Elder Sign FAQ
640 questions players ask · Updated Nov 13, 2026 · Full rulebook
Setup and ComponentsExpansion
- What happens when the first Mythos card is drawn during setup?
- Do At Midnight effects happen during setup or on the first turn?
- Do you still draw the first Mythos card at setup when using an expansion's alternative mode?
- What is the highest Sanity or Stamina an investigator can have?
- What does 'after setup' mean in investigator abilities such as Ashcan Pete's?
- Do sanity and stamina tokens count as the number printed on them?
- How many investigators come in the base game?
- Should you use the Unseen Forces replacement cards in the core game?
- Which mask and Child of Abhoth monsters are removed in Unseen Forces setup?
- Can you choose an Ancient One from another expansion or the base game when playing Omens of the Deep?
- Do the Elder Sign expansions add to the base game or replace it?
- Can you play any Ancient One with Omens of the Pharaoh?
- Which base game cards does Gates of Arkham replace?
- What game modes does Gates of Arkham have?
- In Streets of Arkham mode, are the Unseen Forces entrance cards used?
- How are the amulet pieces handed out in Omens of the Deep setup?
- Can Duke's discard ability be used in place of an Other World card's penalty?
- Does Closes the Doors remove Other World cards still in the Other World deck?
- Do Other World cards replace any of the six Adventure cards?
GeneralExpansion
- Can the Gates of Arkham, Omens of Ice and Omens of the Deep adventure decks be mixed?
- How often can Mandy Thompson use her Research reroll, and on whose rolls?
- Can Thomas E. Malone use his ability more than once on the same roll?
- Can you mix Unseen Forces cards into the base game deck?
- Can investigators, Ancient Ones and monsters from later expansions be used in the base game?
- Can the Omens of the Deep Ancient Ones be used outside R'lyeh mode?
- Does Ashcan Pete decide on a swap before or after drawing the card?
- Does Ashcan Pete's ability work when buying items in the shop?
- Which Gates of Arkham cards can be mixed into the base game?
- What changed between the original and the revised Elder Sign rules?
- If a Mythos card discards Other World cards without replacing them, do later Other World cards still enter play?
- What happens when an investigator is devoured?
- What does an investigator lose when devoured?
- What happens when an investigator is devoured and no replacement investigators are left?
- Does the order you buy the Elder Sign expansions matter?
- What happens to a Dark Waters effect when the omen token would move past the end of its track?
- Does Ursula Downs' Trailblazer ability apply to both adventure decks?
- Can Unseen Forces be combined with the other Elder Sign expansions?
- Can you remove doom tokens in the base game?
- If a Mythos card offers two options and you can only do one, must you take the one you can do?
- Does Eric Colt's Support ability waive all sanity loss while he is in play?
- Do effects that refer to Adventure cards also apply to Other World adventures?
- What are the location names on Gates of Arkham location cards for?
- Why are seal markers removed when no free location is left for a new gate?
- Can the base game's Yog-Sothoth be used with Gates of Arkham, and what happens to a gate when his effect removes an Other World card?
- Can Wanderlust flip any non-Other World adventure face up?
- Do you need the base game to play Omens of the Deep?
- Can the expansions be combined with each other and the base game, and which cards stay out?
- Can you use Other World cards from Unseen Forces and Gates of Arkham with Omens of Ice?
- In Omens of Ice, does the day track number show the total storm tokens or how many to add?
- Can Amanda Sharpe complete one task and put dice on a second task without completing it?
- Does Harvey Walters' ability let him change a terror die on every roll?
A Player's TurnExpansion
- When an event adds doom for a passed Gates of Arkham adventure, does the doom come before its Elder Sign or other rewards?
- Can you attempt a task whose sanity or stamina cost would reduce your investigator to zero?
- Can you attempt an adventure whose failure penalty would reduce your stamina or sanity to zero?
- When does the Resolution phase start and end?
- Can you use the Roadster on the same turn you received it as an adventure reward?
- Do you fail an adventure when a roll cannot complete any remaining task?
- What is the order of steps when a roll fails a task?
- Do Terror results from earlier rolls count on the current task attempt?
- Does a doom icon on an adventure reward add a doom token or remove one?
- Can you add a yellow or red die to your dice pool between rolls?
- Do completed tasks stay complete after you fail or leave an adventure?
- Where does an investigator stay after failing an adventure?
- If you complete a task and then fail the adventure, do you still pay the task's cost and the penalties?
- Can investigators trade items or cards with each other?
- Is the completed adventure replaced before its rewards, and can a monster reward go on the new card?
- In what order are a monster reward and a Gate reward collected?
- Where do investigators go after an adventure is completed?
- If a completed adventure's replacement has an At Midnight effect, does it apply when that turn's clock strikes midnight?
- What does 'resolved' mean for an effect that triggers when an adventure is resolved?
- Can you buy an Elder Sign with trophies at the Entrance?
- Can you buy an item on the Streets of Arkham and then move to an Other World in Gates of Arkham?
- Does acting at the Entrance use up your turn?
- At the Entrance, can First Aid restore both Stamina and Sanity?
- Can you skip the action on your turn if you are standing at the Entrance?
- Must you move on your turn, or can you stay on your current adventure?
- How many souvenirs can you buy at the Entrance?
- Does a task with two symbols of the same type need two dice?
- Does Kate Winthrop's Science! ability stop a monster appearing when rewards add doom on a GOO card's spawn icon?
- Can you declare an adventure failed on purpose, even if you could pass it?
- When can a spell be cast relative to the dice roll?
- Can you roll the remaining dice again after all of an adventure's tasks are complete?
- Are several sanity or stamina penalty symbols on one adventure one loss or several?
- Do entry effects happen during setup for the starting adventures?
- What is the Administration Office failure penalty?
- Does flipping a facedown Gates of Arkham adventure end your turn or only your movement?
- In Omens of the Pharaoh, are dice added during Movement kept for the Resolution phase?
- What happens when you fail an adventure?
- In Gates of Arkham, if an adventure has no rewards, do you still take it as a trophy?
