Vantage FAQ
561 questions players ask · Updated Nov 7, 2026 · Full rulebook
Overview and Goal
Components
Setup
- How many skill tokens does each player start with?
- How is the Skirm spoiler pack randomized?
- Can more than six players play Vantage?
- What is in the Spoiler Pack, and are the standard Skirm cards separate?
- Can I take actions on setup locations 000 or 001?
- How do I set starting time, morale and health?
- Who finds and returns cards from the box?
Gameplay Overview
- If a mission action is limited to once per game, is that per player or total?
- How literally should I follow a quest direction like 'head north'?
- Can players show each other their location cards?
- Can I go back to a Book of Vantages page I already read?
- If I pay boost to view a map, can I keep looking at it?
- When do I roll skill dice, and how do I gain skill tokens?
- If I gain time, morale or health beyond 6, what happens?
- What happens when two players are on the same location?
- Can I exchange items or coins with a teammate?
- Where do challenge dice go when a card says to place them in the center versus refresh them?
- Is there a penalty when dice are refreshed?
- Can I place setback dice on time, morale or health slots to meet a curse's requirement?
- In a door-and-line-segments puzzle, must every door match its number or only the doors on my path?
- Do puzzle tokens come from my earned skill tokens or the supply?
- In solo play, do I still get my own benefit when a result benefits other players?
- Can everyone hear the mysterious Traveler, or only the player at that location?
- Can I take actions on my mission or destiny card before crashing?
Choosing Your Action
- Can I change my mind after hearing an action's cost or description?
- Do I choose a card action before looking up the location action it refers to?
- Can I look at the options before choosing when a result offers several items or places to go?
- How much of an action's text can I read before I commit and roll?
- Can I use an Always Available action more than once in the same turn?
- If time, morale or health drops to 0 during an action, do I still get the action's benefit?
- Can I keep playing when I have no skill tokens or boost cubes left?
- What do the icons and numbers on page 23 of the Book of Vantages mean?
- Can I use the region letters from a Look action to track where I am?
Location Actions and Continue
- How many location actions can I take at one location, and can I take another when I come back later?
- What does 'Always Available' on a location action mean?
- Can I take a location action on a card where another player already took one?
- If a location action says I may continue, can my next action be another location action there?
- If I pass up a continue, can I return to that location later to use it?
- Does continue let me repeat the location action I just took?
- On card 151, does 'you may continue' apply only if my grid has no challenge dice left?
- If a location result says to continue with a move scale action, can I use my scale ability card instead?
- On card 1482, what does Steal cost, and can I continue afterwards?
- What if a quest needs an action I cannot take because I already acted at that location?
Card Actions and Ability Cards
- Which cards can I take card actions on, and do I need to be at a certain location?
- Can I perform the same card action on a grid card or structure more than once?
- Can I take different card actions at a location where I already took a location action?
- Do I have to return to a structure's location to use it again?
- What does an ability card that says 'gain the result of another action' do, and do I pay the location's cost?
- Does gaining a location action's result through an ability count as my one action at that location?
- Does an ability action need the same action word as the location's action?
- Can I use an ability card such as help-CRAFT on its own?
- On a steal ability card, do I roll the card's dice or the storybook's?
- How does the Cleave ability card work, and can others place dice on it?
- Can I choose the Trudge action when the location book does not mention it?
- When can I use a 'Return to your ground location' option after an unexpected landing?
- How does Trailblaze on quest card 1673 work, and which storybook do I use?
- Does a quest card's help-PLACE action use up the location action limit on locations I place things at?
- Does card 1220 let me swap my rolled dice with dice from the penalty area?
- On card 1324, what happens if the challenge dice pool is empty when I need an extra die?
- When a card action crafts an advanced item, what happens to the original?
- How does a Lesson card's Learn action work, and do I need another card?
- Does a card that departs to an 'adjacent location' cover all four directions?
Depart and Moving
- If a location shows a number on the compass, how do I depart there?
- What does an asterisk on a location's compass mean?
- Does a Depart action always cost something?
