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Drawn To The Flame is a podcast in which Peter and Frank discuss Arkham Horror: The Card Game, a cooperative living card game of Lovecraftian horror.
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Join Frank and Peter as we take a fourth first look at the player cards of The Drowned City Investigator Expansion (For Players). We've got the wheel out to spin to pick a class and we're diving in with our takes.
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Thursday Mar 20, 2025
Thursday Mar 20, 2025
Join Frank and Peter as we take a third first look at the player cards of The Drowned City Investigator Expansion (For Players). We've got the wheel out to spin to pick a class and we're diving in with our takes.
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Thursday Mar 13, 2025
Thursday Mar 13, 2025
Join Frank and Peter as we take a second first look at the player cards of The Drowned City Investigator Expansion (For Players). We've got the wheel out to spin to pick a class and we're diving in with our takes.
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Thursday Mar 06, 2025
Thursday Mar 06, 2025
Join Frank and Peter as we take a first look at the player cards of The Drowned City Investigator Expansion (For Players). We've got the wheel out to spin to pick a class and we're diving in with our takes.
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Thursday Feb 27, 2025
Thursday Feb 27, 2025
Join Frank and Peter as they talk about the newly announced current and legacy environments for Arkham Horror, the retirements on the horizon, or what we might term 'rotation'. What does it mean for the game? What will the community impact be? What do we know so far?
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Thursday Feb 06, 2025
Thursday Feb 06, 2025
Join Peter and Frank as they talk about some of the things on Duke's mood board for The Drowned City. When we spoke to Duke last year, he mentioned a range of media and we've jumped in to look at The Call of Cthulhu, The Doom that Came to Sarnath, Arrival, Prometheus, Alien: Covenant, Scavengers Reign and Evil Dead, and talk about them all and how they relate to The Drowned City. BEWARE: spoilers for all within.
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Thursday Jan 23, 2025
Thursday Jan 23, 2025
Join Frank and Peter as they take stock of preview season so far. What's catching their eye with The Drowned City? What are the new investigators like? What does the return of myriad augur? NB: this episode was recorded in early January 2025, so we weren't privvy to the full Drowned City set, let alone all the previews at the time of recording.
See all the previews here.
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Thursday Jan 16, 2025
Thursday Jan 16, 2025
Join Peter and Frank as they look ahead at 2025: what are our Arkham intentions? What do we think The Drowned City will bring to Arkham? And what are our gaming intentions and hopes more generally?
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Thursday Jan 09, 2025
Thursday Jan 09, 2025
Join Frank as he talks about FHVFHV for the third time - we're talking Wilson's finale, Kate's longest night, a new investigator begins their survey and much, much more. Enjoy!
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Thursday Jan 02, 2025
Thursday Jan 02, 2025
Tune in for Think on your Feet XLVII, in which the play through of The Innsmouth Conspiracy, featuring Subject 5U-21, concludes.
In Think on your Feet episodes, a live play series, I endeavour not to edit much at all. Sometimes I cut some 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.
Timestamps:
0.00 preamble
1.25 interlude iv
4.25 upgrading deck
5.21 scenario setup
7.35 chaos bag
8.20 act and agenda
10.02 opening hand
10.50 gameplay begins
26.45 act 1 advancement
37.30 agenda 1 advancement
1.09.30 epilogue and campaign wrap-up
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Thursday Dec 12, 2024
Thursday Dec 12, 2024
Join Frank and Peter for the third and final part of an extended interview with Azathoth's replacement Nyarlathotep, aka Duke Harrist, the lead designer of Arkham Horror LCG. In this episode, we talk to Duke about The Feast of Hemlock Vale campaign. We work our way through every scenario in the campaign, as well as its influences, the tone he wanted to set, his thoughts on difficulty, solo play and balance and the personal elements of his own life that went into the creation of the campaign. If that's not enough, we round the whole thing out with a bit of chat about The Drowned City, too!
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Thursday Nov 28, 2024
Thursday Nov 28, 2024
Join Peter and Frank for Visions of Futures Past, our occasional series of episodes where we preview cards for Arkham Horror. In this episode: it's The Drowned City, with our look at some previews sent to us by FFG. Thanks FFG! We hope you like the cards.
