EDGE Studio bring us the lowdown on Terra Antarctica…

As the release of the premium campaign Terra Antarctica approaches, we wanted to take a minute to show you what comes in the box. Spoiler alert; it’s a lot.

Our first campaign box ended up being an absolute chonker; over four pounds of books, tokens, inventories, puzzles, maps, mysterious journals, cards, NPC sheets, and premade characters. Although some of our colleagues think we may have gone a bit overboard, we can absolutely promise that we did not make any deals with Cthulhu to get all this material in a single box.

Clearly, we made a pact with Yog-Sothoth instead. 

The Heart of the Campaign

Our campaign is laid out in three 48-page books, each one detailing one act of the overarching story. Although we don’t want to give away the plot, we can assure you that within these pages you’ll find over 50 individual scenes, with room to expand the story into even more! That’s at least 50 hours of gameplay for you, and probably more.

Accessorizing Your Adventure

But this campaign is more than just a long and captivating adventure. We also have a ton of accessories to enhance the experience! 

Terra Antarctica has hundreds of tokens that allow you and your group to track information, determine your character’s health and horror, and set out battles on our six different maps. There are also nearly 50 item cards with everything your group needs to launch an expedition into Antarctica, as well as a few of the strange things you’ll find while you’re there.

But that’s not all. We’re also enhancing the adventure with two unique punchboard puzzles (each different, and different than any puzzles we’ve done previously), crew and supply rosters from the expedition, and even a journal from a previous explorer that your group may be lucky enough to find!

For the first time ever, we’re also including insight tokens so your group can track their insight on their character sheets. And just in case you’re low on dice, we’re even including an extra 24 of them in appropriately frigid colors!

A Full Cast

But as cool as all these components are, what really makes an adventure epic are the NPCs you interact with and the adversaries you are pitted against. And Terra Antarctica does not let you down in that department! Included in the box are 30 NPC sheets. Eleven of these are major allies that join your group for the expedition. Each of these sheets are two-sided; one side containing their profile and the other a full backstory of their character.

The other 19 sheets are double-sided with a variety of adversaries that your group will encounter. By making the sheets double-sided, we ensure that you have the right number of adversary cards for any encounter without wasted space. After all, sometimes your group ends up fighting a horde of cultists, and you need quite a few NPC sheets.

And other times, of course, your group ends up fighting something… bigger. 

New Investigators

And finally, we didn’t want to provide this premium adventure without some brand new
investigators to play through it! Terra Antarctica is designed so that you can use the premade
investigators from Hungering Abyss or your own characters created with the Arkham Horror
Core Rulebook. However, if neither of those options appeal to you (or maybe because you got
too many premade investigators from the starter set killed), we have six new investigators!

All six of these characters come in four-page folios with their basic characteristics, background,
a cheat-sheet of common actions that they can perform during the game, and even specific
leveling options they can choose as the game progresses. (These premade characters are made to
be useable even if you don’t have a copy of the Core Rulebook.) And in addition, each
investigator has one bespoke knack that is unique to them and them alone.

As you can see, Winifred Habbamock is one of our intrepid investigators who has been enlisted
to join this expedition. Winifred will be flying the expedition’s F-10 Super Trimotor airplanes,
which are vital for covering the vast distances of the Antarctic continent. Can you guess who the
other five heroic (or foolish) investigators are?

Coming in August

Terra Antarctica is designed to be played with either a copy of the Hungering Abyss Starter
Set or the Arkham Horror: The Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook. The expedition sets sail
this summer in August, so stay tuned to EDGE’s website and social media for more details.