- After I look up a Depart cost, can I switch to a boost ride instead?
- If a boost moves me to an adjacent land location marked with an asterisk, do I pay the Depart cost?
- When a result says to go to a location, do I roll for a move?
- Can I depart in the same turn after a location action?
- Where does the north Depart from location 213 lead?
Costs, X and Skill Tokens
- Do I need a skill token to move, craft, depart or do any other action?
- If an action says 'pay 1 overpower', must I spend a skill token?
- What does X mean in an action's cost, and when do I choose it?
- When an action says to roll X skill dice, what is X?
- When does a bow's boost power reduce an OVERPOWER action's cost?
- If a card reduces a later location action's cost, is setting that up two actions?
- How do I get skill tokens?
- How do I spend coins?
Challenge Dice and Penalties
- Are challenge dice resolved all at once or one at a time?
- Which challenge dice slots can I fill during a given action such as help-CREATE?
- Can I place dice on an impact slot when it is not my turn?
- What happens when an action needs more dice than the pool holds?
- Is refreshing my dice a reward or a penalty?
- Is there a 'partial refresh' in the base rules?
- Does a die moved to the penalty section count as placed?
- Can a card action's rolled dice be placed on the card that then gets replaced?
Action Results, Cards and Items
Choosing an action
- Is an ability card's action an alternative to another action, or an extra one?
- If I take an action on a quest card, can I still take a location action the same turn?
- Can I take a card action before the location action at a new location?
- What does the colored action icon on a mission or destiny card mean?
- Can I take an action printed on a card in my grid (such as BREW) at any location?
- If an item and the location show the same action, does using the item's action use up the location action?
- Can I take an action from my character card and one from my location in the same turn?
- Can I take a second location action at a location after leaving and coming back?
- Can a card action let me take a second action at a location I already used?
- If another player already visited this location, can I take its location action?
- Can two players at one location each take the same location action?
- When am I committed to an action?
- Can I see an action's cost before choosing it?
Cost, skills and X
- Can you spend skill tokens after rolling the dice for an action?
- Do I pay a skill token when an action shows a skill symbol like HELP-UPGRADE?
- Do I need skill tokens to take an action such as a move?
- If skill tokens reduce the dice I roll for an X-cost action, does X change?
- What values can X take on an X-cost action, and does it apply to every option?
- When a result requires paying a skill like 1 overpower, must it be a token, and can others pay?
- Can another player pay a skill token for my Depart action?
- How does a fish action's cost work, and can skill tokens reduce it?
- When a card action leads to a storybook entry with its own cost, is that cost added to the card's cost?
- If an action's cost is reduced to 0, do I roll dice?
Dice and slots
- Must I place a rolled die on a slot if a valid one is open?
- Can a blank, setback or arrow result be placed on a slot?
- Can I place dice from a Depart action on blue move slots and use move tokens?
- Can dice rolled for an ability card's action be placed on that ability card?
- Can dice from a Help-Repair action go on any Help slot?
Results and continue
- After a continue result, must my next action be a location action?
- If I skip an optional "you may continue", can I use that location action next turn?
- What if a result says continue with a matching action but I can't repeat the same action?
- If I take a last chance after a stat hits zero, do I still complete the action?
- Can I give or trade cards with another player at my location?
- Do upon-arrival effects like cold or heat damage repeat each turn I stay?
- If a result sends me to an interior location, does my turn end?
Moving and departing
- How much does departing to a numbered location cost?
- Can I depart diagonally (e.g., southeast) when the card shows only N/S/E/W?
- Which storybook do I use to leave a location, and what if a direction has neither a number nor an asterisk?
- How do starred (*) moves work in the Depart storybook?
- If a result sends me to a new location, do I pay a move cost or use the Depart book?
- If an ability moves me somewhere without a stated result, what do I read?
- Can I depart in a direction not printed on the card?
Card actions and storybooks
Specific cards
- Does a boat help with a depart action?
- Can cards brought back from reserve be used in the same action?
- Must I build a blueprint at the location where I got it?
- How does card 910 change fishing?
- Can Trailblaze be used to move, and what does it cost?
