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Latest revision as of 14:26, 10 July 2025
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Faction Rule
Profane Beings
If a piece on this team would be Cursed by a tarot card, instead give them 1 Advantage token. If a piece on this team would be Blessed by a tarot card, instead give them 1 Disadvantage token.
Upgrades
Bump in the Night (Costs 2 points)
At the start of each turn, you may remove up to 3 Curses from enemy pieces. If you do, choose a piece of yours on the board that has the same point cost as the amount of Curses removed, then place that piece onto an unoccupied black square on the board.
Recurring Nightmare (Costs 1 point)
At the start of each turn, you may remove up to 4 Curses from ally and/or enemy pieces. If you do, choose a slain piece of yours whose point cost is 1 fewer than the amount of Curses removed. Redeploy that piece.
Piece Options
| Name (ranked highest to lowest) and quantity allowance | Piece Type | Additional Special Rules | Common
Special Rules |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lich Duke
(0-1) |
King | Death Magic (Major Arcana): When this King slays a piece with an Attack, choose one:
Acolyte of Darkness: This King cannot be Blessed. If this King would be Slain while The Devil is the active card, instead Bump him (his slaying is prevented). While The Sun is the active card, this King rolls his dice at Disadvantage and cannot gain Advantage tokens. |
Faction Leader |
| Reanimated Flesh Hulk
(0-1) |
Queen | It's Alive!: When a piece Divinates, Reactivates, or is Summoned, immediately give this Queen 2 Advantage tokens[2]. This Queen gets +X to its Defence totals where X is the number of tokens it has on itself.
Withdrawn: At the start of any piece's Activation, if this Queen is adjacent to 3 or more pieces, immediately remove it from the board (it loses any tokens it has). If this Queen has been removed from the board this way, redeploy it at the start of the next turn. |
Legendary |
| Ghoul Shaman
(0-1) |
Bishop | Carcass Collection (Bone Reading): Whenever this Bishop or an ally slays an enemy, add a die of that enemy piece’s type to your bone pool. After this Bishop Moves, you may roll the bones. For each die that rolled its highest possible result or rolled a 1, Curse an enemy. | |
| Bayou Ogre
(0-2) |
Rook | Outta my swamp!: Curse an enemy when they:
When an enemy ends their Re/Activation in your deployment zone, you may redeploy this Rook between Activations. |
Castle |
| Dúlachán
(0-2) |
Knight | Beckon Death: At the start of this Knight’s first Activation of the game, and at the start of each of its Reactivations, Curse a non-King piece.
Spine Whip: This Knight gets +X to its Attack totals where X is the number of slain enemies. |
Mounted Advantage |
| Grummswol
(0-1) |
Joker | Long for this world: When Grummswol is slain, remove all Curses from pieces on the board. If Grummswol would be slain while a Joker card is face up, instead turn the card face down and Bump Grummswol (their slaying is prevented).
Pandemonium: While all Joker cards are face down, if your opponent relocates[3] one of your pieces - excluding relocations caused by this rule - between Activations you may Bump one of their pieces, and vice versa.[5] |
Fool's Endeavour;
Legendary |
| Vexing Imp
(0-8) |
Pawn | Foul Omens: When an enemy slays this Pawn, Curse them. When an ally positional is slain by an enemy, you may slay a Pawn with this rule - if you do, Curse that enemy. | En Passant;
Promotion |
Suggested list for new players
Composition
- Recurring Nightmare
- 1x Reanimated Flesh Hulk
- 1x Ghoul Shaman
- 1x Bayou Ogre
- 2x Dúlachán
- 2x Vexing Imp
Strategy
- Use your Dúlacháns and Ghoul Shaman to produce many Curses early.
- Note that Dúlacháns can place their Curses on any piece, not just enemies - if your opponent has easy ways of cleansing Curses from their own pieces, it might be helpful in the long run to Curse a piece of your own so you can spend it later via Recurring Nightmare.
- Keep your Reanimated Flesh Hulk away from clusters of pieces, and use them to attack lone enemies.
Footnotes
- ↑ This does not count as an Attack.
- ↑ This happens immediately: as soon as a piece starts to Divinate, at the start of a piece’s Reactivation, or right when an enemy is slain.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Relocation includes: Bumping, placement, random placement, redeployment, scattering, combat movement, or any involuntary Moves/Attacks.
- ↑ As soon as the enemy is placed into the ally’s square for the Attack (between steps 1 and 2 of the Attack sequence), give them the Curse.
- ↑ In the opposite case, if you relocate one of your opponent's pieces under the condition (all Joker cards face down), they get to Bump one of your pieces between Activations.
