Little faces.
Clever plays.

Announce targets and choices, check legality, pay costs, and mark the action used before resolving. A trailing “Discard one card” is an activation cost unless “then,” “after,” or an explicit draw–discard sequence puts it later. You need the discard card in hand already. A canceled action keeps its action and cost spent.

“Ally” includes the acting character unless “other” or “another” excludes it. Adjacent means orthogonally adjacent, never the same cell. Abilities have unlimited board range unless they say otherwise. Exact numbered targets must exist and be different; “up to” permits fewer, including zero. Independent clauses may share targets unless forbidden. Choose all recipients and copy sources before resolving; “all/every” snapshots that group. Recheck each part as it resolves and skip parts whose targets are no longer legal.

There is no general response window. Written prevention/replacement triggers resolve before the affected part; other triggers follow it. Simultaneous triggers: active player orders theirs, then the opponent. Before round-1 initiative use A then B; later round starts use the previous round’s first player first; round end uses the current first player.

A passive with no legal recipient creates no pending benefit and stays unused unless it actually resolves. “Uses/resolves Primary or Ultimate” requires resolution, not cancellation. A legal enemy Primary still creates a targeted event if Ward or Ice cancels it; after-target triggers happen after cancellation or resolution if the character remains in play. Declaring an attack counts as attacking even if it misses.

Add modifiers to printed attributes, apply the latest active set-value effect, then clamp the result to 1–12. A set effect records its value when created and overrides additive modifiers while active. Printed values and Total Power do not change. Same-named ability bonuses on one target do not stack: keep the greater magnitude, or the later expiry if equal. Different sources combine within the cap. Two Sunsteel Charms never stack.

Ordinary modifiers, restrictions, immunity, and Conceal end at round end unless stated otherwise. “Next turn” means the affected controller’s next turn through its end; “your next turn” means the acting player’s. Next-attack/Primary modifiers last until consumed or the end of their bearer’s next turn. Protection timers have their own rule below. Delayed effects stay tied to the named recipient instance: the creator leaving does not erase them, but the recipient leaving does.

A check is d6 plus the named current attribute. A permitted reroll replaces only the die, keeps the same attribute snapshot, and is final. A natural 6 means the final die shows 6. A tied attack is a failed Attack check and successful Defense check. Charisma/Luck successes or failures refer to Quests or other explicitly defined checks—do not invent checks.

Optional extra actions cannot use Ultimates, exceed a Primary or Quest limit, or bypass Rest. Maximum one extra action per character and two per team per round. Round-start resets include passive uses, team Ultimate allowance, and extra-action round limits; used once-per-game Ultimates never reset. Setup entries count toward round-1 passive uses. Declare initiative rerolls A first in odd rounds and B first in even rounds.

Ward / Ice

Cancel the next legal enemy Primary targeting the bearer, consuming one applicable protection chosen by the defender. The whole Primary is canceled, even with multiple targets. Other protections remain. Ward uses no item slot, maximum one per bearer; Ice uses a free charm slot. Neither stops attacks or Ultimates.

Protection expiry

Ward, Ice, and Double last until consumed or the end of the next enemy turn that begins after they are gained. A protection gained during an enemy turn can trigger now, but otherwise expires at the end of the following enemy turn. Leaving play removes it. Reapplying Ward refreshes its timer. Another Ice or Double needs another free charm slot and does not refresh an old token.

Double

A charm granting +1 Defense against the bearer’s next attack. Spend it after that attack, even if it misses. Consume at most one Double per attack; others keep their timers. Its conditional Defense bonus is not copyable outside that attack.

Conceal

An enemy cannot choose the bearer as the sole target of a Primary. Attacks and Primaries with multiple actual targets remain legal. It ends when the bearer attacks or uses an ability targeting an enemy, or at ordinary expiry. Losing it by action or expiry counts as losing Conceal; voluntarily discarding it is not an operation.

Rest

Skip the next normal action, then remove Rest. It does not stack; movement and passives remain available. Rest carried into the turn or applied before acting is consumed when the action is skipped, or at turn end if unused. Rest applied after committing an action carries to the next turn. Extra actions cannot consume or bypass it. Cleansing Rest is not “consuming Rest.”

Fear / Confusion / Gloom

Fear prevents attacks against enemies with higher current Attack. Confusion prevents extra actions and ability copying, but not copying an attribute bonus under the rule below. Gloom blocks new positive Charisma modifiers, leaving existing ones. Follow the card’s written order for cleansing and new bonuses.

