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139 questions players ask · Updated Nov 12, 2026 · Full rulebook

SetupSetup ConfigurationsPlaying a RoundOfferings and Heroic FeatsDice Faces and ForgingHeroic Feat CardsTenacious Boar and MinotaurSingle-Use TokensPromo CardsEnd of Game and Scoring PhaseDice Forge: Rebellion

Setup

  • How do you lay out the cards around the Islands board at setup?
  • How do you assemble each player's starting dice?
  • How much starting gold does each player get, and who gets the most?
  • How do promo cards fit into the card stacks at setup?
  • Is there a Temple card, and what is the Temple?

Setup Configurations

  • How many rounds does a game last with two, three or four players?
  • How many cards does each stack start with, by player count?
  • In a two-player game, how many die faces are removed from each Sanctuary pool, and which ones?
  • Does island artwork matter when placing alternative 1-cost cards in setup?

Playing a Round

  • Do all players roll their dice at the start of every turn, or only once per round?
  • In a two-player game, do players receive divine blessings twice at the start of each turn?
  • In a two-player game, do extra blessings from a card or an ouster also come in pairs?
  • Does the first-player token pass to the next player each round?
  • During a round, do all players take actions, or only the active player?
  • Can you pass, or keep your resources, if you cannot afford anything?
  • When can a reinforcement card be used, and how often per turn?
  • Does a card you buy this turn take effect in that same turn?
  • Can you take more than one extra action in a turn?
  • What does the extra action cost?
  • When two players' effects conflict in one blessing, who resolves first?
  • When I get a minor blessing, does the die I did not roll still give its face effect?

Offerings and Heroic Feats

  • Can you buy a Heroic Feat card and dice faces in the same turn?
  • How many dice faces can you buy in one offering?
  • Can you buy the same die face again, on a later turn or in the same turn?
  • Can you own more than one copy of the same Heroic Feat card?
  • Does buying dice faces move your pawn?
  • Can you take a Heroic Feat from any island, and what happens to a player already on its portal?
  • Can you move your pawn to a Heroic Feat you cannot afford?
  • Can you take a Heroic Feat for free when your pawn already sits on its portal?
  • Can you perform the same Heroic Feat twice in one turn?
  • Can you buy more than one Heroic Feat card in a turn?
  • Where do Heroic Feat cards go after you take them, and when do their effects act?
  • Do Heroic Feats cost sun shards or moon shards, or only gold?

Dice Faces and Forging

  • Where do the die faces you remove during forging go, and can they come back?
  • Is a newly forged face showing, so that a Mirror can copy it?
  • In a two-player game, which roll does a Mirror copy when the blessing step happens twice?
  • What can a Mirror copy: only opponents' faces, or your own?
  • If a Mirror copies a 3-point face, does an x3 on the other die triple the copy?
  • When a Mirror and an x3 come up together, what does the x3 triple?
  • What does an x3 give when nothing is left to multiply, or when two x3 faces come up?
  • When a Mirror copies a Guardian's Shield, is the reward based on your other die or the opponent's?
  • If two Guardian's Shield faces are rolled together, do you still gain their glory points?
  • If you roll a Celestial Ship and a Guardian's Shield together, does the shield still give the resource shown on it?
  • If a Guardian's Shield is rolled with a face that gives two resources, which reward applies?
  • What does a Guardian's Shield face give when it is rolled alone?
  • How do hybrid faces that show two icons with a 1 or 2 work?
  • Can a Mirror rolled during a minor blessing copy a face?
  • If an x3 and a copy face that copies Tenacious Boar come up together, how many times does the Boar effect trigger?

Heroic Feat Cards

  • Do several Elder cards stack, and can one Elder spend more than 3 gold?
  • When does an Elder-type card that trades 3 gold for 4 Glory Points trigger?
  • Do several Great Bear cards add together when you oust another player?
  • Can you trigger the Great Bear oust effect twice in one turn by paying for an extra action?
  • How many Glory Points does the Blacksmith's Hammer give when it is completed twice?
  • Can you have more than one Blacksmith's Hammer active at the same time?
  • Can you split the gold from a blessing between your reserve and the Blacksmith's Hammer track, even when your gold track is full?
  • Can you spend gold from the Blacksmith's Hammer track, or lose it to an effect?
  • Can a Cyclops or Sentinel reward split a 4-gold face between gold and victory points?
  • Can Sentinel exchange sun and moon shards from several rolled dice into Glory Points at once?
  • If Sentinel converts a moon on your other die, does a shield on that die still give its 5 points?
  • Does the Cyclops or Sentinel gold and shard bonus last for the rest of the game?
  • When the Left Hand ousts players, does a player you already ousted this turn still roll?
  • Can you take a face with the Celestial Ship discount if you have no gold?
  • Does the Celestial Ship discount let you buy dice faces whose cards are not in play?
  • When you roll the Celestial Ship face, what can you do, and must it be your active turn?
  • When several players get Celestial Ship effects in one blessing, can a player wait to decide where the gold goes?
  • Can you stack Silver Hind cards, and does calling reinforcements use up your action?
  • Can you spend resources before a Silver Hind minor blessing?
  • If a Silver Hind's extra roll lands on an x3, do you gain resources?
  • When you roll again with a reroll card or Silver Hind, do you keep the results of every roll?
  • With the Satyrs card, can you choose your own dice faces, and can the two faces come from different players?
  • On a looping gold track card, can you keep moving once you complete the first lap?

