On Monday, we took a look back at some of the fiction we’ve published on ArkhamHorror.com over the past year. Today, in case you missed it or didn’t get chance to check them out at the time, we re-present some of the downloads, handouts and game-related content we’ve published since the site launched earlier this year. (What we might think of as the kind of stuff you might find in your mailbox in 1920s Arkham…) It’s a real mix and by no means purely for gamers…

RPG Downloads

If you are a gamer, however, maybe you’ve already checked out Arkham Horror: The Roleplaying Game in the form of either the Hungering Abyss starter set or the Core Rulebook. If you haven’t dived in yet or you’re looking for ideas for your next session, you’ll find pre-generated character sheets – for investigators representing each of the game’s eight archetypes – and the quick-start adventure Comets of Kingsport behind the ‘Downloads’ banner below.

Between the study and the gaming table…

Away from the pure game content, we’ve been plundering the Arkham Historical Society’s archives over the course of the year to bring you a couple of series that straddle the line between fiction and artifact. Welcome to Arkham continues the Arkham Historical Society’s “Illustrated Guide for Visitors to the Historic Town of ARKHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, and Environs Including DUNWICH, INNSMOUTH and KINGSPORT,” which you may be familiar with from the book of the same name, with new entries for Tillinghast’s Esoterica and Exotics in Arkham, and Marbletooth Island and others in Kingsport. The Arkham Advertiser, meanwhile, is Arkham’s newspaper of record… and also published in a print edition several a times a year for attendees of some of the biggest gaming conventions around the world, such as Gen Con, PAX, and Dragonmeet. You can find all of the issues available for download after the event, here on ArkhamHorror.com.

As well as making for captivating reads in their own right, did you know that both Welcome to Arkham and the Arkham Advertiser are designed to provide scene-setting and serve as handouts for both Arkham Horror: The Roleplaying Game and even Arkham Horror: The Card Game? Each issue of the Advertiser centers on events from one or more recent expansions and campaigns. If you’re about to play through The Drowned City, for example, issue #2 will immerse your players in an Arkham at the eye of a growing storm, days before the flood, while issue #1 presages events in the Hungering Abyss starter set, and issue #3 does the same for the Terra Antarctica campaign. (And if you’re playing through Arkham Mysteries, the Miskatonic Museum Visitor Guide will set the scene the same way.)

The locations in Welcome to Arkham are, likewise, places your characters may well visit themselves, meaning the entries are ideal as ways of adding detail and flavor to their adventures. And all of these formats are guaranteed spoiler-free, in regards to the campaigns and adventures themselves – they’re “real” artefacts your characters might find by visiting as a newsstand or bookstore in Arkham.

If you have been making use of these downloads in your games, let us know on social media. There’s plenty more to come…