Arkham Horror: The Card Game – The Innsmouth Conspiracy: Investigator Expansion
Arkham Horror: The Card Game – The Innsmouth Conspiracy: Investigator Expansion Rulebook
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Expansion Icon
The cards in The Innsmouth Conspiracy Investigator Expansion can be identified by this symbol before each card's collector number: the expansion icon (a black circular symbol with a crown-like rim, shown as a picture in the printed insert).
Additional Rules and Clarifications
Bless and Curse Tokens
This expansion contains two additional kinds of chaos tokens: bless (bless token icon) tokens and curse (curse token icon) tokens. By default, the chaos bag does not contain any bless or curse tokens. However, certain card effects can add these tokens to or remove them from the chaos bag.
- Bless tokens revealed during a skill test have the following effect: "+2. Reveal another token. Instead of returning this token to the chaos bag, return it to the token pool."
- No more than 10 total bless tokens can be included in the chaos bag or sealed on cards in play at any given time.
- Curse tokens revealed during a skill test have the following effect: "–2. Reveal another token. Instead of returning this token to the chaos bag, return it to the token pool."
- No more than 10 total curse tokens can be included in the chaos bag or sealed on cards in play at any given time.
- Bless or curse tokens revealed outside of a skill test have no effect on their own unless otherwise specified by a card effect.
Researched
Researched is a keyword ability that appears on some higher-level cards (most prominently on Seeker cards).
To be included in an investigator's deck, a card with the Researched keyword must first be "identified" or "translated" by performing a task on the lower-level version of that card and recording the result in your Campaign Log.
- You can only include a researched card in your deck by upgrading it from its lower-level version.
- You may only include a researched card in your deck if, in your Campaign Log, you have recorded the completion of the task described in the lower-level version of that card.
- After an investigator has completed this task and recorded it in the Campaign Log, any investigator in that campaign may upgrade the relevant card following the normal rules for upgrading player cards.
Seal
As an additional cost for a card with the seal keyword to enter play, its controller must search the chaos bag for the specified chaos token and place it on top of the card, thereby sealing the token. If there is a choice of which token to seal, the card's controller chooses. If the specified token is not in the chaos bag, the card cannot enter play.
A sealed chaos token is not considered to be in the chaos bag and therefore cannot be revealed from the chaos bag as part of a skill test or ability. When a chaos token is "released," it is returned to the chaos bag and is no longer considered sealed. If a card with one or more chaos tokens sealed on it leaves play for any reason, any chaos tokens sealed on it are immediately released.
Some cards (with or without the seal keyword) may also have abilities that seal one or more chaos tokens as part of their effect. This is done following the same process as above: searching the chaos bag for the specified token, removing it from the chaos bag, and placing it on the card. If the specified token is not in the chaos bag, the effect fails.