I thought it might be fun to take some photos of my opening the Arkham Horror box that we’ve just bought. Of course, since I just sat on the floor to open it, Spidey wandered over to curiously poke her nose in everything, which just makes it more fun. As you can see, the board is pretty big, certainly bigger than I expected it to me. There are also a lot of cards (nearly 400) and lots of tiny cardboard tokens and markers. We’re going to have to get a bigger table than we planned to to play this. I can’t even imagine what it’s like once you start adding the expansions with boards of their own.

We’re probably not going to actually start playing it anytime soon either. I’d like to get the cards into some protective plastic sleeves first because my hands tend to get sweaty, and we have to think about a way to store all those markers and tokens once we’ve punched them out of the cardboard sheets. We’re going to have to find a way to roll dice fairly without having them go all over the place too. We had a shot of making a dice tower of our own, but it ended rather badly. Unsurprisingly, cellophane tape isn’t sufficient to hold together a robust cardboard dice tower.

Incidentally we did manage to play a game of Battlestar Galactica at CarcaSean even if it started later than we planned and kept us out until much later than we usually like to stay. We were worried about Spidey being left alone in the room for too long. I wrote a simple after action report of our experence on QT3 that you can read here. Spoiler: my wife is a Cylon!