- If I stop repairing a spaceship and return later, do I restart?
- How far does EVADE move me and does it avoid upon-arrival effects?
- What is card 1473's Hunt cost and terrain?
- Is the boost cost on a vehicle card the cost of its Ride?
- After repairing a sled (Help 492), can I slide the same turn?
- What does "if available" mean on card 1381?
- What happens to the two dice after a continue on the flora consume action?
- On location 383's X Relax, can I continue after refreshing?
- How does the trek ability on card 1505 work?
- Where do I find card 522's ENTER entry, and what counts as "land" for RIDE on card 1111?
- Why can't I return to 116 after a fantastical leap to 553?
- Where is the structure placed when a mission's Research gives one?
Skirm
- Do Skirm cards carry over from one Vantage game to the next?
- After a Skirm duel, do you keep the Skirm card you played or only the one from the spoiler pack?
- In a Skirm duel, do you draw an extra card to decide who goes first?
- In a second Skirm duel, do you gain a temporary card if you already have a Skirm card?
- In Skirm step 3, do skill tokens count, and do you reroll dice whose skill type appears only once?
- In Skirm, do the skill icons printed on a card count toward your dice, and what makes a pair?
- If an effect tells you to play Skirm, can you play several games in a row?
- Can you repeatedly duel a sentient that has a duel action on its card?
- Do you have to open the spoiler pack to play Vantage?
- In solo Skirm, does the opponent still use the ability on its card?
- Do the Blade and Cloak tweaks on the Skirm solo card apply in multiplayer?
- In solo Skirm, whose dice does the opponent's scoring rule apply to?
- Can you play Skirm solo using only the multiplayer rules and skipping step 2?
- In a solo Skirm duel, what does a heart challenge die do to the opponent's skills?
- In Skirm, do the card's action instructions refer to your dice or your opponent's?
- What does the Mantle ability do in a Skirm duel?
- How does the Sand Skirm card score points?
- How are ties for a duelist's best skill type resolved in Skirm?
- How many pairs does the Gold Skirm scoring rule count for four identical dice?
Puzzles and Trials
- Can other players help solve a puzzle or trial on your turn in Vantage?
- Can you attempt the same Vantage puzzle more than once?
- What if a puzzle takes longer than the time you have on your turn in Vantage?
- Do you spend skill tokens to solve a trial puzzle like the negotiation trial?
- Must you use every quadrant of each merchant to solve the negotiation trial at location 341?
- How is the card 184 dice-placement puzzle solved, and can the path take any shape?
- How many skill dice do you roll for LOOK 439 on puzzle 802?
- Does puzzle 802 need every skill type rolled to be solvable?
- Does the tunnel puzzle on card 532 have only one solution?
Cards, Items and Curses
- Is a $5 offer on a card worth real dollars, or 5 coins?
- Can a dollar-valued item in your grid pay a dollar cost, or be exchanged for coins?
- Do the fishing item cards that say 'During FISH roll 1 extra skill die' stack?
- Can I have several spells or lessons in my grid at once?
- Can a character who is immune to cold damage choose to suffer it anyway?
- Can you ever regain Time, and how?
- How do you resolve unplaced setback dice on Stone Curse card 1389?
- Does a curse tied to a composition apply when you act on your character or unrelated cards at that location?
- Does a faction emblem protect you from curses gained later?
- Is the infinite loop between card 1070 (Halcyon Shrub) and card 1439 (Ariel) a bug?
- When a card's action upgrades hiking boots into hovershoes, do the hovershoes replace the boots?
- If a card says you may lose it after a lesson, do you have to keep the lesson card?
Missions, Quests and Actions
- Do you have to complete missions that require hunting or looting?
- When you are told to VIEW something, how long can you look at it?
- How do you get a structure during play?
- Do you roll challenge dice for the Place action on quest card 1669, which lists no dice?
- Which locations count for the quest 1669 flag placement?
- Can you look at the cards offered before choosing which card to gain?
- Can a character gain more than one personal objective?
- Do you have to return a quest item to the quest-giver?
