Set a Watch: Swords of the Coin
Set a Watch: Swords of the Coin Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Contents
- 6 Adventurer Boards
- 30 Ability Cards
- 1 Familiar Card
- 1 Artificer Dial
- 17 Unhallowed Cards
- 38 Creature Cards
- 6 Summon Cards
- 32 Location Cards
- 1 Merchant Board
- 28 Item Cards
- 16 Coin tokens
- 3 d4 dice
- 3 d6 dice
- 5 d8 dice
- 2 d10 dice
- 3 d12 dice
- 4 Rest Tokens
- 1 Fire Token
- 1 Rulebook
- 1 Camp Board
Game Setup
1. Set out the board and Components
Place the Camp board and Rest Tokens within easy reach of all players.
2. Select Adventurers
Note: There must always be four Adventurers in play no matter the player count. If you have 4 players, each selects one Adventurer. With 3 players, pick a flex Adventurer that the player in camp controls during the Watch phase. In a 2 player game, each player selects two Adventurers. In a solo game, that player selects four.
Players select their Adventurer and take that Adventurer's board, 5 Ability cards, and 3 corresponding dice. Shuffle the Adventurer's Ability cards together and draw 2 cards at random to place on your Adventurer board (faceup). Draw a 3rd card and place it on your board exhausted (facedown). Place the remaining 2 Ability cards off to the side of your board (faceup).
Adventurer board anatomy:
- A. Adventurer Class
- B. Ability Slots: Place three equipped Ability cards in these slots.
- C. Dice: These banners represent the dice your adventurer will play with: each blue banner represents a d8, and each red banner represents a d6, each green banner represents a d12 and each purple banner represents a d4. During the game, each spent combat die is to be placed on a different, empty banner space on your adventure board.
- D. Camp Action: This special ability can only be used once per Camp Phase if the Adventurer rests in Camp (see Camp Phase).
- E. Attack Type: An Adventurer with Range can attack and damage Creatures in either first or second position of the Line. Melee can only attack and damage Creatures in first position of the Line.
3. Prepare the Creature Deck
Difficulty is set by the number of Summon cards used:
- Easy: Summon x1
- Normal: Summon x2
- Hard: Summon x3
- Insane: Summon x4
Take all Creature cards in the game. Select either 1, 2, 3, or 4 Summon cards, for respectively an Easy, Normal, Hard, or Insane game. Remove all unused Summon cards from the game. Set aside at least two Acolytes (see Deck Construction), then select randomly 28 cards from the remaining Creature cards and add the two Acolytes atop of them. Remove unused Creature cards from the game. Shuffle the Creature cards together, and then divide them into facedown piles, as even in size as possible, so that the number of piles matches the number of Summon cards in play. Shuffle 1 Summon card into each pile. Then stack these piles to form the Creature deck, placing smaller piles on the bottom.
4. Prepare the Map Deck
Take all the Location cards, and set aside all the respite and final Locations. Shuffle the remaining Location cards together and draw 8 cards without looking at them. Shuffle these 8 cards together, then select (randomly or by picking it) one of the previously set-aside final locations and add it to the bottom of the deck to form the Map deck. Remove any unused final Location cards from the game. Take all the remaining Location cards (including the respite Locations) and shuffle them together to form the Unused Location Deck.
5. Prepare the Unhallowed Deck
Take all the Unhallowed cards, shuffle them together, and without looking, draw and place one card in the Horde facedown. The Horde is a facedown deck of cards that is added to the final round of the game. The bigger the Horde is, the more difficult the final round will be. Then, draw and place 7 Unhallowed cards faceup next to the Camp board to create the Unhallowed deck. Set aside all the remaining Unhallowed cards.
6. Light the Fire!
Draw the top location card from the Map deck and place it as the current location on the Camp board. Do not resolve the location's firewood modifier for the first round (see Locations). Place the fire token to 7 firewood on the Camp Board. Alternatively, to vary the gameplay and make the game more difficult, you may roll a d6 to randomly set the starting firewood.
7. Prepare the Merchant
Place the Merchant board next to the Camp board. Take all the coins and place them off to the side of the Merchant board to represent the Bank. Place a coin on each Camp board action space marked with the coin symbol.