- Can you use the Streets of Arkham ability twice in one turn by spending more trophies?
- Can a Police Station effect be repeated to return more monsters for more trophies?
- In Omens of Ice, does an entry effect that says each investigator loses something hit every investigator?
- If an adventure reward heals you, who regains the Stamina or Sanity?
- Do dice granted by an item pass to the next investigator?
- When do focused or assisted dice return to the dice pool?
- Does the Overwhelming Fear event make an investigator lose a turn?
- Can you move away from an Other World adventure, or must you stay until it is completed?
- In Gates of Arkham, what happens when you move through a gate to an Other World?
- When you complete a Cultist monster task under Yig, does Yig's ability trigger before you gain the adventure's Elder Sign?
- Can two investigators be on the same adventure card?
- When an adventure fails, do all investigators on it suffer the penalties?
- In Gates of Arkham, if an adventure is failed on autofail, do you pay extra task costs first, and can you defeat monsters first?
- If a Mythos card bars moving to Other World cards today, does a forced event that sends you through a gate still happen?
- Does Dexter Drake's extra spell apply to each spell gained or once per reward?
- Can you move onto an adventure you cannot complete, or whose Terror effect you cannot pay for?
- Can you leave dice on an adventure for another player to finish?
- If a task advances the clock, does the investigator advance it twice in one turn?
- Can you split a trophy card across two purchases, and do you get change?
- Where do trophies go after you spend them?
- Does an adventure deck need reshuffling when it runs out?
- Which cards count as trophies?
- Do you lose trophies when you fail an adventure?
- If an adventure would devour you on completion, can you leave it next turn with no penalty?
- In Gates of Arkham, does buying an entrance item and then moving count as two actions?
- In Gates of Arkham, can all sanity or stamina rewards from one adventure go to the same investigator?
- In Gates of Arkham, does using the Streets of Arkham ability end your turn?
- Does the first R'lyeh task need two separate dice showing investigation results?
- Must every task on an adventure card be completed?
- Can you turn down the rewards after successfully completing an adventure?
- When you fail an adventure with a penalty, is the Blessed card discarded before the penalty applies?
- With Unseen Forces, where do you go after an adventure, and does using the entrance cost a turn?
- Does a Terror result trigger a Terror effect even when the task is completed?
- In a solo game, how often can a once-per-turn investigator ability be used?
Rolling the DiceExpansion
- Does a Terror die still trigger Terror if you spell-lock, focus or assist it after the failed roll?
- Does a Terror die you set aside on an earlier roll, or spent on a passed task, trigger Terror on a later failed roll?
- When a Terror effect says to discard all Terror dice, which dice does it take?
- If a failed roll shows several Terror results, does the Terror effect happen once or once per result?
- How many times can Terror trigger in one turn or one Adventure?
- Does a Terror result trigger before or after Clue rerolls and other changes to the dice?
- Does a Terror result still trigger if the same roll also completes a task?
- When a task fails on a Terror result, which Terror effects resolve?
- Does a Mythos card that gives every Adventure card a Terror effect replace the cards' own Terror effects?
- Can an investigator ability, a spell or a reroll change a Terror face so that the Terror effect does not happen?
- What happens when a Terror effect or a cost makes you spend or lose trophies you do not have?
- Where do spent trophy cards and monster markers go?
- What happens when the Other World deck runs out and a gate must open?
- Can you buy more than one souvenir in a single visit to the Entrance?
- Can players give trophies to each other so one of them can buy something at the Entrance?
- When can you focus a die, and how many can you focus in a turn?
- Can you focus or request assistance when you are alone on a location?
- Can Jim Culver focus a die on a task he has just completed?
- Can you spend a Clue to reroll after you have focused a die?
- After a failed roll, which dice do you reroll?
- After a failed roll, do you always lose a die, even if you cast a spell?
- If you spend a Clue on a roll that has not completed a task, do you lose a die before rerolling?
- Can I choose to fail a roll even when my dice could complete a task, or fail the whole Adventure?
- Can one roll complete more than one task on an Adventure?
- Can an Adventure's tasks be completed over several rolls, and do finished tasks stay finished?
- Can you move dice off a completed task to finish another task, or reuse dice from an earlier task?
- Must all of a task's requirements be met in one roll?
- Can one Investigation die cover two magnifying-glass icons on a task?
- Can a higher Investigation result satisfy a lower Investigation requirement?
- Can a reroll ability reroll 1, 2 and 3 Investigation results together as one group?
- What can the red die's wildcard face count as?
- If you discard a yellow or red die, can you add it back to your pool later that turn?
- Do unspent yellow or red dice carry over to the next Resolution phase?
- Must you roll dice for a task that only costs sanity or stamina?
- Can you avoid losing sanity or stamina from a task's sanity or stamina symbol?
- When does a die become locked by a card's lock icon?
- Does a Clue reroll start a new roll for a once-per-roll investigator ability?
- Is a character's reroll ability limited to once per turn or once per roll?
- Does Bill Morris's ability cancel a Terror effect for the whole turn?
- Can the black cursed die cancel a Terror effect?
- What happens to the cursed die and the matched die after a match?
- Can I avoid a Terror effect by focusing or discarding the Terror die?
- When do discarded dice return to the dice pool?
- Must you choose the Adventure before rolling, and can you pick which task to complete after the roll?
Securing DiceExpansion
- Can you focus a die and also request assistance on the same failed roll?
- How many times per turn can you focus a die?
- How long does a focused die stay on my investigator marker?
- Can a focused die or a die on a spell finish the last task when your dice pool is empty?
- Can you secure a die on a spell after a successful roll?
- Can you focus or request assistance after a successful roll?
- Can you choose to fail a roll that would complete a task, so you can focus a die instead?
- What is the order after a failed roll: terror, discard, then focus or spell?
- Does focusing or securing a terror die stop its Terror effect?
- How long does a die stay on a spell, and can another investigator use it later?
- When is a spell card discarded?
- Can you fill the second slot of a two-dice spell on a later roll?
