The Arkham Horror reprint is rumored to be coming this December from Fantasy Flight Games. It will feature revised rules and new artwork including a rather nice cover piece you can see here at http://www.yog-sothoth.com/modules. php?name=News&file=article&sid=131 along with news about the impending release: To respond to the unsolicited rant pigeonholing this as 'Candyland' with Cthulhu theme 'pasted over', let's see... NO. Arkham in board format is a mythos-steeped BBG, following a basic core format (meandering pathway spaces with special areas to seek out) that a veritable legion of games use. The somewhat-more-than-incidental inclusion of roaming creatures with variable movement behaviors, period characters with individualized stats, wide and descriptive assortment of spells, items, encounters, locations and all-important doom counter set this product about as far from 'Candyland' as a 'pathway' BBG is capable of being - in all respects, including play mechanics. If any path-follow game is Candyland, then I suppose Chess is Checkers, Trivial Pursuit is Parcheesi, and so forth. Arkham Horror isn't an RPG, but my friends and I have (since its release) enjoyed the hell out of the thing for years after the original RPG lost its allure for us. Strangely enough, Candyland just doesn't do it for us. I suppose we and so many other AH fans (enough to warrant a new edition), are merely drooling idiots, since the Silver Twilight Lodge is merely 'pasted over' the Peppermint Stick Forest... Right? Back to Table of Contents -- Game! # 10 To Game! List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 2004 by George Phillies. This article appears in MagWeb.com (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles from military history and related magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com