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Thursday Nov 21, 2024
Thursday Nov 21, 2024
Join Frank and Peter for the second part of an extended interview with Azathoth's replacement Nyarlathotep, aka Duke Harrist, the lead designer of Arkham Horror LCG. In this episode, we talk to Duke about the player cards of The Feast of Hemlock Vale. We take more of a look at the state of the classes in Arkham and the places Duke wanted to bring new ideas to the game, as well as chat about bringing new investigators into the Arkham Files. We hope you enjoy it!
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Thursday Nov 14, 2024
Thursday Nov 14, 2024
Join Frank and Peter for the first part of an extended interview with Azathoth's replacement Nyarlathotep, aka Duke Harrist, the lead designer of Arkham Horror LCG. In this episode, we talk to Duke about his background as a designer, how he ended up at FFG, what he brings to the role and what it's like following on from Maxine Newman, as well as where he wants to take Arkham in the future.
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Thursday Oct 31, 2024
Thursday Oct 31, 2024
Join Peter and Frank for another scenario-specific episode. This time, they're popping on their backpacks and hiking boots and straying into The Untamed Wilds, scenario one of The Forgotten Age campaign. How tough is the scenario? How do you beat it? And how does it beat you??
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Thursday Oct 17, 2024
Thursday Oct 17, 2024
Join Frank as he talks about FHVFHV for the second time - we're talking Alessandra, Kate, Wilson, routes, highs, low low lows, what's the point of parley and many other things. Enjoy!
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Thursday Oct 10, 2024
Thursday Oct 10, 2024
Tune in for Think on your Feet XLVI, in which the play through of The Innsmouth Conspiracy, featuring Subject 5U-21, continues.
In Think on your Feet episodes, a live play series, I endeavour not to edit much at all. Sometimes I cut some 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.
Timestamps:
0.00 intro
1.36 story intro
4.30 little bit of setup for listeners
5.52 agenda / act / opening hand
8.45 gameplay starts
1.13.15 gameplay wrap-up
At 44.05 Peter takes a 4-action turn, forgetting he spent an action on the blue key. Somewhere between 44 & 49 minutes, Peter draws a reality acid and forgets to flip Ravenous. Same at 57. So there's a ten-ish minute window where Ravenous is ticking the wrong way. Sometimes these things happen! At 49.20 Peter pathfinds as though locations are connected by adjacency rather than icons, but he spots this and docks actions. Finally, at 1.10.05 Peter draws mysterious chanting and forgets the initiate of Dagon is in play, so fetches an Acolyte. It doesn't make a difference as he finishes that turn...
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Thursday Oct 03, 2024
Thursday Oct 03, 2024
Join Frank and Peter as they look at the latest news from Fantasy Flight Games all about the forthcoming expansion The Drowned City. What do Marion and Agatha do? What's the deal with specialist cards? And just how will Arkham never be the same again?
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Thursday Sep 26, 2024
Thursday Sep 26, 2024
Tune in for Think on your Feet XLVI, in which the play through of The Innsmouth Conspiracy, featuring Subject 5U-21, continues.
In Think on your Feet episodes, a live play series, I endeavour not to edit much at all. Sometimes I cut some 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.
Timestamps:
0.00 preamble
2.10 scenario intro, act and agenda
5.03 opening hand
6.30 gameplay starts
50.00 gameplay ends, wrap up.
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Thursday Sep 12, 2024
Thursday Sep 12, 2024
Join Frank as he talks about FHVFHV for the first time.
Here's the FHVFHV sheet: here.
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Thursday Sep 05, 2024
Thursday Sep 05, 2024
Join Frank and Peter as they talk about a non-Arkham Horror game: Leder Games' Arcs. It's space, it's strategy, it's trick-taking (ish) and it's loads of fun.
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Thursday Aug 29, 2024
Thursday Aug 29, 2024
Join Frank and Peter as they talk about Shadows Over Scotland at Tabletop Scotland and the decks they're thinking of making for the two epic multiplayer games.
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Thursday Aug 15, 2024
Thursday Aug 15, 2024
Join Frank and Peter as they talk about Shadows Over Scotland at Tabletop Scotland and then take a look at the Arkham Horror news out of Gencon.
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Thursday Jul 25, 2024
Thursday Jul 25, 2024
Tune in for Think on your Feet XLV, in which the play through of The Innsmouth Conspiracy, featuring Subject 5U-21, continues.
In Think on your Feet episodes, a live play series, I endeavour not to edit much at all. Sometimes I cut some 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.
Timestamps:
0.00 preamble
3.40 upgrade chat
4.30 blooper chat - it crops up at minute 33 next, and again at 53.
