Elder Sign

Elder Sign, from Fantasy Flight Games, is a dice rolling and placement game that takes place at the museum of Arkham - standing at the threshold to another worldly evil that only the intrepid investigators can prevent. In Elder Sign players take on the role of investigators moving around the museum attempting to complete tasks in order to collect enough Elder Signs to close the way for the ancient one to destroy Arkham and the World. An investigator in Elder Sign can roll up to six green dice, each dice has symbols on them representing investigation, terror, lore and peril. These are then assigned the available tasks that are at the investigator's location, each time being able to re-roll after completing a task or discarding a dice if they were unable to. Fail too many times and the investigator will suffer some penalty such as losing health, sanity, items or having to place doom tokens on the ancient one bringing it ever closer to our world. Investigators can use items and spells to keep rolls, or items to roll the common item yellow die, or the unique item red die which has the wild card symbol on it to be used as anything! Beware, there is a clock that moves around after each investigator's turn and when it reaches midnight random effects will happen such as more doom being added to the ancient one or monsters coming out to thwart the Investigators hunt for Elder Signs. Each investigator has unique skills to aid the hunt, including being able to manipulate the dice or possibly, once a location has been successfully completed, changing the rewards that are granted; rewards can range from gaining clues letting you re-roll dice, gaining common or unique items, finding allies, or learning spells. Each investigator will have to work together and in some cases push their luck in order to overcome the approach of Shub-Niggurath, Cthulhu, Yog-Sothoth or one of the other five ancient ones! Player Count: 1-8 Time: 90 Minutes Age: 13+