Small World
If your active race has lost all its tokens, must you put it into decline?
The rulebook makes declining a choice a player may make, and the forum answers agree once an earlier misreading was corrected.
- Small World rulebook · Rulebook · Entering In Decline
- _Tiberias_ · Community · 2009-03-14
- DragonsDream · Community · 2017-05-28
- ColtsFan76 · Community · 2020-03-16
- lfisher · Community · 2009-08-26
- Boofus · Community · 2010-02-10disagrees
No. Declining is optional: you may keep the empty race active, score with the race in decline, or decline it when you choose. Declining is the usual move, because taking a new race requires a decline turn first.