- Can you remove several dice from one spell at once?
- How many securing spells can you cast from one roll?
- Can you secure a die on a spell and still complete the task with the same roll?
- Can you focus a die and also cast a spell on the same failed roll?
- Where does a focused die go, and can it be placed on a spell or a task you did not complete?
- Can an investigator assist more than once per turn, and must the helper be on the same card?
- If an adventure fails while someone is assisting, who pays the penalty?
- What is the difference between focusing a die and requesting assistance?
- When does a lock take effect, and is its die removed from the pool at once?
- If a lock covers a die sitting on a spell, where does the die go?
- What happens when two locks sit on the same die?
- Can any investigator free or use locked dice, or only Sister Mary?
- Can more than one green die be locked at the same time?
- Can an item change a die after you take it off a spell?
- Can another investigator use a die secured on someone else's spell, and can they roll it?
- Can you cast a spell to secure dice during another player's turn?
- Does a spell holding secured dice stay in play if its caster is devoured?
- Can you change a die secured by Agnes Baker's spell and still use it on the same roll?
- Can the white Blessing die be secured on a spell?
- Can a focused die satisfy more than one task on the same Adventure card?
Clock PhaseExpansion
- If a task or movement pushes the clock past midnight during a turn, when do midnight effects resolve?
- If the clock passes midnight more than once in one turn, what happens?
- Do you add a doom token automatically at every midnight?
- Does Kate Winthrop's ability stop monsters that appear at midnight?
- Do At Midnight effects apply to every card in play, even ones no investigator is on?
- If a card with an At Midnight effect comes into play after midnight, does its effect trigger right away?
- In what order do midnight effects resolve?
- At midnight, do you refresh once-per-day abilities for every investigator or only the active one?
- Do At Midnight effects trigger during the first turn of the game?
- How often does midnight strike, and is there a noon?
- Does the clock move differently with one investigator, or with several per player?
- Do you read the whole Mythos card before choosing an option?
- Can two Mythos cards be in play at once, and when is the current one replaced?
- Is a Mythos card's upper half a midnight effect?
- How does a Mythos card that adds an investigation requirement change a task?
- Do Mythos cards have terror effects, and are At Midnight effects terror effects?
- Does a Mythos lingering effect that raises tasks and penalties also raise Terror effects or Scroll requirements?
- Does a doom token placed at midnight, or by a reward, trigger a monster icon on the doom track?
- When a doom token is removed from the track, which one comes off?
- Does Sister Mary's ability cancel lingering Mythos effects for everyone, or only for herself?
- Do investigators restore sanity or stamina at midnight?
- Who decides where a monster from a midnight effect goes when the players disagree?
- With The Stars Are Right, does the seventh adventure card get replaced when an adventure is completed?
- If an investigator is devoured at midnight, when does the replacement take their first turn?
- If a Mythos card discards the Other World card an investigator is on, is that investigator devoured?
- How does the Shadow Entities Mythos card's doom condition work?
- Does every investigator have to contribute items to the Death or Taxes Mythos card?
- In Omens of Ice, can you use the Expedition Camp in your Clock phase right after resolving an adventure?
- In Omens of Ice, can you buy more than one Expedition Camp entry with a single trophy spend?
- In Omens of Ice, in a four-player game, does each investigator lose 1 stamina for Treacherous Ascent?
- In Omens of Ice, what happens at midnight after day 7 on the Summer track?
- In Omens of the Deep, when can you spend trophies or use the entrance to recover after a successful adventure?
- In Omens of the Deep, do Sister Mary's ignore-lingering-effects power and similar effects apply?
- In Omens of the Deep, how many clues does Roland get per Mythos card?
- In Omens of the Pharaoh, can you choose the same effect twice when an At Midnight card lets you solve two effects of your choice?
- In Gates of Arkham, when do At Midnight effects on a card with a gate or a back-of-card time cost resolve?
- In Gates of Arkham, if an Arkham adventure with a gate is discarded at midnight, what happens to a linked Other World adventure?
Clues, Items, Spells, and AlliesExpansion
- Are dice-securing spells cast before or after the roll?
- After casting a dice spell, must you place one of the rolled dice on it?
- Can you use a die you just secured on a spell to complete a task in the same turn?
- How long does a die stay on a spell, and can a die held there be used later or by another investigator?
- Can another investigator take a die held on a spell and roll it?
- Can dice be added to a spell after some have been removed, or filled into an empty slot later?
- How does the Dread Curse of Azathoth spell hold dice?
- What happens when a die on a spell is locked by a card or monster?
- Can a Mythos effect that makes you discard a spell take a spell already cast on an adventure?
- When an investigator is devoured, are unplayed spells in hand discarded?
- If a devoured investigator has a cast spell with dice on it, does the spell stay in play?
- Does holding a die on a spell cost you a die from your pool, the way focusing does?
- Can you avoid a Terror effect by securing a terror die you just rolled on a spell?
- When can a spell that says discard after rolling, like Voice of Ra, be used?
- Can you use a spell or item immediately after receiving it as a reward?
- Can you use items, spells or clues on another player's turn, or cast a spell to help another investigator's adventure?
- When can Find Gate be played?
- Can a red or yellow die be secured on a spell?
- Are items discarded after use, and where do they go?
- How many red and yellow dice can you get in one turn, and can you use both in one task?
- If you discard a red or yellow die after a failed roll, can another item bring it back that turn?
- When during your turn can you play an item that adds a red or yellow die?
- Can you use several items and spells in one turn, before or between rolls?
- Can you play a healing item after a losing roll to avoid losing stamina or sanity?
- Is there a maximum number of item or spell cards you can hold?
- When a card says to discard items, do allies and spells count?
- Can investigators trade items, clues, spells or trophies with each other?
- In Omens of Ice, can you buy an item at the Entrance for another investigator?
- In Unseen Forces, can you buy two allies, or a clue plus a spell, at the Entrance with trophies?
- Does Ashcan Pete's item substitution work when he gains several items at once?
