Oath: Chronicles of Empire & Exile FAQ
625 questions players ask · Updated Nov 11, 2026 · Full rulebook
SetupExpansion
- How much favor goes in each favor bank at the start of a game?
- Do the People's Favor and Darkest Secret banners start with a favor and a secret?
- Where does the Darkest Secret banner start when no player owns it?
- Does the Chancellor start with the Darkest Secret banner under the Oath of Devotion?
- Where do favor or secrets go when a player starts as Oathkeeper of the People or Devotion?
- Does the Chancellor look at the relics before placing them in the Imperial Reliquary at setup?
- Do you have to follow the walkthrough or tutorial setup for the first game?
- Do you shuffle the cards before the first game?
- How do you set up the first game with fewer than four players?
- How do you set up a first game with five or six players?
- Can the first game skip the walkthrough and start from a random world?
- How do you set up a base-game Oath from scratch without the walkthrough?
- How do you randomize the map and the world deck for a first game after the walkthrough?
- How do you set up a game after the first one, when the sites and denizens carry over?
- Can a later game ever start with the walkthrough's revealed sites and denizens?
- Which sites start face up in the next game when the previous winner owned some or all of the sites?
- How do I reset a used copy to its factory setup or to a fresh random game?
- Are the unlabelled denizen decks in the box part of the Archive?
- How many cards are in the World Deck at the start of a game?
- Where do the five Visions go when the World Deck is built or rebuilt?
- Where does the Chancellor start, and what do they begin with?
- Who takes the first turn in Oath?
- Who becomes Chancellor in a new game, and can a different group carry on the campaign?
- Must players keep the same colour board in a new game?
- Can players choose a Citizen or Exile board when the boards are on the Citizen side?
- Does the Chancellor have a Wake phase too?
- Do When Played abilities trigger when cards are dealt to sites during setup?
- Can an advisor-only denizen be dealt to a site during setup?
- How do you set up a one-off game that is not part of a Chronicle?
- After shuffling a new world deck, how do you place the starting sites, denizens and warbands?
- Can you look at the three cards drawn at setup before choosing your starting site?
- Who plays the former Chancellor after a Succession?
- Can New Foundations games go above six players?
- Can New Foundations be added to a campaign that already has games played?
- How many sites are on the map in each game?
Key ComponentsExpansion
- Can cards be placed on a facedown site, including with the People's Favor?
- Does exchanging a banner in a trade or citizenship offer count as seizing it?
- What does seizing the People's Favor banner cost, and does it flip?
- Does the People's Favor banner flip back when it is recovered?
- Can you remove favor from the People's Favor instead of placing one, and can you add and then remove on the Mob side?
- What happens to the People's Favor when it has one favor and you have none to add?
- How do you recover the Darkest Secret the first time, and when is it safe from other players?
- Can relics in the Imperial Reliquary be taken by Campaign or Recover, and do they count once they leave it?
- Can the Chancellor rearrange relics in the Imperial Reliquary?
- Are secrets acquired face up or face down?
- Can you hold an unlimited number of secrets?
- Can you count the cards in the discard piles or the World Deck?
- What happens when the World Deck runs out?
- Can a relic be face up at a site?
- Do relics count toward a site's card limit?
- Are edifices added to the World Deck?
- Can a site hold more than one edifice?
- Are bandits treated as warbands?
- Can an exiled player keep more warbands than the box holds?
- If an Exile steals the Grand Scepter, can they still grant citizenship?
- What does the boat icon on coastal sites mean?
- How are favor and secrets on sites collected?
- Does a Supply marker on the rightmost printed space mean zero Supply or one?
- Does Saddle Makers trigger when an adviser is played face down?
- Can every Imperial player use a banner's power, or only the holder?
- Can new favor enter the game after setup?
- How is the Oathkeeper title awarded on a tie?
- Can you get rid of a relic you already hold, such as by discarding it?
- In New Foundations, can you hold a relic facedown so that it is discarded rather than stolen?
- What does recovering a relic cost, and what does a relic power cost?
- Can a facedown adviser be swapped to steal someone's Vision with Dream Thief?
- Can you keep a Vision facedown as an adviser and flip it face up early?
- Does the Oathkeeper or Usurper title add a defense die in every campaign against its holder?
- Do the defense dice symbols on cards change how many dice a card adds?
- What does the small warband icon beside the defense die on a site mean?
- Do denizen restriction banners apply when cards are swapped?
- Can locked advisers ever be removed from your board?
- Can you play a denizen to a site already at capacity by discarding a card there?
- What is the difference between your site and a site you rule, and can more than one player rule a site?
- How many sites does the base game have?
- Can you place more secrets on a banner than the minimum needed to make it safe?
Victory
- If two players tie for a Vision goal, does the Vision still count as fulfilled?
- When a goal asks for the most relics, banners or sites, is it measured against each player or against everyone else combined?
- Are relics and banners added together for goals such as Sanctuary, Protection and the Successor condition?
- When two players tie for an Oathkeeper goal, who keeps or receives the Oathkeeper title?
- When can an Exile win with a Vision?
- Can a Citizen win by Vision?
- If an Exile could win as Usurper and by Vision in the same Wake Phase, which win counts?
- Which Oath is chosen for the next game after I win?
- If two players both meet their Vision goals, who wins?