- Do different ways of viewing Book of Vantages pages count toward a mission that asks for two views?
- Does a mission that asks for a number of flora need each player to contribute?
- Does refresh any challenge dice in the center let you choose which dice to refresh?
- Can an objective count if you met its requirement before you received it?
- Must all three Conquer actions for mission 1592 be done in the same city?
- Is a faction emblem for mission 1593 any card with a composition icon?
- What does 'pay one take' mean in the Move action on card 661?
Setup, Play Modes and Rules
- Can Vantage be played entirely without an app or any screen?
- Can you play Vantage remotely over a video call?
- Can you run two separate Vantage games at once with different groups?
- Can a player leave a Vantage game in progress, or join one late?
- Where is the glossary, and when should you use it?
- Can you take notes or photos of information you find in the Book of Secrets?
- Must Book of Secrets entries be kept secret from the other players when you read them?
- How do crewmate-matching actions work when you are playing solo?
- Does the planet wrap around at its edges?
- Which errata packs apply to my copy of Vantage?
Sharing Information and Books
Missions, Quests and Destinies
- What is the goal of Quest 1630 and the Memory Palace?
- Can I complete a quest that belongs to another player?
- Where does a gained quest go, and who can use its dice slots?
- Does an item worth coins count toward Mission 1587's money requirement?
- How is the money total for Mission 1587 counted across players?
- Is a 3-0 split a win for a mission needing 1 plus 1 per player?
- Does hacking a rune on water complete the pivot of Mission 1590?
- How do I make progress on a mission?
- Are actions on a mission card limited to once per game?
- Does a tree count as flora for a quest that asks for flora?
- If a personal objective step was already completed, does it count?
- What happens if I gain a second character card?
- When I complete a quest that delivers an item or helps one side, do I lose the item?
Coins, Items and Cards
- Do I gain coins when I gain a card with a coin symbol?
- Can I pay for an item with cards whose value covers the price, and get change?
- Can I give a card to another player at my location?
- What happens when a result gives me a card I already own?
- If an animal says to lose it on a waterless location, do I lose it from reserve too?
- How many structures can be built on one location card?
- How does a Lesson Magic card's die slot and Learn action work?
- When I upgrade a Lesson Magic card, must I lose the old lesson?
Actions, Dice and Skills
- What counts as interacting with an animal for a Coax ability?
- What counts as interacting with an animal for objectives that say interact?
- What counts as interacting with a sentient for Duel (card 1499), and can others use a sentient in my grid?
- How does Control Time work with challenge dice?
- If a card says pay a move skill token or lose health to gain an ability, do I get it either way?
- Do I gain a skill token when a card has me roll a skill die?
- Who must be in a cave for Control Stone (card 1368)?
- Can another player pay a skill token to help me meet a non-action cost?
- What does Jules's ability to refresh an unplaced challenge die do?
Solo Play and Skirm
- In solo Skirm, where do I return the die rolled for the opponent's action?
- Do crewmate benefits work in solo play?
- How is the opponent's Skirm card chosen?
- In Skirm, do rerolls match skills from my token supply or from the dice?
- What does lose mean on Skirm card 1526?
- How does Blade interact with Cloak's concealed dice in Skirm?
Specific Cards and Puzzles
- Does a random starting item from card 142 have to match my character?
- Can I finish another character's personal objective with an item from card 142?
- What happens on Quest 1634 when I reach the chest's location?
- Does Gold Emblem (item 1242) stop Gold Curse (item 1393)?
- Does the Partial Spaceship (card 1434) protect against hypoxia?
- Can an upgraded animal from card 1131 stay with me on dry land?
- If I retreat from an elemental fight, do I start over when I return?
- When item 1000 lets me view a page from 7 to 30, do I read all of them?
- What does scavenge's nearby X, gain Y on card 1510 mean?
- Does the Ring of Destruction (card 922) let me use more dice than exist?
- Do tokens on card 540's single-space rows block other racers?
- In the 1708 wave puzzle, what order do the heights go in?
- What happens after completing quest 1640 from the Sentient on card 666?
