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Storm tokens act like penalties on encounter cards, and are placed on encounters through various effects, such as on the Ancient One track or through failing to complete an encounter, as well as through the day track. The day track also governs the Storm mechanic. If the track reaches the end during Summer, you just add two doom tokens to the Ancient One track and move back to the Day 7 space in Winter, however, if you take too long on your investigation, you’ll lose the game! The day track is linked to the clock, unsurprisingly, and advances whenever the clock strikes midnight. Supplies are a new commodity that have an impact on the game that can, for instance, affect the stamina of your investigators if you don’t have any. The Track card tracks both your supplies (based on the time of year) and the length of your adventure. The Expedition Camp card replaces the Museum Entry card, and acts like that card in every way.

It really echoes the source material such as Algernon Blackwood’s The Wendigo, where the earlier part of the story feels ‘safe’ while the later parts in the wilderness are most assuredly not! I really like this because it allows the designers to make the game feel like you’re trudging into the wilderness, and passing into stage two actually means something. Omens of Ice features a staged encounter deck, where the cards you encounter in stage one vary between the green (easy) and yellow (normal) difficulty, while stage two are only the yellow and red (hard) cards. Omens of Ice feels very similar to these games, as you need to ration your supplies as you face the biting cold. I love the snow theme in pretty much any game ( The Frozen Wastes for Runebound being a prime example of this!) and was truly enraptured by the Mountains of Madness expansion for Eldritch Horror for the amount of theme that comes through in the gameplay there. Omens of Ice is an expansion in the very same mould, as we venture into the Alaskan wilderness, following the mysterious goings-on in the wake of the discovery of a statue of Ithaqua…

The Gates of Arkham expansion from early 2015 introduced a new mode of play for the game, where we left the museum behind and ventured into the various neighbourhoods of the town. It’s time for another game day here at, and this week I’m taking a look at the latest expansion for Elder Sign: Omens of Ice! (This blog was originally slated to come out in Halloween week, where it would have made more thematic sense…)Įlder Sign is one of my favourite games to break out for an evening of cosmic horror and dice rolling.