure, that Investigator is cursed. At the start of the Upkeep Phase, before anyone can roll to discard a curse, all cursed investigators lose 1 Stamina. All Mask Monsters gain 1 toughness, in addition, each time a Mask monster ius defeated, add one doom token to the Ancient One's Doom Track.
Just picked this up at my local game store. Can't wait to play. And while we're at, sign the same narrator for the final game. Is this still a good video to learn from for new players?
Decided to get into this LCG. I did not expect this level of production quality wow. After watching the video, Stanley decided to purchase a copy of the game. Would the cat add another agility to Wendy in that encounter? Stanley took the right turn and fought the Byakhee in the staff lounge. Roland had 6 combat but only did 2 damage? So excited to get my copy of the revised core game!!
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