8. Prepare the Market
Take all the Item cards and shuffle them together to form the Item deck. Place the deck near the Merchant board. Draw 3 Items from the Item deck and place them faceup on the Merchant board. These Items represent the Market.
Creatures
During the Watch Phase, players will use their dice to defeat Creatures. When Creatures are defeated they go to the Graveyard, when they are not defeated they end up in the Horde.
Creature card anatomy:
- A. Damage: This number represents the total number of Ability cards from the Adventuring party currently on Watch that are exhausted if the Creature is not defeated.
- B. Base Health: This number represents the total amount of damage that must be assigned with dice to defeat the Creature.
- C. Power text: This section contains all the unique abilities of the Creature, including Reveal and First position effects.
- D. Creature Type: Unhallowed are considered Creatures with a Creature Type of Unhallowed.
Summon and Unhallowed cards
When a Summon card is revealed from the Creatures deck, it's immediately resolved (see Order of Play): one Adventurer on Watch chooses and exhausts 1 Ability card they control; then, the Summon card is discarded to the Graveyard, to be immediately replaced with the topmost card of the Unhallowed deck. When an Unhallowed card is revealed, resolve any triggerable Unhallowed card powers, and then when defeated, the Unhallowed card is discarded into the Graveyard.
Gameplay
The game is played over a series of 9 rounds represented by 8 random Locations and 1 Final Location. Each round is composed of a Camp phase, a Merchant phase and a Watch phase; before moving to the Camp phase, all Adventurers will be asked to roll their dice.
Locations
Location card anatomy:
- A. Firewood Modifier: Advance or retreat the Firewood token based on this modifier.
- B. Creature count: This number represents the number of Creature cards that will form the Line at the beginning of the Watch phase.
- C. Location type: Respites and Final Locations are marked.
- D. Location Ability: Location-specific effects and conditions; usually these represent effects lasting as long as the Location card is in play, but some Locations might have a different time trigger. In this case, the Location special ability is resolved when the triggering conditions are met.
After rolling, players will decide, together as a team, who'll be the Adventurer going to the Camp. That Adventurer, during the Camp phase (see below), will assign their dice to any camp actions and/or Runes on the back of the map deck to resolve these actions. All other Adventurers will be on Watch (see Watch Phase), where they'll be tasked to eliminate Creatures threatening the party.
Camp Phase
Each Adventurer MUST go to Camp exactly twice during the first 8 rounds of the game. During the final round all Adventurers go on Watch for the final battle.
The Adventurer who rests in Camp refreshes one of their exhausted Ability cards and refreshes all of their exhausted Items, if any. Take a Rest token on an Adventurer's first visit to Camp and place it on their board. Flip it over on their second visit. An Adventurer with all their Ability cards exhausted won't be able to participate in a Watch phase.
The Adventurer in camp does not participate in combat. Instead they assign their rolled dice and resolve the action one at a time on one of the following:
- an action space in the Camp
- an action space on their Adventurer board
- a Rune on the back of the card on the top of the Map deck
Whenever a die is placed on an action space with a coin on it, move the coin to the bottom of the Merchant board. The coins placed here represent the coins held by the Adventurers as a group.
The selection is repeated until all three results have been assigned and resolved. The same action can be selected more than once per Camp phase, as long as a die is not assigned to a space already containing an assigned die.
Camp Actions
The Camp board has action spaces for each Camp action. Some Actions might come with a requirement that must be met in order for that action to be resolved.
Chop Wood (max 3 placements): Advance the Firewood token 2 spaces clockwise, increasing by +2.
Scout Ahead (max 3 placements): Draw and look at the top 2 Creatures of the Creature deck. For each card, return it either to the top or to the bottom of the Creatures deck. Requirement: In order to assign a second (or third) result to this action space, the result on the second (third) die must be higher than the result of the highest die on this space.
Check Map (max 1 placement): Draw the top card of the Map deck and the top card from the Unused Locations deck, and choose one to place on the top of the Map deck, and the other one to the bottom of the Unused Locations deck. Requirement: You cannot resolve this action unless you spend a result of '4' or higher. By resolving this action, you cannot swap out the Final Location.
