Shocktober Day 26 - Trick

The children started screaming at the poor man's front door. I ran up to see what the commotion was, last thing you need is to become a Halloween horror story for the 24 hour news channels. The owner of the home seemed to be having seizures of some sort. I pulled the screen door open and ran in, telling the kids to stay right there and wait for me. As soon as I got near the man's face he smiled, stopped seizing, and the heavy front door slammed shut. The kids returned to their screaming, and everything went black.

(Image borrowed from countryliving.com)

(I didn't even realize, this is our 150th post!)

Custom Arkham Horror Dice

As you can see, I have three different sets of dice on the left. From top to bottom these are "blessed," "normal," and "cursed" dice for use in Arkham Horror. A group and order was organized by one of the members on Board Game Geek for a bulk order from Chessex for these dice. The bulk order allowed for lowered prices and made these somewhat more affordable.

The blue dice contain successed (the elder sign) on 3 sides, the green dice contain successes on two sides, and the red contain only a single success.

In Arkham Horror the number of successes matters in resolving a variety of actions from encounters on cards to magic spells, to combat.

These dice also have numbers indicating how high the roll was as some effects of items and other cards rely on the number rolled. While these are fairly uncommon in the game, we wanted a way to read the numbers if possible. It is my understanding that the Chessex people were very helpful with design.

Overall the dice are very nice and will go a long way towards my increasing interest in making Arkham Horror as highly immersive as possible. The dice arrival this week will make our Friday plans for a day before Halloween quest into that town even more fun than previously planned.

Anyone have any other ideas for some fairly easy updates to Arkham Horror?