- Can Ashcan Pete look at a common item before deciding to trade it for a unique one?
- In Unseen Forces, does Ashcan Pete's substitution apply when he buys at the Souvenir Shop?
- When you pay trophies for an Entrance item that costs less than your trophy, do you get change?
- If a red or yellow die is locked, can an item still add it to your pool?
- Do red and yellow dice from items stay in play for the whole turn?
- How many dice can one clue token reroll, and can you spend several in one roll?
- Do you need to focus or request assistance before rerolling with a clue?
- Does rerolling with a clue trigger a Terror effect?
- Can you use a clue token to reroll dice before securing one on a spell?
- Can Joe Diamond split the two rerolls from one clue token between tasks, or carry a leftover reroll over?
- In Omens of Ice, can a clue token change a die roll made on a Mythos card?
- Can a clue token let you keep a die you do not want rerolled after completing a task?
- Can an ally's ability be used by the whole group, or only by the investigator who gained it?
- Do ally sanity or stamina counters come from your investigator's own tokens?
- Can you gain an ally from an adventure reward?
- When Duke lets you ignore a penalty on a failed adventure, does it cancel one penalty or all of them?
- If an adventure forbids spells, items or clues, can you still use skills, blessed or cursed dice, or allies?
- If The Stars Align Mythos card blocks spells and unique items, can I use one type if I don't have the other?
- If you are devoured on your own turn, when does midnight resolve and when does your replacement start acting?
- If sanity and stamina both drop to zero at once, do you lose one Elder Sign or two?
- Can an item or ability that targets another investigator be used when that investigator is in a different room, or target yourself?
- What triggers Ithaqua's stamina loss with spells and items?
- Do investigators who gain an extra item, like the Archeologist, Salesman or Magician, also get the extra when they buy?
- How often can Anna Kaslow's reroll be used, and can it be used on the same turn as Mandy's?
- When you lose two Sanity at once from one source, do you place one or two tokens on Anna Kaslow?
- Can every player use Mandy Thompson's extra reroll, or only one player per day?
- How do Professor Armitage's spells work for other investigators?
- With Professor Armitage, how many spells does Dexter Drake draw, and does buying a spell give him an extra?
- When Ruby Standish joins you, do you draw two unique items for her?
- Can Museum Map discard an Adventure card that has locked dice on it?
- Can you gain Skill cards in the base game's Museum mode?
- In Gates of Arkham, do skill cards stay in play until a card tells you to discard them?
- In Gates of Arkham, does William Bain stop doom tokens from being added, and must his sanity-token ability be used every time?
- In Gates of Arkham, does placing a Kestrel Claire sanity token cost you sanity?
- In Gates of Arkham, can the Flashlight flip over an Arkham adventure that is already face up?
- In Gates of Arkham, when Seal the Gate closes a gate, what happens to the linked Other World card?
- In Gates of Arkham, when you discard the Gate Box at the Streets of Arkham, does a gate open?
- In Omens of the Pharaoh, can you discard a relic for its Other World adventures and also spend it for its dice?
- Can Purifying Flames defeat a monster outside your turn or in another world?
- Does Blunderbuss turn a failed adventure into a success if the monster was the only missing requirement?
- Can Amanda use Clue tokens and items with her ability to complete several tasks in one turn?
- Can an item or spell that defeats a monster target a monster on a different adventure or location?
- Does defeating a monster with an item or spell count as completing a task for that roll?
- After a Flute of the Outer Gods defeat, can the same roll's dice complete another task?
- When you defeat a monster with a spell or Flute, when do you collect the monster marker?
- Does defeating a monster with the Flute of the Outer Gods advance the clock when the monster has a clock icon?
Additional RulesExpansion
- What happens when your investigator is devoured?
- If an investigator is devoured while blessed or cursed, what happens to the card and the die?
- Do you lose a Blessing when you fail an adventure, including one gained while resolving that adventure?
- When a blessed investigator becomes cursed, do they receive a Cursed card, and can a second curse make them cursed?
- Can a blessing cancel a curse before the first roll of your next adventure?
- Do blessed or cursed dice stay in your pool on later turns until the condition ends?
- If a cursed investigator completes an adventure whose reward is a blessing, what happens to the curse?
- Can the blessing and curse mechanic from Unseen Forces be used with other expansions?
- Does a Lingering Curse terror effect trigger once or repeatedly?
- If the black Curse die removes a Terror die from the pool, does that die still trigger Terror?
- Does a Curse resolve before the pass or fail check, so that it can cause a task to fail?
- Can Amanda Sharpe complete more than one task on an adventure with a single roll?
- Does Kate Winthrop's ability stop monsters appearing when a Vaults of Zin reward is gained?
- In Gates of Arkham, what happens with Unstable Location when all three gates are already open?
- Is there a maximum number of Other World cards in play in Gates of Arkham?
- In Gates of Arkham, what happens to the seal when you complete the adventure it sits on?
- In Gates of Arkham, when an item effect would place an Other World card, do you still draw it?
- Does an effect that places an Other World card also open a gate?
- In Gates of Arkham, when a gate closes at a sealed Other World card, which gate is it?
- In Gates of Arkham, does the replacement adventure come into play face down?
- In Gates of Arkham, can you choose which Arkham adventure receives a gate?
- In Gates of Arkham, can a Streets of Arkham action flip an Other World card, or let you move to one that turn?
- How do you advance to Stage II in Omens of the Deep?
- In Omens of the Deep, if the Dark Waters track is at its last space, how do you advance to Stage II later?
- In Omens of the Deep, when does Stage II begin after the omen track is advanced to the right?
- Does Diana Stanley gain one clue per monster she defeats, or at most one per Resolution Phase?
- In Omens of the Deep, how is a Staged Mythos dilemma decided?
- In Omens of the Pharaoh, how do you get Expedition tokens when playing the Exhibit scenario outside Egypt?
- In Omens of the Pharaoh, when Mirage of the Desert returns adventures face down, do investigators on them move to the entrance?
- In Omens of the Pharaoh, does Defend the Camp's sanity and stamina loss apply to Other World adventures?