- Can you discard a revealed Vision by choice?
- Do Citizens win when the Chancellor wins?
- What happens if several Citizens seem to meet the Successor goal?
- Do Exiles count for the Successor goal?
- Can a Citizen hold the Oathkeeper title?
- Who holds the Oathkeeper title under the Oath of Supremacy once there are Citizens?
- When does the Oathkeeper of Supremacy move during a Campaign that changes who rules the most sites?
- Who wins at the end of round eight, and is the die rolled?
- If an Exile holds the Oathkeeper title but not the Usurper title when the game ends, do they win?
- How does an Exile become the Usurper and win?
- Can an Exile become the Oathkeeper?
- Is the end-game die rolled at the end of rounds five to seven when a Citizen is the Oathkeeper?
- Do Imperial Reliquary relics or the Grand Scepter count toward relic goals?
- Do Bandits count as a player for the most-sites goals or the Oathkeeper title?
- Do empty or unrevealed sites count as ruled for a most-sites goal?
- How do you meet an opponent's Conspiracy adviser condition?
- Can a Conspiracy Vision let an Exile take the Grand Scepter?
- Can a Citizen win secretly with face-down advisers?
- If an Exile wins during the Wake Phase, do they finish their turn?
- Does the Oathkeeper's defence die apply even when the Oathkeeper's pawn or site is not targeted?
- Do Citizens share the Chancellor's Oathkeeper defence die when defending?
- Does the Oathkeeper's defence die count as a target for Giant Python?
- Can you recover the Darkest Secret banner and then play a face-up Vision of Faith in the same turn?
- What do the O, S and V on the Chronicle book stand for?
- Does a Citizen who wins as Successor still rule sites for the Chronicle carryover?
Sequence of Play
- Where do secrets go at the end of a turn?
- Can you pay a cost with a secret you have flipped, and when does it flip back?
- Where does favor a defender spends on a Battle Plan go?
- Can you take minor actions after you have used all your major actions?
- Must you take all of your remaining actions in a turn, or can you take fewer?
- Who goes first each round, and when is the end-of-round check made?
- Can you take a minor action, or play a Vision secretly, in the middle of a major action?
- What must you do with the People's Favor banner in your Wake Phase?
- Can the last favor be removed from the People's Favor banner?
- When does the People's Favor flip to its Mob side, and does holding it on the Mob side cost anything?
- If you start as Chancellor holding the People's Favor, must you pay favor on it in your first Wake Phase?
- Do you take favor or secrets from a site at the start of your turn?
- How do you collect the favor or secrets placed on a site when it is revealed?
- Where do favor and secrets go when a site denizen or advisor is discarded?
- Where does a Citizen's Supply marker go when it refreshes?
- What supply does a new Citizen have on their first turn?
Major Actions
- Can you recover the Darkest Secret from a player who has no face-up advisers?
- What must the Darkest Secret holder's site have before you can recover the banner?
- How many secrets does it take to recover the Darkest Secret, and where do the extras go?
- Why would you recover a banner you already hold?
- What happens to the favor or secrets on a banner when it is seized?
- Do you need to be at the holder's site to recover a banner?
- Does recovering the People's Favor flip it to the Mob side?
- How do you take the People's Favor from its current holder?
- Can you keep a recovered relic facedown until you reveal it?
- What do you pay to recover a relic, and what if you cannot pay?
- How do you take the Wastes relic?
- Do recovery modifiers such as Relic Worship apply to a relic a site power gives you?
- Can a relic taken with Relic Hunter be placed on the bottom of the relic deck?
- Does moving Roving Terror to the Deep Woods let you recover a relic there?
- Can a Conspiracy take the Darkest Secret when matched advisers block a Recover?
- When a Search draws a Vision from the World Deck, what happens?
- Must you play or keep the cards a Search draws?
- Do facedown advisers or unrevealed Visions count toward the three-adviser limit?
- Can you discard an adviser, and can you discard a face-up one?
- How are Conspiracy cards played, and where do they go?
- Can you play a facedown adviser to a site in the middle of resolving a Search?
- Can you play a facedown adviser card as a site or denizen?
- Where can you play a denizen that has neither the Site nor the Adviser icon?
- Do you gain favor from the matching bank when you play a card to a site?
- Does Welcoming Party give favor when a drawn denizen is played facedown as an adviser?
- If Assassin lowers your adviser limit to two, must you discard before playing a third adviser?
- When are Major Action modifiers paid and used?
- Can the ruler of the Shrouded Wood force you to travel back into it, and can you travel in place?
- Do you pay a site's coast or Hidden Place cost when travelling to an unrevealed site?
- Where can you send a banished pawn?
- Must you move a pawn you banish?
- Can you play a card to a site you do not rule, just by moving your pawn there?
- Does "your site" mean the site your pawn is on, or any site you rule?
- Can you swap a played card on a full site?
- Can you muster or recruit on a card that already has favor or a secret on it?
- Can you muster or trade at the Drowned City?
- Where does Trade take its favor from, and does Trade count advisers?
- Can players trade banners or relics with each other?
- Does a Citizen need the Chancellor's permission to muster?
- Can the Chancellor use the Recover action or card actions against a Citizen?
- Do secrets on the Darkest Secret count toward the cost of self-exile?
- Can you build an edifice at a site that already has a ruin?
