The fourth card-only expansion for Eldritch Horror. Requires the core set to play.
Roland Banks buried his hands deep into his coat pockets. His breath turned to frozen mist before him as he surveyed the heaps of stone and rubble that was once a shining cathedral. The destruction was absolute. The quake that shook Rome the previous night was strong, but this was different. This was something else entirely. Shards of glass sparkled on the city streets. Nearly every window for miles around had shattered, but the buildings themselves, the ones surrounding the cathedral, still stood. No, whatever had happened here was no act of nature. Whatever—or whoever—caused this, did so with some dark purpose, and the destruction of this cathedral in particular was no accident. [...] He extracted a larger piece of stained glass from the rubble. Upon the piece, an unusual symbol was etched into the glass. An unusual symbol, but one that Roland had seen once before...
Expansion Overview[]
Cities in Ruin component overview
From the rulesheet[]
In the Cities in Ruin expansion, investigators must discover the cause of the unnatural disasters—terrifying earthquakes that shake cities to rubble, devastating typhoons that flood the coastlines, and torrential storms that wreak havoc on the mainlands.
This expansion includes a new Ancient One and new investigators and encounters to be used with Eldritch Horror. It also introduces entirely new mechanics including Disasters, Devastation Encounters, and Unique Assets.
Mechanics[]
This expansion introduces Disaster mechanics. It also contains Glamour spells, Talent Conditions, Unique Assets and Preludes.
Each card in this expansion is marked with the 
Cities in Ruin expansion icon at the bottom-left corner. Non-card components aren't marked with this icon.
| Component | Amount |
|---|---|
| Rulebook | 1 |
| Investigator Sheets with Matching Tokens and Plastic Stands | 4 |
| Ancient One Sheets | 1 |
| 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 locations) |
| Special Encounter Cards | 8 (1 back for 1 Ancient One) |
| Research Encounter Cards | 24 (1 back for 1 Ancient One) |
| Devastation Encounter Cards | 16 |
| Disaster Cards | 16 |
| Mythos Cards | 24 (12 yellow, 9 green, and 3 blue) |
| Mystery Cards | 6 (1 back for 1 Ancient One) |
| Artifact Cards | 4 |
| Asset Cards | 16 |
| Unique Asset Cards | 24 |
| Condition Cards | 20 |
| Spell Cards | 12 |
| Prelude Cards | 4 |
| Monster Tokens | 10 (4 normal, 6 epic) |
| Devastation Tokens | 8 |
 Health Tokens
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8 (8 1 Health)
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 Sanity Tokens
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6 (6 1 Sanity)
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 Eldritch tokens
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8 |
Detailed Content[]
Ancient Ones[]
The expansion contains the following Ancient One:
Shudde M'ell[]
Shudde M'ell has 6 Mysteries listed here, 24 Research Encounter cards and 8 Special Encounter cards (Exploring G'harne). It uses 16 Disaster cards and 16 Devastation Encounter cards.
| Mystery | Type | |
|---|---|---|
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Bringer of Ruin | Research Encounter |
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Disaster Relief Effort | Miscellaneous |
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Exploring G'harne | Special Encounter |
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Renewing the Seal | Eldritch Tokens |
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The Burrowers Beneath | Epic Monster |
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The Worldrender | Epic Monster |
Investigators[]
This box contains the 4 Investigators below:
Artifacts[]
It contains the 4 Artifacts below:
| Card | Name | Trait |
|---|---|---|
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Fetch Stick | Item — Magical Weapon |
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G'harne Fragments | Item — Relic Tome |
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Tikkoun Elixir | Item — Elixir |
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Vach-Viraj Chant | Item — Magical Tome |
Spells[]
The box contains 12 Spell cards listed here. Each spell has 4 variants.
