Expansion of
Arkham Horror: The Card GameDark Matter (fan expansion for Arkham Horror Card Game)
1-4
players
120
min
14+
age
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"Dark Matter" is a fan-made sci-fi horror campaign for Arkham Horror: The Card Game (1-4 players), featuring awakening on an abandoned spaceship to prevent humanity's extinction. Key mechanics include: - *Cryo-sleep awakening* Players begin by waking from cryo-sleep aboard the seemingly abandoned spaceship Tatterdemalion. - *Deep space adventure* Involves a journey across the solar system amid cosmic horror. - *Extinction prevention* Core objective is to avert the end of the human race. - *Cthulhu inspirations* Draws heavily from Ripples from Carcosa by Oscar Rios and End Time by Dr. Michael C. LaBossiere, exploring humanity's future in an unknowable universe. Dark Matter is a fan-made sci-fi horror campaign designed for Arkham Horror: The Card Game, supporting 1-4 players. It thrusts investigators into a chilling narrative where they awaken from cryo-sleep on the apparently deserted spaceship Tatterdemalion, launching a perilous deep space odyssey across the solar system. The central mission is to thwart the extinction of humanity, set against a backdrop of existential dread. Heavily influenced by Call of Cthulhu supplements—Ripples from Carcosa by Oscar Rios and End Time by Dr. Michael C. LaBossiere—the campaign delves into a haunting vision of humanity's potential fate within a vast, incomprehensible cosmos.