Roam
33 questions players ask about Roam. Pick one for the answer. See also the full rulebook.
Updated 2026-11-03.
Placing Markers and Coins
- Can a character's pattern cover squares that already have markers, yours or an opponent's?
- Can you play a character if every square of its pattern is already occupied?
- What can I still do on my turn if I run out of markers?
- Are the dotted blank squares on a character card mandatory?
- Can coins gained earlier this turn pay for a blank?
- Can a blank placed on a coin square be paid for with the coins that same square gives?
- Can coins from one optional square pay for another optional square on the same card?
- Can I hide my coins from other players?
- When one pattern completes two land cards, who chooses which resolves first?
Claiming Cards and Bidding
Refreshing Your Characters
Game End
- If I complete two character cards at once while holding nine, do I keep both?
- Does the Outpost card count toward the ten-card game end?
- Is the game end at ten cards the same for every player count?
- Can I keep claiming cards after someone reaches ten?
- If I claim my tenth card, can I still buy an artifact that turn?
Artifacts
- Can I use an artifact the turn I buy it?
- At the end of my turn, do I resolve completed cards before buying an artifact?
- Can artifact abilities such as the 90-degree rotation be used on Gem Map squares?
- Does the replace-a-marker artifact replace only one marker per use?
- Can the free-blank artifact put a marker anywhere on the map?
- Do face-down artifacts flip face up when I take an early rest?
- Can I use an artifact to flip my last character face down and refresh everything?
- Can an artifact that exhausts a character be reused immediately after the refresh?
- If an artifact moves a marker off a coin square, can a new marker there collect the coins?
Stacking Variant
- In the Stacking variant, do I collect coins when placing a second marker on a coin square?
- In the Stacking variant, when an artifact moves a stacked marker, can it be the bottom one?
- In the Stacking variant, must every square hold two markers to complete a card?
- In the Stacking variant, can I stack on opponents' markers, and do all markers count?