Monolith Arena: Academics
Monolith Arena: Academics Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
New Rules: Healing Touch
(New board tile symbol)
Healing Touch is the power to heal your own tile which is adjacent to the edge containing the symbol.
During a Battle, in the Initiative Phase of the tile with Healing Touch Feature, each symbol removes a single Wound from a tile.
If a tile has more than one of these healing symbols on different edges, the healing is performed simultaneously during the appropriate Phase of Battle.
The number of Healing Touch symbols on the same edge (1, 2, or 3) determines Healing Touch power in the given direction (the number of Wounds removed).
Healing Touch may only remove Wounds that have been inflicted previously. Healing Touch cannot heal Wounds received in the same Initiative Phase, in which this Feature was activated.
Healing works on a friendly Banner, in which case it adds 1 Hit Point, but cannot exceed the maximum value of 20.
During team play, Healing Touch can heal Allied tiles.
Example: In the Initiative Phase 1, the Sage Champion heals the Mana charged Rune of Reinforcement which had been attacked by the Lords of the Abyss Mygalomorph, and removes the previously placed Wound.
New Rules: Mana Charge
Mana charge is a new mechanic introduced in this expansion that allows you to upgrade your own Champions and Runes.
Each Academics Board tile can be upgraded. Attacks, Features, Initiatives, and connections in blue color should be ignored by players as if they weren't there until you place a Mana marker on the tile to activate all those blue elements. Each Academics Order allows you to place a Mana marker on your Board tile.
Once a tile is Mana charged it stays charged until that tile is removed from the board.
Each tile can only hold 1 Mana marker.
If an Order tile has been played and there are no tiles available to place a Mana marker, that effect is ignored.
(Sheet diagram, labelled "Active only with Mana marker" and "Always active", with arrows pointing at the elements of an example tile. The row of five faction symbols above it is the sheet's artwork and carries no separate rule.)