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The Colour out of space

By Joe Ehret · added 3 Oct 2017

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4.5
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4.0
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4.0
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4.17
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There is now courtesy of Dániel Makk a PDF version for easier printing(included in the file now).

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Joe · 2017-10-03

Hello all, the creator of this fine abomination here. So this is my first attempt at creating fanmade content for a board/card game, so I'm sure there's some stuff I overlooked. Since I'd never really done anything like this before, I decided to shortcut it a little and base the storyline off of H.P. Lovecraft's story A Colour Out of Space. It's not a direct remake, more of a reimagining, but it still freed me up to concentrate more on mechanics, balancing, and the like. Hopefully the story still has a little flair for the people who've read the original material. The scenario itself features 100% custom created cards, including the encounter deck.

Copyright disclaimer, I am not the creator of any of the art featured on these cards! It's all gathered from Google searches. I take no credit for any of that work!

All that said, here it is. I'd love any feedback and/or constructive criticism you have to offer.

And as a quick little sidenote to assuage my wounded pride: Ooze and Filth from Carcosa is now my least favorite card of all-time. I was designing Unexpected Rainfall before Carcosa dropped and now I look like a dirty copycat. It makes no real difference in the scheme of things, but I'm cranky about it lol.

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Daniel Makk · 2017-10-19

Hi!

After my other post i get some motivation and made a middle aligned pdf version from the jpeg-s.

If you would like, i am more happy to send it to you.

Cheers, Daniel

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Joe · 2017-10-22

Oh, that would be lovely, yes. Sorry, I'll definitely look into middle alignment for my next try.

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Grand · 2018-11-29

Hello, can I translate your script into French? Do you still have the illustrations to facilitate the shaping under Strange Eons? Thank you

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Magik · 2024-12-21

I'm not 100% that I have the most up to date version printed out but I found a missing location type on the St. Margret's boarding house's unrevealed side. I think it should read: City. Eastwick.

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Eloi Aguilar · 2026-07-27

Hi from Spain. I did a quick spanish tranlation just to play it. We all like the atmosphera and the scenario. But we found all the problems other people jus comented here.

We are going to change some cards of this scenario, to make it really playable. Of course I will made the changes but I will give all the authoring credits for your. Thanks for this nice scenary.

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Daniel Makk · 2017-10-19

Hi!

I really like this scenario just by looking at it and would like to try it out with my wife in a few days. Unfortunately my usual place says they can not print it for me, because the pictures are too much to the edge of the paper. Have you got maybe an other version where the cards are in the center rather than aligned top left?

Thanks in advance! Daniel

Sorry for bad english, not native speaker here.

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Paul Dunbar · 2018-07-02

Can you elaborate on what "limit once per group" means?

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Tim Snider · 2018-09-14

Fantastic work! Is this available to print at Printer Studio or another card printer? This is my favorite Lovecraft tale, and I'd love to have something a bit sturdier than my flimsy PNP set!

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Tim Snider · 2018-10-01

Question: Should "Otherworldly Weakness" have an Encounter card back or a Player card back? It's a Weakness, which is typically a Player card, but it's also a Treachery card, which is typically an Encounter card. So which should it be? Just trying to puzzle out which deck this card should go into...

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Laszlo M · 2020-04-15

The game will instruct you when you have to touch it. It starts set aside

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LSierra · 2018-11-11

Really good scenario! It has some funny and difficult parts, but overall it is entertaining.

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Dan · 2018-12-15

Downloaded it. Printed it. Played it.

It's my favorite scenario for AH:LCG. Seriously: it's that fun.

FF would do well too take a close look at this one. The mechanics are just wonderful.

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Laszlo M · 2020-04-15

Was a tough one, we died miserably haha. Question: When does the Inhospitable Locality enters the game? Also Act2a instructs you to advance to Act1b, probably typo.

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NecroB · 2020-05-05

Great Story. Nice one but with some bugs:

  • no possibilty to enter the Inhospitable Locality
  • Act2a instructs you to advance to Act1b
  • no Resolution 3 to read

Some of the encounter Cards do noting under some circumstances. With some tweaks it will be great.

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Rainey · 2023-05-17

Where’s the PDF? Couldn’t find it in the file.

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Ca'Lee · 2023-11-09

Did you manage to find a copy of the Pdf? I'd love to try this scenario with my partner but I don't have the time to sort all of these cards into a pdf :)

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GigabyteSergey · 2024-03-22

Hello, Joe. I would like to translate your scenario. Is it possible to provide sources in the Strange Eons GameComponent (.eon) format? Is there a direct download link somewhere?

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Christopher Harris · 2024-12-01

Is there a PDF version of the cards for us to print at home? I can't find it in the file downloaded. Thanks!

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Sir Hotzenplotz · 2025-03-17

I made a PDF for double-sided print and bleed on A4. Because the card size in my country is different there are two versions. Everything should be as intended, but please take a look before printing. The second link is for people who want to make PDFs out of single cards themselves: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TUsBsscAIpjYHJQcfHeYFoTU3wsPrBqz?usp=drive_link https://github.com/Otto-AA/arkham-horror-cards-formatter/

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WM Liu · 2025-02-14

For some reason, Samuel Glarde has no damage and Horror value. So what is the point of his ambush?

Another issue is that the Arkham app does not specify the investigators' starting location.

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How did your investigators fare?

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