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Eldritch Horror: Masks of Nyarlathotep is an expansion for Eldritch Horror, a cooperative boardgame for one to eight players where intrepid investigators must traverse the globe in an attempt to thwart the cataclysmic rise of an otherworldly Ancient One. Strange cults are gathering strength in remote corners and bustling cities all over the world. Though they seem to worship different gods, the investigators have found a thread that runs throughout all of the cultists’ horrific rites.
cbs42
7/30/18 - I'm very disappointed by the heavily marketed "campaign mode" which was a lie, or at least heavily misrepresented. The entire campaign mode is just a simple set of house rules that you don't even need this expansion to play. As summed up by one of the BGG reviews of this game, the rules are: "Don't reuse ancient ones, investigators stay dead, play with 2 prelude cards, do it 6 times." Wow, that's a shame. The concept had such potential. I'm also not really interested in the "personal stories" aspect of the game, but may mess around with them since I paid for them. Resources are a nice new addition, but again just like the campaign mode you don't need to buy this expansion to play with the new rule. Just find a suitable set of tokens to use as resources, and that's all you need. So basically, this purchase just provided me with the equivalent of about 1.5 small box EH expansions, for the price of 2. That sucks. I'm always glad to have more content for this game, but I wish I would have waited and not paid full MSRP in my excitement for a new big box expansion that ended up barely being more than a small box expansion. I'm knocking a couple of points off of my usual "9" rating for EH games, and giving this one a 7. I'm still glad I own it, but I feel misled by the marketing for it.
Groule
It's always nice to add more content to the game (items, characters, monsters...), but the new mechanics implemented (personal stories, ressources tokens...) tend to make the game unbalanced. It gives too much power to some characters in comparison to others (especially the new characters, who seem really broken) and adds too much randomness in the game. The game can go in every direction, and you can sometimes win it or lose it without being able to feel if your team is in a good or a bad position, which is not very enjoyable. Thus, each time we add it into the game, we have the feeling we are somehow "trolling" the game. Actually, I feel Eldritch Horror didn't need this.
Embir
Another great big box expansion for Eldritch Horror. I love new action of gathering resources - now investigator who can't move from space can spend his all actions. Also finally all new Old Ones from big box don't need additional board. All in all it is really fine addition to alreadxy great game. I strongly recommend it.