This will display your current alignment: Good, Neutral or Evil. This will be either pre-determined or selected by you depending on what race you selected. If you're converted to a different alignment, you would use the arrow buttons to change to the new alignment. If that alignment is not available, then you may not be converted into that alignment and the instructions to convert are ignored. You can click the arrows now to see what alignments are available. This info is also shown on your character token's [Info].

Your AP Max is the number of arcane points you will have at the beginning of each round as determined by race & sex. During the course of the round you may cast spells and/or use arcane items. Each of these magical items have an Arcane Point Cost (APC). You would deduct this cost from your AP with the down arrow.

At the beginning of the next round, your AP will be automatically reset to match the AP Max. The Kingdom News displayed in the chat window will note this and remind you that if you have active arcane items (explained in more detail later but basically items that remain 'active' for as long as you wish to spend the AP), you would immediately deduct AP for those items currently in use.

Basically, you cannot use a arcane item or spell in a round if its cost to use it would exceed their current AP.

You receive 1 XP automatically at the beginning of a round. You also gain XP in combat vs. creatures. Combat will be discussed more extensively in Chapter 7 but, for the purposes of earning XP in combat, here's what you need to know. A creature combat encounter can end in one of four ways: You run, the creature runs, the creature dies or you die.

You Die - You obviously don't collect XP as you're dead and you no longer need them.

The Creature Dies - You would increase your XP the amount equal to the creature's power or psychic depending on the type of battle. If it's a 'power only' creature, you would receive the creature's power in XP. If it's a 'psychic only' creature, you would receive the creature's psychic in XP. If a creature has both, you would receive the creature's power in XP, if the kill occurred in a segment of physical combat, or you would receive the creature's psychic in XP, if the kill occurred in a segment of psionic combat.

The Creature Runs - If the creature runs, you would receive half of the creature's power/psychic, based on the same rules shown for a kill and rounded down. For example: if you chase off a creature with a power of 7 in physical combat, you would receive 3 XP.

You Run - You only receives 1 XP if you run from combat.

For every 10 XP, you accumulate, you get one flex point. If you have 10 or more XP, you may convert 10 XP into a flex point using the conversion button shown here: You will be asked which attribute you would like to increase and the game will complete the conversion.

You may make this conversion at any time and you are not under obligation to make a conversion as soon as you accumulate 10 XP. In other words, you may wait until you find yourself in a situation where having an extra point in a particular attribute would be extremely helpful and you can make the conversion then.

The SpMin & SpMax indicates the minimum and maximum number of spells you may possess, unless you have an item or ability that allows you to exceed this limit. The number of spells you may have at any particular moment depends on how much psychic you have, which will be explained below.

If your SpMin is 1 or 2, this means that you will always have at least 1 or 2 spells. In other words, any time your number of spells drops below the minimum, you may draw a new spell immediately by using the [Get me a Spell] option on your character token. A spell will be sent to your spell book and a message will appear informing the players that you have received a spell.

Your funds are basically a bank account that you would use to make purchases using a sort of script (like checks) that are universally accepted throughout the Kingdom. Unless taxes are being collected, you don't have to worry about losing money secured in the bank ...unlike any gold or gems you pick up. You begin the game with a bank account supplied by your clan and various investors.

Use the Up Arrow if you are making a deposit into the bank account ...like selling a gem or a collectible. Use the Down Arrow to adjust for money spent. In both cases, you'll be asked how much to deposit or spend and it will add/subtract this amount from your funds.

Your clan will also deposit funds into the clan account at random intervals as a show of support. The Kingdom News will announce when this occurs along with how much they gave you.

Just below Funds is the Hit Point trackers. You start a new character with a Maximum Hit Point Level (HPMax) of 25 and a current HP (Hit Pts) of 25. As you incur damage from various conflicts and encounters, you would click the Hit Pts down arrow and enter the number of HP damage. As you heal and gain HP, you would use the up arrow.

If your current HP is less than your HPMax, you are considered to be wounded. If you are wounded (and you are not poisoned or diseased), you will automatically receive an HP of natural healing at the beginning of each round. This will be announced in the chat window as part of The Kingdom News.

As you progress through your travels, your health, stamina and overall constitution will increase. This will be reflected by the game occasionally increasing your HPMax by 5 points at random times up to a top limit HPMax of 50. The Kingdom News will announce when this occurs. You will not received an HP of healing on the round when your HPMax is increased but you will receive a healing HP on every round thereafter until your HP equals the HPMax.

If your HP ever reaches zero, you are dead.

You may have an encounter that states you HEAL HP. You would only get these HP if you are wounded. If your current HP equals or exceeds your HPMax, you are healed and, therefore, this encounter would be ignored.

