Enchanters Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Box Content
  • Card Anatomy
• Game Setup
• Your Magical Artifact
• Flow of the Game
• Actions in General
• Major Action: Rest
• Major Action: Journey
  • Immediate Effect
• Combat
• End of the Game
• Variant: Fast Invasion
• Variant: Super-Fast Invasion
• Variant: Dragons in the Depths
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Special Card Rules
• Icon Rundown

Box Content

158 cards in total.

150 Kingdom Cards in 6 decks, each one consisting of 25 cards:

• 3 Items and 3 Enchantments (2 of each)
• 6 Minor Monsters, 4 Medium Monsters and 2 Major Monsters
• 1 Dragon

33 Wound markers and 40 Crystal tiles:

• Wound markers: 25 with -1, 8 with -5
• Crystal tiles: 25 worth 1, 8 worth 3 and 7 worth 10

21 Village Tiles.

Card Anatomy

Each Item Card, Enchantment Card, Monster Card, and Dragon Card carries the following elements:

1. Illustration
2. Card type
3. Village Rules
4. Additional Glory Points
5. Attack Points or Negative Attack Points (inactive after being covered)
6. Defense Points or Negative Defense Points (inactive after being covered)
7. Title of card
8. Attack Points or Negative Attack Points (always active)
9. Defense Points or Negative Defense Points (always active)
10. Monster's Health Points
11. Monster's Strength
12. Card's Rules
13. Glory Points
14. Sometimes a monster can modify players' Defense or Attack Points
15. Deck symbol
16. A "2" sign (for two player games)

The back of a card shows its deck symbol.

Every card is split by a horizontal line into an upper part, which becomes inactive once the card is covered by another card, and a lower part, which always stays active even when covered. The same rule applies to Monster and Dragon Cards.

Game Setup

1. Each player takes 5 Crystals. The remaining Crystals and Wound markers should be placed within reach nearby.
2. Each player takes a "Fist" card and places it on his or her Item Cards Pile. Then each player takes a "of Enchanting" card and places it on his or her Enchantment Cards Pile.
3. Each player chooses or randomly takes one Kingdom Deck. The chosen decks are then shuffled together to create the Adventure Deck.
   • In a two player game, each player chooses 2 decks. From the 4 selected decks, take only the cards marked with a "2" on the back, and shuffle them together to form the Adventure Deck.
4. Look at the bottom card of the Adventure Deck. If it is a Monster or a Dragon, put it aside. Otherwise add it on the Journey Track. Keep putting Monsters and Dragons aside and adding Items and Enchantments to the Journey Track until there are 6 cards in the Journey Track. Then put the Monsters and Dragons you put aside back on the bottom of the deck.
5. Randomly choose one of the Village Cards and place it next to the first card of the Journey Track. The rest of the Village Cards are removed from the game and placed back into the box.
6. The player who was most recently underground is the starting player and takes the first turn.

The table is now laid out with the Village Card next to one end of the Journey Track, and the remaining Adventure Deck feeding new cards into the other end of the Journey Track.

Your Magical Artifact

Each player will craft one (and only one) Magical Artifact consisting of Item Cards and Enchantment Cards.

Item and Enchantment Cards a player takes from the Journey Track are placed in front of her in two separate piles, with Item Cards on the left and Enchantment Cards on the right.

The first Item Card and Enchantment Card are the "Fist" and "of Enchanting", each player received during the setup.

Subsequent cards are placed on top of previous ones of the same type so that the lower part (under the horizontal line) of the previous card is always visible.

Defeated Monsters and Dragons are placed on the table in the same exact fashion in a third separate pile to the right of the player's Enchantment Cards.

Flow of the Game

The game is played in turns. Each turn a player takes one Major Action and as many Minor Actions as he or she wishes, but each of them only once (unless they are described as "Multiaction").

Major Actions are:

• Journey - the player takes a card from the Journey Track, paying Crystals when applicable (see Major Action: Journey below for further explanation). This is basically the only way to obtain Item and Enchantment Cards and fight Monsters and Dragons.
• Rest - the player uses one of the available options from the Village Card or one of her own cards most of the time to heal Wounds or collect Crystals. If a player takes the Rest action, the first card in the Journey Track is discarded at the end of his or her turn.

After each Major Action, cards in the Journey Track are slid down to fill any empty spaces. A card is then drawn from the Adventure Deck and added to the last space of the Journey Track.

Some cards have passive effects which trigger upon certain events. For example: "after using," "after taking" or "when your turn begins." These effects are not considered to be an action and are mandatory.

Actions in General

All actions (except for the Journey) in the game can be described in the following manner:

Cost → Effect

Only after the Cost is paid, does the Effect take place. The cost must be fully paid, while the effect has to be implemented as much as possible.

