Once Upon a Time: Animal Tales Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Highly Flavored Stories
• In Other Expansions

Highly Flavored Stories

The Once Upon a Time core game has a broad mix of cards appropriate to a wide variety of fairy tales. Each of Once Upon a Time's expansions, though, focuses on cards of a certain theme. Enchanting Tales, Seafaring Tales, Knightly Tales, and now Animal Tales, each provide elements and endings that are specific to their subjects.

But because the core game has 165 cards and each expansion adds only 55 cards, simply shuffling an expansion into the core game can result in stories that are not as strongly themed as you might like, or be expecting.

To play with a game strongly flavored by a single expansion, we recommend making two adjustments:

1. Randomly remove roughly a third of the core game's Story Cards (but leave in those listed under "In Other Expansions") before shuffling in the expansion's Story Cards. This prevents the expansion from being too much diluted.
2. Use only Ending Cards from the expansion. That is, don't use any from the core game. (This keeps everyone's contributions solidly engaged with the expansion's theme.)

In Other Expansions

Animals occur in lots of tales! Other Once Upon a Time expansions have cards that contribute to an animal theme. For the most zoological experience, include these cards from the other expansions, too:

Core Game

• Cave
• Dragon
• Forest
• Frog
• Horse
• In the Sky
• This Can Fly
• This Can Talk
• Wolf

Enchanting Tales

• Bird
• Stables
• Underground
• Unicorn

Seafaring Tales

• At Sea
• Cat
• Fish
• Rat
• Sea Serpent
• Swallowed Whole
• Underwater