If you have an encounter that states you GAIN HP, then you would receive those HP even if it exceeds your HPMax ...sort of like being on steroids for a while. Even though your HPMax stat is limited to 50, your actual HP can go as high as 90.

The remainder of the stat sheet pertains to your five major attributes - power, psychic, swift, skill, and social - and all of the minor attributes they affect. Before we breakdown each one, here some notes that apply to all of them:

Each attribute has an up and down arrow that will adjust that attribute by 1 point up or down. This will also automatically adjust any minor attributes that are attached to that major attribute. These adjustments may take a moment for the game to complete. If you hear a click, your adjustment has been recorded, even though your stats make take a moment to update.

Also, you will get generally better in all your attributes though your experiences. Therefore, the game will occasionally give you a point in a random attribute to show that you've built up your abilities in that area. The Kingdom News will announce when this occurs informing you which attribute got a boost.

You'll note that each of your major attributes has an 'Addon' box. At various times during the game, you may have an item that adds two points to your skill, for example. These 2 points would be added as a skill "Addon" as they are temporary for as long as you have that item that provides them. But, they are not part of your "personal" rating.

Automatic adjustments made to any minor attributes attached to a particular major attribute will take into consideration the total amount (Personal + Addon) but it's important to know the difference as you may have an encounter that only applies to your personal rating. In these instances, the addon points would be ignored.

Also, keep in mind that if you have an item that gives you addon points and you lose that item, you need to remove those addon points from your stats.

Next to each major attribute is a Max value. This is the maximum number of 'personal' points you may have in that attribute. It does not take into consideration 'Addon' points. For example, if Grisha has 15 points in power, she's maxed out and if she has an encounter that states she receives a point in power, it would be ignored. However, she can still have and use an item that gives her an extra 2 points in power as that would be an "Addon". So, she would effectively have 17 points of power.

Your power rating (color coded: Red) depicts a measure of strength and physical fighting ability. A low power rating makes for a weak defenseless character while a very high rating makes for a powerful dude who can kick butt. Power is primarily used in physical combat vs. rivals and creatures that have a power rating. Here's a breakdown of the minor attributes associated with power and physical combat.

This indicates the die roll that would be used to inflict damage if you are NOT using a weapon or if the damage rating of the weapon being used is less.

The damage adj bonus is for a high power rating ...the more powerful you are, the more damaging the hit. You get a +1 damage adjustment for every 5 points of power. This damage adjustment would apply to a hit whether you use a weapon or not.

For every 5 points of swift you have, you get a +1 To Hit or TH adjustment. High swift indicates that you are better able to dodge, parry and strike your opponent quickly. This hit adjustment applies whether you use a weapon or not.

This is your percentage chance to smash locks. You must use a weapon to smash locks as you cannot do so with your bare hands (unless you have that ability). Smashed locks are [Trashed] as they are too damaged to be re-used. Review Palace Locks for more information.

Your psychic rating (color coded: Purple) depicts a measure of your psychic and spiritual abilities. A low psychic rating makes for a character with little or no spell abilities while a very high rating makes for a powerful spell and arcane item user and psionic fighter. Psychic is primarily used in psionic combat the same way that power would be used in physical combat except that it's used vs. rivals and creatures that have a psychic rating.

Exactly the same as Power Damage (above) except that it would apply to psionic combat.

Exactly the same as the power damage adjustment (above) except that it would apply to psionic combat. Your damage adjustment increases 1 point for every 5 points of psychic.

For every 5 points of skill you have, you get a +1 To Hit or TH adjustment. High skill indicates that you are extremely intelligent and skillful and can use your psionic abilities effectively and wisely.

Earlier we discussed your racial spell limits. But, since spells are something you "know", as opposed to a tangible object that you can carry, the numbers of spells that you may know at one time is dependent on your psychic rating. The number shown here indicates the maximum number of spells you may know at this time. If this number has not reached your maximum racial spell limit yet, this number will increase as your psychic increases.

Keep in mind that you may lose your knowledge of a spell if you lose an addon item. For example, let's say you have an item that gives you 2 addon points in psychic. As a result, you may know 3 spells and you do know 3 spells. Then you lose the item and, along with it, the 2 addon points. This may drop the number of maximum spells you may know at this time to 2. If this occurs, you must immediately trash a spell.

Most races may not attack psionically ...they can only defend except in specific situations. This box will show whether you may attack psionically or not as 'yes' or 'no'. Use the arrows to adjust this if it should change at any point in the game.

Your swift rating (color coded: Green) depicts a measure of how agile and quick you are. A low swift rating makes for a slow lumbering character who may have trouble getting away from a bad conflict while a very high rating makes for a speedy individual that can fight better, dodge projectiles more easily, and run/travel faster. High swift also enhances physical combat.

