We have also lost every single game of Omens of the Deep we’ve played. In fact, we didn’t lose a single game until we played an Ancient One that eliminates rooms when you fail without replacing them, and triggers a final showdown when the museum is empty. I’m not necessarily a huge fan of the Cthulhu mythos, but I do like the dark themes and the art really brings that home.Įven though the game often feels tight, we’ve won far more often than we’ve lost. This game scratched the dice-rolling itch while allowing some strategy and mitigation of the luck factor. We picked up this game shortly after seeing it played on Tabletop. Play proceeds until either the doom track on the Ancient One is filled – which triggers a final battle with the investigators – or until investigators have gained the required number of Elder Signs to keep the Ancient One at bay and save the world. The clock is advanced by three hours and play moves around the table. Whenever the clock strikes 12, a new Mythos card is drawn and resolved. If they fail, they pay the penalties on the card and remain in that room. All investigators on that card return to the Lobby. If the player succeeds in all tasks on a card, they take the rewards and the room card (which has trophies that can buy items in the Lobby). There are also ways to mitigate terrible die rolls – Clues allow you to roll any number of dice again, Spells allow you to lock in a die until someone uses it, and other special abilities can allow you to turn a die to a specific result. If they are unable to complete a task, they discard a die and roll again. With each roll of the dice, the player must complete one of the tasks using dice with the correct symbols. They start with six green dice – unless some are locked by another Museum card, Spell, or Mythos card – and can add a red and/or yellow die if they have cards or abilities that let them do so. If they are on a museum or Other World card, they next attempt to fulfill the tasks by rolling the dice. On each player’s turn, they first, optionally, move to a new room (or to the lobby). Players set the clock to midnight, draw and resolve a Mythos card, and then start investigating the museum. Of course, there are also penalties for failing including gaining doom tokens, adding monsters to the museum, losing sanity or stamina, and becoming cursed. The room cards also identify rewards for completing all of the tasks, which can include drawing new items, gaining clues, regaining sanity or stamina, or becoming blessed. The “museum” is a tableau of six room cards, each with tasks for the investigators to complete – combinations of dice rolls. (Some of these come into play only once you’ve added the Unseen Forces or other expansions.) And they take the appropriate number of stamina and sanity tokens. To win, players must earn the number of Elder Signs indicated on the chosen ancient one.Įach player chooses a character – we usually deal two or three character cards to each player and then talk about which ones will be the best combination – and takes that character’s starting items, which could be Common Items, Unique Items, Spells, Allies, Clues, or Skills. If the track fills up, the ancient one awakens and there will be a final showdown. This Ancient One will have a “doom track” – which is essentially a timer on the game – to which players add tokens as they fail missions or in response to Mythos cards drawn each midnight. Players first choose the Ancient One who is threatening the world – this sets the difficulty of the game. It is a cooperative dice game where players work together to search rooms of the museum, or the Alaskan wilds in Omens of Ice expansion, the sea in Omens of the Deep and Egypt in Omens of the Pharaoh expansion. In Elder Sign, players take on the roles of investigators racing through a museum’s collection of exotic and supernatural curios in an effort to find Elder Signs which will prevent the walls between our world and ancient evils from crumbling. We tried to save the world from being devoured by an Ancient One in Elder Sign, the next game in our A to Z game-shelf play-through.
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