- How do you treat a storm doom icon on an Omens of Ice Ancient One in other game modes?
- How are special doom icons on an Ancient One track handled when the game mode is not the expansion they came from?
- Do effects that target adventure cards also apply to Other World cards?
- Does Shub-Niggurath's monster-on-adventure ability apply to Other World adventures?
- Does an effect that triggers when you resolve an Other World adventure happen if you fail it?
- Do Other World cards sit under the normal adventures, and are they replaced when one is resolved?
- Does a lingering Mythos effect that raises task requirements also raise the dice requirement?
- Do locked dice stay locked on the other players' turns?
- Can re-roll abilities or items be used during the Lost and Found?
- When a Mythos card places an extra adventure card below the others, is it replaced after it is beaten?
- Does a split symbol in a task box need two dice, or is either symbol enough?
MonstersExpansion
- Can you pile extra monsters onto one card once every monster task is full?
- Where does a new monster go when no monster task is open?
- Do monsters already on monster tasks count toward the even spread?
- When a monster appears, does it fill a monster task first, and who chooses the spot?
- If no monster space is open and a monster appears mid-roll, can it go on the adventure you are rolling for?
- Do monsters appear as soon as an adventure with monster spaces is revealed or you move there?
- Can a monster be placed on an adventure card that an investigator is standing on?
- Must the monsters below an adventure be defeated in a set order?
- On an adventure with an order arrow, must a monster placed below be completed last?
- Must you defeat a monster on an adventure to resolve that adventure?
- Can you defeat a monster without completing the adventure it sits on?
- If you complete a monster task but then fail the adventure, do you keep the monster?
- When do you collect a defeated monster as a trophy?
- Do the dice you used on a monster task return to your pool as soon as the monster is defeated?
- When do I get back a die that a monster locked, once the monster is defeated (including by a spell or item)?
- Is there a limit to how many dice monsters can lock at once?
- Can you fight a monster when the only die matching its lock is already locked on another card?
- If a newly drawn monster locks a die already in your pool, does that die leave the pool?
- Can an item or spell defeat a monster on another adventure, and what does it cost?
- Does defeating a monster with a spell or item count as a successful roll, blocking other tasks on that roll?
- Do Flute of the Outer Gods and Bind Monster defeat monsters the same way?
- Does Bind Monster ignore a monster's curse, stamina or sanity requirements?
- What do you get for defeating the Warlock monster, and can its marker pay trophies?
- Where do spent monster trophies go?
- When a monster covering a task is defeated and removed, does the covered task come back?
- Does a defeat spell skip the uncovered part of a partial monster task?
- What extra task does Shub-Niggurath add to each monster?
- Does Kate Winthrop's ability stop monsters appearing during her turn?
- With Kate Winthrop on her turn, are Public Lavatory's two monsters blocked?
- Do Public Lavatory's monsters get placed again while the card stays open?
- Can a monster from a terror or adventure effect be placed on a task that is already completed?
- If an adventure's reward brings a monster into play, can it go on the incoming adventure, and must you place it?
- How do Deep One Legion monsters appear and return to the stockpile?
- Can a Remove Monster reward remove a Deep One Legion, or a mission?
- When do you lose against Abhoth: when the last Child is placed, or when you must place one and none are left?
- If Wizard Whateley appears mid-adventure, must you resolve the tasks above him in order?
- Must you pay the Haunter of the Dark's clock symbols to defeat it?
- Can Storm Crow and Omens of Ice storm markers be used when playing the base game?
- In Omens of the Deep, can monsters be placed on the special adventure cards?
- When does the Rat Thing's item discard happen relative to an adventure's rewards?
- What happens to a monster when its card is discarded instead of resolved?
- If a monster task would drain you to zero stamina or sanity, can you still complete the adventure?
- Does a monster placed on an adventure card replace the card tasks, or add to them?
Awakening the Ancient OneExpansion
- When the Ancient One awakens, do dice locked by Adventures, monsters or Mythos cards stay locked?
- When an Ancient One awakens, what happens to Adventure cards, Other World cards, monsters and the Entrance?
- Does an Ancient One attack the moment it awakens?
- If the Ancient One wakes during the Resolution Phase, is its midnight attack resolved before the final battle?
- Do monsters appear during a final battle, given Cthulhu's card wording?
- What happens when a doom token covers a plain doom icon or a monster icon on the doom track?
- If an effect fills the rest of the doom track at once, are monsters still added?
- When Ithaqua awakens, how is the green-die check on held items and spells resolved?
- When Ithaqua awakens, does the green-die check apply to every investigator or only the one who triggered it?
- In Gates of Arkham, what happens to adventures in play when Shudde M'ell awakens?
- In Gates of Arkham, does a Reprieve reward remove a doom token from the Ancient One's doom track?
- In Omens of Ice, can you seal the Ancient One without completing the special adventure cards?
- Can you gain a Blessing after the Ancient One has awakened?
- Does The Arcane Art's midnight discard awaken Yog-Sothoth early?
- When Yig awakens, does an investigator lose one Elder Sign, or does each investigator lose one?
- Do an Ancient One's own at-midnight effects still apply after it has awakened?
- When is a player eliminated rather than taking a new investigator?
Battling the Ancient OneExpansion
- During an Ancient One battle, can you use clues, items, spells and allies?
- Can you focus dice or request assistance while battling an Ancient One?
- Can you keep rolling after a successful attack, and how many doom tokens can one investigator remove in one turn?
- Can one roll that meets the battle task twice remove two doom tokens?
- Do you win by removing all doom tokens from the Ancient One, given that it has no hit points?
- How often does an awakened Ancient One attack, and how many player turns come between attacks?
- If your investigator is devoured during the final battle, do you get a replacement, and do you still advance the clock?
- During the final battle, do doom icon effects such as opening gates or adding storm markers still resolve?
- When Cthulhu lowers your maximum sanity or stamina, do your current values drop too?
- How many of Cthulhu's attacks does it take to devour an investigator?