Heal (max 1 placement): Refresh 1 exhausted Ability card in play (you can either target yourself, or any one Adventurer on Watch). Requirement: You must spend a result of exactly '6' in order to resolve this action.
Equip (max 1 placement): Swap 1 Ability card currently on your Adventurer board with 1 of your leftover unused Ability cards. If the Ability card that is swapped out is exhausted, the new card is placed on your Adventurer board exhausted as well.
Adventurer Special Camp Actions
Each Adventurer has a special camp action, listed on their Adventurer board. As per any other Camp action, an Adventurer wanting to activate their special camp action simply assigns one of their dice to their Adventurer board. Each Adventurer camp action can only be used max once per round.
Runes
Runes are special action spaces available on the back of location cards. During the Camp phase, the Adventurer at the Camp can activate these Runes by placing dice on them. Requirement: In order to activate the Runes, you need to spend at least two matching results (i.e. 2 '3s', or 2 '4s' and so on). Each result must be placed on a different Rune space (i.e. you cannot activate the same Rune more than once). If three matching results were rolled, they can be used to activate all three runes, or they can be used to activate two of them, and the third result can be used for a different action.
Seal (max 1 placement): Search the Graveyard for an Unhallowed card of your choosing and move it to the bottom of the Unhallowed deck. Do not shuffle the Graveyard afterwards.
Vanquish (max 1 placement): Take the top card of the Horde and remove it from the game.
Bolster (max 1 placement): Each Adventurer on Watch may choose to reroll any number of their dice.
When all of the Camp Adventurer's dice have been assigned and actions have been resolved, the game continues to the Watch Phase. If there is still an Adventurer with all 3 Ability cards exhausted at the end of the Camp phase, they cannot participate in the next Watch phase. Without that Adventurer's dice actions, the next round will likely be your last.
Merchant Phase
The Merchant phase gives Adventurers a chance to purchase Items that can be used on their quest.
Purchase Items
The Adventurer resting in Camp may spend coin to acquire Item cards (there is no purchase limit). When an Item is purchased, discard coins equal to the Item's cost back to the Bank. Then, the resting Adventurer gives the Item to any Adventurer (including themselves). The Item is now equipped by the Adventurer; this will give them access to the item's special ability. Each Adventurer can have up to 2 equipped Items.
Item card anatomy:
- A. Item Name
- B. Item Effect: This section contains the trigger conditions for the Item (Passive, Activate, Discard, etc) followed by the effect.
- C. Item cost: This number represents the number of coins that need to be discarded back to the Bank to acquire the Item.
Refresh Market
After purchasing is completed, draw Item cards to fill in any empty spots in the Market. If no Item was purchased this round, draw 1 Item and place it faceup covering another Item of your choice in the Market. Adventurers can only purchase the topmost Item of each pile in the Market.
Add Coins to Camp
Add a coin on each Camp action space that is marked with the coin symbol that does not have a die assigned. Stack coins as necessary.
Watch Phase
The Watch Phase represents a night of battling Creatures as they try and make their way into your Camp. After setting up the Line of Creatures, Adventurers spend their dice on direct attacks and Ability cards to defeat them. Players can activate abilities and assign dice in whatever order they see fit (there is no turn order) until all Creatures have been defeated or all Adventurers run out of useful actions. An Adventurer cannot participate in combat if all of their Ability cards are exhausted at the start of the Watch Phase.
Setting up the Line
Check the Creature count on the current Location card (see Locations): this is the number of Creatures the Adventurers will face during this Phase. Then draw cards from the Creature deck and place them facedown to form a Line, starting with the top card being placed closest to the Camp board, until the total number of cards in the Line is equal to the current Location's Creature count. If you ever need to draw a card from the Creature deck and cannot, shuffle all the Creatures in the Graveyard (including any Unhallowed and Summon cards) to create a new Creature deck. Then, draw Creature cards from the new deck until the Line is fully formed.