- How do x2 modifiers combine with negative numbers on the war track?
- Can the winning side on the advantage track go past a 3:1 ratio?
Campaigns and FightsExpansion
- Does Giant Python still apply if a Citizen joins a campaign as an ally after targets are declared?
- With the Bandit Crown, how do you count defending losses when bandits are in the defending army?
- Can you always target empty sites as spoils in a campaign?
- If you target a site that has an enemy pawn on it, are you also targeting the pawn?
- Can you rule an unruled site by placing warbands on it with your pawn?
- Where do Imperial warbands go when their side loses a campaign?
- In an Imperial defence, who decides which defeated warbands are removed?
- Can a Citizen attack the Chancellor or another Citizen, and can the Chancellor attack a Citizen?
- What can a Citizen use when attacking the Chancellor: Imperial battle plans or its own warbands?
- If a Citizen attacks the Chancellor at an Imperial site, must that site be targeted?
- Does the Chancellor always join when an Imperial player defends?
- Which other players can join a defence, and do they need the defender's permission?
- Can a Citizen join another Citizen's attack on the Chancellor as an ally?
- Can Exiles team up as allies, or can another Imperial player join a campaign?
- Who can the attacker choose as defender when a site is attacked?
- Can one campaign attack several players, or sites owned by different players?
- Must a campaign target something at your current site?
- Can you campaign from a site you rule when your pawn is alone there?
- Can you target a rival's pawn, relics or banners when your pawn is at a different site?
- How many defence dice does the defender roll for what you target?
- When does the defender's pawn add its two defence dice?
- Do the defender's warbands on its own board join the defence when you target only a relic or banner?
- Do doublers or a 2x result multiply the defending warbands, and can a defence roll drop to zero?
- Does the Oathkeeper or Usurper title add defence dice in a campaign?
- What do the sword and shield icons on battle plans mean?
- Can a defending Citizen decline a battle plan, and can plans that shift military advantage help the attacker alone?
- When are battle plan costs paid, and when can the attacker declare plans?
- Can you use a battle plan on a relic you hold when you don't rule the site under attack?
- Can a battle plan already holding favour or secrets be used in a campaign, and can it trade or muster?
- When the Commonwealth is attacked, can a Citizen use Fire Talkers because the Chancellor holds the Darkest Secret?
- Can you campaign against a facedown site?
- Can one campaign target several bandit-held sites at once?
- How many defence dice do bandits roll when their site is attacked?
- Which battle plans do bandits use when you campaign against them?
- Do bandit warbands on a site stop you placing your own warbands there?
- Are bandits always on the map, and can bandit-held sites use cards and battle plans?
- With the Bandit Crown, can you campaign against sites that hold only bandits?
- Can you campaign for an unrecovered relic at an unruled or bandit site?
- Can you recover a relic from a site ruled by opposing warbands?
- Do you pay or burn favour or secrets when you seize a banner in a campaign?
- Is seizing the Darkest Secret by campaign the same as recovering it?
- What can you target when your pawn shares a site with a rival's pawn?
- Do you have to attack the holder's pawn to campaign for one of their relics or banners?
- How many attack dice does the attacker roll, and may it roll fewer?
- Are attack or defence dice capped at ten, or at the number of warbands?
- Can you campaign with no warbands on your board, and can you still win?
- Can an attacker sacrifice warbands after the defender rolls, and how many may it sacrifice?
- What counts as the attacker's and defender's force in a campaign?
- How many warbands does a defeated player lose?
- Which warbands count toward the defender's losses after a campaign?
- Where do warbands killed in a campaign go?
- Can the Hospital battle plan save warbands, and where do they go?
- If you win a campaign but have no warbands left to place, who rules the site?
- Where can the attacker send a defeated player's pawn when it wins?
- Are banishing the pawn and burning favour optional for a winning attacker?
- How does the Narrow Pass limit which sites you can target?
- Can you target relics held by a Citizen or the Chancellor in a campaign?
- Can a Citizen move warbands between its board and a site without the Chancellor's permission?
- Can a Citizen muster and attack the Chancellor to take the Grand Scepter?
- In Oath: New Foundations, do warbands on a player board defend when you attack a site?
- In Oath: New Foundations, can one campaign target both a site and a player's relics or banners?
- In a New Foundations camp raid, which of the defeated defender's cards are discarded?
- Can you add targets partway through a campaign?
- Do a site's attack-die modifiers apply when you target only a pawn or relic there, or a site you do not rule?
Minor Actions (no Supply)
- Can banners be exchanged as part of a Citizenship offer?
- Can you add warbands to a site you rule when your pawn is elsewhere?
- Do search modifiers, such as the People's Favor banner, apply when you play a facedown adviser?
- Do you gain a favor from the matching bank when you play a facedown adviser to a site?
- Can you play a facedown adviser to a site, or store any card face down?
- Do face-down advisers count as matching suits for the Conspiracy?
- Can you take a minor action in the middle of a Search or another action?
- Can you use minor actions during another player's turn?
- Can you use a card's power on another player's turn?
- Can a face-down battle plan be revealed and used when another player attacks you?
- Can you move your pawn as a Minor Action?
- Can you repeat the same minor action on a card that already has favor or magic on it?
- How does the Grand Scepter holder use it to offer Citizenship?
- When can the Grand Scepter be used to offer Citizenship or exile a Citizen?