- Does Cthulhu's special ability lower maximum sanity and stamina for the whole game, and do its attack reductions stack with it?
- Does Cthulhu's reduction of maximum scores limit healing, including the Healing Stone?
- Does Ithaqua's Icy Winds effect continue during the battle with him once he has awakened?
- If Ithaqua makes you lose 1 Stamina when you use an item or spell that fully heals you, is the loss before or after the heal?
- What does the x on Hastur's battle task mean, and what if no monsters are in play?
- What does the King in Yellow's attack cost the investigator?
- When an Epic Battle card changes an Ancient One's attack, is there a separate original attack too?
- In Omens of Ice, does the day track keep advancing once the Final Battle begins?
- In Gates of Arkham, when Yibb-Tstll attacks and only one investigator is left, does a clue holder still lose sanity or stamina?
- In Omens of the Deep, does Hydra's keep-trophies cost apply to Other World cards?
- In Unseen Forces, does Glaaki's Undead Servants effect add three doom tokens when an investigator is devoured or killed in the final battle?
- Can you gain a Blessing during the Ancient One battle to get the white Blessing die?
- If you fail to complete the Ancient One's task on your last die, do you lose your Blessed die?
- Can an investigator use a special ability while battling an Ancient One?
- During an Ancient One battle, can you visit the Entrance to buy items or heal?
- During an Ancient One battle, do players take turns, or can one investigator attack repeatedly?
- During an Ancient One battle, are adventures, monsters and midnight effects from cards ignored?
Winning the GameExpansion
- In Omens of Ice, can you win by gaining the last Elder Sign from an adventure's entry cost without completing the adventure?
- In the base game, can you buy the last Elder Sign at the Museum to win?
- What is the loss condition in Elder Sign: do you lose only when every investigator is devoured?
- Do you have to fight the Ancient One after collecting enough Elder Signs?
- If the last Elder Sign and the last doom token arrive together, do you win or does the Ancient One awaken?
- In Unseen Forces, when does the game end because of Abhoth's Children of Abhoth?
- Does Shudde M'ell's game-end loss apply only when no Adventure or Other World cards remain in play?
- Can players pool or share their trophies to buy Elder Signs together?
Elder Sign: Gates of ArkhamExpansion
- If an effect discards an Other World card that has a gate on it, what happens to the gate?
- When a spell closes a gate, is the matching Other World card discarded?
- If an event opens a gate on an Adventure, where do the gate markers and the new Other World card go?
- Do you get the rewards and keep the card as a trophy when a spell discards an Other World card?
- In Gates of Arkham, does buying a benefit at the Entrance with trophies end your turn?
- When an Ally needs a Stamina token to defeat a monster in Gates of Arkham, does the token come from your supply or the general pool?
- In Gates of Arkham, if you cannot pay a task's Sanity or Stamina cost, are you devoured?
- In Gates of Arkham, what if locked dice leave too few dice to resolve any Adventure?
- Do Entry effects and Event cards trigger again each turn an investigator stays on an Adventure?
- Can you flip a facedown Arkham Adventure from the Streets and resolve its Entry effect?
- Is the effect on the back of a facedown Gates of Arkham Adventure optional, and if it says 'may', can you still flip the card and attempt the Adventure?
- When an Entry effect says a monster appears here, does it go on that Adventure even if the task already has a monster?
- Does an Entry effect such as 'A monster appears here!' trigger once for each investigator who enters the Adventure?
- If you cannot pay an Entry effect, can you still enter the Other World card?
- Can you leave a Gates adventure that says you cannot move from it, if an event lets you ignore its Entry effect?
- If an item or event moves a second investigator onto an Adventure with an Entry effect during another investigator's Resolution phase, does the Entry effect trigger?
- Do Gate Box and Find Gate open a gate when they reveal an Other World card?
- Can Gates of Arkham be played without the base game?
- Should you use the revised Other World cards and investigators from Unseen Forces or the original ones in Gates of Arkham?
- Can you flip a facedown Adventure that has a gate on it from the Streets of Arkham by paying 2 trophies?
- In what order are At Midnight effects resolved when the clock strikes midnight?
- When a resolved Arkham Adventure is replaced, or a new one is added during the game, is it placed faceup or facedown?
- If you defeat a gate-opening monster as the last task of an Adventure, where does its gate open?
- Can a gate go on a face-up or face-down Arkham Adventure, and how is the target chosen?
- When an Arkham Adventure with a seal is resolved or discarded, does the seal stay with it?
- Does a gate count as one gate marker or as a pair of markers, and can an odd number of gates be open?
- If an Arkham Adventure with a gate is removed or discarded, is its Other World card discarded too?
- Can a gate marker stay on an Arkham Adventure once its Other World card is gone?
- Where do monsters go when placed on face-down Arkham Adventure cards?
- Do monsters move to a different task on an Adventure once they have been placed?
- If advancing the clock causes midnight during an Adventure, is an Adventure that discards itself at midnight discarded before you finish its Resolution phase?
- When an Adventure with an At Midnight 'discard this card' effect is discarded, is it replaced?
- When Emerging Creatures discards failed Adventures and says not to replace them, do you go back to six Adventures at the next midnight?
- Do the midnight effects from both midnights in one turn stack, and what does a second midnight do?
- Can Gates of Arkham cards be mixed into the base game?
- Do you mix the base Mythos deck with the Gates of Arkham Mythos deck?
- Can Museum adventure cards and Streets of Arkham cards be used together in one game?
- In Gates of Arkham, must Other World cards with the event icon be used when Streets of Arkham mode is not played?
- Do effects that refer to Adventure cards also reach Gates of Arkham Other World adventures, or only Arkham Adventures?
- When playing Streets of Arkham with Unseen Forces, which entrance card and decks are used?
- Do the Gates of Arkham Other World cards replace the base and Unseen Forces ones, or are they added in?
- Can you stay on the Streets of Arkham card and not use its ability?
- Must you move to an Arkham Adventure after using a Streets of Arkham ability?
- Can the Streets of Arkham entrance ability discard a face-down adventure card?
