To complete tasks you roll dice and try to match the results to the printed symbols on the cards. The point of the game is to visit these locations and try to complete the tasks printed on the cards. You deal out some location cards – some are face-up at the start, some are face-down. As the game progresses, certain effects will cause doom tokens to be added to the baddie's doom track, and when that track fills the baddie comes alive and hammers everybody into dust. Nae idea.īut this fully expanded Elder Sign? Well, here's the deal – you have a Great Old One, a baddie, who is going to eventually wake up if you don't collect enough elder signs to seal him away. This isn't a review of vanilla Elder Sign. Okay, so remember – this is a review of Elder Sign with the Gates of Arkham expansion. So what did I think? Elder Sign: Gates Of Arkham I thought I should probably take a good long look, now that the game was being called “the game it always should have been”. However, last year's expansion “Gates of Arkham” was said to improve the game hugely. As much as I love rolling dice, and I DO love rolling dice, I just felt that Elder Sign was a game best left on the shelf. A dice game drawing on HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos (more accurately, a game drawing on Fantasy Flight's other Cthulhu game Arkham Horror), I'd heard that it lacked bite. I'd avoided Elder Sign, because I'd heard that it was a weak game.
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