Errata and Printings
Location Cards and Information
- Can players look at each other's location cards during a game?
- Are the location cards shuffled, and how do you find the next location you are sent to?
- Do location numbers show the distance between locations?
- What does 'keep this location for reference' mean on a location card, and when is that kept location discarded?
- Where are interior location cards like 559 in the deck?
- What if two players move onto locations on either side of the same card?
- Are horizontal location cards treated the same as vertical ones?
- What does the 'If this is your first visit here' text on a location card mean?
- How do I find a location's region, and how does a pair-with-underground or sky card work?
- Can you observe the birds-eye view in the Book of Vantages to find your location?
Location Actions and Continuing
- How many location actions can I take at a location, and does it reset if I leave and return?
- Can you repeat a location action at a location another player already used?
- Does gaining a location action's result through a card count as taking a location action?
- After a result says to continue, can I take another action at the same location?
- What does Always Available mean for a location action?
- Can I use a structure's action at a location where I already took the location's action?
- Is the one-action limit per game or per player on location cards and mission cards?
- Can a card with an action on it be used by any player, or only the owner, if the card is in another player's grid?
- If a location's mandatory arrival text makes no thematic sense, do I have to follow it?
Cities
Moving, Departing and Direction
- Can I depart toward an unlisted adjacent location marked with an asterisk?
- Is forward always north on a location card?
- Since you always face north, can you see what is south of your location?
- Does the planet have edges, and is it one landmass?
- Can you teleport to any location, or is the destination random?
- Does a Go To or exit-to result cost a move or roll?
- If a location action sends you across the planet with Go To, can you return to the original location?
- Can you get stuck in a loop of location cards with no unvisited departs?
- What happens if a card's options have no numbers to continue to, and only Dive or Steer are available?
- Can a Depart or Move cost drop by 1 after I clear an obstacle?
- Does a steal-a-boat action let you steer the boat to a new location right away?
- When Beam Ball sends you to an adjacent location with a storybook symbol, do you use the storybook cost and result?
Caves and Underground
Arrival Effects and Damage
- When do arrival penalties apply, and do they repeat each turn I stay?
- Does an item that ignores health loss on arrival also stop heat, cold or hypoxia?
- At location 602 (cold water), can you repeat the cold damage and skill gain to farm skills?
- Does the barrier at location 032 cause hypoxia damage?
- Can a trade action make you lose a curse card?
Runes, Water and Artwork
- Do the action icons on businesses in a city count as runes for other actions?
- Do ability icons, skill icons or interior symbols on location art count as runes?
- On quest 1706, can you place a token for each different rune you see at a location?
- How do you tell whether a location has water or counts as 'on water'?
- Do conditions like Wade (shoreline) or climbing a tree need the word printed on the card?
Structures, Vehicles and Cards
- Where is a structure located and how do I track it?
- Can you fly a ship while you are inside a house, cave, or other enclosed location?
- What happens to your vehicles when you dive underwater?
- Are the four dice rolled for a TRAP action counted as challenge dice?
- What counts as interacting with a creature, and can I use its composition dice slots?
Quests, Trials and Specific Locations
- How do trials work: do I need an invitation to apply?
- Does the Consult objective require the Traveler to be on the location?
- How does quest 1673 work (start card 411 and searching north)?
- Which quest destinations are not what they seem (1665, 1589, 1680, 1684)?
- Is the house free with card 737, and which curse comes from location 397?
- How do 367's Take-Dismantle and digging work?
Errata and Misprints
Dice Slots and Compositions
- What does the coin value printed on a card do?
- Can I cash in a card's coin value whenever I want?
- Can I sell an item that has no coin value?
- Can a structure or building be sold for its $ value?
- When can I place a die on a dice slot that shows a composition icon?
- Can I use a composition dice slot when I Brew, Consume or otherwise act on the flora or item card itself?
- Do composition icons do anything on their own?
- Do the composition icons on a card's dice slots count toward the card's own composition?
- How do I tell what composition a card is?
- What does a water composition icon on a dice slot require, and does fishing need water at the location?