- Can you look at a face-down adventure card when the Streets of Arkham lets you discard it?
- Can an investigator on an Other World card stay on the Streets of Arkham when they finish it?
- If I start my turn on the Streets of Arkham card, can I use its ability and then still attempt an adventure that turn?
- If a failed adventure opens a gate and places a facedown Other World card on the investigator's card, is the investigator pulled in immediately?
- Must Gates of Arkham gates be added whenever a base-game card places an Other World card?
- If Ghatanothoa devours an investigator after a successful adventure, are the rewards and the Other World card kept?
- Can you reroll or alter the Ghatanothoa Annihilating Gaze die?
- Can Michael McGlen's Strong Body turn a terror result when he is attacked by Ghatanothoa?
- Can Seal Gate discard an Other World card that another investigator is on?
- If a gate opens on the Adventure you are on, where do you go, and can you still resolve it?
- Can an investigator in an Other World secure a die on a spell, or have another investigator cast a spell for them?
- Can you use base game Ancient Ones in Gates of Arkham, and do they need gate icons on their doom track?
- When playing solo, do you redraw items that refer to another investigator?
- Was Gates of Arkham designed to be played with Unseen Forces content?
- Can you use Master Mythos cards in Gates of Arkham?
- Can you play Gates of Arkham adventure cards faceup instead of facedown?
- Can you use Unseen Forces Blessed and Cursed dice and cards with Gates of Arkham in Streets mode?
- How does the open-a-gate reward work when it replaces adding an Other World card?
- How do Other World cards come into play in Gates of Arkham?
- Does the Mythos discard of all adventure trophies also discard monster trophies?
- Does a Mythos card at setup reveal an initial Mythos card in Arkham Streets mode?
- How do you seal a gate?
- What does the yellow exclamation mark on a Gates of Arkham monster mean?
- Can an investigator end their turn on the Streets of Arkham without using any of its abilities?
- Can you activate an entrance ability without attempting an adventure?
- Can Prism of Vision be used on another investigator's turn?
- What does the angel symbol on some Gates of Arkham cards mean?
- What does the glowing planet symbol on some Other World cards mean?
- Can a Riot Monster reward discard the Arkham Adventure its monster sits on, and is that card replaced?
- Do you have to remove every doom token from an Ancient One sheet to win a battle?
- When an effect says the die is locked on a completed task, does the task become uncompleted?
- If you move onto a facedown Gates of Arkham Adventure in Movement, do you still get a Resolution phase?
- Can all six Gates of Arkham Adventure cards be set up face-down?
- Can Patrice use the clue tokens that Granny Orne brings in?
- How do you get a Membership in Gates of Arkham?
- Can items granted by an Ally be lost to an adventure penalty or to Ithaqua's start-of-battle penalty?
- If an investigator is on an Adventure where no task can be attempted and they cannot leave, what happens?
- Does an Other World card's event icon add an extra Event when the Resolution phase restarts?
- If you spend a two-trophy adventure card but only need one trophy, what happens to the leftover value and the card?
- Can Finn Edwards's trophy ability target himself?
- Do Skill cards stay with an investigator from turn to turn?
- Must you carry out the Rat-thing marker's instructions when you take it as a trophy?
- Do spells on an ally you gain count toward the Ancient Scripts sanity loss?
- How do you resolve a monster task that carries an extra -1 Stamina cost, like Vaults of Zin?
- If you flip an Adventure at the end of your movement, must you attempt it that turn even if you cannot survive it?
- If a Terror effect says to discard a clue but you have none, do you fail the Adventure?
- Can you avoid a Curse or Blessing reward on a Gates of Arkham card?
- Can an investigator at an Adventure that forbids items or spells be helped by another investigator's item or spell?
- Does Unexpected Aid unlock locked dice for the Adventure?
- If you discard an Adventure with a die lock symbol while that die is locked elsewhere, is the discard allowed?
- When Patrice Hathaway buys two clues, does she gain one extra clue or one per clue bought?
- Does trading a clue to Patrice Hathaway give her the extra clue?
Elder Sign: Unseen ForcesExpansion
- Must you roll the dice pool for an Adventure task that has only a sanity or stamina loss and no dice symbols?
- Can spells, clue tokens or investigator abilities change the black Curse die, or secure it on a spell?
- If a blessed investigator completes a task that curses them, then fails the Adventure, is the blessing lost?
- In Unseen Forces, can you still buy an Elder Sign at the Souvenir Shop?
- In Unseen Forces, does Lost and Found cost Sanity or Stamina per die showing the symbol or per symbol amount?
- How does the Chapel's 8-trophy blessing option work for an already blessed investigator?
- Can you buy two items together at the Souvenir Shop, paying their combined trophy value with no change?
- If an investigator is devoured while completing an Adventure, does he still get the rewards?
- How long does a blessed white die stay usable across Adventures?
- Can new Unseen Forces Mythos cards with a choice of effects be resolved as either option?
- What happens to a die locked by an Adventure when Shudde M'ell makes you fail that Adventure?
- Can a cursed investigator attempt a task whose symbol would give them a second curse?
- Can a Blessed investigator place the white die on a spell, and can other players use it afterward?
- Are spells items, so that an effect forcing you to discard an item can take a spell?
- When you lose your Blessed or Cursed card in the middle of an Adventure, is the die removed right away?
- When a Children of Abhoth monster task is defeated, do you gain the Curse immediately?
- Do Ryan Dean's stamina tokens come from the reserve, and how many times can his yellow die be added?
- Does the mask monster on The Beast token trigger the core-set Mask rules when fighting Nyarlathotep?
- After Fresh Start, do you refill the Adventure deck back to six cards?
- Can you choose Taxes on the Death or Taxes Master Mythos card if one investigator cannot pay?
- Can the Chapel's blessing be given to an investigator other than the one visiting?
- If you are cursed and then pass an Adventure whose reward is a blessing, do you end up blessed?
- Does Diana Stanley get her clue when Greater Banishment discards monsters?
