In this series of posts, I propose a way to understand Arkham’s roles and archetypes, dive into the data to quantify them and understand how people are building decks for each class and investigator. If you want to jump directly to the visualizations, here are the links: Card effects distribution per class Archetypes per investigator This part 2 discusses archetypes. The card effects As the basic “roles” of a deck (combat, clue and support) determine what the deck does in a scenario, the “archetypes” give a flavor of how the deck achieves its goals. In orde ..read more

In this series of posts, I propose a way to understand Arkham’s roles and archetypes, dive into the data to quantify them and understand how people are building decks for each class and investigator. If you want to jump directly to the visualizations, here are the links: Investigator’s average roles Guardian roles Seeker roles Survivor roles Mystic roles Rogue roles This part 1 discusses roles. Since it became lengthier than I expected, I will make another post about the archetypes. I have read and consumed much great content about this theme in the past, but Playingboardgames and Drawn t ..read more

This post is a sequence to Mapping Arkham pt. 1, where there is a visualization of decklists mapping how the Arkham investigators are located in relation to one another. After understanding how the different decks published on Arkham DB relate to one another, we can move on to the fundamental building blocks of decks: the cards themselves. As of September 2022, before the release of The Scarlet Keys, Arkham Horror:LCG has around 900 unique player cards (excluding weaknesses, investigator specific and bonded cards). Understanding how they relate is no easy feat. In order to visualize which card ..read more

E então você se interessou por Arkham Horror: The Card Game. Viu um review no youtube, a posição do jogo no ranking do BGG, gosta da franquia e quer conhecer mais sobre o jogo. Ou, ainda, já comprou a caixa base, jogou a primeira campanha, se apaixonou e não sabe como continuar. Este é um guia dos produtos da linha Arkham Horror: Card Game para te ajudar a decidir o que, e quando, comprar. O foco deste guia serão as expansões e produtos lançados pela Galápagos, em português. Ao fim, para quem tem interesse em importar, há um rápido guia sobre o que há lá fora. Conteúdo Resumo O que é Arkham H ..read more

This post is inspired by the amazing work done by LuckyPaper.co in mapping the Magic Commander landscape Arkham Horror: The Card Game has changed in many ways since the launch of the original Core Set in 2016. The fact that we refer to the first Core Set as the “original” one already implies that even that first product has evolved with time. To illustrate the “state of Arkham” as of 2022, one could look at the basic components of the game: Investigators and Player Cards (keeping Encounter Cards out of the equation because, you know, spoilers). Instead of tackling this from the design perspect ..read more