You normally begin the game with 6 movement points or MP per turn. A very high swift will increase the distance traveled by providing additional MPs. You'll get an extra MP per 6 to 8 points of swift, depending on your race. These extra MP will apply to travel outside and in the palace. They do NOT add to your MP in the catacombs.

When you run from a conflict as the attacker, you may run with immunity and the conflict ends. However, when you run from combat as a defender, you may have to fight off your attacker at a disadvantage for one more segment of combat as you're busy dodging, parrying and trying to get away. This roll determines whether you were successful at running away without having to fight your way out. If you fail, you must fight one more segment of combat at -1 to Hit & Damage (-1 TH&D). Then the conflict will end. See Run Check for details.

Your skill rating (color coded: Blue) depicts a measure of intelligence, stealth, craftiness and spell casting success. A low skill rating makes for a rather dumb character that has a hard time figuring things out, casting spells properly, and avoiding conflicts while a very high rating makes for a clever, sneaky and smart character who can solve problems, find things in a hurry, cast spells effectively, and easily surprise or avoid an opponent. High skill also enhances psionic combat.

Your chance of surprising or avoiding an opponent successfully. See Stealth in combat for details.

Your chance of picking a lock successfully. Picked locks may be kept and re-used as they are undamaged. Review Palace Locks for more information.

Regardless of how many spells you may have or how much AP you have, casting a spell successfully requires skill. This is your chance of the spell behaving as expected when cast. See Spells for details on using spells.

The following 3 ratings are known collectively as your FIND percentages. In all cases, these may be increased with the help of assisting companions.

This is the percentage chance of finding something that isn't specific to either the Cat% or FS% below. You may add 5% per assisting companion.

You may discover a catacomb doorway as a random event while you are exploring the palace. When you do, you would tag it as [Known by..] to show that you have knowledge of this door and you may use it anytime you like.

If you enter a location with an existing catacomb doorway that you do not have knowledge of, you may make a Cat% roll, after all other activity has been completed, in an attempt to find that door. If you do, you may also tag it as [Known by..].

The Cat% would also be used in an attempt to rotate rooms in the catacombs. Review Catacomb Movement for more information.

You may add 5% per assisting companion to your Cat% rolls.

In most cases, if a player leaves any goods behind, they may be picked up by anyone ...including some kingdom inhabitant that may wander by. However, there are special instances where players may hide collectibles (boats, rafts, goods at the palace entrance, etc).

If you enter a location that contains stuff hidden by a rival, you may make an FS% roll, after all other activity has been completed, in an attempt to find that stuff. If successful, you may immediately take possession of it and/or re-hide it (if allowed to). You may add 5% per assisting companion.

First Sight is another use of this die roll. In this case, you may add 10% per assisting companion.

Your social rating (color coded: orange) depicts a measure of how successfully you interact with other beings. A low social rating makes for a character that never gets a bargain and never has any companions while a very high rating makes for a character that always gets the great deals and has an entourage of helpful beings traveling around with them. High social may also increase your chances of visiting merchants when you're on the Great Throne.

All prices given for goods and/or services throughout the game is a base price. The actual price you may pay (or receive, if you're selling) depends on how well you can dicker with the merchants. Of course, the higher your dicker rating, the greater the likelihood of getting a good deal. In fact, a lousy dicker rating may have some merchants shut the door in your face and not deal with you at all.

The only places in the game where a financial amount is set and is not dickered is the Infirmary in the palace and paying fines at the court or jail.

To dicker with a merchant, use the [Dicker] option on the terrain tile for the merchant you're visiting. If you're dickering with a specific individual, like a companion for hire or a random event card that may require a financial transaction, the [Dicker] option will be on the card itself. When dickering, make sure the chat window is NOT covered up with another window as you'll need to see the dickering messages.

If buying more than one item, you have the option to dicker on each one individually or you can combine their base values together for a bulk purchase. When selling more than one item, you must dicker on each one individually.

You will be asked a series of questions: Are you buying/hiring or selling? What is your dicker rating? What is the base price in question? It will then display the amount offered. If it's offering the base price or worse, the dickering system will then ask if you wish to make a counter offer. If you say ,"Yes", if will ask you what your counter offer is. It will then display a final offer. If your accept it, add (if receiving money) or subtract (if paying money) from your funds (and/or use any gold coins your may have). Be careful when making counter offers. If you try to offer a price that is too great a difference from the original offer, don't be surprised is they laugh at you and walk away.

