What you’ll need:

• One deck of 52 playing cards
• Paper and pen for tracking health
• Multi-piece dice set D4, D6, D8, D10, D12 & D20 (4-20 sided dice)
  • Alternate dice option: Several ⚅ D6 (six sided) dice

Game Features:

Cards: Cards will be used in two ways. Face cards represent opposition to your win condition and numbered cards will be used by players to achieve the win condition.

• Boss Deck: Kings, Queens and Jacks of all suits make up the Boss Deck. These bosses will hurt you, so defeat them quickly if you can. Think of the deck like a series of areas of a castle; you’ll be fighting room by room until you have defeated them all.
• Damage Deck: The numbered cards make up the Damage Decks. From these decks, cards will be drawn to fill your hand, then played against bosses. Think of each card like an attack, spell or maneuver that you know. In your hand are the moves you are prepared to do, these actions are at the forefront of your mind. And the deck is the physical/magical energy of your hero.

Dice: Dice will be used to incorporate randomness to each game so it will be near impossible for any two games to be the same.

• Each player experience will be unique. Dice determine a Hero’s Health and Speed traits.
• Each boss interaction will be unique. Dice determine a Boss’s Target and Damage.
• On special occasions, when two heroes Attack Together, it is referred to as a Well Executed Attack and results in extra damage.
• If the boss’s attacks overwhelm the heroes and knock them out, dice will determine whether they recover and continue fighting, or remain disabled by their wounds.

Traits: Health - Speed - Damage

• Health: ****A Hero’s Health is determined at the beginning of the game using dice. Keep track of your health during gameplay. It will mostly go down, but it can occasionally go up.
• Speed: Each time a boss is revealed, players will roll dice to determine their Hero’s Speed for the round. This directly relates to turn order in the round, highest speed acts first.
• Damage: Players hold Damage Cards and play them against the bosses. Damage cards cannot be recovered in a game once they are played.

Setup