there are icons on every location. but what are we supposed to do with them ? or how can we use those icons on those places ? should we draw a mythos or encounter or are the missions written on them in order to use those icons on printed areas or should we directly take any card from the common items or magic or etc. ? 

another one is, it says '' street area '' does this sentence include all places according to one street ? for example '' Science bulding, administration and library '' all these belongs to Miskatonic university. 

can somebody help please ? 

thnk you so much

I'll have a go. Hope that this makes sense and that I understood your questions correctly!

Mistherion said:

I think you're refering to the small icons to the bottom left and right (and sometimes centre) of the location picture. If so, I think that these just give an idea what sort of tokens/attributes wil be affected by encounters there. E.g. a clue symbol (the magnifying glass) means that there's a reasonable chance that encounters there will give a chance to gain (or possibly lose?) clues. A sanity (brain) symbol means that encounters there have a chance to gain (?) sanity.

If an icon has a black background, then it's always available… for a price.

e.g. both "South Church" and "Arkham Asylum" show the sanity (brain) symbol, meaning that some encounters there allow you to gain sanity, but Arkham Asylum has a black background as you can use the special location encounter for a guaranteed sanity gain (1 san for free or max sanity for $2).

The icons for all official FFG boards are shown on the AH wiki here: http://www.arkhamhorrorwiki.com/Location

Mistherion said:

If a card or rule says "streets" or "street area" then it means just the (rectangular, pictureless) street area and not the locations connected to the street. e.g. Just "Miskatonic University" and not Science Building, Library or Administration.

Some cards will explicitly state streets and locations when they refer to the locations as well as the street. e.g. "return all monsters in Miskatonic University streets and locations to the cup" would remove any monsters in "Miskatonic University", Science Building, Library and Administration.

thnk you so much for your replies, they really helped a lot to understand the game better. but for those icons, can i have those stuff when i go to those locations or anything else ? if we can draw cards whenever we arrive those places, there will be lots of cards on our hands :S seems not so logic. right? 

The icons only show what the encounters are most likely to give you. You don't get a common item just by moving to an area with a common item icon, you have to take an encounter card and resolve it and that encounter card will have a fair chance of giving you a common item but it's not guaranteed. And even if it can give give you something you often have to pass a skillcheck to get it.

Mistherion,

location icons are just a hint on what's most likely to find in those places. If a location has a cash and clues symbols, this does not imply you can't pick up an encounter offering the chance to gain a Unique Item; nontheless, the odds of drawing such an encounter is lower than the chance of getting money / clues encounters. If the background of the symbol is black, this means you can have that certain thing by using the location special ability instead of having an encounter there

Hope this helps

Julia said:

This was something I noticed almost immediately but I think often times gets overlooked.  Good catch Julia!  I'm glad that my board isn't the only one printed like this!  :)

aha, it is very very clear now, thnx to you all. i hope i can ask some more questions when i face some more :) 

Thank you all so much ! 

Mistherion said:

Sure! There is always someone here willing to help :-)

here i am with a new question :) 

now i drew an enviroment card. it says :

Things of Darkness

Environment ( mystic ) 

Ghouls, Formless spawns and some other monsters….. have their toughness increased by 1 

the question is should i keep this card till the end of the game or should i discard it at the end of this turn _? 

and another question :

it says investigators can not move into or out of the merchant district streets. ok i have an investigator at merchant disctrict. can i move that investigator into any part of this street ? for example she is just at the street and at The Unnameable there is a clue token. can i go there to take it ? all in all i m not getting out of the streets or moving into out of streets. ?

Mistherion said:

Environment cards stay in play until a new environment enters play. More specifically, if you draw an environment Mythos Card and you already have one in play, the old Environment is active until you start resolving the special text of the new Mythos cards

Mistherion said:

Mistherion said:

It's an Environment card - as detailed on p12 of the rules, you can only have one of these in play at once. So place it face up on the table so you can see it and it applies until another Environment card is drawn (in another mythos phase) and replaces it.

Note that it doesn't matter what subtype of Environment card it is (mystic, urban or weather iirc), you only have one Environment card active at once.

(Some effects can slightly alter this - for example the ancient one Ithaqua stops Environment (weather) cards from having their ongoing effects. But if the game you're playing is just base AH and isn't against Ithaqua you probably don't need to worry about that for this game!)

great informations and really these are the missing parts of the puzzle. 

and here i faced a sitaution: i entered back to arkham and i want to close the gate. but i have just 2 clue tokens and no elder sign unique item. what is my chance to close it this turn or any other next turns ? should i explore the other world again? i know i asked too much but really these are so confusing situations for me at the moment about the game. i really adore the game and with your help i will resolve all the stuff about it. 

thnk you so much all

Mistherion said:

You're doing a little confusion here. Streets are not location. Let me explain:

- we have a Neighborhood, made of streets and locations. For instant, the Merchant District Neighborhood consist in the Merchant District Streets and three locations (Unvisited Isle, Unnamable, River Docks)

- only the "street" is a "stree area" (here sometimes FFG wording was kidna sloppy; be patient with those cards)

So: investigators can not move into or out of the Merchant district streets means that:

a) investigators either at the Unnamable, the Unvisited Isle or the River Docks may not move from their location (because for doing so, they should enter the Merchant district streets). During the Arkham Encounter Phase they will draw an encounter card as usual

b) investigators in the Merchant district streets cannot move at all

c) investigators somewhere else in Arkham can move freely, but they cannot enter the Merchant district streets.

Hope its clear now. May I ask you the language your game was translated? Just curious :-)

it is printed in english, it is just me that i have no idea about the terms of the game :) 

Mistherion said:

Closing and sealing are two different things. The required conditions for closing a gate are:

a) having an explorer marker (you gain it after successfully exploring the OW)

b) passing a Lore / Fight check modified by the modificator on the gate (only one success is required to close any gate, unless you're playing a Yog-Sothoth game or some nasty Environment is in play)

Then, if you manage to successfully close the gate, you can immediately spend 5 clues to seal it.

Or, if you have an Elder sign, you may return it to the box to seal automatically the gate (without rolling for closing the gate)