- Can an Exile be made a Citizen during their own turn?
- Can the Grand Scepter holder offer citizenship to another Exile, and can that Exile refuse?
- Can an Exile use the Grand Scepter to exile the Chancellor?
- Can a Citizen be exiled, or exile themselves, without paying favor?
- When exiling a Citizen or yourself, whose favor do you pay, and from where?
- If the Imperial Reliquary has no relics left, can the Grand Scepter holder still offer Citizenship?
- How much of the Imperial Reliquary can an Exile offered Citizenship see?
- Can the Grand Scepter holder peek at the Imperial Reliquary, and can they use those relics?
- Can a citizen candidate peek at the Imperial Reliquary's relics?
- Does the Chancellor need the Citizen's permission to take warbands from the Citizen's board?
- Can the Chancellor move warbands to or from a Citizen's site?
- What defence does a Citizen have when attacking the Chancellor?
- Where do purple warbands come from and go when someone becomes or stops being a Citizen?
- If an Exile cannot replace all their warbands when offered citizenship, what happens to the rest?
- When does a new Citizen reset supply, and to what level?
- Can Cracked Horn apply when a Vision is discarded to accept citizenship?
- Can you make binding deals through negotiation?
- Can you move warbands between your board and a site where your pawn is not?
- Can you take warbands from another player's board?
- What does the Messenger card add to moving warbands, if minor actions already allow it?
- How do warbands get onto a site?
- Where can you Trade, Muster or Recover relics?
- Can the Grand Scepter holder offer a relic from any Reliquary space, and is citizenship limited to four times a game?
- Can the Chancellor offer a relic from the Imperial Reliquary outside a Citizenship offer?
- Do Citizens rule sites where they have no warbands?
Powers
- Does the Bandit Crown give you an extra warband at sites you rule?
- If someone targets your Bandit Crown bandits, can they also target your other ruled sites?
- When you move into an unoccupied site with the Bandit Crown, do you place a warband?
- Can a Bandit Crown bandit be your last warband defending a site?
- How does Key to the City work against bandits?
- Can a Citizen who holds the Bandit Crown defend a site with bandits in it?
- What does the Bandit Crown let a Citizen do when campaigning against the Empire?
- When the Chancellor holds the Bandit Crown, how do Citizen attacks on bandit sites work?
- If an Imperial player holds the Bandit Crown, do other Imperial players still get Battle Plans on their sites?
- Who rules an empty site under the Bandit Crown, and can you target 'the bandits'?
- Can one campaign target several bandit-ruled sites at once?
- Do bandits grow when a campaign against them is lost?
- Does the Bandit Crown give extra bandits, or let bandits attack enemy-ruled sites?
- Do persistent card effects still apply when bandits rule the site they are on?
- Does Bandit Chief double or triple the bandits on a bandit-ruled site?
- After the Bandit King becomes a Citizen, do bandits on the sites I rule turn purple?
- Can a Bandit Crown holder include the bandits from the defender's site in an attack roll?
- Do card restrictions aimed at enemies apply when bandits rule the site?
- Does the Bandit Crown let you count empty sites toward the Oath of Supremacy?
- Do bandits use a Battle Plan such as Warning Signal when they are attacked?
- When Traveling Doctor defeats bandits in a campaign, is the Doctor discarded?
- Can you take the Darkest Secret banner from its holder while Tome Guardians sit at a bandit-held site?
- Does Cursed Cauldron give warbands when you defeat bandits?
- What can Warning Signals do with warbands, and can it drop warbands on bandit sites?
- How many times can a Battle Plan be used in a turn?
- How many Battle Plans can the attacker and defender use in one campaign?
- Can you pay a Battle Plan's cost when favor or secrets are already on the card?
- Must you pay for a Battle Plan such as Second Wind before knowing whether you have won the battle?
- Can you use a Battle Plan at a site where your pawn is if another player rules that site?
- Do you need to rule a site to trade, muster, or use its cards there?
- Can anyone use a denizen's site power if they rule the site or have their pawn there?
- Is a denizen's gray travel modifier, such as Special Envoy's, optional?
- Can a Citizen use a denizen's power on sites the Chancellor rules, or at a site holding Imperial warbands?
- Does a Citizen need the Chancellor's permission to gain warbands from the supply or a card effect?
- Can a non-Empire player who attacks an Imperial player use Battle Plans at Empire-ruled sites?
- Which Battle Plans can each side use when a Citizen campaigns against the Chancellor?
- Can a Citizen use the Captains card to campaign against the Chancellor?
- Does the Oathkeeper title count as a campaign modifier when it adds a defense die?
- Does the Oathkeeper title add its defense die when a Citizen holds it and the Chancellor attacks a banner?
- Does the Oathkeeper's defense die count when the Oathkeeper joins a defence as an Ally?
- Can an Exile who wins the game build an edifice at the end?
- Can a player use the Grand Scepter on the turn they took it?
- If someone other than the Chancellor holds the Grand Scepter, do they get the Reliquary's powers?
- How many Reliquary powers does the Chancellor gain as relics leave the Imperial Reliquary?
- Do relics still in the Imperial Reliquary count toward victory or give their powers?
- Are mandatory Reliquary powers such as Brutal a replacement for the Chancellor's campaign?
- Does Vow of Obedience force a face-up Vision to be discarded?
