I really love the Core Set of the AH LCG! Now I want to dig deeper without ending up poor. What are my options?
Good thing: I‘m just a casual gamer. I could get it to the table probably once a week max for an hour or two. That‘s why i can squeeze months of fun out of a set.
But how do I proceed in 2023?
There are mythos packs, scenarios, campaigns, cycles, deluxe editions, return to editions…?!
It get‘s more complicated: I‘m from Germany and want to play the sets, that are released here in german.
What I already own:
- 1st edition core set <— only box I played yet
- 1st edition Dunwich set
- 1st edition Carcosa set (someone sold these 3 for 25€)
My questions:
- I don‘t own any mythos packs or anything else. So Dunwich and Carcosa are incomplete, right? Should I sell them? Because:
- Tracking down „old“ (German!) mythos packs to complete the sets I own could end up very expensive and difficult, right?
- The return to-editions are cheap here, but it doesn‘t make sense to play them, if I don‘t own the standard cycles, right?
- The „new“ campaign/investigator expansions are probably the easiest way to get another set, but they are kind of expensive (~50€ each). Still cheaper then buying every single mythos pack (15-25€ each), right?
I find the game fun with any number of players. In having more players, you trade one kind of difficulty for another. In a single player game, your main difficulty comes from the fact that you can't do absolutely everything; you must either diversify your skillset and be not-so-great at everything, or specialise and lose out on some interactions. In say a 4 player game each investigator can afford to be very specialised, but the trade-off is that you must find 4 times as many clues, mythos cards are drawn 4 times as often, and some monsters are 4 times more difficult to kill. I've found 2 or 3 to be the sweet spot for players, and playing solo with 2 characters can be quite fun.
On the topic of missing posts, I think it may be teething issues of the tech. Currently I can't see anything on the Lovecraft community, including my own posts, but I get notifications if I receive replies. For now I just browse the community locally.