Each Ancient One has a character sheet akin to an investigator which includes special rules that modify the game as a whole (such as ongoing harmful weather), rules modifying its favourite monsters, and combat stats should it awaken. The Ancient One is a powerful, alien monster featured in the Cthulhu Mythos, including Cthulhu himself. For example, you can move faster at the expense of stealth to speed through the town on one turn and next turn change scores to sneak past the monster guarding your destination at a snail's pace. They also have a collection of linked and adjustable attributes, so raising one stat will lower its counterpart. Each investigator has scores for stamina and sanity, some set and random starting items, and a special ability such as healing or extra income. Success or failure is determined by a pool of six-sided dice every roll of five or six counts as a success, but modifiers can add or subtract from the dice pool for your roll and difficult tasks can require multiple successes. There are fistfuls of cardboard counters for health, sanity and money, monster markers, and other miscellaneous tokens. Nearly a dozen decks of smaller sized Investigator cards track the possessions/status of the players. Three decks of standard size Ancient One cards are used for random encounters and events. The game is fairly complicated and features a staggering amount of cards, markers, and counters. The investigators will collect ordinary and magical items, explore forgotten or forbidden regions of the town, battle monsters, enter alien worlds, and (per the setting) go gibbering insane in the process. The players must cooperate as a handful of investigators trying to prevent the awakening of an Ancient One with the fate of the city of Arkham, and sometimes the whole world, in the balance. It was designed by Richard Launius in 1987 for Chaosium and was revamped and re-released by Fantasy Flight Games in 2005. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos and taking place in the 1920s. Arkham Horror is an Adventure Board Game based on H.

Arkham horror character cards