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1
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How do you win the game?

A

Get 15 power

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What is a faction card?

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The card that shows what house you are playing

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What two decks do you control?

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A plot deck and a draw deck

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What does a draw deck consist of?

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Characters, events, locations and attachments

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What is the plot deck used for?

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To develop a long term strategy

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How many cards does each player draw at the start of a new game?

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Seven cards from their draw deck

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How many setup cards are you allowed to play at the start?

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As many as you want but only worth 8 gold (and they have to come from the seven cards drawn at the beginning)

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Where can you find a card’s cost?

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In the upper left corner

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9
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After playing the cards, in what order do they get turned over?

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All at the same time.

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After turning over the cards, what do you do with your hand.

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You draw up to seven cards again from your draw deck

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What does each round start with?

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The plot phase

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How many values does a plot card have?

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Four

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What is the gold value of the plot card for?

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To show how much gold you get from the treasury at the start of the marshal phase

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What is the initiative value of the plot card for?

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To determine which player wins initiative

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What does the claim value of the plot card determine?

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How effective your challenges are (i.e. how many cards/gold has to be discarded/killed)

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What does the reserve value of the plot card determine?

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How many cards you are allowed to have left over in your hand at the end of the round.

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17
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What is the order of the phases in each round?

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Plot, draw, marshal, challenge, dominance, standing, taxation (Papa does make Charlie do some tasks)

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18
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What happens at the start of the plot phase?

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Players look at all cards in their plot deck and choose one card to be revealed

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In what order are the plot cards revealed?

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Simultaneously

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20
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How long does a plot card remain in effect?

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During the remainder of the round

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21
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What is a faction?

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The house that you play for

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22
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What does the initiative value sign look like

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Like a copper diamond

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23
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What do you gain from winning the initiative?

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You choose who will be the first player for the round

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How do you show who is the first player?

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They have the first player token

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What phase comes after the plot phase?
The draw phase
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What happens at the start of the draw phase?
Players draw two cards from the top of their draw deck
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What phase comes after the draw phase?
The marshalling phase
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What happens during the marshalling phase?
Each player has the opportunity to collect income and they may marshal character, location or attachment cards into play from their hand
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When and how do you collect income?
At the start of the marshalling phase, by getting the gold value from your plot card from the treasury plus any value of any other cards that grant gold
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What do you have to do to marshal a card?
Play gold equal to the cost of the card.
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What is kneeling a card
Rotating a card 90* to show that it has been used
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What does it mean to marshal a card?
To put it into play.
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What does an attachment card get played to?
It has to be attached to a character
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What phase happens after the marshalling phase?
The challenges phase
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What three types of challenges may a player initiate?
Military challenge, intrigue challenge and power challenge
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How many challenges is each player allowed to initiate during each turn?
Up to one challenge of each type.
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What is the goal of a military challenge?
To eliminate your opponent's characters
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What is the goal of an intrigue challenge?
To discount cards from your opponent's hand
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What is the goal of a power challenge?
To move power from your opponent's faction card to your faction card.
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How can cards be discounted from an opponents hand in an intrigue challenge?
By kneeling cards or removing them from their hand.
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What conditions much be met for a character to take part in a challenge?
It must be standing and it must have challenge icon that corresponds to the type of challenge being initiated.
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How do you indicate that a character is taking place in the challenge?
You kneel it
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What happens if the defence wins?
No challenge claim effect occurs
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Do you always have to declare a defender?
No you can also not defend, then you have a strength of zero
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What happens if an attack is undefended?
The attack is considered unopposed and this awards the attacker one power.
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What happens if you lose a military challenge?
You have to kill a number of card with equal to the attacker's plot card's claim value
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What happens with cards that have been killed?
They go face up in the dead pile
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What is the consequence of a unique character ending up in the dead pile?
You are not allowed to play further copies of that character
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What does the 'renown' keyword on a character mean?
That the character can gain one power for each challenge that he wins in which he is participating
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Why is it bad to have all of your characters kneeled by attacking if you are the first player?
Then you won't have any left over for defending
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What is a 'nobility'
Something on a character's card that alters something else in the game
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What happens if you lose an intrigue challenge
You have to randomly discard a number of cards from your hand equal to the claim value
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When can an event card be played?
Throughout the round
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What does 'STR' stand for on a card?
Strength
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What happens with an event card after you have played it?
It goes into your discard pile.
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What happens if you lose a power challenge?
One of your powers gets taken by the attacker
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What happens after the challenges phase?
The dominance phase
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What happens in the dominance phase?
Each player counts up the strength value of each remaining standing card, and adds extra per gold in their gold pool
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What happens if you win dominance?
You win one power for your faction
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What happens after the dominance phase?
The standing phase
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What happens during the standing phase?
Each kneeled card stands simultaneously
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What happens after the standing phase?
The taxation phase
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What happens during the taxation phase?
Each player gives all their unspent gold back to the treasury and checks their hand against the reserve value
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What happens if you hand is larger than your reserve value?
You must discard cards until your hand size is equal to the reserve value
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What happens after the taxation phase?
The current game round ends, and a new round begins
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How often can you play a plot card?
Only once
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What's a mulligan?
The opportunity to draw a new deck at the beginning of the game if the first one wasn't good.
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What restrictions apply when playing setup cards?
- not worth more than 8 gold - not more than one card with 'limited' keyword - events may not be played - no loose attachments
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What happens if you run out of cards?
You loose instantly
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How many of each unique card can you have in play at any one time?
Only one
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When are event cards played?
This is specified on the event card
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What happens in the case of a strength tie?
The attacking player wins
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What does ambush mean on a card?
That you can put it into play during the challenges phase by paying a certain amount of gold
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What does insight on a card mean?
After you win a challenge with this card, you may draw one card from the deck.
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What does intimidate on a card mean?
If you win an attacking challenge with this card, you may kneel one your opponent's card that is equal or less than the strength by which you won the challenge.
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What does limited on a card mean?
That a player may not marshal or play more than one limited card during each round. And they may also not put more than one of these during the setup phase.
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What does pillage on a card mean?
If you win with a card that has pillage you may discard one card off the top of your opponents deck
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What does stealth on a card mean?
If you attack with a character with stealth, then you may choose one of your opponents characters without stealth that is not allowed to defend.
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What does terminal on an attachment card mean?
If an attachment with terminal leaves play, it is discarded and does not go back to a players hand.

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