Episode 16: Approaches to Deckbuilding

You can throw thirty cards together smartly enough, but you want to up your deckbuilding game, from simply knowing the rules that govern decks in Arkham Horror all the way to making scintillating creations that fizz with ingenuity and versatility. How?

In this, the sixteenth episode of Drawn to the Flame, join Peter and Frank as they get stuck into the tricksy topic of deckbuilding. This episode isn't meant purely as a beginner's guide to deckbuilding. Instead, it's packed with approaches to have in mind when wrestling with your cards on your living room floor and tips for how to evaluate the choices you've made and enhance your deckbuilding expertise. As ever, this episode isn't meant to be exhaustive, just Frank and Peter's tuppence on the subject.

SPOILER POLICY: we'll happily discuss player cards up to and including the Undimensioned & Unseen mythos pack. We'll skirt around encounter cards included in that pack, but talk freely about encounter cards up to Blood on the Altar. NOTE: in this episode we don't talk about encounter cards much at all.

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Episode 15: Talents

You always pack bandages. You're a dab hand at lightening someone's pockets. You do your best work alone. You can read a map really really well. You seek forbidden secrets. You adapt to situations around you.... You are: talented.

In this, the fifteenth episode of Drawn to the Flame, join Peter and Frank as they discuss another trait in Arkham Horror. In earlier episodes we've covered weapons, allies and spells, and now we turn to talents to discern what makes an investigator talented, what place talents have in the game and whether we could all use a bit more scavenging in our lives.

SPOILER POLICY: we'll happily discuss player cards up to and including the Undimensioned & Unseen mythos pack. We'll skirt around encounter cards included in that pack, but talk freely about encounter cards up to Blood on the Altar. NOTE: in this episode we don't talk about encounter cards much at all.

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Episode 14: Frank's First Look at Undimensioned and Unseen

WARNING: Discussion of Undimensioned & Unseen player cards in this episode!

SPOILER POLICY: we'll happily discuss player cards up to and including the Undimensioned & Unseen mythos pack. We'll skirt around encounter cards included in that pack, but talk freely about encounter cards from the core set up to Blood on the Altar.

In this episode, Frank looks at the player cards from Undimensioned & Unseen, which is incredibly hard to type repeatedly, released 11 May, and gives his first impressions. This episode isn't meant to be a definitive review, just Frank the dark horse with his inquiring mind and quick thinking trying to come to some conclusions. And, stay tuned, because he's joined by a special guest at the end of the episode!

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Episode 13: Jenny Barnes

A life of luxury, furnished by material wealth and a resourceful spirit had Jenny Barnes want for nothing. Like so many of her class and means, she travelled to Europe to sample the finest delights of the Old World - its culture, heritage, cuisine and charms... until word reached her: her beloved sister was missing.

So Jenny Barnes finds herself back in Arkham, relying on her wits (and a little bit on her wealth). In this episode of Drawn to the Flame, Frank and Peter discuss this tough cookie of an investigator. How does she handle the dangers of Arkham Horror? What talents does her roguish nature provide? And will she ever find Izzie?

SPOILER POLICY: we'll happily discuss player cards up to and including the Blood on the Altar mythos pack. We'll skirt around encounter cards included in that pack, but talk freely about encounter cards up to Essex County Express. NOTE: this episode was recorded before Blood on the Altar was released. We discuss some BotA cards at the end of the episode.

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