Elder Sign (card game)

Elder Sign is a cooperative card and dice game, based on the Cthulhu Mythos of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft and Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game.

Players randomly select a monster (known as an Ancient One) to oppose. The Ancient One requires a certain number of elder sign tokens to “seal” or imprison it. Conversely, the Ancient One can be “awakened” or released by a number of doom tokens. There are also many other less powerful monsters that can appear during the game. Each player chooses an investigator to play as (usually randomly), each investigator having unique abilities. Players take turns exploring a randomly generated room (there are Adven