Reveal Creatures
Check the current Campfire value on the Camp board. The number of Creatures revealed by the Campfire is indicated by the Campfire reveal level on the Camp board (1-6 firewood reveals 1 Creature, 7-11 firewood reveals 2 Creatures, and 12+ firewood reveals 3 Creatures). Creatures are revealed one at a time, starting with the facedown Creature closest to the Camp board. Every time a new Creature is turned faceup, their special powers are checked, and any effect triggered is immediately resolved. Creatures remain revealed even if the Firewood token would retreat enough to affect the number of Creatures revealed in the Line.
The Campfire can never reach zero. If the Campfire is ever zero, exhaust an Ability card of an Adventurer on Watch to increase Campfire by +2.
Combat Actions
After Creatures are revealed and their effects are checked and resolved, Adventurers may work together and take actions until a Creature is defeated. Creatures are defeated by attacking them directly or activating an Ability card. When a Creature is defeated, it's moved to the Graveyard; then, the Line reacts. All facedown Creature cards move 1 space closer to the Camp board and then Creatures are revealed according to the Campfire reveal level.
Direct Attacks:
Adventurers can spend and combine their dice to attack revealed Creatures in range. Melee characters can only attack Creatures in first position. Ranged characters can attack Creatures in first or second position. A Creature's Base Health is located in the top right of its card: this value can be modified by some Creature special Abilities to form the Creature's Health. When the sum of the results is equal to or higher than the Creature's Health, that Creature is defeated and sent to the Graveyard.
Activating Non-Passive Ability Cards:
Once per card per round, Adventurers can spend a die on an unexhausted Ability card to activate it. Alternatively, Ability cards can also be exhausted to trigger their effects. This means that Adventurers can potentially trigger an Ability twice in the same round: once by spending a die on it, and a second time by exhausting it. They can of course activate said Ability just once per round by either spending the die, or by exhausting the card. Abilities are fully resolved before Creature powers are triggered (see Order of Play).
Passive Ability Cards:
Passive abilities do not require a die to activate. Passive abilities are active as long as they remain faceup and may be used according to their text (e.g. the Ranger's Sharpshooter ability, reads "Once per round, you may reroll and reuse a die spent on a direct attack." whereas the Warrior's Cleave ability can be continually used to save the remainder of die result from a direct attack.)
Using Items:
Items are similar to Ability cards and can only be used by Adventurers on Watch during the Watch phase.
- Items with the Activate trigger can only be used by spending a die to activate them. They cannot be exhausted and can only be activated once per round.
- Items with the Exhaust trigger can only be used by exhausting the Item. Exhausted Items are only refreshed when you rest in Camp.
- Items with the Discard trigger are one-time use Items that are activated by discarding and placing them on the bottom of the Item deck.
- Items with the Passive trigger are similar to Passive Ability cards. They are used according to their text and are active as long as the Item is not exhausted or canceled by an in-game effect.
Out of Actions:
If Adventurers run out of actions and there are still Creatures in the Line, the Adventurers, as a group, exhaust cards based on each Creature's damage, one at a time, starting from the first undefeated Creature in the Line. Then, add those Creatures facedown to the top of the Horde in Line order. Whenever cards need to be exhausted, Adventurers must exhaust cards of their choosing from the Adventurers on Watch. The moment the Adventurers on Watch exhaust their last unexhausted Ability card, the game is lost.
Once the Line is clear of Creatures, the Watch Phase ends.
Ending the Round
If at least one Adventurer on the Watch has an unexhausted Ability card, play moves to the next round. Draw and reveal the next Location card and adjust based on the Location drawn.
The Final Round
When the final Location is revealed, the Adventurers have reached the last round, and all Adventurers go on final Watch (i.e. there's no Camp phase this round).
Proceed to setup the Line normally; then draw cards from the Horde deck and place them facedown at the end of the Line until the entire Horde deck has been added to the Line. The Horde is not shuffled. Gameplay then proceeds as normal to the Watch phase.
Winning the Game
If at the end of the Final Round, at least one Adventurer has an unexhausted Ability card and there are no more Creature cards in the Line, the Adventurers win the game.
Losing the Game
If at any time, all Adventurers on Watch have all their Ability cards exhausted, the game is lost. Additionally, if an Unhallowed is to be summoned but the Unhallowed deck is empty, the game is lost.