The actions a player may take are the ones described on the Village Card and the topmost cards of the player's own Item, Enchantment, and Monsters/Dragons Card piles.

Each action may only be played only once a turn, unless it's described as "Multiaction". The action's effect stays in play till the end of the player's turn.

Example (Scimitar): "Cost 1 Crystal → Effect +3 Attack" John pays 1 Crystal and receives a +3 bonus to his attack this turn.

Example (Normaltown): "Multiaction: Cost 2 Crystals → Effect +1 Attack" Martha may pay 2, 4, 6 or more Crystals to receive an extra +1, +2, +3 or more Attack Points this turn. Martha pays 6 Crystals to get 3 Attack Points, so that she wins a fight with a Dragon Turtle.

Major Action: Rest

What Rest actions a player may take depends on the Village Card and the topmost card of each pile the player has in front of him or her. Rest actions are always marked by a Rest symbol preceding its cost.

The Rest symbol should be read as: Take your Major Action as described on the card, then at the end of your turn discard the card on the Journey Track nearest to the Village Card and refill as usual.

Rest actions are on every Village Card, but can be also found on some Item or Enchantment Cards. Taking a Rest is a standard way of gaining Crystals and healing Wounds.

Example (Normaltown): "Rest → 3 Crystals" Jack uses his Major Action to rest and get 3 Crystals. Then, because he can't do anything else, he finishes his turn, discards the card nearest to the Village Card, moves the remaining 5 cards on the Journey Track toward the Village Card, draws a new card and places it after the last card on the Journey Track.

Major Action: Journey

Taking a Journey as your Major Action allows you to get a card from the Journey Track. The player must pay a number of Crystals equal to the number of cards between his or her chosen card and the Village Card. Journeys are the only way of getting new cards, whatever type they are: upgrades for the Magical Artifact or Monster trophies.

Example: Ralph wants to get the third card on the Journey Track. To do so, he skips over 2 cards, so he must pay 2 Crystals to the general supply. Beth then decides to take the first card, so she gets it for free, as she didn't pass any other cards.

If a player has chosen an Item or an Enchantment, he or she takes the card and puts it in front of him or her as described in the section "Your Magical Artifact." If the player decides to fight a Monster or a Dragon, he or she must defeat it before taking it. Rules of a fight are described in the section "Combat".

Immediate Effect

Some cards have an Immediate Effect symbol, meaning the described effect must be implemented right after the chosen card is taken. However, the card is not considered to be a part of the player's Magical Artifact until after the effect is completed.

Combat

If, during a Journey, a player chooses to fight a Monster or a Dragon, the Combat will occur in the following order:

1. The Monster attacks the player. The player is given a number of Wound markers equal to the Monster's Strength minus the player's Defense.

   There is no limit to the number of Wounds players may receive, but at the end of the game, each Wound becomes a negative Glory Point.

2. The player attacks the Monster. To succeed the player must have at least as many Attack Points as the Monster has Health Points. If the player meets this condition, he or she may take the Monster and put it on top of his or her Monster Pile.

Sometimes, it may be necessary to buy additional Attack Points in the Village or activate Minor Actions on one's own cards to win a Combat with a Monster.

Example: Susan decides to fight a Manticore (Strength 2, Health 5). She has 3 Attack Points and 1 Defense Point. The Monster attacks first and deals her 1 Wound. Susan decides to use a Multiaction available in the Village of Normaltown twice - she pays 4 Crystals to get a +2 Attack Point. Susan now has a total of 5 Attack Points, which is just as much as the Health of the Manticore. She defeats the Monster and adds it to her Monster Pile.

End of the Game

The game ends when all cards from both the Adventure Deck and the Journey Track have been taken or discarded.

Every player sums all Glory Points from his or her cards: Monsters, Dragons, Items and Enchantments. Each player must then add or subtract Glory Points according to the rules below:

• Minus 1 Glory Point for each Wound.
• Additional Glory Points as described on the Village Card.

Example: Beth has killed 5 Goblins, 3 Gnolls, 2 Ogres and the Bronze Dragon - that gives her 40 Glory Points. Unfortunately, she received 9 Wounds during the game, so after subtracting this number from her score she is left with 31 Glory Points. The game is being played in Dwarfburg, so Beth gets an additional 1 Glory Point for every Defense Point she has. On her cards, she finds 8 Defense Points, so she adds 8 Glory Points and gets a final score of 39 Glory Points.

Variant: Fast Invasion

If you prefer a shorter game, remove 5 cards from the Adventure Deck for every player that wants to participate. Those cards have to be put in the box (outside the game), not on the discarded cards pile.