Tenacious Boar and Minotaur

  • When another player rolls a Tenacious Boar face, what do the roller and the card owner each get?
  • If a Minotaur makes a player reroll and that player rolls a Tenacious Boar face, does the card owner lose anything?
  • Must the owner of a Tenacious Boar card take its effect when the rolling player does not mention it?
  • If a Tenacious Boar face comes up with an x3, does the x3 also triple the owner's benefit?
  • If the Abyssal Trident exploit picks the Tenacious Boar face, do you also take the card?
  • When a Tenacious Boar face says 'your card', which Boar card is it, and how many can you buy?
  • What happens when a Mirror of the Abyss is rolled under a Minotaur penalty?
  • Does a Mirror of Misfortune rolled through a Minotaur penalty work like Tenacious Boar?

Single-Use Tokens

  • Does a Cerberus token re-use both dice of a major blessing, or only one die?
  • Can you use a Cerberus token on a blessing rolled earlier in the turn, after the resources were gained?
  • Can you use more than one Cerberus token on the same roll?
  • Can a Cerberus token double a Sentinel roll so the shards can be discarded for Glory Points again?
  • Does a Cerberus token double the two faces chosen with the Satyrs card?
  • Can you use a Triton token after your second action on your very last turn?
  • Can Sentinel's double blessing be combined with Triton to convert sun or moon into points?
  • If Triton gives more sun shards than your bank can hold, and you are mid-purchase, what happens?

Promo Cards

  • What does the Harpies promo card do, and where does it go in the 5 sun / 5 moon pile?
  • What does the Storm (thunder +1) promo card do to the dice?
  • What does the Pegasus promo card do when your hero is ousted?
  • What does the Nymph promo card (butterfly spirit) do?

End of Game and Scoring Phase

  • What scores Glory Points at the end of the game?
  • Can gold and shards be converted into Glory Points after the final turn?

Dice Forge: RebellionExpansion

  • Does the Omniscient card count victory-point faces on all your dice, or only those rolled this round?
  • Can you reset the Blacksmith's Scepter while collecting resources, to buy a card with the extra shards?
  • Does The Eternal Fire give two divine blessings in a two-player game?
  • In a two-player game, must you finish resolving your first divine blessing before rolling a second?
  • When do you roll the Celestial Die after landing on a Labyrinth space?
  • If the Celestial Die makes you choose a face and you change your golem dice, can you still take the golem face you covered?
  • Does The Goddess's 'as if receiving a divine blessing' give the Sun and Moon Golem bonus roll?
  • If a Copy die face copies a Golem face while you roll a divine blessing, do you get the Celestial Die bonus?
  • Can two Golems share a Goddess Labyrinth space?
  • On the Goddess Board, does a Roll Dice Twice space roll your dice or the Celestial Die?
  • When your Golem moves more than one space on the Goddess Board, when do you resolve each space's effect?
  • Who can collect memory tokens placed by a Heroic Feat?
  • Are memory token rewards gained before or after paying the cost of a Heroic Feat?
  • When you spend or lose ancient shards, does your allegiance token move, and does a Minotaur change loyalty?
  • When you perform the First Titan heroic feat, do you keep the card you chose?
  • Can ancient shards be spent as either sun or moon shards?
  • When you gain ancient shards from 25 on the loyalty side, how far does the allegiance token move?
  • Does buying a card count as a heroic feat action for the Rebellion area bonus?
  • How does The Twins card work, and can you use more than one copy in a turn?
  • Can The Twins reroll a die triggered by an opponent's Satyrs, Minotaur or Left Hand?
  • Does upgrading a die face with the Merchant or Celestial Die count as forging for Typhon and the Goddess board?
  • When an opponent rolls a golem movement face on your turn, who moves their golem?
  • Can the Right Hand card take gold from the Blacksmith's Scepter or the Blacksmith's Hammer?
  • Where do the dice faces removed by the Trader's upgrade go?
  • How far can the Merchant card upgrade a die face, and can it target any face on your dice?
  • Can you buy Eternal Fire more than once in a single turn?
  • Does buying The Eternal Fire give you a full extra turn?
  • When a divine blessing moves you across a loyalty zone, which zone's bonus applies to each die?
  • Do the unmarked spaces near the end of the Goddess track count as movement spaces?
  • When you copy an opponent's x3 Mirror of Misfortune, do you multiply your own dice?
  • If the Minotaur makes a player lose what they rolled and that player rolls a Mirror of the Abyss face, what happens?
  • Can the Abyssal Trident's heroic feat let you take any die face from the Temple area?
  • On the Titans rebellion track, who gets the higher VP when a Heroic Feat is bought?
  • In the Titans setup, can you replace the starting purple shard face on your die?
  • When several players move a Golem on the same turn, in what order do the moves resolve?
  • Does the Wood Nymph or the Goddess board let you buy one die face or several from the Sanctuary?
  • Can the plain expansion cards be mixed with base cards and with either module?
  • When The Twins makes me reroll a die, does the new result still resolve as a pair with my other die?
  • Can you use two copies of the Blacksmith's Scepter to take gold from both?
  • When the Celestial Die upgrade is rolled, must you replace one of the faces showing on your dice?
  • How does The Tree choose between its gold-and-VP reward and the VP-only reward?
  • Does the Goldsmith sun card score per unique Heroic Feat or per card?
  • Does gold on the Blacksmith's Sceptre count for the Fog?
  • Do you get the titan track bonus every time you buy the same Heroic Feat?
  • On a Labyrinth space, must you spend the full amount to gain the glory?
  • How does a loyalty token move through a special path on the Titan board?