The first card + board expansion for Eldritch Horror . Requires the core set to play.
The Antarctic fog parted, and the towering mountain range suddenly became visible. The dark peaks reached impossibly high into the air, vast and foreboding. [...] Ursula felt certain no one had seen mountains that big before. Not until Professor Lake’s transmission a few days ago. A twinge of sorrow picked at her. Poor Lake. “What happened at the camp?” Ropes winced. “It was grim. Once the storm cleared and we were able to get there, everything had been torn apart. Everyone was dead. Dogs too. Some of the men had been gutted. [...] You ever hear of someone snapping like that?” Ursula’s jaw clenched. [...] Yes, she’d seen the horror that human madness could wreak. Still, how could one person manage so much bloodshed? If it wasn’t some madman, what else could have possibly been the source of such butchery? “There’s the opening,” Ropes pointed to a gap between the towering peaks. “You’re going to want to brace yourself for what’s on the other side.” He paused for dramatic effect. “It’s a city.”
Expansion Overview[]
From the rulebook[]
The Mountains of Madness expansion leads investigators on the Miskatonic Expedition to Antarctica to discover the history of the elder things, an ancient alien race that was once the dominant species on Earth.
It includes new investigators, Ancient Ones, Monsters, and encounters to be used with Eldritch Horror. It also introduces entirely new mechanics including a new side board, Unique Assets, the Focus action, Task Assets, and of course, an adventure into the Mountains of Madness.
Mechanics[]
This expansion introduces Focus mechanics, Unique Assets and Preludes. It also introduces another new concept with its 12 Antarctica adventures.
Each card in this expansion is marked with the Mountains of Madness expansion icon at the bottom-left corner. Non-card components aren't marked with this icon.
Component | Amount |
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Side Board | Antarctica |
Rulebook | 1 |
Investigator Sheets with Matching Tokens and Plastic Stands | 8 |
Ancient One Sheets | 2 |
America Encounter Cards | 4 |
Europe Encounter Cards | 4 |
Asia/Australia Encounter Cards | 4 |
General Encounter Cards | 4 |
Other World Encounter Cards | 6 |
Expedition Encounter Cards | 6 (3 backs for 3 named City locations) |
Special Encounter Cards | 24 (3 backs for 2 Ancient Ones) |
Research Encounter Cards | 48 (2 backs for 2 Ancient Ones) |
Outpost Encounter Cards | 16 |
Mountain Encounter Cards | 16 |
Antarctica Research Encounter Cards | 16 |
Mythos Cards | 26 (11 yellow, 9 green, and 6 blue) |
Mystery Cards | 14 (2 backs for 2 Ancient Ones) |
Adventure Cards | 12 (3 backs for each stage) |
Artifact Cards | 8 |
Asset Cards | 16 |
Unique Asset Cards | 42 |
Condition Cards | 32 |
Spell Cards | 16 |
Prelude Cards | 6 |
Round Overview Cards | 4 |
Monster Tokens | 22 (14 normal, 8 epic) |
Mystery Token | 1 |
Clue Tokens | 6 (1 for each Antartic location) |
Gate Tokens | 6 (1 for each Antartic location) |
Focus Token | 8 |
Adventure token | 1 |
Detailed Content[]
Ancient Ones[]
The expansion contains the 2 Ancient Ones below:
Elder Things[]
The Elder Things has 8 Mysteries listed here, 24 Research Encounter cards and 16 Special Encounter cards (A Dark God Final Mystery and Mysterious Disappearances). It uses the Antarctica board with its 32 encounter cards and 16 Antarctica research cards.
