The King Is Dead: Second Edition FAQ
53 questions players ask · Updated Nov 11, 2026 · Full rulebook
Setup and Four-Player Games
Turns and Passing
- Must the passes that trigger a power struggle come one after another, with no action in between?
- Can you play more than one action card on your turn?
- After you pass, can you still play a card before the next power struggle?
- After a power struggle, does a single pass by the next player start another power struggle?
- After a power struggle, who takes the next turn?
- Do you have to play all your action cards before the game ends?
Power Struggles and Control
- In a power struggle, does 'the most followers' mean an absolute majority?
- What happens in a power struggle when the contested region has no followers?
- Does a region with only one follower left go to that follower's faction in a power struggle?
- When a region is decided, do its followers go back to the supply?
- What does it mean for a faction to control a region?
- Do regions that share only a short border count as neighbours?
- Must your action affect the region currently being resolved?
Summoning and Partial Actions
- Can you play an action card whose effect is impossible, just to summon a follower?
- Can you summon a follower from a controlled or unstable region?
- Can you summon a follower from the region your action just affected, or one you just placed?
- Can you summon a follower after you have passed?
- What happens if you play a card that summons a follower when no followers are left on the map?
- Are the followers you summon to court kept hidden from other players?
- If a card can be fully resolved in one region but only partly in another, which region must you choose?
- What happens when the supply runs out of followers during a card that places them?
Game End
- In a coronation, who wins when players are still tied after the follower tiebreaks?
- In an invasion, who wins if the tied players still have the same complete sets?
- How is faction rank decided when two factions control the same number of regions?
- In a coronation, in what order are the tiebreaks applied?
- What happens if the last follower on the board is taken from the final region on the last turn?
- What happens if every player has played all their action cards before every power struggle is resolved?
The Action Cards
- When can Outmanoeuvre fall back to swapping a single follower instead of a full swap?
- Can you play Scottish Support when Moray has a control or instability disc and no Scottish region exists?
- Can Scottish Support place followers into Moray itself?
- For Scottish Support, does an uncontrolled Moray count as Scottish-controlled?
- If an English Support has no legal place for its followers, can you still play the card?
- Can an English Support place followers in any region bordering Essex when Essex has no disc?
- If I passed, can I still act after an opponent plays Negotiate?
- What does a negotiation disc do once the region it marks has been resolved?
- Can Negotiate swap the region that is currently being resolved?
- Must the two followers from a Support card go into the same region?
- Can the three followers from an Assemble card go into different regions, and must all three be placed?
- Can you undo another player's Manoeuvre or Outmanoeuvre?
- Can a 2-for-1 swap partly reverse an earlier 1-for-1 swap?
- Does a region bordering a faction's controlled region include the home region itself?
Cunning Actions
- When Ambush has no legal option in some regions, can you pick a region where its effect does nothing?
- Can you use Spy to copy another player's Negotiate and place a negotiation disc?
- Can you play the Plot card as an action during the game to take a follower?
- Does revealing Plot at the end count as playing your last action card for the tiebreak?
- When does Plot's tiebreak apply in a coronation tie?
- If Plot's tiebreak applies and several players are still tied, does the Plot holder win?
- Does Plot's extra follower or tiebreak apply when the game ends in an invasion?
- How does the Suppress cunning action resolve?