- What does a stone composition icon mean, and when can I place a die on it?
- Does a structure have a composition, and do its actions count as the location's composition?
- Do composition emblems in my grid work on each part of an elemental fight and in other regions?
- Can I use a sentient-dependent card ability at a location I guess has a sentient?
- Do abilities needing something nearby (a tree, snow, a tower) use the card art or the icons?
- What does a skill icon inside a challenge dice slot mean?
- Can a die from any source go on a slot labeled with a specific action?
- If a slot has two restrictions, can I place a die when only one is met?
- Do dice slots in a row work together or in order?
- Does every filled dice slot on a card give a boost?
- What do the Dive, Surface and Swim lines on item cards such as Flippers mean?
- Can I place dice on a card still in my supply or on a quest not yet in my grid?
- Does the energy symbol on a card action restrict where it can be used?
Impact, Boost and Card Abilities
- Can I place my own dice on impact slots, and who can use them?
- What does the impact icon on an ability or spell mean?
- Can another player use my card's action at their own location?
- Where does boost go when I gain it?
- Do I need to use the boost slots printed on a card like the Bone Lyre?
- Are 'when placed' boost transfers from adjacent cards optional?
- Do 'when placed' effects trigger when I gain a card into my grid?
- How much boost does a 'when placed' effect that counts composition icons give?
- Where does an elemental's boost come from when it is placed?
- Where can I use a structure's actions, and can I repeat them?
- Where does boost go when a structure's action produces it?
- After losing a duel with a sentient, can I duel it again using a structure's duel action?
- Is a structure a shelter if its card doesn't say shelter?
- Can I use a building's reserve when I'm away from the building's location?
- On an ability that lists alternatives (Scan, view a location, gain skill and boost), do I get all of them?
- With 1, 2 or 3 boost on a card, do I get every matching effect?
- Can character-card boost be spent for money or a movement token?
- Does a card's 'ignore cold damage' ability cost anything?
- Does an ability that ignores 'Lose heart' also stop cold or heat damage?
- What is a 'before overpower' ability for a mission?
- What is a faction emblem for completing a mission?
Card Grid, Reserve and Card Types
Learn Actions and Lessons
Specific Cards and Errata
- Which dice slot on card 957 (Glider) generates boost, and what about card 962?
- Which fishing cards need an extra die line added by errata?
- Is card 1013's ride a Move action, and does the turtle start with boost?
- Is the Harpoon (card 960) a bow?
- On card 1461, is the action cost 3 or 4?
- On card 1280 School, do I gain every accumulated reward?
- How does Entropic Reed (1074) work?
- How does SWIM on card 1460 work?
- How does a card that sends me to the page 30 recipe work with Consume?
- What are the bones that card 639's Craft action uses?
- What do the dice slots on item 975 accept?
- Can I use the top slot of card 983 for a skill matching a crystal I own?
- How do I gain the health from the frying pan (908)?
- What does Squeeze on card 1507 do?
- How do Hijack boxes on card 1490 work?
- What does spending a boost from card 981 give?
- On a Magic item's gain-boost row, does lose-time cost dice or the time track?
- How does Stone Arrows reduce a bow's cost?
- How do I read the Trial on card 1135 with flowers?
- What can the Embassy (1274) boost be used for?
- What does the Look symbol above a Goal Destiny's boost slots mean?
- Does a Control Flora spell work on a leaf elemental?
- How is the Craft action on climbing gear paid?
Card Grid
- How large can my grid get?
- Can I voluntarily discard a card from my grid to free a space?
- Can I rearrange the cards already in my grid?
- What happens when my grid is full?
- When a card in my grid is replaced, does the new card take the same position?
- Where do challenge dice go when a card with dice on it is replaced, lost, or upgraded?
- Do dice on a removed card go to the penalty area?
- What does 'the center' mean in a card ability like 'transfer 1 placed challenge die to the center'?
- On card 1561, does 'refresh all challenge dice in the center' also refresh dice on cards in players' grids?
- Can I have more than one vehicle in my grid?