- If I have Vow of Renewal and another player burns my favor during a campaign, do I take the burnt favor?
- What happens to my ruled sites and warbands if I lose a campaign while using Vow of Union?
- Does Vow of Silence stop paying a secret cost, or giving secrets through a power?
- Do persistent powers still affect other players when they are not the ruler or accessor of the card?
- Can you use a relic's power if you do not rule the relic?
- Does Hall of Debate stop the People's Favor from being targeted, and does its protection apply to everyone?
- Can the Hall of Debate's ban on targeting stop the People's Favor from being recovered?
- Can Tinker's Fair negotiate with more than one player at once?
- Must pawns be at the same site to trade through Tinker's Fair?
- Can a Tinker's Fair exchange be uneven, or give something for nothing?
- Can another player be forced to accept a binding deal?
- Can players hand favor, secrets, sites or relics to each other outside of a card or power?
- If a binding agreement has no penalty clause, can a player still break it?
- Can any player at the Tribunal site negotiate a binding exchange, or only its owner?
- If a binding deal requires giving 4 favor on your next turn if able, can you avoid paying by never holding 4 favor?
- What can the Tribunal force players to agree to?
- What happens when the Whistle targets a player who cannot pay the Toll Road cost?
- Which secrets does Ancient Binding burn, and how many does each player keep?
- How many matching advisers do you need to play The Conspiracy against an opponent?
- Can The Conspiracy take a People's Favor or Darkest Secret banner, since banners are not relics?
- Does a Conspiracy vision work with a locked adviser?
- Can you play a Conspiracy face up when Secret Police blocks Visions, or without triggering it?
- Can you play The Conspiracy without two face-up advisers?
- Does The Conspiracy stop a banner from being won by a Vision or Successor victory?
- If you win a battle with Obsidian Cage, do the enemy's surviving warbands go on the Cage?
- When can the owner of Obsidian Cage release its captured warbands?
- If Obsidian Cage changes hands during a campaign, can the new owner capture the survivors of that battle?
- Which board does a warband from the Obsidian Cage relic move to?
- When does Sticky Fire take effect?
- Can Cursed Cauldron and Sticky Fire be combined to kill all the defender's warbands and then gain them?
- What can Ivory Eye peek at?
- How does Relic Thief's shield roll work when several relics are taken?
- Can Relic Thief take back a relic that the Circlet of Command just took from its holder?
- Can the Brass Horse take me to a site I cannot normally reach, such as one behind the Narrow Pass?
- What does 'your discard pile' mean on Brass Horse?
- How is the Wastes relic obtained, and what does the X on its cost mean?
- Can a player with Ring of Devotion place warbands at sites, including to rule new sites after a campaign?
- Can Resettle move a Nomad card from any site or any player's advisers?
- What does Errand Boy allow, and which region's discard pile gets the discards?
- What can Dream Thief swap, and with whom?
- Does Gossip make facedown advisers already in play flip face up?
- If Great Herd swaps with a Nomad card that has favor or secrets on it, what happens to them?
- Does Pied Piper count toward the four-adviser limit?
- If Pied Piper targets a player with fewer favor than its text asks for, does it still take what is there?
- Does Sealing Ward add one defence die per relic, or only for targeted relics?
- Can you play Salt the Earth on the Drowned City, which has zero capacity?
- Does Sprawling Rampart add one blue die per site, or one per ruled site?
- Can the Wrestler card give multiple blue dice for several warbands sacrificed?
- Does Sacrifice count as being killed for the Hospital card?
- How many dice does Walled Garden add, and when does it apply?
- When would you use Longbows to roll fewer attack dice?
- Does Lancers double the roll before or after battle plan dice changes are applied?
- When you attack the possessor of Bear Traps, do you lose a warband and roll one fewer attack die?
- What counts as "other suits" for Kindred Warriors?
- Can a Commonwealth player use their Battle Plans to support another Commonwealth player?
- Can a relic used as a Battle Plan match a suit like True Names?
- Can you use a recovered relic's Battle Plan on a site you do not own?
- Are Battle Plan effects such as Slander mandatory for the defender?
- Can the holder of Sneak Attack campaign against a player who was not in the original campaign?
- Can Sleight of Hand take both secrets from a player, or a secret sitting on the Darkest Secret banner?
- Can locked or chained cards be discarded, moved or removed?
- Does Riots affect advisers?
- Can I have a non-Nomad adviser while Family Wagon is in my advisers?
- Can you play Family Wagon while holding two locked non-Nomad advisers?
- How often can Silver Tongue be used?
- Can you activate Crop Rotation's power in the same search where you played it?
- How does the Great Spire's search modifier work with its draw cost and its swap?
- Does a Search modifier such as Sacred Ground stop other players from playing a Vision face up?
- Do banners count as face-up cards for their Search action modifiers?
- When you peek at the discard pile, do you put the cards back in the same order?
- Does Press Gangs limit how much favor can sit on one card when mustering?
- What does 'gain' mean on Relic Worship or Faithful Friend?
- Does Spell Breaker stop recovering the Darkest Secret?
- Does Military Parade compare enemy advisers to yours or to the bank suit?
- When you play Garrison, do you gain warbands for each site and then place extra ones on the sites?
- Can Ancient Pact be played if you do not hold the Darkest Secret?