Order of Play
If cards are to activate at the same time or they are in conflict with one another, please resolve card actions in the following order:
- Reveal Creatures one at a time, corresponding with the Campfire reveal level. Trigger, in this order, any relevant Reveal, Ongoing and/or Position Creature powers.
- Adventurers may use Abilities, Items and direct attacks to defeat Creatures. Adventurers as a group decide what to resolve first in case there are timing conflicts of these effects. Abilities and Items are resolved before Creature powers.
- As soon as a Creature is defeated, advance the Line and return to point 1 of this list before taking any further Adventurer actions.
- Summon cards always trigger! If they are to be discarded as part of an effect that targets unrevealed cards, they are resolved instead. After the card is fully resolved, the effect that was targeting it is resolved against the Creature that was just summoned.
Adventurers
The Heretic
Not too long ago the Heretic was a devout Acolyte of the Unhallowed, but has abandoned their beliefs and uses their own dark magic against them in exchange for profit and protection from the Swords of the Coin. The Heretic specializes in manipulating the Undead and interacting with the Graveyard. The Heretic also is invaluable in Camp with the power to seal away the very Unhallowed they once served.
The Bounty Hunter
The Bounty Hunter is strictly in it for the Trophies and the coins they fetch. The Bounty Hunter is a versatile warrior who is able to claim defeated creatures as Trophies. These Trophies unlock abilities and grant expertise fighting certain creature types. Of course the Bounty Hunter can always save up Trophies and cash them in at the merchant when resting in Camp as well.
Trophies: Whenever the Bounty Hunter contributes to defeating a Creature in the Line with direct attacks, they may take that Creature card as a Trophy and set it next to their board instead of placing it in the Graveyard. The Bounty Hunter may hold up to 3 Trophies.
The Barbarian
The Barbarian channels rage to powerful effect. The Barbarian's ferocity in battle is represented by the highest dice in the game and Abilities that lay waste to enemies. This comes with a setback though, the Barbarian cannot spend dice to activate their Ability cards: their Abilities must be exhausted each time they are to be used.
Activating Abilities: The Barbarian cannot spend a die to activate their Abilities. Instead they must exhaust their Abilities to activate them. The Barbarian can of course spend their dice on any other game action, such as resolving direct attacks or activating Camp abilities when on Camp.
The Witch
Don't let the Witch's low dice dissuade you, many Abilities are magnified by spending higher results on them and the Witch's loyal familiar can assist with direct attacks. The Witch was sought by the Guild to provide vital knowledge needed to combat the Unhallowed. The Witch's premonitions and familiar let you peek at cards in the Line and deck without revealing/triggering them - allowing you to share information with your party and plan ahead.
Familiar: During Setup, the Witch places their Familiar card next to their board. They may choose which side starts faceup. The Familiar is not a tamed Creature.
Once per Watch phase, you may use the Familiar's passive effect and make a direct attack without spending a die.
- A. Damage: The number here is added to the result of the direct attack currently being resolved. A Familiar can be used during a combined direct attack.
- B. Passive effect: This section defines the Familiar's attack range and describes the effect you may take when the Familiar attacks. (Example — Crow Familiar: "Passive: The Crow can attack revealed Creatures in first or second position. When the Crow attacks, you may peek at the top 2 cards of the Creature deck.")
Abilities: All of the Witch's Abilities trigger off X, where X is the die value spent to activate the Ability. If an Ability is exhausted to be activated, the Witch uses the value of one of their spent dice instead.
Note on Hex: We recommend placing the d4 used to activate it next to the Creature card in first position as a counter. As each subsequent Creature moves into first position, you negate all their powers and decrease the die by 1. When the die value is equal to zero, Hex has finished resolving; the die can be returned to the Hex card as a spent die of its original value.
The Monk
A mysterious and devout warrior, the Monk harnesses the energy that flows through their body into powerful strikes and or defensive stances. While the Monk starts with d6 dice, their Camp ability allows them to upgrade these dice through meditation. This allows the Monk to build and become a more formidable warrior by the final round.
