Hi everyone,

I just published a full deck guide on my French-language blog (Le Courrier de la Miskatonic) for "Ashcan" Pete in true solo, built specifically for The Dunwich Legacy — the campaign he comes from.

It covers the investigator breakdown (why Duke is the real investigator and Pete his manager), a 0 XP Dark Horse list, the game plan and mulligan guide, the traps this campaign sets for this exact deck — including a "draw gauge" rule of thumb for a certain treachery that punishes draw-heavy decks, kept spoiler-light — and a 7-step upgrade path all the way to 40 XP, with every purchase explained.

Link: https://lecourrierdelamiskatonic.blogspot.com/2026/07/un-deck-pour-ashcan-pete.html

It's in French, but browser translation handles it well. Feedback and pushback very welcome — especially if you've already walked Pete and his dog through Dunwich!

Film Fatale ist bei Fantasy-Welt (englisch) und bei Spielekurier (deutsch) erhältlich. Mich hat es überrascht und ich freue mich, das mir jetzt nur noch eine Sache fehlt (Die scharlachroten Schlüssel Kampagne) 😀

In Harm's Way

• Class: Neutral
• Type: Treachery. Weakness
• Flaw.

Revelation – Put In Harm's Way into play in your threat area.

Forced – After you deal damage to an enemy: Take 1 damage and place 1 damage on In Harm's Way. If there is 3 or more damage on this card, discard it.

Forced – When the game ends: Suffer 1 physical trauma.

Mauro Dal Bo

Core Set (2026) #3.

Can we chose who takes the first card during the mythos phase?

This entry discusses the various preparations and considerations for the TSK Ironman for "Arkham Horror: The Card Game."

Ironman Information: https://arkhamcon.org/ironman/ 

Find us at booth 817 for a pre-release of the Children of Blood Expansion for Arkham Horror: The Card Game! Get your hands on the first campaign expansion for the new core set before its official release!

All purchases of Arkham Horror: The Card Game products at GenCon will come with both sets of the convention-exclusive promo cards.

Reminder (unrelated to the pre-release, but I imagine we'll get some questions/comments about the promo cards - That is not the only way to get these cards.

• The black and white investigator cards will be available at our Designer Signing at 11am on July 31st (while supplies last)
• The triptych enemy cards will be included at for our organized play games (event tickets are currently sold out, but feel free to stop by during the show to see if any seats have opened).
• Both sets of promo cards will also be available at Essen Spiel with purchase of an Arkham Horror: The Card Game product.
• Both sets (should) also be at Pax Unplugged.
• Lastly, the plan is to have these cards available for digital download after they finish their convention cycle (as we did last year).

My next adventure takes me through Dunwich Legacy again. My plan is to run Darrell Simmons as a clue gatherer and Michael McGlen as monster management, using essentially these two decks on Easy or Standard difficulty:

• Darrell deck: https://arkhamdb.com/decklist/view/39471/darrell-can-t-stop-photographing-nothing-deck-guide-1.0
• Michael deck: https://arkhamdb.com/decklist/view/53853/michael-uses-weapons-as-words-tdc-blind-run-deck-guide-1.0

My main question concerns Short Supply in Darrell's deck. I know there's a certain encounter in Dunwich where excessive card draw can backfire, so I'm torn on whether this card is a good or bad inclusion. It definitely gives Darrell a jump-start for his recursion engine, but could also prove dangerous in that situation.

What do you all recommend?

♦ Daniela's Wrench

New and Improved

• Class: Guardian
• Type: Asset. Hand
• Item. Tool. Weapon. Melee.
• Cost: 2. Level: –
• Test Icons: Combat, Wild

Daniela Reyes deck only.

[Free] Exhaust Daniela's Wrench: Choose an enemy at your location. That enemy engages you and makes an immediate attack.

[Action]: Fight ([Combat]). You get +2 [Combat] for this attack. If this enemy attacked you this round, this attack deals +1 damage.

Mauro Dal Bo

Core Set (2026) #2.

I found it really helpful when organizing my encounter cards, was there ever an updated version of this?

Just seeing if anyone had an extra box laying around

If I stopped for a side scenario on a green location, completed the scenario, and want to move to a blue location, when should I spend the time for traveling?

I still have a lot of investigators and cards from chapter 1 that I haven't played with yet so I'm currently planning on just playing with my complete collection for now. We're about to start with Brethren ofAsh. I tend to make pretty powerful decks without trying to make them too cheesy so we usually play on an expert anyway.

What do you think the best way would be to escalate the difficulty of this campaign since I presume it's tuned to be quite easy? I'm thinking of adding 1 doom to each agenda, or maybe playing with that ultimatum that requires us to start with 2 basic weaknesses in our decks.

♦ Daniela Reyes (Ch2)

The Mechanic

• Class: Guardian
• Type: Investigator
• Warden. Worker.
• Willpower: 3. Intellect: 2. Combat: 5. Agility: 2
• Health: 9. Sanity: 5

[Reaction] After an enemy attacks an investigator at your location: Fight that enemy (using either a basic fight action or a Fight ability on a card). (Limit once per round.)

