Drawn To The Flame

By Frank and PeterLeisure Games Hobbies

Drawn To The Flame episodes

January 18, 2018 Episode 45: Sketching Preposterously (aka Thinking about Card Draw)
In this episode, Peter and Frank look at card draw. Why is card draw a good thing - and is it an unqualifiedly good thing in a game where the safety of one's own deck is to be questioned? Why is card draw a cornerstone of card games, and how does that relate to Arkham Horror? How do the five factions draw cards, and does it add flavour to the character of the factions? This episode isn't quite a guide, but it's not so much a discussion as a survey, either. We hope you like it!

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1 hr 9 min
January 11, 2018 Episode 44: Think on your Feet II
Join Frank for the second Think on your Feet. After suggestions from listeners and a poll on Facebook, Sefina Rousseau has been chosen to take on the challenges of the Dunwich Legacy.

As with Think on your Feet I, I've dived straight in and got to the meat of playing. Unlike Think on your Feet I, Sefina is a far more tricksy investigator to pilot than Roland, so there are certainly some pauses and challenges with flow and best lines. As before, it's meant to sound real - so you might pick up the sound of traffic, or tokens being shifted, or droplets of sweat dripping from my brow as I fret...

Here's the level 0 version of the deck: https://arkhamdb.com/deck/view/88127. There are some odd choices there; I talk about (most of) them in the episode.

Here's the deck after scenario 1: https://arkhamdb.com/deck/view/100374.

Scenario 1 begins at 3 minutes. Scenario 2 begins at almost exactly 50 minutes. Thank you to everyone who wrote in saying the first live play was enjoyable, or encouraging me to do more. It's been very touching and I'm glad to share these episodes with you!

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1 hr 25 min
January 04, 2018 Episode 43: Spending Experience
In this episode, Peter and Frank look into spending experience. They think about upgrading strategies, ways of approaching experience, looking at team composition and wrestle with a good answer for what's best to cut. They try to fill the episode with good examples, too, for which you can be the judge...

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40 min
December 27, 2017 Episode 42: All Purple All The Time
In this episode, Peter and Frank participate in the #AllPurpleAllTheTime challenge, a gauntlet tossed at our feet by the good fellows of Arkham Chronicle. We're joined by the Mythos Busters and the team is rounded out by The Whisperer in Darkness, aka the Man from Leng, and it's a pretty simple mission: we each have to build a deck for a mystic investigator, and they'll make up an all purple investigative team!

We drew... Akachi Onyele, so tune in as we discuss her strengths and weaknesses and build a deck for her. To see our final deck, take a look here: https://arkhamdb.com/decklist/view/4092/allpurpleallthetime-akachi-onyele-1.0.

To hear the other three episodes, go to: Mythos Busters - here; Arkham Chronicle - here; Man from Leng - here.

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40 min
December 21, 2017 Episode 41: Think on your Feet I
Join Frank for a new type of Drawn to the Flame episode: Think on your Feet, a live play series. In this episode, very much the pilot, he takes a Roland deck through a little campaign called... The Night of the Zealot. Will the zealot get enough sleep? What happens when morning breaks?

This is a new style of episode for Drawn to the Flame, and we'd be delighted to hear what you think of it. We wanted to dive straight in, so there isn't much introduction and Frank cracks on. We wanted it to sound real - as it is - so there's been minimal editing, mainly just shortening up long pauses and removing the sounds of traffic from outside. You can hear the token bag being shaken and cards being shuffled, and that's all intentional. It's a live play-through!

Frank chose a good stuff Roland deck he'd cooked up - no frills, no tricks - to try out for this style of episode. Here's the list: https://arkhamdb.com/deck/view/93235 You can click through that list to the future iterations, but maybe do that when you hear the musical cue.

What else? Time stamps: scenario 1 begins at 1 minute; scenario 2 begins at 25 minutes; scenario 3 begins at 52 minutes. ENJOY! Merry Christmas! Oh and if you like this sort of episode and have read this far... tell Frank whom he should play as next!

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1 hr 34 min
December 14, 2017 Episode 40: Frank's First Look at A Phantom of Truth
Join Frank for another first look, this time at the player cards of A Phantom of Truth, the third mythos pack in the Path to Carcosa cycle. There is lots of oohing and ahhing, and some personal details from your boy Frank... but more importantly: what terror cards are out there? What are relics? And is salt on a slug really a cheap shot?

The card discussion itself starts almost exactly at 3 minutes.

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27 min
December 07, 2017 Episode 39: Minh Thi Phan
She trained as a secretary and then worked as a personal assistant - and she is exceptional at helping others. She's skilful and a born survivor, able to live on her wits. And her analytical mind is obsessed with decoding the secrets of a very dangerous play: The King in Yellow. That's right, this episode is all about Arkham Horror's newest seeker, the secretary Minh Thi Phan. Join Peter and Frank as they discuss her potencies and deficiencies.

At twenty minutes or so, Frank talks about not being able to investigate if there are no clues around. Of course what he means is: you can still investigate, but you won't get a clue for investigating, which is a shame if you're using an investigation as the test to add six icons to to clear The King in Yellow.
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50 min
November 30, 2017 Episode 38: Do Not Say His Name
Join Peter and Frank for the thirty-eighth episode of Drawn to the Flame, in which they discuss the midway point of the Path to Carcosa cycle. After a theatre of the dead, a manic dinner party, a race through the Historical Society of Arkham and now a visit to a mental institution, this campaign has been filled with wonders and terrors. Peter and Frank talk about the story so far, some recent play experiences, and ponder what might be in store for the rest of the campaign.

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29 min
November 23, 2017 Episode 37: Frank's First Look at The Unspeakable Oath
Join Frank for another first look, this time at the player cards of The Unspeakable Oath, the second mythos pack in the Path to Carcosa cycle. He's joined by a special guest: Scott from the Mythos Busters - taking the blood feud live! Will they get along? Who will be better at Card Facts? And just what is the click economy?

The card discussion itself starts around the 3 minute mark.

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51 min
November 15, 2017 Episode 36: Encounter Cards
You're a pro-slayer. You can find clues for days. Spells? You know em! And yet, every so often, you find yourself tapping out because you may be a beast at Arkham Horror, but the encounter deck has your number. Join Peter and Frank in this episode of Drawn to the Flame as they look at the encounter deck, with a particular eye on the keywords of cards most commonly found in that deck. What does surge do? How do you retaliate? And what on earth is peril (don't ask your friends)? All this and more...

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1 hr 4 min

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Drawn To The Flame is a podcast in which Peter and Frank discuss Arkham Horror : The Card Game, a cooperative living card game of Lovecraftian horror.