Upgrading Dice: When the Monk upgrades a die, they remove one of their dice from the game and take the next die in the sequence (i.e. if you remove a d6, you take a d8) and set it to the value of the just removed die. The new die stays in their pool and is rolled at the beginning of the round with the other dice, until it is upgraded again, or the game ends.
The Artificer
Anyone who holds the Artificer's staff is controlled by the entity who lives inside it; the person holding the staff is merely a vessel. No one knows if it was an aging wizard who stored his soul in the staff or if the staff was created through other means of dark magic. The Artificer's abilities revolve around recharging the staff and spending its stored charges.
Artificer Staff: During Setup, the Artificer takes the Artificer's staff which represents the Staff's charges which start at 8. Every time you spend (or gain) a charge, you retreat (advance) the dial one step. Charges cannot exceed the dial's limit. The staff is an indestructible item.
Deck Construction
Set a Watch is designed to offer a ton of replayability and challenge. Our setup instructions tell you to set aside and include 2 Acolytes in your Creature deck, but you can add/remove Acolytes to further tailor the difficulty of the game.
After exploring all the challenges in this game, additional Set a Watch products open a world of new challenging Creature decks that you can build.
Extra Summon cards from other products allow you to go past the "Insane" difficulty level (4 Summons). Simply add one additional Unhallowed to the Unhallowed deck for each Summon you add above the original limit of 4.
A Creature deck is composed of exactly 30 cards (not including Summon cards).
You can pick any 30 Creatures and build a valid Creature deck, but if you want your deck to be balanced for all of the Adventurers in the series, we offer the following guidelines:
- Include at least 4 Forest Creatures
- Include at least 4 Undead Creatures
- Include at least 2 Dragons
- Include at least 1 Human, Goblin, and Golem
To make more challenging decks, you will want to create synergies between Creature types, Creature powers and the Unhallowed. For example, don't select the Wyvern Rider if you don't have any Wyverns in your deck.
Deck customization can extend beyond the Creature deck into the Location deck as well. You can select the 8 Locations along with the Final location to make a challenge that is worthy of your group!
Walk in the Park
If you are finding the base game too difficult or want to introduce the game to new players, you can setup the game based on the deck list below. You can still scale this setup with different summon cards, but we suggest using the Stun Summons to make this game easier.
This setup is designed to be more forgiving to players, but you may also play with this additional rule: Adventurers may let the Creature in first position into the Horde (exhausting cards as necessary) at any time before ending the round.
Creature Deck
- Set a Watch: Forest Giant x2, Bear x2, Eagle x2, Fae x2, Zombie Horde x2, Treant x2
- Swords of the Coin: Enchanted Golem x2, Seal Breaker Acolyte x2, Goblin Scouts x2, Wandering Giant x2
- Outriders: Evil Apparition x2, Forest Sprite x2, Desert Wyrm x2, Forgotten Sentinel x2, Mesmerist x2
Summons: Stun an Ability x2
Unhallowed
- Set a Watch: Goblin Chief, Phantom Cat, Corrupt Druid
- Swords of the Coin: Carnivorous tree, Sound of Doom, Collector
- Outriders: Keeper of Memories, Golem Sculptor
Location Deck
- Set a Watch: Dark Woods, White Monolith, The Long Road, Ruined Gate, Forbidden Tower (Final Location)
- Swords of the Coin: Tribal Lands, Trading Outpost, Adventurer's Guild, Outskirts Inn (Starting Location)
Unhalloween
This is a challenging constructed deck themed to feature Undead and the Halloween spirit. It includes content from Set a Watch, Swords of the Coin and the Outriders expansion.
Creature Deck
- Set a Watch: Vampires x1, Zombie Horde x2, Skeletons x2, Wolf x2, Bandit x2
- Swords of the Coin: Poison spider x2, Giant Bat x2, Scarecrow x2, Coffin Rat Swarm x2, Vampire x1, Crawling Ooze x2
- Outriders: Goblin Acolyte x2, Wyvern hatchling x2, Living Doll x2, Undead Acolyte x2, Evil Apparition x2
Summons: Exhaust an Ability x2, Draw top card of the Horde x2
Unhallowed
- Set a Watch: Wraith Lord, Necromancer, High Priestess, Werewolf
- Swords of the Coin: Prince of Vultures, Headless Rider, Ghoulish Head, Revenant
Location Deck
- Set a Watch: Abandoned Village, Witch's Shack, Forgotten Graveyard, Haunted Manor, Catacombs (Final Location)
- Swords of the Coin: Moving Forest, Bone Henge, Forsaken Asylum, Living House
Burnout
This is a constructed deck that focuses a lot on manipulating and diminishing the campfire and can be a challenge even for experienced Adventurers. It includes content from Set a Watch and Swords of the Coin.