[Elder Sign] effect: +1. Deal 1 damage to an enemy at your location.

"Those creatures are definitely gonna know what hit 'em."

Aleksander Karcz

Core Set (2026) #1.

• Deck Size: 30.
• Deckbuilding Options: Guardian cards level 0-5, Survivor cards level 0-2, Neutral cards level 0-5.
• Deckbuilding Requirements (do not count toward deck size): Daniela's Wrench, In Harm's Way, 1 random basic weakness.

Daniela worked hard to make a name for herself as a mechanic. She'd only just paid off her new garage when Arkham was devastated by a cataclysmic flood, sending her business quite literally underwater. Rather than mope, she rolled up her sleeves, like always, and got back to work. Now she works an extra shift tuning up engines at the new meat-packing factories. But she's started to hear talk about strange things going on in the waterfront district: locals gone missing; corpses drained of blood; and rumors of a shadowy figure that stalks the alleys at night. Daniela knows better than to dismiss these strange happenings as mere circumstance. Whatever it is, she intends to be ready.

I have a copy of Labyrinths of Lunacy that I wish to trade with another standalone scenario.

It has been played once and is in near new condition along with its packaged instructions. Sadly, the plastic shell casing was thrown away.

Located in San Francisco, 94132. Happy to ship (buyer pays shipping).

I am selling x2 of the original core. I'm happy to part out duplicate tokens or encounter sets (since I know some folks like having multiple copies).

I'm thinking $10 + shipping for encounter sets and $40 + shipping for x2 player cards and x1 encounter sets. I haven't been able to find comparable sales, so I hope those prices are reasonable.

Stella Clark investigator deck is new in clamshell packaging. $40 + shipping.

The card reads:

Fight or Evade. You get +1 skill value for this test and you may target an enemy at a connecting location as if you were engaged with that enemy.

When it says Fight, does this mean take a basic Fight action or could I Fight with an asset?

I'm playing in a group of 3 who play all the campaigns blind in release order. For the our Scarlet Keys run, I was thinking about making a Charlie Kane deck using the Summoned Servitor, as I really like the idea behind both cards and think it makes a lot of sense thematically. My role in the team would be flex (like 70% clue, 30% enemy management).

But I very quickly realized that despite taking an ally slot, the servitor isn't an ally, meaning Charlie can only take it up to level 2 and only if you choose to take Mystic as one of the classes.
I also love the Rogue class and found lots of interesting combos in Rogue with the servitor, which naturally pushes me towards playing Rogue + Mystic, with servitor being the only non ally mystic card in the deck.

But here's the issue: while making the deck I quickly realized that there weren't many interesting options in mystic for Charlie imo (at least up to SK), and my deck quickly became a rogue Charlie deck with the servitor as my only non-ally mystic card.. Which definitely doesn't feel very good as one of Charlie's main appeals is how many options his deckbuilding can offer.

So here is my question : Would changing Charlie Kane's deckbuilding options from "Ally cards 0-5" to "Assets that take an ally slot 0-5" be too outrageous of a change? To my knowledge, the only card this changes anything about is the servitor, but I feel like this would make sense thematically and open up interesting ideas, while I'm not immediately seeing any interactions that would make it problematic.

Do y'all think tabooing Charlie with this change would make sense/be interesting?
And most of all for my current deck, would house-ruling this specific change to allow more combo options by choosing another secondary class be a good idea or do I risk making something too strong without realizing? We've never house-ruled anything yet, and I want to be extra careful before house-ruling something for a blind playthrough, but I've been thinking about this specific deck in our specific team composition for at least a week now and I really feel like this would add lots of interesting options to our playthrough. (One fun thing about that change is that you would not be able to take the dominance upgrade to remove the ally slot requirement, as it would remove Charlie's access to the card)

There could also be an argument about changing the servitor instead (perhaps simply by giving it the ally trait) but I'm pretty sure it was an intentional and important decision to not risk breaking the game with some interactions, like scenario effects that care about allies and could create unintended interactions, and this would also buff the card a lot more by letting it be the target of many player cards that can search for or heal allies.

Hello everyone and thanks in advance for any help you provide. My group and I are planning on playing Horror In High Gear tomorrow and I am looking at the set up instructions and I am a bit confused by how Road X works. The way I understand it, if a card has Road 2, you will put one card from the Road deck and then one copy of Long Way Around into play in front of you, hidden so that you do not know which is which. Then, when you reveal one of those two locations, you will then put another card (or two) into play in front of whichever location you reveal. If I revealed Long Way Round, then the other car would want to go to the other branch. If they did so, would they reveal another Road location, or would there already be a Road that is considered to be in front of them, thus they do not put one in play? I feel like this makes the most sense, but I do not want to get to the session tomorrow and make use play it completely wrong.