Beastfolk

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Complexity: ★★

Faction Rules

Tribute to Geltakaenogh

Pieces on this team have unique [Tribute] conditions. When those listed conditions are met, roll their dice and sum the results (this roll is affected by any Dis/Advantage). You may choose an effect from the table that is equal to or lesser than the roll total.

Dice Total Effect
1 or greater You may place this piece into an unoccupied adjacent square.
4 or greater Remove all Curse or Disadvantage token from this piece or an adjacent ally.
7 or greater Place an adjacent enemy into a square which is unoccupied and adjacent to this piece.
10 or greater Bless this piece and all adjacent allies, then Curse all adjacent enemies.

Chaotic and Relentless

At the start of a non-King Beastfolk piece's Reactivation, if you would give them a Disadvantage token for Reactivating, instead give an enemy piece of your choice an Advantage token, then roll the Reactivating piece’s dice for a Tribute.

Upgrade

Conquest Trophies (Costs X points)

For every point paid for this upgrade, give a different piece of yours an Advantage token before the game starts.[1]

Piece Options

Name (ranked from

highest to lowest) and quantity allowance

Piece Type Additional Special Rules Common Special Rules
Avatar of Geltakaenogh's Craft and Judgement

(0-1)

King Multitudes of Gifts: When a piece of yours would roll their dice for a Tribute, they may instead roll 1 of those dice up to two times, receiving a bonus for each roll. [2]

Clean Slate (Major Arcana): At the start of this King’s Activation you may Divinate (The World, Death, Judgement). While any of those cards are active, this King cannot roll his dice at Disadvantage and cannot be slain.

Faction Leader
Chosen of Geltakaenogh

(0-1)

Queen Juggernaut: This Queen starts the game Blessed. If they would be slain while they are Blessed and have 3 or more Advantage tokens, instead remove 3 Advantage tokens then place them into an unoccupied adjacent square (they’re not slain).

Lead by Example: After this Queen slays a piece, its lowest ranked ally on the board with a [Tribute] rule may roll for and resolve a Tribute.[3]

Desolator of Faiths

(0-2)

Bishop Doubtcraft [Tribute] When this Bishop slays an enemy Bishop, a piece with a faith mechanic rule, or a Joker, roll for and resolve its Tribute. When a piece on your team would roll two dice[4] for a Tribute, you must choose one of the following effects to occur as well:
  • All tarot cards dealt out are discarded.
  • Discard the top 10 cards of the Minor Arcana deck.
  • Remove a die from your opponent’s Bone Reading pool, or add a die of a type that's already there.
Natural Order Invoker

(0-1)

Joker All things wither: At the start of this Joker’s Activation, you may turn a Joker card face down. If you do, remove 1 Blessing, Curse, Advantage, and Disadvantage token from pieces on the board.[5]

Death's Herald (Major Arcana): When any other piece is slain, you may Divinate (Death) between Activations. After this Joker is slain, between Activations search for the Death card and make it active.[6]

Fool's Endeavour
Bisonguard

(0-2)

Rook Steppe Sentinel [Tribute]:  While an ally is adjacent to this Rook, both Defend at Advantage so long as this Rook isn’t adjacent to a Tree. After this Rook Castles, it or the ally it Castled with roll for and resolve a Tribute. Castle
Chimaera

(0-2)

Knight Lethal Grace [Tribute]: After this Knight slays an enemy with an Attack, roll for and resolve a Tribute, then you may have it immediately Attack again or Move. Mounted Advantage
Armour Hunter

(0-8)

Pawn Iron Trophies [Tribute]: This Pawn Attacks and Defends at Advantage vs enemy positionals, and get +X to their Attack and Defence totals, where X is the number of Advantage tokens on them. When this Pawn slays a positional, roll for and resolve a Tribute, then give it an Advantage token. En Passant;

Promotion

FAQ & Elaborations

  1. When applying the tokens granted by this upgrade, you cannot choose the same piece to receive Advantage tokens more than once. As these tokens are given out when the game starts (before the first Activation) they cannot cause Blessings on allies to produce Advantage tokens.
  2. As rolls done this way are single-die rolls, they can never be at Advantage or Disadvantage. Should a Beastfolk piece with a Dis/Advantage token roll their Tribute as one die being rolled up to two times, the token cannot be spent and applied to the roll, and thus would remain on the piece.
  3. Although this Tribute roll is happening for another piece, resolve it during this Queen’s Re/Activation. If you have multiple pieces with the same rank, choose one to be the target of this.
  4. You need to roll both dice for the Tribute for this bonus effect to happen. Two single-die rolls (like those granted by the King’s Multitudes of Gifts rule) will not gain any of these bonus effects.
  5. You must remove 1 of each token type from pieces on the board if possible, even if it means removing a beneficial token from one of your own pieces.
  6. Should the Death card already be active when this is triggered, you can make it active again.