Game

Worker placement with bonus actions on Recall

Go clockwise and on your turn either play a unit or regroup

• Place a Unit (from your Ready Area, into the realm)
  • Gain 1 treasure token from the top of a stack
  • Placement Rules
    • First placement after Regroup – anywhere unoccupied (dwellings don’t count as occupied)
      • Warrior – tile can be occupied
    • Subsequent placement – adjacent and not occupied by yourself
      • Dragon – up to 2 tiles away
      • Wizard – anywhere unoccupied
  • Tile type has an effect
    • Mage Tower – spend 2 resources, get 3 magic cards, discard 1
    • Summoning Portal – spend cost, move unit to Ready Area
    • Mill – spend cost, convert a worker into a dwelling
      • Choose a worker in a realm, Pay cost on the tile, place roof on worker
      • Score 2VP per adjacent ruin (mill, dungeon, etc), Score 2VP per adjacent dwelling
      • Progress up Elemental Track as pictured on tile
    • Dungeon – expand map, get 2 adventure cards
      • Take top tile from tile stock, place it, populate treasure/monster
      • Take an adventure card from the market and progress up Elemental Track
      • Optionally take another adventure card (and progress up track), or discard one from the market
      • Repopulate adventure card market
    • Fortress – spend 2 resources, get 2 gold (Gold is a wild resource)
    • Oracle – pay cost to gain 1 adventure card or take 1 magic card
    • Lair – spawns a monster
• Regroup
  • Retrieve units from tiles, onto cards to take actions, or into Ready Area
    • e.g. on starter card there are actions for Summon, Gather, and Dwell
  • Retrieve units from underworld into Ready Area (no card actions allowed)
  • Retrieve units from cards into Ready Area
  • If you have any, return Merceneries to supply

Game ends on 6th dwelling or realm tile stock depleted

During Play

• Battles
  • Triggered by placing a unit in an occupied tile, tile action resolved first
  • Adjacent units may join (even those uninvolved initially)
  • Battle dice: 1 per unit/dwelling/adjacent dwelling, 2 for warrior, 3 for dragon
  • Spend swords for additional dice
  • Roll dice. Single highest dice wins (ties go to next highest dice etc). Everyone loses tie.
    • Winner goes up Glory track for a bonus (if monster beaten, can progress up Elemental track instead)
    • Loser units go to underworld, Gain 1 sword per unit
• Adventure Cards, some special types:
  • Doorways – these give bonus if you’re highest on their corresponding Elemental track
  • Vaults – bonuses at end of game
  • Auras – attach to existing cards (as a free action), for a modifier
• Monsters
  • Going adjacent to a monster causes them to Rush in
  • They have different abilities
  • Monsters don’t go to the underworld, simply set them aside when destroyed
  • You can dominate a monster, they become yours to control until destroyed
    • chain symbol indicates abilities that apply while being dominated
  • Some effects send monster back to lair, units go to underworld
• Mercenaries
  • Pay to hire until Regroup as a free action (or with an orb to keep)
  • Minotaur – has monster Rush ability
  • Shapeshifter – use another units ability
• Magic Cards
  • Obtained from Mage Tower
  • Hand limit of 7
  • Can be spent as resources
  • Spells – various effects, read the card, some have a cost
  • Quests – gain points during the game for completing goals
  • Prophecies – end of game points for completing goals
• Free Actions
  • Treasure token – discard for pictured resource
  • Treasure token – place in a slot
  • Play a magic card
  • Hire a Mercenary
  • Spend an Orb
    • Choose a reward from Orb reward market
    • Slot Orb into Tableau
    • Slot Orb into Adventure card
    • Slot Orb to permenantly hire Mercenary
• Treasure chest symbol (looks a bit like a pie) means any resource
• Resource limit of 5 per type

Score Points From

• During Game
  • Complete Quests (from magic cards, from Mage Tower)
  • Glory Track rewards
  • Orb bonuses
  • Tableau actions
  • Monster effects
• End of Game
  • Unspent Orbs = 1VP
  • Complete Prophecies(from magic cards, from Mage Tower)
  • Elemental Track (1VP per rank), progressed up via:
    • adventure cards, from Dungeon exploring
    • creating dwelling, from Mill tile or Dwell action
  • Dwellings = 1VP per rank on corresponding Elemental track
  • Tableau cards = 1VP per rank on corresponding Elemental track
    • limit to scoring 3 cards per constructed dwelling (i.e. 4 dwellings = 12 cards)
  • Vault adventure cards

Tips

• Different factions have different abilities – read the mat and take advantage!
• Familiarise yourself with the adventure card market throughout the game
• Elemental track is critical for end game scoring
  • You can only progress up 4 tracks
  • Pick tracks based on tiles you’re dwelling in and adventure cards taken
• Get magic cards throughout, they’re useful and give end of game scoring
• First placement:
  • look for tiles to dwell in with many adjacent ruins (2VP each) – don’t rush to dwell if not scoring
• Early game
  • get units out (target summoning portal) – units get bonus actions on recall
  • if there are worthwhile adventure cards then go to the Dungeon
  • being able to get resources as part of recall is important, look for adventure cards to do this
• Remember magic cards can be spent as resources