Episode 94: Think on your Feet X

Join Frank for Think on your Feet episode ten! How did we get to ten episodes of Frank struggling at Arkham? Who knows? But this description won't have answers because this is a surprise bonus episode!

In Think on your Feet episodes, a live play series of Arkham Horror: The Card Game, I endeavour not to edit much at all. Sometimes I cut a bit of shuffling sounds or abbreviate some of my longer pauses (a chap's got to think!), but otherwise, it's uncut, unaltered and meant to feel like you're with me at the table. There may be mistakes and misplays, but hopefully some successes too. 

Check out our thematic investigators vs scenarios compilation: CLICK ME

Here's the first deck: CLICK ME

Here's the second deck: CLICK ME

Tickets for Arkham in Flames, 9 & 10 March 2019, on sale here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/arkham-in-flames-2019-tickets-51408313650

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Episode 93: Did You Think Azathoth Had Forgotten You?

Join Peter and Frank as they go toe to toe with the blind idiot god itself, Azathoth... aka Matt Newman, lead developer of Arkham Horror: The Card Game. Which is kind of convenient given this is a podcast all about Arkham Horror: The Card Game! 

Huge thank you to Matt for joining us for a post-The Forgotten Age debrief. We get a chance to talk player cards with Matt, including the seal mechanic and relics, then go through the scenarios of the cycle and delve into some of the knottier questions around TFA. Was it a harder cycle? Was Alejandro really that untrustworthy? Are snakes actually bad? And then, finally, we take a look at The Circle Undone and what's ahead in the game. 

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Episode 92: Seeking Questions

Join Peter and Frank for a mailbag episode. Patrons have been sending in their questions, so your hosts settle down with a cup of joe, ready to answer the conundrums you've posed. 

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Episode 91: Announcing Arkham in Flames

Join Frank and Peter for real - in the flesh - at Arkham in Flames 2019, a weekend of playing Arkham Horror in London organised by us over here at Drawn to the Flame. Listen to this episode to find out more about what we have in store and our plans for the weekend: 9 & 10 March 2019. 

It's also #thankyoupatrons day, and we'd like to go on record (as we have done on this episode) thanking our patrons for their magnificent encourage and support. We wouldn't be doing Arkham in Flames without you friends driving us on. Thank you!

Tickets are strictly limited. Buy now for Arkham in Flames here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/arkham-in-flames-2019-tickets-51408313650

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Episode 90: Frank's First Look at Shattered Aeons

Join Frank - and an end of cycle special guest! - for a first look at the player cards of Shattered Aeons, the sixth mythos pack in The Forgotten Age cycle. Will he go all in? Does he really have the best vantage point from which to survey these cards? Isn't kerosene delicious? 

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Episode 89: Opening Moves

Join Peter and Frank as they talk about opening moves. What's the best way to exploit a mulligan? How important is it to play assets turn 1? What do you even need to keep in mind when getting the best start in a scenario? 

We use four example decks in our discussion, which are:
Mark: https://arkhamdb.com/deck/view/239498
Ursula: https://arkhamdb.com/deck/view/160566
Finn: https://arkhamdb.com/deck/view/230305
Jim: https://arkhamdb.com/deck/view/237668

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Episode 88: Trick or Treat

Join Peter and Frank as they talk to a special guest from across the ocean - not Matt Newman, but nearly as good, and certainly as friendly. They talk about Arkham Horror (surprise!), what cooperative players want and announce a really cool new Arkham playing augmentation you definitely want to take a look at. Thanks for joining us, Steven!

Find out more about Team Covenant and their incredible Forgotten Age mythos boards here: https://teamcovenant.com/product/arkham-horror-lcg-forgotten-age-mythos-board

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Episode 87: Think on your Feet IX

Join Frank for the ninth Think on your Feet, in which Calvin Wright – or his successor – continues investigations into the madness and mystery surrounding the King in Yellow.

In Think on your Feet episodes, a live play series of Arkham Horror: The Card Game, I endeavour not to edit much at all. Sometimes I cut a bit of shuffling sounds or abbreviate some of my longer pauses (a chap's got to think!), but otherwise, it's uncut, unaltered and meant to feel like you're with me at the table. There may be mistakes and misplays, but hopefully some successes too. In light of the Patreon support and because I want to enhance listening to Drawn to the Flame, I've added some atmospheric details too. Hopefully they elevate the experience. Toot toot!

Note: there was a microphonic problem in the latter stages of this episode, and I've spent a decent two hours trying to remove it, but I haven't quite succeeded. Think of it as atmospherics rather than just incompetence, and I hope it doesn't spoil your listening experience!

Here's the deck before Black Stars Rise: https://arkhamdb.com/deck/view/238566.  

Here's the deck before Dim Carcosa: https://arkhamdb.com/deck/view/238606. 

During the edit I spotted a misplay I made while playing. At 1hr11 minutes, I believe I played True Survivor even though I had Whispers in Your Head (Doubt) in my hand. Believe me, it didn't matter!...