9.10 act and agenda
10.55 opening hand
13.35 gameplay begins
At 15.30 I forget to remove the first Old Innsmouth Road, but I remember shortly afterwards.
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Thursday Jul 11, 2024
Thursday Jul 11, 2024
Join Peter and Frank as they talk about everybody's favourite soldier, all-round man-about-the-front fighting and raging against the dying of the light: Mark Harrigan.
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Thursday Jul 04, 2024
Thursday Jul 04, 2024
Join Peter and Frank as they talk about everybody's favourite butler, all-round man-about-the-home helping the team to greatness: Carson Sinclair.
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Thursday Jun 13, 2024
Thursday Jun 13, 2024
You've just finished a scenario but how do you know you've done ok? What are the things you can consider and ponder to improve your play? Join Frank and Peter as they talk about self-analysis and self-improvement in Arkham.
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Thursday Jun 06, 2024
Thursday Jun 06, 2024
Join Frank and Peter for an Innsmouth interlude, in which they take a breather with Suzi after four hard-fought scenarios and reflect on possible upgrades to the deck. We'd love to hear your thoughts too - please get in touch.
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Thursday May 23, 2024
Thursday May 23, 2024
Tune in for Think on your Feet XLIV, in which the play through of The Innsmouth Conspiracy, featuring Subject 5U-21, continues.
In Think on your Feet episodes, a live play series, I endeavour not to edit much at all. Sometimes I cut some 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.
Timestamps:
0.00 intro / preamble
2.35 scenario intro
5.12 setup / vehicle rules / locations / fishing vessel
9.23 act / agenda
10.30 opening hand
12.30 gameplay begins
1.08.50 gameplay ends, resolution, wrap up
Three times (19.05, 34.11, 56.07) Peter takes a 4-action turn, but then the same turn or the next turn he spends an action to play Regurgitation, so it always evens out.
At 47.20 Peter forgets to move The Thing That Follows.
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Thursday May 16, 2024
Thursday May 16, 2024
Join Peter and Frank as they talk about Shadows over Scotland, an event for Arkham Horror this summer/autumn at Tabletop Scotland games convention, 6th-8th September 2024. We cover what it is, what we'll be doing, and why you might want to come!
Tabletop Scotland's website: here
Shadows over Scotland link: here
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Thursday Apr 25, 2024
Thursday Apr 25, 2024
Join Peter and Frank as they talk about investigator signature cards. What makes a good signature? Why do some signatures feel super powerful and others just fizzle out? And what is the best signature in the game?
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Thursday Apr 11, 2024
Thursday Apr 11, 2024
Join Peter and Frank as they talk about keywords and other mechanics a campaign might introduce. What makes a good keyword? Why do some keywords land well and others fizzle or are ultimately forgettable? What gives specific campaigns their memorable flavour?
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Thursday Mar 21, 2024
Thursday Mar 21, 2024
Join Frank and Peter for the sixth first look of the player cards of The Feast of Hemlock Vale.
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Thursday Mar 14, 2024
Thursday Mar 14, 2024
Join Frank and Peter for the fifth first look of the player cards of The Feast of Hemlock Vale.
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Thursday Mar 07, 2024
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
Join Frank and Peter for the fourth first look of the player cards of The Feast of Hemlock Vale.
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Thursday Feb 29, 2024
Thursday Feb 29, 2024
Join Frank and Peter for the third first look of the player cards of The Feast of Hemlock Vale.
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Thursday Feb 22, 2024
Thursday Feb 22, 2024
Join Frank and Peter for the second first look of the player cards of The Feast of Hemlock Vale.
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Thursday Feb 15, 2024
Thursday Feb 15, 2024
Join Frank and Peter for the first first look of the player cards of The Feast of Hemlock Vale.
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Thursday Feb 01, 2024
Thursday Feb 01, 2024
Join Peter and Frank as they talk about folk horror: what is it and how does it link to Lovecraft, Arkham Horror and the Feast of Hemlock Vale? Check out Black Aquarius on BBC Sounds, too, if you want more on 1970s Occultism.
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Thursday Jan 25, 2024
Thursday Jan 25, 2024
Tune in for Think on your Feet XLIII, in which the play through of The Innsmouth Conspiracy, featuring Subject 5U-21, continues.
In Think on your Feet episodes, a live play series, I endeavour not to edit much at all. Sometimes I cut some 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.
