Once Upon a Time: Fairy Tales
Once Upon a Time: Fairy Tales Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
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, Animal Tales, and now Fairy 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:
- 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 diluted.
- 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.)
Note: the guide prints "(but leave in those listed to the right)"; "to the right" has been changed to "listed under 'In Other Expansions'" because the list is printed below this section, not beside it.
In Other Expansions
Fairies occur in lots of tales! Other Once Upon a Time expansions have cards that contribute to a fairy theme. For the most magical experience, include these cards from the other expansions, too:
Core Game
- Beautiful
- Contest
- Fairy
- Food
- Garden
- Gift
- Secret
- Spell
- Stolen
- Tiny
- Trap
- Tree
- Falling in Love
- Making Mischief
- This Can Fly
- This Comes Alive
- Transforming
Enchanting Tales
- Dancing
- Dreaming
- Dwarf
- Potion
- Singing
- Someone Disobeys
Knightly Tales
- Breaking a Vow
- Challenge
- Reckless
Seafaring Tales
- Breathe Water
- Stars
- Weather Changes
Animal Tales
- Appear
- Disguised as an Animal
- Trick
- Vanish