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Episode 86: Thinking about Carolyn Fern

Join Peter and Frank as they talk about Carolyn Fern. This isn't quite a Carolyn Fern investigator-specific episode so much as a 'one deck we made together for Carolyn'-specific episode. We talk about her deckbuilding rules, what sorts of ramifications they have and the challenges they pose for playing the game. 

Here's the deck we built together: https://arkhamdb.com/decklist/view/7593/mind-over-madness-1.0

Here's the patreon article we mention: https://www.patreon.com/posts/small-thoughts-21792436

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Episode 85: Frank's First Look at The Depths of Yoth

The depths of Yoth! The depths of Yoth! Join Frank for a first look at the player cards of the fifth mythos pack in The Forgotten Age cycle. His mind is well and truly fed!

Howler warning: I called "I've got a plan" "I've had worse" at about 7minutes. What a dummy! I've definitely not had worse than that!

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Episode 84: Decktrospective I

Join Peter and Frank for our first decktrospective (no idea what that name means - hopefully someone will clear it up for us), in which we take a deck sent in by a patron and take it apart, like the restoration of an antique vase or two petrolheads doing automobile fanboying or whatever it is car-people like doing. This time, it's an Ashcan Pete deck: https://arkhamdb.com/decklist/view/5825/pete-duke-and-yaotl-desperate-synergy-3.0

We're also lucky to appear as guests on Unlucky Frog Gaming's podcast. Check out episode 88: https://unluckyfrog.podbean.com/e/episode-88-independence-day-drawn-to-the-flame-podcast/

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Episode 83: Visions of Futures Past IV

Join Peter and Frank for the fourth of Drawn to the Flame's Visions of Futures Past, where we announce a forthcoming player card to the community. We're delighted FFG have asked us to do this again, after Storm of Spirits, Time Warp & Custom Ammunition, and really hugely excited to share this card with everyone. So dive in for a new card that's coming up in The Depths of Yoth!

But that's not all: we're also announcing the results of our competition, where we asked listeners to pair an investigator with a scenario in a thematic way. The entries were all excellent and deeply enjoyable, so tune in as we go through some favourites, and award a copy of Carnevale of Horrors, a live play episode and player tokens and board from Buy the Same Token! 

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Episode 82: Think on your Feet VIII

Join Frank for the eighth Think on your Feet, in which Calvin Wright – or his successor – continues investigations into the madness and mystery surrounding the King in Yellow.

In Think on your Feet episodes, a live play series of Arkham Horror: The Card Game, I endeavour not to edit much at all. Sometimes I cut a bit of shuffling sounds or abbreviate some of my longer pauses (a chap's got to think!), but otherwise, it's uncut, unaltered and meant to feel like you're with me at the table. There may be mistakes and misplays, but hopefully some successes too. In light of the Patreon support and because I want to enhance listening to Drawn to the Flame, I've added some atmospheric details too. Hopefully they elevate the experience. Toot toot!

This is the first episode recorded with my new microphone. I hope the sound is crisper and clearer, but I welcome any feedback - not of an audio kind...! If you're not sure about any of my lines of play or otherwise confused, ask away.

Here's the deck before A Phantom of Truth: https://arkhamdb.com/deck/view/214987.  

Here's the deck before The Pallid Mask: https://arkhamdb.com/deck/view/215018. 

During the edit I spotted a misplay I made while playing. At 1hr17 minutes, I believe I spawned a docent at 'any unrevealed location' rather than the nearest unrevealed... I'm not 100% sure on that though.

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Episode 81: Frank's First Look at The City of Archives

Will Frank be on his own, a sacrifice to the elder gods, as he tries to fathom the player cards from The Forgotten Age's fourth mythos pack, The City of Archives? Or perhaps this will be his pay day, as he may just have a special guest on the line...

Of note: we talked a smidge about Pay Day + Fence as a post-final action play, and playing events with On Your Own with zero resources. We're not sure if we got the rules right on either and as soon as we know, we'll let you know... STOP PRESS: Matt tells us we got it right on both! Phew.

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Episode 80: Return to... Drawn to the Flame?

Join Peter and Frank for a brief Good Question style episode, in which they try out their new microphones (thank you so bloomin' much, patrons!), look at the newly announced Return to the Dunwich Legacy box, and ask each other Good Questions (TM), the answers of which prove... interesting!

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Episode 79: Slumber Party

Join Frank and Peter for a little slumber party (lol!), as they settle in, after playing The Endless Slumber together, to discuss their investigators and talk about the competition that's still ongoing (entries can be sent in to the details below). This is just a short, spoiler-free episode because we were together in the flesh and didn't want to pass up the opportunity to record!

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Episode 78: Think on your Feet VII

Join Frank for the seventh Think on your Feet, in which Calvin Wright continues his investigations into the madness and mystery surrounding the King in Yellow.