Mystery | Type | |
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An Alien Ritual | Miscellaneous | |
An Expedition Compromised | Miscellaneous | |
At the Mountains of Madness | Eldritch Tokens | |
Binding the Dark God | Miscellaneous | |
Discovery of an Ancient Civilization | Research Encounter | |
Invasion of the Elder Things | Item Requirement, Epic Monster | |
Mysterious Disappearances | Special Encounter | |
The Dark God's Prison Crumbles | Miscellaneous |
Ithaqua[]
Ithaqua has 6 Mysteries listed here, 24 Research Encounter cards and 8 Special Encounter cards (Exploring Hyperborea).
Mystery | Type | |
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A Spreading Storm | Research Encounter | |
Exploring Hyperborea | Special Encounter | |
Growing Hunger | Eldritch Tokens | |
Hyperborean Aurora | Item Requirement, Miscellaneous | |
The Gnoph-Keh Attack! | Research Encounter, Miscellaneous | |
Supplying the North | Item Requirement, Eldritch Tokens |
Investigators[]
This box contains the 8 Investigators below:
- Agnes Baker
- Daisy Walker
- Finn Edwards
- George Barnaby
- Patrice Hathaway
- Tommy Muldoon
- Ursula Downs
- Wilson Richards
Artifacts[]
It contains the 8 Artifacts below:
Card | Name | Trait |
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Alien Device | Item | |
Crystal of the Elder Things | Item | |
Dhol Chants | Item — Tome | |
Eltdown Shards | Item — Tome | |
Heart of Winter | Item | |
Hyperborean Crystal | Item — Magical | |
Livre d'Ivon | Item — Tome | |
Pnakotic Manuscripts | Item — Tome |
Spells[]
The box contains 16 Spell cards listed here. Each spell has 4 variants.
Card | Name | Trait |
---|---|---|
Arcane Insight | Ritual | |
Banishment | Ritual | |
Intervene | Incantation | |
Storm of Spirits | Incantation |
Assets[]
It contains its 16 Asset cards, as we see here:
Card | Name | Trait | Value |
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Astronomy Guidebook | Item — Tome | 2 | |
Blunderbuss | Item — Weapon | 2 | |
Courier Needed! | Service | 1 | |
Cultist's Journal | Item — Magical Tome | 3 | |
Gambler's Dice | Trinket | 3 | |
Genealogy Research | Task | 1 | |
Investment | Task | 1 | |
Map of the Ley Lines | Item — Tome | 4 | |
Mineralogy Research | Task | 1 | |
Monster Hunter | Ally | 3 | |
Newspaper Report | Task | 1 | |
Patrolling the Streets | Task | 1 | |
Profane Tome | Item — Tome | 1 | |
Secret Page | Item — Tome | 2 | |
Search the Archives | Service | 2 | |
Tome of Horrors | Item — Tome | 3 |
Unique Assets[]
This expansion contains 42 Unique Assets, listed here:
Card | Name | Trait | Count |
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Anna Tilton | Ally — Character | 1 | |
Antarctic Guide | Ally | 2 | |
Constance Hawberk | Ally — Character | 1 | |
Courier Run | Task | 4 | |
Danforth | Ally — Character | 1 | |
Dog Sled | Ally | 2 | |
Dr. Hiram Upham | Ally — Character | 1 | |
Esteban Herrero | Ally — Character | 1 | |
Father Merluzzo | Ally — Character | 1 | |
For the Greater Good | Task | 3 | |
Henry Wilcox | Ally — Character | 1 | |
Kid O'Brien | Ally — Character | 1 | |
Old Journal | Item — Tome | 4 | |
Professor Armitage | Ally — Character | 1 | |
Provisions | Item | 4 | |
Purifying the World | Task | 3 | |
Sacrifices to Make | Task | 3 | |
Sealing the Old Ones | Task | 3 | |
Sir William Brinton | Ally — Character | 1 | |
Walking the Ley Lines | Task | 3 | |
William Dyer | Ally — Character | 1 |
Conditions[]
It contains 32 Conditions cards, listed here:
Card | Name | Traits | Count |
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Amnesia | Madness | 1 | |
Blessed | Boon | 1 | |
Cursed | Bane | 1 | |
Dark Pact | Deal | 1 | |
Debt | Deal — Common | 2 | |
Detained | Restriction | 1 | |
Funding | Deal | 4 | |
Hunger | Madness | 4 | |
Hunted | Pursuit | 4 | |
Hypothermia | Exposure | 8 | |
Infection | Illness | 4 | |
Internal Injury | Injury | 1 |
Monsters[]
The expansion contains 22 Monster tokens (14 normal, 8 epic).