Timestamps:
0.00 intro / preamble
1.28 interlude: the syzygy
3.50 upgrading Suzi
6.10 scenario intro
11.30 running through the map
14.28 opening hand
16.22 gameplay begins
1.35.40 gameplay ends, resolution, wrap up
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Thursday Dec 21, 2023
Thursday Dec 21, 2023
Join Peter and Frank as they talk about being good at Arkham Horror or, more specifically, not being bad (aka sucking) at the game - when to take tests, what the consequences of failure are, how to be a better player. The usual jazz!
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Thursday Dec 14, 2023
Thursday Dec 14, 2023
CONTENT WARNING: we talk about some health challenges and serious stuff in this episode. Please be warned.
Join Frank and Peter as they talk about the ebb and flow of their interest in Arkham Horror, and the sorts of things that might combine to knock their interest in the game.
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Thursday Nov 30, 2023
Thursday Nov 30, 2023
Join Frank and Peter as they announce not one, not two, but three new cards from The Feast of Hemlock Vale Investigator Expansion (for players). We share the cards up front and then go down the rabbit hole to discuss the ins and outs of these cards. Enjoy!
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Thursday Nov 23, 2023
Thursday Nov 23, 2023
Tune in for Think on your Feet XLII, in which the play through of The Innsmouth Conspiracy, featuring Subject 5U-21 continues.
In Think on your Feet episodes, a live play series, I endeavour not to edit much at all. Sometimes I cut some 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.
Timestamps:
0.00 preamble
2.15 intro text
9.50 upgrades and set up
12.26 agenda and act
14.40 opening hand
17.45 gameplay starts
1.26.40 post-gameplay assessment
At 21.05 Peter forgets to add a doom to the agenda the first couple of turns. But when he notices it he corrects it immediately.
At 33.30 Peter takes a four-action turn. Given how things end, that doesn't seem a problem, really.
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Thursday Nov 09, 2023
Thursday Nov 09, 2023
Join Frank and Peter for a very special investigator-specific episode to celebrate 300 episodes of Drawn to the Flame. Thank you to you, the listener, for being along with us on this ride!
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Friday Oct 27, 2023
Friday Oct 27, 2023
Join Frank and Peter for Visions of Futures Past XXV, an occasional series in which we reveal cards, thanks to the generosity of Fantasy Flight Games. This time, we look at a card from The Feast of Hemlock Vale investigator expansion for players!
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Thursday Oct 19, 2023
Thursday Oct 19, 2023
Join Frank for Think on your Feet XLI, the start of a new campaign, with a new investigator, the newness shiny and, well, new.
In Think on your Feet episodes, a live play series, I endeavour not to edit much at all. Sometimes I cut some 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.
Timestamps:
0.00 intro and story
4.45 act and agenda
8.35 opening hand
9.25 gameplay begins
53.40: 2 turns forgetting The Thing That Follows - I guessed 'at least one, maybe two' and move it two, which was right, and then I move it three, 'to be on the safe side', which was wrong!
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Thursday Oct 05, 2023
Thursday Oct 05, 2023
Join Frank and special guest Jaya, who kindly steps up so that we can take a look at the new investigators of The Feast of Hemlock Vale Investigator Expansion (for players). We're doing a pre-first look, an initial impressions episode, sharing our enthusiasm and our wonderings about who's coming up. Spoilers, understandably, for FHV.
NB: there's an audio quirk on this episode - Jaya's mic is a little scratchy, but he's still completely audible.
Find out more about Jaya's projects here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/magnategame/21x-blackjack-for-maths-lovers-uk | https://naylorgames.com/ | https://naylorgames.com/pages/ng6
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Thursday Sep 21, 2023
Thursday Sep 21, 2023
Join Frank and Peter as they continue their discussion of efficiency and build on it to look at the concept of failing forwards. What is failing forwards and how does it pertain to Arkham? More strikingly, how do reward mechanics influence and direct decks and play patterns?
NB: there's an audio quirk on this episode - Frank's mic has gone doolally and he's somewhat quiet. Apologies; it'll be rectified on the next episode.
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Thursday Sep 07, 2023
Thursday Sep 07, 2023
Join Frank and Peter as they explore what's meant by 'action economy' in Arkham Horror, or, in other words, what it means to be 'efficient' in play. We talk about efficiency as a concept, how it applies to Arkham and whether it's a useful concept to bear in mind when making decks and playing.
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