- Where do favor tokens placed on the Dissent card go?
- Who can use the travel abilities of a Portal card?
- Can a player keep taking from a Salt Flats site once its favor and secrets are gone?
- Do sites with favor or secrets on them give those out, and how does the Drowned City work?
- Which icon is correct for the Imperial Seat site: negotiation or relic?
- Does moving a card to your site with Homesteaders count as playing it, so that you gain favor?
- Do Homeland sites count as extra advisers for Trade or Battle Plans?
- When do Homeland Site rewards trigger after you play a card of that suit to the site?
- How can other players verify a Homeland Site discard?
- Does The Hidden Place require one secret or two when you travel there and target campaign targets in the same turn?
- Do you need to flip a secret to discover The Hidden Place when it is first revealed?
- If I discard a denizen that has favor or secrets on it, where do those go?
- Can a power require you to burn a used secret that is face up on a denizen you played to?
- Can Taming Charm gain favor from a discarded card's favor when the matching favor bank is empty?
- When does a When Played power trigger?
- Can Long-lost Heir be played only for its suit, without becoming a Citizen?
- Does Welcoming Party's favor bonus apply when you play it as a denizen?
- Does Fast Steed's no-supply travel effect last beyond the one travel action it modifies?
- Does Spirit Snare take all the favor from a bank, or only one?
- Does Tome Guardians' protection stop you from recovering the Darkest Secret from yourself?
- Can the Tome Guardians' site Chancellor or Citizen recover or target the Darkest Secret of another Empire player?
- Does Forest Paths let you ignore Shrouded Woods when the enemy ruler picks your destination?
- What does the Grand Mask let an Exile rule, and can its powers be used without a pawn at the site?
- Does the Chancellor's Careless trait apply to all actions or only Trade?
- How does Careless work when trading for secrets?
- Can a Major Action Modifier unlock other modifiers for the same action?
- Does Small Friends take up an adviser slot?
- Does paying the cost of an action modifier also pay the Supply cost of the major action?
- Are cards that modify major actions mandatory to use?
- Can I use Acting Troupe's suit choice as a mandatory requirement when I trade?
- How does Giant Python's even-total rule work when a player has several targets?
- When Oracle is used to draw, does it still advance the Visions Drawn track?
- Can Observatory draw from one discard pile, or from any discard pile?
- Which discard pile receives cards discarded by Roving Terror?
- Can I choose a Pilgrimage card's cards at my site that are locked, such as edifices?
- Does the Downtrodden power work when the fewest favor banks are tied?
- Does a Mercenaries attack that wins with no warbands left keep the site, and is Mercenaries discarded?
- Can a card that targets a denizen 'at a site' also target an adviser at your site?
- Can you pay a card's cost out of turn, and where do the favor and secrets paid go?
- Can the People's Favor let you move a denizen to a different site in your region?
- Does flipping a facedown adviser count as a search for the People's Favor?
- Does the People's Favor flip to the Mob side at six favor?
- Can a card played through the Banner of the People's Favor recover a relic at a site where your pawn is not?
- Can you play cards to undiscovered sites in your region with the Banner of the People's Favor?
- Does playing a card with the People's Favor to a site outside your own gain favor?
- Can you use a costless card power more than once in a turn?
- Can you use a card power while it has favor or secrets on it?
Clockwork Prince (automa)
- Does the Clockwork Prince start with favor, secrets or cards?
- Do the Clockwork Prince's two starting favor as Chancellor go into the Ambition box?
- Where do the Clockwork Prince's setup tokens go?
- Which boards does the Clockwork Prince use when it plays an Exile or the Chancellor?
- When playing solo as a Citizen against the Clockwork Prince, which boards do I use?
- Why does a winning Exile keep their colour when the Clockwork Prince is in play?
- Does the playbook's Clockwork Prince board match the final rules?
- Can you play two Clockwork Princes in one game?
- What does the Clockwork Prince's sword-and-shield token and Tactics track do?
- How much favor or secrets does a Trade give the Clockwork Prince?
- In what order does the Clockwork Prince work through its mind map?
- Does the Clockwork Prince always need both banners?
- Does the Clockwork Prince discard before its draw on its turn?
- Can the Clockwork Prince skip a card draw?
- Does the Clockwork Prince skip its Wake effects on its first turn?
- Does a Search still advance the Clockwork Prince's tactic track and relationship markers?
- What happens to an Advisor-only card the Clockwork Prince draws in a Search?
- How does the Clockwork Prince handle Visions during a Search?
- How does the Clockwork Prince choose which card to play during its Search?
- Does the Clockwork Prince discard the cards it does not use during its Search?
- When the Clockwork Prince searches with no friends among the drawn cards, which card does it play?
- How does a suit become a friend for the Clockwork Prince?
- How does the Clockwork Prince break ties between suits when it searches?
- In what order does the Clockwork Prince fall back through a mind-map quadrant when the drawn cards do not match?
- Where does the Clockwork Prince play a card it has drawn?
- If the top Cradle site has no room, where does the Clockwork Prince play a searched card?
- Can the Clockwork Prince play a searched card onto a facedown site or a site it does not own?
- Can the Clockwork Prince discard to the region on the right of its pawn?
- What happens when the Clockwork Prince cannot play a card, and does it gain favor?
- Where does favor go in the Clockwork Prince's Ambition box?
