Destinies FAQ
89 questions players ask · Updated Nov 12, 2026 · Full rulebook
Destinies System
- Is your destiny card the only secret information in the game?
- Can your character die or be defeated in Destinies?
- Can players attack or interfere with each other's destinies?
- How many destinies are there in a scenario, and how are they shared between characters?
- Should you commit to one destiny or pursue both?
- Can team members read each other's destiny cards in Bound by Fate?
- Can the fourth character from the 2v2 mode be used outside 2v2 mode?
- In the Witch's destiny, must both Ritual items be purified before the Finale?
Components and Setup
- What faces do the effort dice have?
- Can the same miniature be a player character in one scenario and an NPC in another?
- How can you tell which expansion a map tile or item card comes from?
- Which QR code on a character card matches which destiny on the back?
- How many skill tokens does a character start with?
- How are characters chosen for each Destinies scenario?
The App and Saving
The Campaign and Replayability
- Can you replay a scenario you already played, with the same group or with a different character?
- Do the expansions change or add to the base game's scenarios?
- Can you mix expansion content into base game scenarios?
- Do scenario expansions use base game content?
- Do you have to play the core box before the expansions?
- Can players be swapped or the player count changed between base game campaign scenarios?
- Do choices or results in one campaign scenario carry over to later scenarios?
Objective
- Do your successes on rolls benefit your opponents?
- Is there scoring, and can all players lose?
- Is Destinies cooperative or competitive?
- What happens to a character's story when another player fulfils their Destiny and wins?
- Can one player block the others from finishing their destinies?
- Is solo play done with one character?
- What are the two solo modes, and how do they differ?
Game Flow
- Can you use a start-of-turn card effect, such as the Crucifix's, before refreshing your effort die?
- When a test lets you use an item instead of rolling, do you discard the item?
- Can your movement end on a tile diagonal to your starting tile if you reach it with two orthogonal steps?
- Does your movement end when you enter an unexplored tile?
- If a point of interest moves to another tile while your character is on it, do you move with it?
- What information is public in Destinies, and must you read it aloud?
- What are the consequences of failing a skill test in Destinies?
- Can you roll effort dice after seeing the main dice results, or reroll them?
- Can an NPC already recruited by one player be turned back so another player can recruit them?
- Is movement limited to two tiles per turn when playing solo?
- Do walls, rivers, or other artwork on map tiles block movement?
- Can you move during a Finale, and does it take place on the same tile?
- Where do you go to start your Finale after completing a destiny task?
- Can you choose a point-of-interest option again if its follow-up option has new wording?
- Does an option that forces you to leave a point of interest end your turn?
- If a card tells you to exhaust an effort die and you have none, what do you do?
- Can you sell an item to a trader for coins?
- Can you sell any item to a trader, or only the item types the trader wants?
- Do you buy and sell a trader's wares through the app or outside it?
- What are the pair of trade stack tokens used for?
- Does every trade point buy any item that has a coin value, and can you buy it back later?
- How many successes does a test need to pass?
Skills and Experience
- Can experience points add new skill tokens to your player board?
- Can you regain a lost skill by spending experience points?
- If a skill loss would move markers that are already at the end of their track, do you lose anything?
- When the app says your experience grows, which skill marker do you move?
- How far does spending an experience token move your marker?
- If a skill marker is already on 12, which marker must move when you lose a skill point?
- Where does a new skill marker go when you gain one?
- Can a skill marker jump over an adjacent marker when a talent moves it two spaces left?
Items
- When can you pick up an abandoned item from a map tile?
- Can you buy a sixth item and use it straight away when your inventory is already full?
- Can you buy several lockpick tools with a full inventory and use them all in one turn?
- If the app tells you to discard an item, can you still gain its Discard effect?
- When you have six items, can you drop the one you just received instead of one you already had?
- When you gain a sixth item, what can you drop or discard to make room?
- When a full inventory must take an item and discard one, what order applies?
- When is an item with a Discard keyword removed: when you use its ability, or when you scan it for a test?
- Can you pay a coin requirement in a dialog with items?
- In what order can an item's effect be combined with another item's effect on a roll?
- What happens if the app asks you to drop or earn an item you do not have, but another player does?
Item Abilities
- Can you discard an item for its test bonus when the test was triggered by using that same item?
- Does the Hand Mirror double each success symbol on effort dice, or only the gain over the main dice?
- Can the Sheep's skill gain be used repeatedly in Solo Explorer mode?
- Does the crossbow's start-of-turn swap of dexterity for power happen every turn and stay in place?
- Can I use a 'when you roll 5 or less' ability and then boost the total with another ability?
- After you Release the Will o' Wisp, do you keep its card?
- When the Alchemist asks for a Tarot card, is it discarded even if you ask about it instead of giving it?
- Does the Censer's reroll apply to all dice or to a chosen subset?
- Does the Horse card let you move to any explored tile or any unexplored tile?
- If a shield offers a discard in place of a skill loss, and you suffer the double loss effect, how many Dexterity increases do you take?
- How does the Silver Spear item work: do you still roll, and when do you decide to use it?
- How does discarding the Bloody Trophy work with Experience?
- Does the #6 Talisman Charm card require an effort die to be rolled before its reward?
- Does the Silver Dagger give automatic successes?
- What does the Bow's dexterity ability do with skill markers?
- Do effort dice refreshed by a card count toward the limit of refreshed effort dice on your board?