Fragments
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Fragments of wisdom from the ancient world In the sixth century b.c.-twenty-five hundred years...
The History and Religious Heritage of Old Cairo: Its Fortress, Churches, Synagogue, and Mosque
Morris Jackson and Sherif Sonbol
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Just to the south of modern Cairo stands the historic enclave known as Old Cairo, which grew up in...
The Unstill Ones: Poems
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An exciting debut collection of original poems and translations from Old English An exciting debut...
The Saga of the Volsungs
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Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, The Saga of the Volsungs is one of the classic...
Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Elder Sign in Tabletop Games
Jul 17, 2020 (Updated Jul 18, 2020)
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. It is published by Fantasy Flight Games, which also produces the Cthulhu Mythos games Arkham Horror, Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game, Mansions of Madness, and Eldritch Horror.
Gameplay:
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 Adventure cards and Other World cards). If a player succeeds at completing all of the tasks in the room they are exploring, they obtain a reward. Conversely, if they fail, they receive a penalty. If the player's investigator is devoured (either by losing all of their stamina and/or sanity), they lose what they originally had, a doom token is added to the doom track, and the player returns to play as a different investigator.
Rooms are explored until either the Ancient One is "sealed" or "awakened". If the Ancient One is sealed, the players immediately win. If the Ancient One awakens, the players must face it in battle. This battle is designed to be extremely difficult with a low chance of success, so players must try to prevent the Ancient One from awakening at all costs.
Its a excellent gothic horror game, it has fantasy, dice, cards and adventure and alot of replayablity. Buy it if you havent already. Cause its excellent.
Before Nature: Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science
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In the modern West, we take for granted that what we call the "natural world" confronts us all and...
Landscapes of the Song of Songs: Poetry and Place
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In this masterful new study of the ancient poetry of The Song of Songs, Elaine T. James explores the...