Variant: Super-Fast Invasion

For an extremely short game, use only cards with "2" on their backs from each Kingdom Deck. Put the rest of the cards in the box (outside the game), not on the discarded cards pile.

Variant: Dragons in the Depths

To make sure that Dragons won't come up too early, before you're ready for them, change the standard setup as described below:

• Remove Dragon Cards from the chosen Kingdom Decks.
• Take half of the Adventure Deck.
• Shuffle the Dragon Cards into it and put it on bottom of the deck.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. When a rule on a card refers to cards (or tokens) without specifying a player, it always refers to cards (or tokens) of the player to whom the card belongs - unless the text on the card specifically states differently.

   Example: Richard has a Necklace on top of his Items Pile, so during his turn he may remove one of his Monster Cards to get 7 Crystals.

2. If the text on a card doesn't refer to a particular card (e.g. Top Item), the owner of the targeted cards may choose which card will be affected.

   Example: John took Bolas from the Journey Track and chose Ann to discard one of her Monsters. Ann has three Monsters: a Gnoll on the bottom of her pile, a Unicorn in the middle and a Manticore on top, so she chooses to discard the Unicorn, as it's worth the least amount of Glory Points.

3. All visible symbols, actions and abilities are always active - this means that the artifacts are getting stronger and stronger throughout the game.

4. All hidden symbols, actions and abilities are inactive - a card loses all its properties once it is covered up - apart from the ones beneath the bottom horizontal line.

5. Never start a fight if you can't get enough Attack Points! If such a situation ever occurs, after resolving the fight, leave the Monster's Card where it was, and discard the first card of the Journey Track, as if a Rest Action was taken.

6. The same Combat rules apply to fights against Dragons, but keep in mind that some effects may only apply to Monsters, not to Dragons, and vice versa.

7. A Broken Sword icon means negative Attack Points, and a Broken Shield icon means negative Defense Points. Players' Attack and Defense Points can never go below zero.

Special Card Rules

Trap: After taking this card from the Journey Track, the player must give this card to another player. The card is placed on top of the receiving player's Item Card pile.

Bolas: After taking this card from the Journey Track, choose a player (yourself included). That player must discard one Monster Card of her choice from her own Monster Card pile. The discarded card doesn't have to be the top card of the pile.

Roc: After defeating this Monster, but before adding it to your Monster Pile, choose a player. That player must give you a Monster of her choice from her own Monster Pile. Put that Monster on top of your Monsters Pile, then put the Roc on top of it.

Manticore: After winning a fight with this Monster, two things happen:

• The player discards one of her own Monsters from her Monster Pile, before adding the Manticore to the pile. If the Manticore is his or her first Monster, she doesn't have to discard anything.
• The player chooses one of the other players; the target player must discard any one of her Monster Cards.

Bronze Dragon: Same as the Manticore rules above. Remember, the Dragon is not a Monster.

Axe: After taking this card, but before adding it to your Items Pile, every other player is dealt 1 Wound for every 2 Attack Points you have. The Axe's 1 Attack Point does not count towards this total as it is not yet considered a part of your Items Pile. Consider raising your Attack Points before taking an Axe.

Chapel of Soulfire: Journey to graveyard means that you can treat a top discarded card as a proper journey destination. If it is an Item or an Enchantment, take it (activate Immediate Effect abilities). If it is a Monster or a Dragon, you must first fight it (the same as if you had taken it from the Journey Track). Note: the card removed from the Journey Track as part of a Rest action is placed on the discard pile after the action is resolved.

of Fire: Upon activation, the player receives an Attack Point for every Defense Point he or she has. His or her Defense Points remain at the same value.

of Rage: Upon activation, the player receives an Attack Point for every two Monsters he has.

Giant: When a player fights this Monster, during the "Monster's Attack" phase of the combat, resolve it for each player, one-by-one. Other players may NOT use any actions or effects during this attack (e.g. activate a Helmet). The number of Wounds dealt may differ between players. The "Player's Attack" phase goes by the standard rules.

Pink Dragon: After winning a fight with this Dragon, count the total number of Wounds you have. Then take the same number of Wound Markers from the general supply and add it to the Wounds you already have.

Ogre: Double damage means that the player receives twice the number of Wounds.

Example: Jack has 3 Defense and decides to take on an Ogre. Normally he would receive 3 Wounds, but since he's fighting an Ogre, he is dealt 6 Wounds instead.

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• Monster Card
• Dragon Card
• Item Card
• Enchantment Card
• Village Card
• Player's Attack
• Player's Defense
• Monster's Strength
• Monster's Health Points
• Wound Marker
• Crystals, the game's currency
• The Cost → Effect action
• Immediate Effect Action
• Glory Points
• Player's Negative Attack
• Player's Negative Defense
• The Rest Action