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Arkham Horror: Where Doom Awaits
Expansion of: Arkham Horror: The Dunwich Legacy
60m - 120m
1 - 2 Players
Ages 14+
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"You realise, of course, the utterly stupendous nature of the matter before us. To us, as to only a few men on this earth, there will be opened up gulfs of time and space and knowledge beyond anything within the conception of human science and philosophy."
–H.P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness
Who could have ever guessed that your search for two missing professors would lead to this? The wind howls. Ritual magic vibrates through the air. And the world is ripping apart. Your time is running out. Your doom is fast approaching!
Where Doom Awaits is the fifth Mythos Pack in The Dunwich Legacy cycle for Arkham Horror: The Card Game. Even as its new scenario carries your investigations rapidly toward their climactic conclusion, it dizzies your investigator with a distorted version of reality. The woods outside of Dunwich are changing. You’ll find clearings strewn with blood and bodies, rivers frozen solid despite the temperate air, and paths that rip open, revealing chasms through the dimensions and other worlds elsewhere in the void…
Fortunately, you won’t find yourself wholly unprepared for the alien challenges these dimensional rifts represent. Twenty-eight player cards (two copies each of fourteen different cards) offer a range of solutions, provided you’ve earned the experience points to add them to your deck.
| Ages | 14+ |
|---|---|
| Players | Solo, 2 Players |
| Play Time | 60m – 120m |
| Designer | Matthew Newman, Nate French |
| Mechanics | Cooperative Game, Deck, Bag, and Pool Building, Hand Management, Role Playing, Variable Player Powers |
| Theme | Card Game, Collectible Components, Expansion for Base-game, Novel-based, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror |
| Publisher | Asterion Press, Edge Entertainment, Fantasy Flight Games, Galakta, Heidelberger Spieleverlag, Hobby World |
CortexBomb
In the same vein as Blood on the Altar, Where Doom Awaits is an adventure that is successful in no small part because of the way that it incorporates the campaign story into its set-up and play. The set-up page for this has a ton of exceptions and changes based on decisions that the players made through the campaign up to this point and can make this more challenging based on what resolutions were reached prior. The game play itself is somewhat standard fare, albeit with a fairly large number of tough enemies in the deck, enough to where they tend to spawn about once a round or so, even with only 2 players. The map mechanics do a good job of evoking the otherwordly nature of the path leading to Sentinel Hill and the atmosphere of the expansion. Some people find that the method of revealing additional locations is overly restrictive, if so, it's easy enough to just treat them as a normal investigate action so they can be modified by the usual suspects (Duke, Flashlight, etc.). Many do not realizing you're not supposed to and it certainly shouldn't break the game, it just would make it much harder without a character with a permanent Intellect buff like Streetwise or Higher Education to fall back on. This is a very high stakes adventure though, and it is not all that difficult to end with a resolution that ends the campaign outright, which seems like an odd choice to me as it seems like it would turn a lot of people off or delay purchases of the final mythos pack. That oddity aside, I like it because of its story immersion and use of the prior decisions. Player card-wise there are some useful ones here, as usual. The combat version of the Strange Solution is pretty powerful (probably too much so, the other versions are jank by comparison) and the addition of Moonlight Ritual gives Mystics some interesting combos and can be very powerful in high doom scenarios. Ace in the Hole is a nice late game Rogue card as well, an entire free turn for 0 resources is well worth the pick-up though the XP cost is so high as to make it prohibitive in many cases. Moment of Respite can be solid in low sanity decks as well.
boleh
Where Doom Awaits has a somewhat similar feeling/gameplay to The Miskatonic Museum, where instead of exploring a museum, you'll be trudging up a hill. I didn't find the scenario to be particularly unique or innovative.
CaiusDrewart
A really fun scenario destroyed by one regrettable design choice. The decision to require many successful Investigate 3 checks--without the benefit of Duke, Flashlight, Rite of Seeking, etc--just cripples lots of investigators. This should have been avoided. The rest of the scenario is cool, though. I like going up the hill, and I like the Shoggoth.