- How does the Clockwork Prince recover the Darkest Secret?
- Can the Clockwork Prince recover a banner when its action on the mind only says to recover a relic?
- Can the Clockwork Prince recover a banner from any site, given the Darkest Secret restrictions?
- Which suit banks receive favor when the Clockwork Prince recovers the People's Favour?
- Can the Clockwork Prince recover the People's Favour when only one favor is on it?
- What does the Clockwork Prince do with the People's Favour in its Wake phase?
- What happens when the Clockwork Prince has no favor left to muster and the People's Favour still needs favor?
- Can the Clockwork Prince use People's Favour to play cards?
- How many warbands can the Clockwork Prince muster in one action?
- What does the Clockwork Prince gain when its travel cannot gain it anything?
- Can the Clockwork Prince travel and campaign in one action?
- Can the Clockwork Prince get stuck in a loop when no action is possible?
- How does the Clockwork Prince choose targets in travel and campaign?
- Which relic does the Clockwork Prince target first when breaking a tie?
- Does the Clockwork Prince treat unruled face-up bandit sites as rivals when choosing targets?
- Are bandits counted as enemies in battle, and can the Prince target several bandit sites?
- How does the Clockwork Prince's Battle Ready check count its attack dice and battle plans?
- Which defence bonuses count in the Clockwork Prince's Battle Ready check?
- Which warbands does the Clockwork Prince count when Battle Ready against an Empire player with allies at the site?
- Do site powers count toward the Clockwork Prince's battle readiness?
- Does the Clockwork Prince's pawn get the 2 defense dice when a campaign targets it?
- Where does the Clockwork Prince place its warbands after a campaign victory?
- How should the Clockwork Prince spread its warbands across sites when playing solo?
- Which powers does the Clockwork Prince ignore?
- Does the Clockwork Prince follow powers that deny warbands on sites or grant extra warbands, such as Ring of Devotion?
- Are site powers applied to the Clockwork Prince?
- Does the Clockwork Prince in Exile ever treat a Successor as its threat?
- If the Clockwork Prince loses the Darkest Secret outside its turn under Oath of Devotion, where does the Prince's threat go?
- What does the Clockwork Prince do if its threat is a Citizen holding the Grand Scepter instead of the most sites?
- Do friends count as advisers for the Clockwork Prince?
- Does the Clockwork Prince's 'most relics' arrow count banners?
Writing the Chronicle
- Which attached cards are kept for the Chronicle when a ruin is ruled in a later game?
- Where does a site with a ruin go at the end of a chronicle, and do its denizens go with it?
- Does the Forest Temple's extra-card effect apply in the game where it was built, and again after it falls into ruin?
- Do the denizens on a Forest Temple site stay when beast sites are kept at the Chronicle?
- Does an Exile who wins the Chronicle get an edifice, or build or repair one?
- Can a winning Exile offer Citizenship to themselves to build an edifice or flip their board?
- When can an Exile offer citizenship, and to whom?
- After an Exile wins, do the citizen boards flip, and who becomes Chancellor next?
- When an Exile becomes a Citizen, who decides which Warbands get replaced?
- When an Exile becomes a Citizen, where do the replacement warbands come from?
- When an Exile accepts citizenship, how many of the winner's warbands replace the Exile's warbands?
- When a special relic such as the People's Favor is taken by a non-Recover action, how much favor burns?
- Can a Chancellor who lost to a Successor be a Citizen in the next game?
- What happens to the former Chancellor's player board when a Citizen wins?
- If Citizens win a Successor game, does the former Chancellor stay a Citizen, and do the other Citizens keep their boards?
- After a Successor win, can the new Chancellor exile the former Chancellor?
- After a Citizen wins, does the winner's board stay on its Citizen side for the next game?
- Must the winner of a game become the Chancellor in the next game?
- After a Citizen wins, do the boards keep their Citizen or Exile side for the next game?
- Can a group keep the same colours between games by flipping the winning board to its Citizen side?
- Who chooses boards and roles for the next game after a Citizen or the Chancellor wins?
- Who goes first in the next game after the Chancellor is chosen?
- Can a Citizen be turned into an Exile between games, during the Chronicle or at setup?
- Where does the Grand Scepter go during Clean Up Relics, and who keeps relics afterwards?
- What happens to an edifice on a site the winner does not rule at the end of a game?
- Does a ruined edifice stay on the map when the Chronicle is written?
- What carries over when an Exile wins by Vision and rules no sites?
- Can an edifice go into the World Deck, for example when it replaces a denizen?
- How many edifices can you build or repair in one chronicle?
- Can you have more than one edifice in play at once?
- Can the winner build an edifice from ruins already on the board?
- Which suit can the winner's built edifice match?
- Must a promoted edifice replace a denizen card of the matching suit?
- When an Imperial player wins, where can the new edifice be built?
- Do bandit-ruled sites stay for the next game when the Bandit Crown is held at the end?
- What happens to the map when the winner rules no sites?
- What happens to a region with no face-up sites during the Chronicle?
- How does the next game start when the winner ruled no sites?
- Where do the Chancellor's warbands go at setup, and where do removed warbands return?
- How are new sites placed on the map when the Chronicle is written?
- Do denizens on sites the winner rules stay for the next game?
- Do the winner's advisers carry over into the next game?
