Arkham Horror The Card Game: the greatest deck construction introduction of all time… if you can get there.

Gary Sax wrote: Losing badly in this game is not fun. Losing is fun, but not when you're just hobbled extremely quickly.

I am going to disagree with you slightly here. If you are of the mindset that you are going to play a campaign many times (and get your money's worth so to speak), flailing and failing through an entire campaign, becoming increasingly more and more hobbled, to the bitter end when you totally fail and bring about the end of the world as we know it, can absolutely be fun. Because of the branching story lines, you will get a really different story, that you will never see if you are even moderately successful.

But after you do that once, you do want to be more successful on subsequent plays to experience the other story lines.

And then you want to play again and make some different choices, to get another, different experience.

For example, we have played Path to Carcosa 4 times, plus several of false starts. It wasn't until out last try that we got all the way to the end and succeed. And there are still story lines in there that we haven't seen.