In Think on your Feet episodes, a live play series of Arkham Horror: The Card Game, I endeavour not to edit much at all. Sometimes I cut a bit of shuffling sounds or abbreviate some of my longer pauses (a chap's got to think!), but otherwise, it's uncut, unaltered and meant to feel like you're with me at the table. There may be mistakes and misplays, but hopefully some successes too. In light of the Patreon support and because I want to enhance listening to Drawn to the Flame, I've added some atmospheric details too. Hopefully they elevate the experience. 

Here's the deck before Echoes of the Past: https://arkhamdb.com/deck/view/203093.  

Here's the deck before The Unspeakable Oath: https://arkhamdb.com/deck/view/203111. 

During the edit I spotted a misplay I made while playing. At 26 minutes, I believe I take a 4 action turn. Little good it did me anyway!

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Episode 77: Frank's First Look at Heart of the Elders

Take heart! Intrepid Frank dives into another first look, this time for Heart of the Elders, the third mythos pack in The Forgotten Age cycle. And he's not doing it alone, joined by a friendly voice (not Olive's, not Lola's) from across the pond. Thank you for taking the time to be on the podcast!

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Episode 76: Triple Threat

Join Peter and Frank for a bag of Arkham allsorts: we look at Then It Multiplied, the first designer challenge laid down by Matt Newman, then some fantastic tokens and player boards by Buy The Same Token, and finally: a competition! Your chance to win prizes (plural! more than one prize!).

Check out Buy The Same Token on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/BuyTheSameToken#about or Ebay: https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/buythesametoken
They very generously gave us player boards to try out, and in return we provide our honest assessment of these accessories to help you decide if they're for you!

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Episode 75: Visions of Futures Past III

Join Peter and Frank for the third of Drawn to the Flame's Visions of Futures Past, where we announce a forthcoming player card to the community. We're delighted FFG have asked us to do this again, after Storm of Spirits and Time Warp, and really excited to share this card with everyone. So dive in for a new card that's coming up in Heart of the Elders! 

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Episode 74: Frank's First Look at The Boundary Beyond

Join Frank - and special guest! - for a first look at the new player cards of The Boundary Beyond, the second mythos pack in The Forgotten Age cycle. We're heading back to Mexico and I for one can't wait to take the initiative and cuddle a snake again! Hooray for snakes! Hope you're well prepared, totally a high roller and never cornered in this new scenario...

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Episode 73: Think on your Feet VI

Join Frank for the sixth Think on your Feet, in which Calvin Wright finds himself in the sleepy town of Arkham, taking a trip to the Ward Theatre for the premiere of The King in Yellow. I must say, it sounds delightful!

In Think on your Feet episodes, a live play series of Arkham Horror: The Card Game, I endeavour not to edit much at all. Sometimes I cut a bit of shuffling sounds or abbreviate some of my longer pauses (a chap's got to think!), but otherwise, it's uncut, unaltered and meant to feel like you're with me at the table. There are mistakes and misplays a-plenty, but hopefully some successes too. But in this episode, in light of the Patreon support and because I want to take Drawn to the Flame to the next level, I've added some atmospheric details too. Hopefully they elevate the listening experience. 

Here's the deck I started with: https://arkhamdb.com/deck/view/181479.  

Here's the deck before The Last King: https://arkhamdb.com/deck/view/181498. 

During the edit I spotted a couple of misplays I made while playing. At about 39 minutes I put a damage on 'the fire axe'. I meant fine clothes! My mind was addled by all the damage! And then another fine clothes bloop: when I'm hit by corrosion at 1hr14 or so, somehow I behave as though it's 2 cost rather than 1. Which is... weird. No wait, even weirder - I've convinced myself the gallery is 2 rather than 1 shroud, which is incredibly odd! So the fine clothes discard was correct. And at 1hr25 I seem to have forgotten how Dianne works, and I suggest I'd be cheating to move her to the bystander with the fewest clues, which is funny, since that's exactly what she *should* do! Aaaand at 1hr33 I forget to draw an encounter card... hypergah!


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Episode 72: Jim Culver

He's a dab hand on the trumpet and his music has the power to wake the dead. In the face of unspeakable creeping doom, he's unfazed, even cool. He's a mystic with the power to move you... ladies and gentleman, Mr Jim Culver! Join Peter and Frank for another investigator-specific episode in which they talk about the second mystic we received in the game, the Dunwich Legacy's very own Jim Culver. Jim has a trumpet and loves skulls, but is there more to this musician, particularly in light of the seal mechanic and the expanded cardpool? Let's find out! 

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Episode 71: True Solo

Join Frank and Peter as they talk about playing Arkham Horror solo... and not that two-handed malarkey we've been hearing rumours of, but the true solo, real solo, all by myself solo that's all the rage these days. Which investigators are good by themselves? What pitfalls might you want to avoid? Why am I still talking to myself? 

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Episode 70: Frank (and Peter)'s First Look at Return to the Night of the Zealot

Join Frank for a brief look at the new player cards in Return to the Night of the Zealot, and then hear Peter's Perspective on the cards, which is very interesting indeed! And we have a smidge of community news as try to add more things our listeners (and our patrons!) might enjoy! 

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