| Card | Name | Trait |
|---|---|---|
|
Beast Within | Glamour |
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Occult Exaltation | Ritual |
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Spectral Razor | Incantation |
Assets[]
It contains its 16 Asset cards, as we see here:
| Card | Name | Trait | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
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Agency Stakeout | Service | 3 |
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Arcane Sutra | Item — Tome | 3 |
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Forbidden Secrets | Item — Tome | 2 |
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Gatling Gun | Item — Weapon | 4 |
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Grisly Totem | Trinket — Magical | 3 |
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Lodge Hunter | Ally | 4 |
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Mauser C96 | Item — Weapon | 2 |
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Mission Briefing | Service | 1 |
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Mystic Scroll | Item — Tome | 1 |
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News Report | Service | 1 |
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Occult Scripture | Item — Tome | 3 |
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Painkillers | Trinket | 1 |
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Private Flight | Service | 2 |
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Silver Twilight Host | Service | 3 |
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Training Regimen | Service | 2 |
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Winchester Rifle | Item — Weapon | 2 |
Unique Assets[]
This expansion contains 24 Unique Assets, listed here:
| Card | Name | Trait | Count |
|---|---|---|---|
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Agency Secrets | Item | 4 |
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Agent Callahan | Ally — Character | 1 |
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Amery Wendy-Smith | Ally — Character | 1 |
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Courier Run | Task | 4 |
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Duke | Ally | 1 |
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For the Greater Good | Task | 3 |
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Light of Reason | Task | 3 |
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Professor Morgan | Ally — Character | 1 |
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Seeking the Masters | Task | 3 |
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Wave of Destruction | Task | 3 |
Conditions[]
It contains 20 Conditions cards, listed here:
| Card | Name | Traits | Count |
|---|---|---|---|
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Attuned | Talent | 2 |
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Blessed | Boon | 1 |
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Cursed | Bane | 1 |
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Dark Pact | Deal | 1 |
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Debt | Deal — Common | 1 |
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Guts | Talent | 2 |
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Practiced | Talent | 2 |
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Quick Study | Talent | 2 |
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Relentless | Talent | 2 |
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Rugged | Talent | 2 |
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Terror | Madness | 4 |
Monsters[]
The expansion contains 10 Monster tokens (4 normal, 6 epic).
| Token | Name | Class | Count |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Ancient Cthonian | Epic | 4 |
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Formless Spawn | Normal | 1 |
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Leopard Man | Normal | 1 |
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Shudde M'ell | Epic | 1 |
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Yithian | Normal | 1 |
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Young Cthonian | Normal | 1 |
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Worldrender | Epic | 1 |
Preludes[]
The box contains 4 Prelude cards listed here.
| Prelude | Mechanic used |
|---|---|
| Apocalypse Nigh | Shudde M'ell |
| Fall of Man | Disaster |
| The Price of Prestige | Task Unique Assets |
| You Know What You Must Do | For the Greater Good Unique Asset |
Mythos[]
It also contains the 24 Mythos cards listed below:
| Name | Type | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|
| Abandon Hope | Yellow | Hard |
| Accursed Fortune | Green | Medium |
| Augur of Destruction | Yellow | Hard |
| Bad Karma | Green | Hard |
| Best Laid Plans | Yellow | Medium |
| Blood Rites | Yellow | Hard |
| Burn It All Down | Yellow | Easy |
| Candles in the Window | Green | Easy |
| Cosmic Backlash | Green | Easy |
| Exploring the Crater | Blue | Medium |
| Hideous Apparitions | Yellow | Medium |
| Mission Delores | Blue | Easy |
| Old Wounds | Yellow | Medium |
| Plague of Misfortune | Yellow | Hard |
| Return to G'harne | Blue | Hard |
| Safe Haven | Yellow | Easy |
| Spa Resort Weekend | Yellow | Easy |
| The Earth Will Shake | Green | Hard |
| The End Justifies the Means | Yellow | Medium |
| The Harder They Fall | Yellow | Medium |
| The Invisible Maze | Green | Medium |
| The Sky is Bleeding | Green | Hard |
| What Lies Beneath | Green | Medium |
| You Are Not Prepared | Green | Medium |
Other[]
This expansion adds many other cards and tokens, but the most relevant addition is the 6 Expedition Encounter Cards with 3 Unique backs corresponding to the major cities: 
London, 
San Francisco and 
Shanghai.
Links[]
- Contents and Description on
BoardGameGeek - Link on Publishers Site
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