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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.
CharlieMnemonic
I like the new stuff. The campaign mode is disappointing but that's not a deal breaker because I had worked out my own campaign mode some time ago.
HiveGod
+ More stuff! + Nyarlathotep! - Small-box content in a big box. - "Campaign mode" isn't—it's just six games in a row, rather than a coherent story arc. [url=https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2017/10/6/masks-of-nyarlathotep/]FFG's marketing[/url] gave the impression that "campaign mode" was a board game playthrough of the classic [rpgitem=46443]Masks of Nyarlathotep[/rpgitem] RPG adventure—both products have the same name, and they're shown side-by-side... Instead, the "campaign" is just—[i]wait for it[/i]—six games in a row against six random Ancient Ones. [insert floppy clock painting here] I shouldn't have to cobble together a houseruled variant to get at what this should've been—that's what I'm paying you for, FFG. • This feels like... something happened during the design & production process and it got shoved out the door halfway done. It's a small-box amount of game rattling around in a too-empty big box—which leaves me wondering if this wasn't originally conceived as having a [i]Masks[/i] campaign sideboard that got nixed somewhere along the way, but they were committed to a deadline so they just pulled half the stuff out at the last minute. I dunno. It's just... [i]off[/i].