Arkham Horror: The Card Game – The Path to Carcosa: Investigator Expansion
Arkham Horror: The Card Game – The Path to Carcosa: Investigator Expansion Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Expansion Icon
The cards in The Path to Carcosa investigator expansion can be identified by this symbol before each card's collector number: the expansion icon (a black, stylised mask-like face shown as a picture in the printed insert).
Additional Rules and Clarifications
Lola and "Roles"
As a renowned actress, Lola Hayes can play many different roles.
At the beginning of each scenario, after investigators draw opening hands, Lola Hayes must choose a role (Neutral, Guardian, Seeker, Rogue, Mystic, or Survivor).
Lola can only play cards, commit cards to skill tests, or trigger abilities marked with the icons shown in the printed insert (a double-chevron arrow, a lightning-bolt zigzag, and a looped arrow) on Neutral cards or cards whose class matches her role. The icons are pictures in the printed insert, so they are described here rather than reproduced. This restriction only applies to player cards, not to encounter cards or weaknesses.
Note that Constant and Forced abilities remain active on cards whose class does not match Lola's role.
"Exile"
Some player cards must be exiled when they are used. When a card is exiled, it is removed from the game and returned to the collection.
During campaign play, a card that has been exiled must be purchased again with experience points (between scenarios) before an investigator can re-include it in their deck.
If exiling one or more cards would reduce an investigator's deck below their deck size, when purchasing cards between scenarios, they must purchase cards so that a legal deck size is maintained (when purchasing cards in this manner, they may purchase level-0 cards for 0 experience cost until a legal deck size is reached).
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.
- An investigator can only include a researched card in their deck by upgrading it from its lower-level version.
- An investigator can only include a researched card in their deck if, in their Campaign Log, they 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.
For example: Archaic Glyphs (Guiding Stones) has the Researched keyword. Therefore, an investigator cannot purchase Archaic Glyphs (Guiding Stones) directly. They must instead upgrade it from Archaic Glyphs (Untranslated), and they can only do so if they have "translated the glyphs."
The insert shows the two versions as examples:
- Archaic Glyphs (Untranslated) – Asset, Item. Occult. Tome.
- Discard a card with at least 1 skill icon from your hand: Place 1 resource on Archaic Glyphs from the token pool, as a secret.
- Forced – After the third secret is placed on Archaic Glyphs: Discard Archaic Glyphs and gain 5 resources. Record in your Campaign Log that "you have translated the glyphs."
- Archaic Glyphs (Guiding Stones) – Asset, Spell. Researched. Uses (3 charges).
- Spend 1 charge: Investigate. For every 2 points you succeed by, discover 1 additional clue at your location.