On The Radar: Elder Sign (Arkham Horror Files)
Posted by James (admin) on June 9th, 2011
I just noticed a new game on the Fantasy Flight Games site called ‘Elder Sign’. It’s an Arkham Horror Files game (like Mansions of Madness) so uses the same setting but this time it’s a co-operative, dice-based game for 1-8 players.
The investigators are at a museu hunting for Elder Signs with which to block the Ancient Ones arrival. From the info on the site, it sounds a bit like Arkham Horror: The Card Game (which certainly isn’t a bad thing) as there is no board but still features Ancient Ones with doom tracks, stamina and sanity stats, and the other usual Arkham elements.
Players try to complete adventure cards in order to search the museum for the elder signs but they will suffer ill effects if they do not complete cards fully. Each time the clock strikes midnight, a Mythos card is drawn which has a negative effect representing the strengthening of the Ancient One’s evil.
Check out the preview and the site for more details (link below). Not a lot of details about it yet but it looks very interesting indeed – especially if you’re an Arkham Horror and Cthulhu fan as I am.
Link to preview on FFG site (and there’s a link to the game’s site there too): http://bdg.ms/ae9v