Creature Deck
- Set a Watch: Ember Drake x2, Bear x2, Eagle x2, Fae x2, Fell Beast x2, Wyvern x2, Metal Golem x2, Shade x2, Graveshifter x2, Skeletons x2, Goblins x2
- Swords of the Coin: Frost Wyrm x2, Floating Mind x2, Seal Breaker Acolyte x2, Coffin Rat swarm x2
Summons: Exhaust an Ability x2, Stun an Ability x2
Unhallowed
- Set a Watch: Pyromancer, Lich, Warlord, Wyvern Rider
- Swords of the Coin: Dark Champion, Dream master, Gorgon, Mastermind
Location Deck
- Set a Watch: Lost Outpost, Cliff Watch, Barren Plains
- Swords of the Coin: The Light House, Rope Bridge, Tall Grass, Nomad Camp, Thieves Den, Tower Ruins (Final Location)
FAQ
How do Reveal creature powers work? Is it only when a creature is flipped faceup or do Reveal powers activate when an Unhallowed is summoned or a Creature enters the Line from some other effect or Ability?
Reveal powers activate when a card is flipped faceup and whenever a creature with a Reveal ability enters the line revealed (faceup).
Can I kill a creature that was revealed and stop its Reveal power from triggering?
Remember that Abilities are fully resolved before you check newly revealed Creature powers. However after a Reveal power has triggered, it cannot be stopped. The exception to this rule is Monk's Perfect Defense Ability which does cancel and counter a Creature power retroactively.
Can the Fire Level go above 15 or below 0?
No, the fire does not go above 15 or go below 0.
Can I use an Ability even if I can't do everything on the card (i.e. Reveal 2 creatures)?
Yes, you simply do as much of the ability as you are able based on the game's state.
When Creature powers, Abilities or other effects send creatures to the Horde do I look at the cards? Do I take any damage? What happens when things are added to the Horde in the last round of the game?
No, you do not look at the cards placed into the Horde nor do you suffer any damage. In the last round, you can start a new Horde pile. Normally you will not interact with this new pile, but some card effects do interact with the Horde.
Glossary
Base Health: refers to the Health value printed on the card - not the Creature's current Health which may be modified by effects in the game.
Beast Rider: is a Creature power that targets Forest Creatures before or behind the Creature with the ability in the Line. If a Forest Creature is ever revealed before or behind a Creature with the Beast Rider power, then the Rider is placed on top of that Creature card and considered a single Creature of the Rider's type. The Rider's Health gains +X where X is the Base Health of the Forest Creature. Once these cards are combined, they cannot be tamed.
Campfire: This refers to the center dial on the Camp board. The Campfire reveal level dictates how many Creatures are revealed at any given time. See "Reveal Creatures" for more details.
Defeat: The act of placing a Creature card into the Graveyard.
Defeated: This term is sometimes used on Creature cards and triggers when the Creature is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard.
Direct Attack: The act of spending one or more dice to defeat a Creature.
Dragon Rider: see Beast Rider above but targets Dragons instead of Forest Creatures.
End of Line: This term is sometimes used on Creature cards and triggers when the Creature is revealed and at the end of the Line furthest away from the Camp board.
Exhaust: This refers to the act of flipping over an Ability card to represent that you have used up that ability.
Exhaust X Abilities: is a common Creature power that is shorthand for "the Adventurers on Watch, as a group, must immediately exhaust a total of X Ability cards."
First Position: Many Creatures have first position powers that activate if they are ever the first Creature in the Line.
Graveyard: The Creature discard pile.
Health: represents the current Health of the Creature, and refers to the value that must be met or exceeded to send the Creature to the Graveyard.