- Do my grid cards keep working after I leave the location?
- Can I take the same card action on several turns?
- Do symbols on my starting character card count toward a mission's requirement?
- Do I need to assign dice to a card to get its passive benefit, such as ignoring heat, cold and hypoxia damage?
- If a card gives boost per adjacent card, do the boost spaces on adjacent cards matter?
- Do I have to place a rolled challenge die in an open slot?
- Can I place a die with a minus result on a dice slot?
- When a card transfers a die to another card, do placement rules and rewards apply?
Reserve
- When can I reserve a card?
- How many cards can I reserve at the start of the game?
- Do horizontal cards in my supply (such as structures) increase my reserve capacity?
- Does a structure's extra reserve capacity (such as the Castle's) apply only while I'm at that location?
- If a card that gives reserve capacity leaves my grid, do I keep the capacity?
- What if my grid and reserve are both full when I gain a card?
- What if a card cannot be reserved and my grid is full?
- Do boost tokens stay on a card in my reserve?
- What happens to challenge dice on a card I move to reserve?
- Do I get a card's 'when placed' benefit if I reserve it, or move it from reserve into my grid?
- Does a card in my reserve count as 'having' that card for a challenge?
- What does 'reserve this' mean in a craft action?
- When I gain a card that replaces one in my grid, what happens to the replaced card?
- Can I spend boost to swap a reserved card into my grid mid-action?
- Can I spend boost on a reserved card?
- Can I sell cards from my inventory whenever I need coins?
Supply and Horizontal Cards
- Can I place challenge dice on horizontal cards in my supply or reserve?
- What are the dice slots on a quest card for if I can't place dice while it is in my supply?
- Do horizontal cards count toward my grid or reserve limit?
- Where is a structure when I build it, and can I sell it?
- Can a structure give me a destiny that is already complete?
Gaining and Replacing Cards
- What happens if I gain a card I already have in my grid?
- What if I gain a card another player already has?
- What happens to the wild animal card when it becomes loyal?
- If I already have an animal's loyal form and gain its wild form, what happens?
- If I enlist a sentient already in my grid, do I still get the result?
- Does 'you may lose this card' on a lesson mean a penalty?
- How do I remove a curse from my grid?
- Can a merchant or broker effect that sells a card for coins use a curse?
- If a sentient says it is lost when empty and has one boost left, can I still use it?
Dice Slots and Card Abilities
- Can a composition dice slot be filled when I interact with flora?
- How do dice slots with composition symbols work?
- Can an action name on one card make dice eligible for a matching slot on another card?
- What counts as 'interacting with a sentient' on an ability card?
- How do terrain slots such as Underwater match a location?
- When does a curse affect a creature encounter?
- What is an impact slot?
- Can I learn a spell from a lesson using a learn action from a different sentient?
Specific Card Rulings
- How does LOOP on card 1202 (Sand Mace) work?
- How do I defeat the elemental for quest card 1693?
- How does the animal subtable on card 806 work?
- Can the Ring of Transience (item 991) move another player?
- Can I use a shovel's Tunnel action at any location?
- Does crafting card 912 (large fish trap) give item 923 or 932?
- How does card 994 replace a card with a crafted result?
Boost: where it goes and limits
- Where does gained or paid boost go: my character or the card?
- If a storybook entry says to gain boost, which card gets it?
- Where does boost from a non-character card action go?
- Can I move boost from my character or one card to another card?
- Is there a limit to how many boost cubes a card can hold?
- Can I place a die in a boost-generating slot when the card is at its boost limit?
- When a die placed on another player's card gives boost, who gets it?
- Do I gain boost when I place a die on a slot with no boost output?
- What tokens do cards use when they say to track progress with tokens?
- What happens if all 60 boost cubes are in use?
- Do boost cubes stay on a card when it is replaced, upgraded or exchanged?
- When a card gives boost per adjacent card, which cards count?
- Does 'gain boost on each card in this column' include the card itself?
- Why do some cards have boost slots but no way to get boost?
Boost powers and timing
- When can I use a boost power, and does it use my turn?
