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That time I spent 3 hours trying to figure out one rule in Arkham Horror
I got the big box of Arkham Horror out last Saturday night, all pumped for a game. Spent maybe 90 minutes setting up tokens and reading through the rulebook again. Then I hit this weird thing about monster movement during the mythos phase, just couldn't wrap my head around it. Wound up digging through forums on my phone for another hour and a half, and finally found a post from like 2017 that explained it. So yeah, setup plus one rule took me almost 3 hours before we even drew a card. Has anyone else spent way too long on a single confusing rule in a complex game?
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mila3952d ago
Honestly, maybe that 3 hours of confusion is part of the experience.
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Did you see that post from last month where someone compared Arkham Horror rules to reading a legal contract? I swear, that game's rulebook is designed by people who hate fun. I've got this theory that every copy of Arkham Horror comes with a secret fourth rulebook that only the designers understand. Three hours sounds about right though, I once spent an afternoon trying to figure out if "adjacent" meant the same space or just next to it in the hospital expansion.
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