- Are Visions and denizens shuffled between games, and how is the world deck rebuilt?
- Does the World Deck stay the same size from game to game?
- What happens when the Archive can't supply the cards for a suit during the Chronicle?
- How is the Archive healed when Archive cards are missing?
- How many cards go in each stack when rebuilding the world deck with Chronicle Aid and the Law of Oath playbook?
- Do removed cards ever return to play, such as dispossessed advisers?
- Which suit do I use to add Archive cards if my advisers tie or I have none?
- What is the Archive, and how is it different from the Dispossessed?
- Are the six Archive cards chosen at random when the world deck is refreshed?
- May players look at the Dispossessed cards, or at cards being placed there, during the Chronicle?
- What if there are fewer than six cards in the discard piles during the Dispossessed step?
- Is Oath a legacy or campaign game, and does the world state need resetting between games?
- Does Oath have a fixed number of games or an end point?
- Can the chronicle continue if a rules mistake changed how a game played out?
- Can the Royal Line legacy let a Citizen decide the successor, and how can that be stopped?
- What happens to a Lineage curse or trait when its holder loses the Chancellor role or changes colour?
- Which goal tile is used for the next game in the Chronicle?
- What do the O, S and V icons on the Chronicle record mean?
- Are favor and secrets on sites restored during the Chronicle?
- Do locked cards stay locked during the Chronicle phase?
- After each game, do the winner's relics go into the Imperial Reliquary?
General
- If a power stops you from giving secrets, can other players still take secrets from you?
- Do I need the New Foundations rule changes to keep playing the base game?
- Does Oath have a fixed ending, and when does a Chronicle finish?
- Can Oath be reset to its starting state and replayed with a different group?
- Can players trade favor, secrets, relics, banners or cards with each other?
- When may players give each other favor or secrets?
- Are non-binding promises and deals allowed in Oath, and what makes a promise binding?
- Must the exchange of favor and secrets in a Tribunal agreement happen immediately?
- What counts as breaking a binding Tribunal agreement?
- What can a Tribunal penalty be set to?
- Does a Tribunal agreement about a future time apply to later games?
- Can a Tribunal agreement promise future transfers of favor or secrets?
- Can a Tribunal deal promise Citizenship at the start of the next game?
- How do bandits work on unruled sites, and do they rule the sites they hold?
- Can Bandits be killed in a campaign while someone holds the Bandit Crown?
- How does Key to the City work at a bandit site?
- Can multiple players rule a single site, or hold warbands on the same site?
- Can an Exile offer Citizenship to another Exile, and what must be given?
- Can a Citizen leave the Empire by passing the Grand Scepter, or by exiling themselves?
- Can a Citizen exile the Chancellor, or is the Chancellor counted as a Citizen?
- Is a negotiated promise to give the Chancellorship binding?
- Can the Chancellor stop a Citizen from mustering warbands?
- Can an Imperial player move warbands from another Imperial player's board before a campaign?
- Can the Chancellor play a Vision card face down as an adviser, and can it be flipped?
- Can you play any card face down to your advisers, including a site-only card?
- Where do favor and secrets go when a denizen is discarded?
- Where do discarded cards go, and what does a search of a discard pile draw?
- Where do discarded Visions go, such as when an Exile becomes a Citizen or a revealed Vision is replaced?
- What does a peek at a discard pile reveal?
- Do warbands killed in a campaign return to the owner's supply?
- Which information is private in Oath, such as facedown advisers and cards drawn by Search?
- Does the second half of Ancient Pact happen even if you decline the Citizenship part?
- Does Bear Traps remove a second attack die when it kills a warband?
- Can you play Oath with more than five players?
- Where does the Prince in Exile's threat marker start at setup?
- Does the Prince's mind map 'travel to most favor or secrets' mean sites with those tokens or with those denizens?
- What counts as 'your site' or 'at a site' in card text?
- Is a player's relic discarded when they drop out after the tutorial round?
- Does a Citizen who starts a new game after an Empire victory get a relic or other reward?
Oath: New FoundationsExpansion
- Are points (era scoring) required in Oath: New Foundations?
- Why do some suits have one fewer Denizen than the others in Oath: New Foundations?
- Are there negative traits or curses in Oath: New Foundations?
- Can the New Foundations Denizen Deck of 60 new cards be used with the base game?
- Does New Foundations add new denizen cards beyond its replacement cards?
- How does the solo Servant handle a relic with an optional cost or a choice?
- What does the Servant do when she campaigns while already holding three warbands on her site?
- Does 'move a warband here' on the Servant's AI card mean the site where her pawn is?
- Can the Servant recover a banner each time the Moon-Stars action says so, even if she already holds one?
- What happens when the Servant's AI card says to take favor from a bank that does not have enough?
- How often can the Servant use Talk to the Townsfolk, and when is it used?
- Does the Servant actively pursue her own revealed visions?
- Who scores Legacy points in Oath: New Foundations?
- In Oath: New Foundations, can the winner give Legacy points to other players?
- Can you switch between the base game and New Foundations from session to session?
- Does New Foundations keep the advisor-suit condition for recovering the Darkest Secret?
- Do warbands on a site defend a pawn on that site in New Foundations?
- How does Ascend work for Foundation cards?
- During the Chronicle Phase, does a Clockwork Servant activate Legacies held by the human player?