- Can I use the same boost power repeatedly in one turn?
- Can a boost power use boost from a different card?
- Can a boost power benefit another player?
- Is a power without a coloured action circle an action that needs a roll?
- Can I use a boost power in the middle of another action, such as a challenge or a location's upon-arrival effect?
- What kind of die does a boost power's 'roll a challenge die' use?
- Can I use a boost to reduce an action's cost after I have started it?
- Can a boost ability that triggers after rolling be used once dice are already placed?
- When a boost ability lists effects separated by 'or', can I do more than one?
- Does a Ride-style boost that moves me to an adjacent location replace a Depart action?
- Can I use a Ride boost to move mid-action?
- Does moving with a Ride boost count as an interaction for cost-reducing spells?
- What if a Ride boost sends me to an invalid starred destination?
Boost rerolls and dice effects
- What does 'place them in the center' mean for challenge dice?
- What if a power destroys so many challenge dice that I can't roll enough for an action?
- How many times can I reroll with boost?
- If a boost reroll gives the same face, do I still place the die and take the penalty?
- Can dice rerolled by a boost ability be placed on cards in my grid?
- How do boost powers that set dice to different faces before rolling work?
- How do 'ignore and refresh dice with a chosen result' effects work?
- On cards that refresh a chosen result, where do the refreshed dice go?
Boost on specific cards
- When does a sentient with no boost left leave my grid?
- Is a card with 'if empty, lose this card' lost before the die placed using its last boost resolves?
- What is the errata for Ira's (and card 1444's) second boost ability?
- How does boost work on fishing items with three boost slots (cards 910-913, 932, 1016, 1015, 1156)?
- Where does the boost from card 1511's rightmost challenge dice slot go?
- Can card 1381 (Control Time) reroll skill dice, and what does 'if available' mean?
- How does the boost power on card 997 work?
- What does 'when full' mean on an Experience card?
- Can I spend 3 boost on card 989 to gain time?
- What does paying 2 boost on card 1494 do?
- What does paying boost on item 1130 do to morale star results?
- How do cards 1320 and 1324 work?
- How does card 1349's boost power work if the blank die lands on 1349?
- Can a 'you may pay a boost' item cost come from another item?
- What are the three benefits of card 1364's boost action?
- What does the boost on card 874 (battery pack) do?
- Does the Glider generate boost when placed?
- What is boost on a flora card like 1050 for?
- Is the Darkstone shard's boost power useful in solo play?
End of Game
- What happens when time, morale, or health drops to 0?
- If a stat hits 0 partway through an action, do I still finish that action?
- Can I use the final chance (rally) more than once per game?
- How does the final chance work after a stat drops to 0?
- If I complete my mission while at 1 health, can I still lose by taking the final chance?
- How do you win Vantage and how does the game end?
- What kind of victory do I get from destiny 1705?
- Do I have to end the game when I complete my mission?
- Does completing a destiny end the game right away?
- Can I have more than one destiny at once?
- If I fail the epic victory, do I keep my mission or destiny victory?
- Can I complete my mission and a destiny on the same turn?
- Does completing a quest end the game?
- Can we end the game when our allotted play time runs out?
- Can we call a game a win for something other than the mission or a destiny, such as meeting up in a two-player game?
- Are missions and destinies shared by the group while quests and objectives are personal?
- Does a mission count as done if I finish only one of a character's personal objectives?
- Where does the token come from when destiny 1705 or another card says to add a token?
- Does reading the Book of Secrets entry for destiny 1705 end the game?
- Do cards gained from the spoiler pack go back to the spoiler pack after the game?
- What carries over when destiny 1608 (let history repeat) restarts the game?
- Does destiny 1599 need everyone on one location, and does it work in a two-player game with one kitten card?
- How do I make progress on destiny 1598?
- Does the Dodecahedron (card 1000) count as a crystal for mission 1594?
- After slaying the elemental for mission 1577, must the game end?
- For a mission asking for 1 plus 1 per player, how many do I need in two-player and solo games?
- Can the game end in the middle of resolving challenge dice?