Rune Raiders

Rules

Your viking warband has landed on the british Isles. Your goal? to plunder through the land all the way down to Winchester.

Setup.

Place the map in the center of the table, and place a location token face down at each empty location space.

Fill HP tokens on the HP pool token 4 for each player

Take the 3 challenge bags and place them to the side place also the mushroom and rune bag on their respective holders.

Place the Dice counters somewhere everyone can reach.

How to play

To win the game the warband must survive all encounters.from Lindisfarne to Winchester. At the start of each round the group decides on what location to move to next. 

When location is chosen pick up effect along the way, if possible it affects all players. Then flip the token at the location and find the corresponding challenges.

Challenges come in 3 colors RED, YELLOW and GREEN. Red has 1 number, yellow 2 and green 3. 

The location will only have red and/or yellow if more players than challenges add green.

Planning

Each player decides on what dice group they will be using for the upcoming battle.

Mushroom and rune phase.

To prepare for battle the vikings will commune with the Gods through magic mushrooms. Each player picks a mushroom and a rune from their respective bags.

Mushrooms usually makes it difficult to play the game efficiently and runes make the game easier. Their effects may never be told and must be kept secret as far as it is possible.

If mushroom or rune effects or misplayed or revealed lose 1 HP

Battle. 

The first player to roll the dice has to turn the timer at the same time. Now players may decide on what dice to use and what challenge to fulfill with those dice. When a dice group is placed before a challenge it is locked in. when the timer runs out no more groups may be locked in

Resolving battle

Each challenges is considered with what dice group is placed opposed it. If the numbers match no HP is lost if off by 1, 1 HP lost 2 = 2 and 3+=3 HP. all lost HP is taken from the HP pool if the pool ever is empty the game is over. After battle a new location can be picked.

Game end

The game ends either when Winchester has been defeated or the HP pool is empty.