- When an ability says 'the entrance', which Entrance cards does it cover?
- When an investigator is devoured by Glaaki, how many doom tokens are added?
- Do the Unseen Forces replacement cards replace the base cards, and are they needed without the expansion?
- How do Bob, Daxter or Monterey's extra-item abilities work with the Souvenir Shop's buy-two limit?
- Do you add the new Unseen Forces cards to the base decks and then shuffle them?
- If a doom token is put back on a monster space after a retract effect, does the monster appear again?
- After completing an Adventure, can you resolve the Souvenir Shop entrance ability?
- Does Greater Banishment remove Children of Abhoth from play?
Elder Sign: Omens of IceExpansion
- Can you flip a facedown Omens of Ice adventure faceup?
- How do Omens of Ice Ancient One storm icons work when playing the base game or the Museum?
- If you do not own Unseen Forces or Gates of Arkham, which split reward or penalty do you take in Omens of Ice?
- If an Adventure card with Storm Markers on it is discarded by a game effect, do the Storm Markers get discarded too?
- Do you always start Omens of Ice with 15 supplies?
- Can Gates of Arkham cards marked with the exclamation icon be used in Omens of Ice?
- What does the gate symbol on the Road to Elsewhere card mean in Omens of Ice, where there are no gates?
- When the Mythos card 'The Cold Grows' makes you resolve midnight effects again, do you also advance the day marker?
- In Omens of Ice, must storm tokens be spread evenly across Adventures?
- Can storm markers go on facedown Adventures, and when are they resolved?
- When a storm token spawns a monster, must that monster appear on the Adventure where the token sits?
- In Omens of Ice, if storms leave you unable to pay a task's Stamina or Sanity cost, do you fail the Adventure and suffer its penalty?
- Can an investigator move back to the Expedition Camp after completing an Adventure to spend trophies?
- Can an investigator spend Expedition Camp trophies on more than one effect in a turn?
- In Omens of Ice, do you add a Doom token at every Midnight?
- Can you use the base game Ancient Ones in Omens of Ice?
- Does getting several Elder Signs from one reward trigger Rhan-Tegoth's ability once or once per Elder Sign?
- Do Other World cards in Omens of Ice enter play face up?
- Are gates used with Elder Sign: Omens of Ice?
- Do Alaskan Adventure cards in Omens of Ice enter play face down?
- Do monsters placed on facedown Omens of Ice Adventures spread the same way, and are they resolved before other effects?
- Are Desecrated Town's face-up Other World cards placed under each Adventure, or in one play area?
- Does a monster placed during midnight resolution also resolve its own midnight effect that same midnight?
- What if I cannot pay the supply cost on a storm token?
- Does Silas Marsh's ability stop the clock at midnight too?
- What happens when an Adventure already has four storm tokens and another must be added?
- Can players choose the bottom Alaskan Mythos option if some players cannot fully resolve it?
- Does the Yig 'Anger' ability trigger when you defeat an Ithaqua Cultist monster?
- Do effects that say Adventure cards also affect Alaskan Adventure cards, as Tony Morgan and Bill Morris do?
- On a task with several investigation symbols, does each symbol need its own die?
- If an Ancient One effect says one investigator loses 2 stamina, may the players choose the target?
Elder Sign: Omens of the PharaohExpansion
- Can only the investigator who unlocked a Hidden Chamber resolve its chamber effect?
- How many rolls do you get to unlock a Hidden Chamber, and can clues or items help?
- Do the dice used to unlock a Hidden Chamber come back, and do dice added to the unlock roll carry over into the attempt to solve it?
- Can I add a new red or yellow die during the Resolution phase to help solve a chamber?
- Can a Relic return a discarded red or yellow die to the pool?
- After choosing one of Temple District's top three cards to put on the bottom, what order do the other two go back in?
- Can you choose a Desert Caravan Mythos option that you cannot fully carry out, such as discarding trophies you do not have?
- Does a Dark Pharaoh special Adventure that enters play during the Ancient One's At Midnight step resolve its own At Midnight effect that same midnight?
- When the Entrance flips from Cairo to Dashur, are the Cairo and Dashur Adventure decks used at the same time?
- Does flipping the Entrance sheet to its other side cost an extra clock advance?
- When is a replacement Adventure placed relative to the rewards for passing an adventure?
- Can you spend one trophy worth 2 to gain both a red and a yellow die from two relics?
- Is there a penalty for failing to unlock a Hidden Chamber?
- Can you move from one Hidden Chamber to another after failing, all in the same turn?
- Can dice be split across several Hidden Chamber requirements?
- Can Father Matteo pay trophies to open a chamber without rolling?
- Can Father Matteo use his trophy ability to cancel a midnight effect at the end of his turn?
- Can you move and resolve an adventure after spending trophies on the Entrance in the same turn?
- Can a Relic return dice already spent on a completed row?
- Does Sefina Rousseau's ability require all three resources?
- Which cards count as Adventure cards for effects like Awakening of the Dead?
Elder Sign: Omens of the DeepExpansion
- How do you advance to Stage II in Omens of the Deep?
- In Omens of the Deep Stage II, does completing Calling reveal the next Special Adventure, Echoes?
- Can a character enter a face-down location whose entry effect requires a spell they do not have?
- How does a Deep One Legion defeated under Dagon get handled as a trophy?
- Do Deep One Legions placed next to the Dagon sheet count toward sinking the ship?
- When the Amulet of R'lyeh removes a Deep One Legion, where does it go, and does Dagon trigger?
- Can players look at the back of a Deep One Legion marker?
- Do Deep One Legions and Missions count as monsters for item and ability effects?
- Can you combine different Entrance trophy effects in one turn, or pay an Entrance cost again to repeat its effect?
- Can you mix the base and Gates Other World decks when setting up Omens of the Deep?
- If an adventure you complete advances the clock past midnight, does the replacement card's At Midnight effect trigger?
- When you replace a completed adventure, is the new one placed face up or face down?
- When do the effects on the back of a face-down adventure card trigger, such as a DOL monster appearing?