Horde: The Horde is a stack of additional Creature cards that will be added to the final round of the game.
In Camp: Refers to the Adventurer resting in camp that round.
The Line: The Line of Creatures that needs to be defeated every round.
Ongoing: Creatures with ongoing abilities trigger and continue to occur and change based on the game state.
On Watch: Refers to the Adventurers currently involved in combat.
Negate: When a Creature power is negated, its text box is treated as if it were blank.
Peek: this keyword is used with a lot of the Witch's abilities and allows you to look at a number of unrevealed cards without triggering and revealing them. When cards are looked at they should be returned to where they were i.e. the top of the deck or back into the same position in the Line.
Range: Refers to how far back in the Line an Adventurer, or their tamed Creatures, can target with a direct attack. Every Adventurer can target Creatures in first position. Adventurers with a Ranged icon in the bottom right corner of their Adventurer card can attack Creatures in first or second position. Effects increasing Adventurers range by +1 allow Adventurers to target cards up to 1 space further down the Line (so that Melee attacks are now able to target Creatures either in 1st or 2nd position in the Line, and Ranged attacks can target Creatures in 1st, 2nd, or 3rd position in the Line).
Recover a die: Ability Cards that say recover dice return them (at their value) to the Adventurer they were stolen from. Once returned, they can be used as normal.
Refresh: Flip over an Ability card to its unexhausted side so that the Ability can be used again. It can also be referred to as Heal because of the Camp action associated with refreshing.
Rest: An Adventurer going to camp this round is considered Resting. Remember that every Adventurer needs to rest exactly twice. Use the Rest tokens to keep track of resting.
Reveal: When a Creature is revealed, it is flipped faceup. Creature Reveal powers trigger when this occurs and/or when Creatures enter the Line for the first time (i.e. when an Unhallowed is summoned or a Creature is added to the Line from the Graveyard).
Second Position: This term is sometimes used on Creature cards and triggers when the Creature is revealed and in the second position in the Line.
Steal: There are several Creature powers that steal a die. When a die is stolen from an Adventurer, it is placed on that Creature until it is defeated. Once the Creature is defeated, the die is returned to the corresponding Adventurer but it is considered spent. Recovered dice by other means can be spent as normal.
Stun X Abilities: is a Creature power that causes the Adventurers on Watch, as a Group, to spend X dice on Ability cards without activating their effects. Only Abilities that are activated by a die can be stunned. If an Adventurer has no unspent dice or has no valid unexhausted Abilities, they cannot be stunned (Barbarian is immune to Stun). If an Ability is stunned, it can still be activated by exhausting the card that round.
Tame: Some Creatures can be tamed, i.e. removed from the Line and added to an Adventurer's play area as an attack die. When used as an attack die, you always use the Creature's base Health and then discard the Creature to the Graveyard. These Creatures can be saved between rounds unless otherwise specified.
Round Overview
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Roll Dice
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Camp Phase: Pick who rests in Camp. Resting player refreshes a card and takes Camp Actions:
- a. Chop Wood
- b. Scout Ahead
- c. Check Map with 4+
- d. Heal with exactly a 6
- e. Equip
- f. Cast Rune Spells with Doubles/Triples
- g. Adventurer camp ability
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Merchant Phase:
- a. Purchase Items
- b. Refresh the Market
- c. Add Coins to the Camp
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Watch Phase:
- a. Reveal Creatures based on the Campfire reveal level
- b. Spend your dice as attacks or to activate abilities
- c. Exhaust a card to +2
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End Watch: Add any Creatures that were not defeated to the Horde one by one, triggering any relevant powers. Adventurers on Watch exhaust cards equal to each Creature's damage.
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Reveal the next Location: Adjust the Campfire by the value shown on the Location card.
Credits
Published by: Rock Manor Games Game Design: Todd Walsh & Mike Gnade Game Development: Ryan Ward & Samuel Bailey Adventurer Illustrations: Boris Stanisic Creature Illustrations: Rodolpho Langhi Location Illustrations: Andreas Rocha, Rastislav & Lacey James Graphic Design and Item Illustrations: T.L. Simons Technical Editing: Andrea Dell'Agnese & Julia Faeta