Cleanse & immunity

Remove one existing negative status, restriction, or negative attribute effect; a named cleanse removes only that named status. It counts only if something is actually removed. A cleanse in an ability cannot remove Rest that same ability just imposed. Immunity prevents future applications unless it also explicitly removes an existing effect.

Shared Dreamscape

Blocks the enemy’s next attempted Primary before the end of that enemy’s next turn. The attempted Primary consumes its action and Primary allowance, removes the restriction, and has no effect. It may instead Attack, Quest, or use an eligible Ultimate, leaving the restriction until expiry.

Each character has 2 charm slots and 2 attached-device slots. Physical cards and generated tokens share those caps. Creation needs room; if full, that creation fails while other legal clauses still resolve. Creating a token does not count as playing a physical item. Unless specified otherwise, generated items expire at the end of their creator’s next turn; the bearer leaving removes them.

Each physical item costs 1 Energy to play and stays until spent or its bearer leaves. Devices do not activate on play. Each physical device copy has at most one ordinary activation per turn, even after recovery and replay. An Ultimate granting free activations gives one bonus activation per selected physical copy beyond that limit; it does not refresh the ordinary activation. Resolve them one at a time. A physical device’s first target is its bearer.

Forge is a generated charm granting the stated +1 Attack or Defense, chosen at creation. Delight grants +1 Luck. Same-named generated bonuses on one target do not stack. Both use ordinary generated-item expiry.

Bloom is a generated attached device: at the start of its creator’s next turn, heal its bearer for 1 Vitality, then spend it. “Resolve and spend Bloom” heals now then removes it. Spending or removing Bloom as a cost, by expiry, or by defeat never heals. A Bloom resolving on an unwounded bearer heals zero; a specifically worded Bloom-resolution trigger can still apply. An Ultimate accelerates it only once because it disappears.

During your main phase you may voluntarily spend a physical item you control without an action or Energy. Tokens can be spent only by their own rule or a card effect. Explicit spending and normal consumption count as “spent”; expiry or the bearer leaving do not. “Loses a charm” includes spending, expiry, and removal, but the former bearer must stay in play to receive a benefit.

Spent physical items go face up to their owner’s spent pile. Tokens disappear and never enter hand, deck, or spent pile. Recovery can take only the named type and rarity, and never resets use history. Its required spent target must exist before costs are paid. Ordinary “heals/healed/recovers Vitality” triggers need actual wound removal; healing zero does not trigger them. A multi-target heal is an event for each recipient, subject to passive limits. Accelerating Bloom now is not delayed healing.

In the base guild-copy rules, copying creates +1 to a named attribute; it never copies an ability, status, token, or use limit. Snapshot positive non-Ultimate additive bonuses and active item bonuses before resolution. Ignore printed values, set effects, negative effects, inactive conditional bonuses, and Ultimate-origin bonuses. The source must actually increase that attribute after set effects and caps. The copied +1 comes from the copying Ultimate, expires at round end, and cannot then be copied as non-Ultimate.

For each selected guild, choose an eligible bonus on an ally of that guild, then assign +1 to that attribute to one recipient. Each source guild and each recipient are used once. “Different ally” in this guild-copy wording means a different recipient from the other grants, not necessarily different from its source. Skip guilds with no eligible bonus. “Copy one ally’s modifier” chooses one attribute/source once and repeats that +1 across the stated recipients. Gloom can block copied Charisma.

A move “toward your home row” must reduce absolute row distance, follow a legal path, and include no step away; lateral steps alone do not qualify. Resolve multi-ally moves sequentially unless explicitly swapping. “Already moved this turn” includes successful ordinary moves, granted moves, and swaps. “At least 2 cells in one move” requires two traversed orthogonal steps; a swap never qualifies. “Ends a move” means the final position.

Track played, moved, failed/successful checks, and first physical device/item events by controller and stated time window. “Already/this turn” may inspect earlier events even if the observer arrived later. “When/after” passives must be in play for the trigger event. “Second different allied character” tracks identities, not two wins by one character.

At 6 wounds, defeat the character and award its opponent 2 Renown regardless of cause. Put the character and physical attachments in their owners’ spent piles. Attached tokens and pending effects on that character disappear. A returned character has 6 Vitality and a new entry round, but its identity’s already-used Ultimate stays used.

Check for victory after the operation, its triggers, and its defeats finish. When recording round-10 tiebreaks, use remaining allied Vitality after the end-of-round effects resolve.