Arkham Horror: The Card Game - Night of the Zealot - Campaign Setup

Oct 6, 2026

Night of the Zealot is a campaign for Arkham Horror: The Card Game for 1–4 players, consisting of three sequential scenarios: The Gathering, The Midnight Masks, and The Devourer Below. The campaign log tracks results and progression, including investigator experience, trauma, acquired story assets or weaknesses, and any investigators who are killed or driven insane. Setup and scenario rules guide investigators through choosing decks and difficulty, assembling the chaos bag, and completing Part I: The Gathering with encounter resolution, experience, and recorded notes that carry forward.

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Campaign Setup

Part I: The Gathering

Setup

The Ghouls Hunger... # Campaign Setup Friday,September 18,1925.Arkham,Massachusetts.It isTo set up the Night of the Zealot campaign,perform the followingthe end of a long and abnormally hot summer.The first hintssteps in order.of autumnbeckon,but a heavy heat persists,relentless.Asilent,unspoken anger grips the town.Tempers are short,and1.Choose investigator(s).Each player chooses a differentin the last week alone there have been numerous reports ofinvestigator to play and records his or her choice in thetownspeople coming to heated,violent blows with one anotherCampaign Log.over simple misunderstandings.2.Each player assembles his or her investigator deck.The fullAnd now,a callfrom James Hankerson.He claims to haverules for deck customization can be found on page 8 oftheRules Reference.found a dismembered body in his barn. Blaming the weather would be too easy.There is something3.Choose difficultylevel.There are four levels of difficultywrong with this town,and not a whole lot this old soothsayerin Arkham Horror:The Card Game:Easy,Standard,Hard,can do to stop the slide.My auguries indicate a small group ofand Expert.The players decide which difficulty best suitsinvestigators will soon take note of these strange happeningstheir group,and they keep this difficulty for the duration ofand set forth to make things right.I'llbe watching theirthe campaign.progres..but I won'tbe holding my breath.4.Assemble the campaign chaos bag.Place the chaos tokensNight of the Zealot is a campaign for Arkham Horror:The Cardindicated belowinto the chaos bag,and return the other chaos Game for 1-4players.It consists of the following scenarios:"Thetokens to the game box.Gathering,”"The Midnight Masks,"and“The Devourer Below.”Easy(I want to experience the story):The cards for each of these scenarios can be foundin the Arkham+1,+1,0,0,0,-1,-1,-1,-2,-2,思，思，A,,,.Horror:The Card Game core set.◆Standard(Iwant a challenge):While playing a campaign,the players advance from one+1,0,0,-1,-1,-1,-2,-2,-3,-4,思，,A,,,食.scenario to the nextin sequential order,with the results of theirHard(I want a true nightmare):performance and their decisions in each scenario carrying over to0,0,0,-1,-1,-2,-2,-3,-3,-4,-5,思，,A,,,.influence the next.Additionally,as the players advance through thestory,they earn experience,which they can use to purchase newExpert(I want Arkham Horror):cards or upgrade existing cards for their deck.0,-1,-1,-2,-2,-3,-3,-4,-4,-5,-6,-8,,患，&,,,郎.Players are now ready to set up PartI:The Gathering. 100 The Campaign Log The Campaign Log(on the back cover of this book)is used totrack the progress and development of the campaign.At theend of each scenario,the players must record their results byentering all of the relevant information in the Campaign Log.This includes any experience earned by an investigator,eachinvestigator's trauma level,story assets or weaknesses earned byeach investigator,and any killed or insane investigators. Duringthe resolution of a scenario,the players are ofteninstructed to record an important note or story element in theCampaign Log,under "Campaign Notes."These notes willoften be referenced in later scenarios,allowing decisionsfromone scenario to carry over into later scenarios.If the players are instructed to cross out one of these notes,the crossed-offnote isignored for the remainder ofthe campaign. ## Part I:The Gathering You and your partners have been investigating strange events takingplace in your home city of Arkham,Massachusetts.Over the pastfewweeks,several townspeople have mysteriously gone missing.Recently,their corpses turned upin the woods,savaged and half-eaten.The policeand newspapers have stated that wild animals are responsible,but youbelieve there is something else going on.You are gathered together at thelead investigator's home to discuss these bizarre events. ## Setup Gatherallcards from the followingencounter sets:TheGathering,Rats,Ghouls,StrikingFear,Ancient Evi

FAQs

How do players track progress during the Night of the Zealot campaign?

Players use the Campaign Log at the end of each scenario to record relevant outcomes such as experience earned, trauma level, story assets or weaknesses gained, and any investigators killed or driven insane.

What happens to Campaign Notes across later scenarios?

Important notes recorded during resolution are referenced in later scenarios. If a note is instructed to be crossed out, the crossed-off note is ignored for the remainder of the campaign.

What is required to set up Part I: The Gathering?

Players gather encounter cards from the specified encounter sets, place the Study location into play, set other locations aside out of play, set aside the Ghoul Priest and Lita Chantler cards, and shuffle the remaining encounter cards into the encounter deck.

Oct 6, 2026

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