'Arkham Horror' on FG?

**willquestion** · July 30th, 2014, 19:46

Has anyone tried using FG to play this board game? Seems that you could use a general ruleset to get by and most things are already scanned on www.arkhamhorrorwiki.com.

**Hector Trelane** · July 30th, 2014, 20:13

Not I, but a friend of mine might be interested in playing with you if you make the attempt. He has the board game at home, I think still in shrink wrap for lack of a gaming group.

**willquestion** · July 30th, 2014, 20:31

I'm in the process of putting the graphics and info into the software right now so definitely let him know. It's a great game.

**viresanimi** · July 30th, 2014, 22:31

Just curious: Have you seen Vassal yet?

Vires Animi

**willquestion** · July 30th, 2014, 22:55

I noticed it's available on it. I tried the software but I'm not a fan of how it works. It's not very refined like say OCTGN.

**Zeus** · July 31st, 2014, 22:24

Originally Posted by willquestion

Has anyone tried using FG to play this board game? Seems that you could use a general ruleset to get by and most things are already scanned on www.arkhamhorrorwiki.com.

I've not played that particular game but I have used FG to play Talisman, Dragons of Glory, Risk and a few other types of boardgames, its very easy to do. Just scan your board in as a JPG. Any tokens, cards or player pieces as tokens. For games with scoreboards you can use a simple image or if your feeling adventurous create an extension for CoreRPG. You can then export everything to a module for easy portability. I've even used FG to play online chess with a few friends.

**willquestion** · August 3rd, 2014, 16:38

Just wanted to show a sample of what I've got so far. I still need to switch out some graphics for newer ones I've made but you get the idea from this.
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**Taelock** · August 4th, 2014, 19:09

Looks good. I had the same idea but never came around to do anything about it.

**Tiqon** · August 14th, 2014, 19:45

But how do you handle the fact that you often will have a stack of card that you have to draw from, that is face down? You mention you play Talisman... I can't wrap my mind around how but is really interested

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**damned** · August 15th, 2014, 02:41

i wonder if you could use Tables for drawing cards... thats easy from a full deck - i wonder how hard it would be to modify it to remove cards once dealt....?

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