World Without End
61 questions players ask about World Without End. Pick one for the answer. See also the full rulebook.
Updated 2026-11-03.
Playing a Round
- Do players choose action cards simultaneously or one after another?
- Must you carry out the action of the action card you play?
- Are favor track spaces covered by an event marker counted when moving the favor marker?
- What happens if the favor marker is on a space that an event then covers?
- Does the active player get a favor award if the event card points to 0?
Action Cards
- Can you see your action cards and play them in any order?
- Must chapter I be played with only the six starred action cards?
- What does the Privilege card repeat, and can it repeat a face-down card?
- Do you pay costs again when Privilege repeats an action, such as a 1 gold event cost or the Roland toll?
- Can Privilege repeat a card but use a different option on it?
- Can you build both houses that give the same income?
- What does the House Building action cost, and where do the paid goods go?
Event Cards
- When does a blue long-term event apply, and does it recur each round?
- When can you use a blue event's trade, such as 1 cloth for 3 VP?
- How long does a blue event stay in play, and what pushes it out early?
- Can three blue events be in effect at once, and does a newly drawn third event apply that round?
- How long do brown event covering markers stay on the board?
- Must you give up grain or piety when an event card offers VP for it?
- Can an immediate event's trade, like 1 wool for 3 gold, be done more than once?
- If a blue event cuts wool sales to 1 gold, does a tan event paying 3 gold for wool still apply?
- When the cloth market is closed, can you still turn wool into cloth?
End of a Round and Chapter
Penalties
- When doing Penance, where does the card go and how does the first round work?
- If you went Begging, do you still get the active-player favor in the first round?
- Can a player end a chapter with fewer than six actions resolved?
- Can a player who did Penance still gain the piety from In the Clergy's Opinion?
- What does paying loyalty protect you from?
- What happens if you can't pay duties at the end of chapter IV?
Building Projects and the Tower
- Do wood and stone on a finished building project stay there?
- Can you donate before a building project is complete, and what do donors get?
- Can one player donate twice to the same building project?
- Which donor takes their bonus first?
- Do donors still get the VP if the supply can't cover the extra benefit?
- What do Hospital donors get when it is completed?
- Can a Hospital donor heal several houses with the bonus?
- Is a Building Project action needed to place the Tower's last space and get the metal?
- Does the Tower complete if the supply lacks enough resources?
- Are the buildings the same in every game?
Plague
- Can Medical Knowledge gained from a house during a Medicine action help heal another house in that action?
- Does Medicine give 2 VP per house or per inhabitant?
- Is Medical Knowledge spent when you cure plague houses?
- What do you receive for healing houses 7 and 9?
- What do you get for caring for the outlaws in the forest hideout?
- From which chapter can the Medicine card care for the plague?