Token | Name | Class | Count |
---|---|---|---|
Child of the Goat | Normal | 1 | |
Crawling Chaos | Epic | 1 | |
Crazed Elder Thing | Epic | 1 | |
Cultist | Normal | 2 | |
Dhole | Normal | 1 | |
Flying Polyp | Normal | 1 | |
Ghast | Normal | 1 | |
Giant Penguin | Normal | 1 | |
Hunting Horror | Normal | 1 | |
Ithaqua | Epic | 1 | |
Leng Spider | Normal | 1 | |
Nctolhu | Epic | 1 | |
Nctosa | Epic | 1 | |
Proto-Shoggoth | Normal | 1 | |
Rampaging Shoggoth | Epic | 1 | |
Rhan-Tegoth | Epic | 1 | |
Rat-thing | Normal | 1 | |
Shan | Normal | 1 | |
Tcho-tcho | Normal | 1 | |
Wendigo | Normal | 1 | |
Zombie Horde | Epic | 1 |
Preludes[]
The box contains 6 Prelude cards listed here.
Prelude | Mechanic used |
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Beginning of the End | Azathoth |
Doomsayer from Antarctica | Elder Things or Antarctica adventures |
Key to Salvation | Task Unique Assets |
Rumors from the North | Ithaqua |
Ultimate Sacrifice | Defeated Investigators |
Unwilling Sacrifice | Character Unique Assets |
Mythos[]
It also contains the 26 Mythos cards listed below:
Name | Type | Difficulty |
---|---|---|
A Brief Respite | Yellow | Easy |
A Dark Path | Green | Hard |
A Helping Hand | Yellow | Easy |
Abandoned Goals | Green | Medium |
Arcane Instability | Yellow | Medium |
Call to Duty | Green | Easy |
Cold Snap | Yellow | Medium |
Cold White Silence | Blue | Medium |
Crime in the Streets | Yellow | Hard |
Devourer of Stars | Blue | Easy |
False Bargain | Green | Medium |
Hindering Agony | Green | Medium |
Hunter Becomes the Hunted | Yellow | Medium |
Impending Doom | Yellow | Hard |
Losing Hope | Green | Hard |
Mysterious Benefactor | Yellow | Easy |
Outbreak! | Yellow | Hard |
Prepared For Anything | Green | Easy |
Ravenous Hunger | Yellow | Medium |
The Crawling Chaos | Blue | Hard |
The End is Nigh | Yellow | Hard |
The Horror in the Museum | Blue | Medium |
The Time Has Come | Green | Hard |
Time is Running Out | Blue | Medium |
Twin Spawn of Cthulhu | Blue | Hard |
Vile Wounds | Green | Medium |
Other[]
This expansion adds many other cards and tokens, but the most relevant additions are the following:
- 6 Expedition Encounter Cards with 3 Unique backs corresponding to the major cities: Arkham, Rome and Sydney.
- 6 Gate tokens; 3 of which for the Antarctica Side Board and 3 for the Expedition spaces on the Main Board:
Gate Location | Board | Omen |
---|---|---|
The Amazon | Main Board | red |
City of the Elder Things | Sideboard | blue |
Miskatonic Outpost | Sideboard | red |
Plateau of Leng | Sideboard | red |
The Pyramids | Main Board | blue |
Tunguska | Main Board | green |
Links[]
- Contents and Description on BoardGameGeek
- Link on Publishers Site
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