When you meet a companion via a random event, you may make this roll in an attempt to convince them to join your party for free. If you succeed, add them to your inventory. If you fail, you may still be able to hire them. The companion must have the attribute "Attract: Y" for you to attempt to attract them and "Hire: Y" for you to hire them. Companions at the Guild may only be hired. You may not attempt to attract them at the Guild.

Anytime your character token is in the same location as a rival (or adjacent to a rival in the palace), even if you're just passing through or a rival is passing through your location, you may attempt to steal a companion from the rival if the companion has the attribute "Steal: Y" and you have more social than the rival.

You may attempt to do this regardless of what else happens, even if the two character's don't physically encounter each other. You may do this even if it's in a [P] location where two rivals may not normally encounter each other as the attempt is being made through conversation with the rival's companion and not between rivals directly.

The steal factor is the number that is multiplied to the difference between your social and the rival's social. For example: Let's say you have a social of 6 and you're in the same location as a rival with a social of 2. The difference between the two socials is 4. If you have a SCx = 4, you would have a (4 x 4) = 16% chance of convincing the rival's companion that they would be better off working for you. Only one steal attempt may be made per encounter. See Companions: Steal for more info.

You may not attempt to steal a companion from a rival in the Mystic Realms, Palace Grounds or Waterway.

This opens your attributes and statistics, as shown before.

This presents you with a list of trackers (left pic below) for keeping track of various long-term events. In the example shown here, Grisha has had an event that has put her to sleep for 3 rounds. To note this, click one of the entry boxes and enter an explanation of some kind for the tracker and then use the up arrows to set the number of rounds.

As you can see, Grisha has created the entry "Sleeping" and increased the tracker to 3. She has also placed a [Reminder Flag] on her token to remind her to reduce her tracker by one at the end of her next turn. A tracker has a [Close] option and, like the stats sheet, it will retain its values so you can close and open it at will.

 

As was shown when your character was created, these two options provide a general description of your character's race, details on their special abilities and their range of attributes compared to the average.

Whenever you enter a location with a yellow triangle with an asterisk (*), you must make a safety check. You must also make a safety check whenever you use a rope and there may be encounters that tell you to make a safety check. This basically means that you are doing something inherently risky and the potential for you, or a member of your party, to become injured or killed has increased substantially.

When you must make a safety check, simply use the [Safety Check] option on the token and the message window will tell you whether you passed safely, your character has been injured or a party member has died. The chances of danger are low so you shouldn't run into a problem often but ...it happens.

If you don't have to make a safety check for a specific reason (like being immune to safety checks in [M] terrain], for example), you must still make a safety check if you have living beings in your party. You may be immune to personal injury and would ignore any message indicating HP damage, but a party member may not be so careful and fall off a cliff.

This is a handy list of items that you may need to retrieve or you've been told to get. When an item is selected, it will be sent to your character token except spells, which will be sent to your spell book. Here's some additional notes on a couple of items.

These items would be retrieved when you've declared that you are building a raft or a boat. You may also have an encounter that informs you that there's a boat or a raft hidden at a specific location. This option would be used to get the boat or raft. After [Claiming Ownership] on the item, you would use the [Send to...] option on the boat or raft chit to send it to where it needs to be. You may have to manually move it to a specific hex after sending it.

If you receive gold coins as a random event, the number of coins will already be noted on the gold coin chit. If you are told to collect gold coins, you would use this option to get a coin and you will be asked for the value of the gold coin (the actual number of coins). That number will appear on the gold coin chit. See Gold Chits for details.

This simply toggles a green hand with a ribbon on one finger to appear or disappear on your character token. It's handy for reminding yourself of something that you need to address when your next turn begins.

You may become poisoned or diseased or both. If you do, use this option to display your particular malady on the front of the token.

When you're poisoned and/or diseased, you will suffer a set of penalties until you are cured. Sometimes the condition will last for a specific period of time or it may last until you're cured or you die.

If it's a specific number of turns, use the character token's [Trackers] to keep track. Reduce the tracker by 1 at the end of your turn. When it reaches zero, you are no longer afflicted.

You may become both poisoned AND diseased. If this should occur, the penalties are doubled, as shown below. If you have an encounter that states you are poisoned while already poisoned or diseased while already diseased, the strain on your system will be too much and you immediately drop dead.

The Healer merchant may have antidotes and vaccines available for purchase and they may also cure you providing you can pay for the services.

Here's a list of the effects of being poisoned and/or diseased. You'll also find a Poison/Disease Effects chart for quick reference under the Charts icon in the game.

The penalties for being poisoned OR diseased:

- Instead of healing a HP at the beginning of a round, you lose D4 HP until your HP drops below 12. At that point, you lose 1 HP per round. This is handled automatically by the game and The Kingdom News will inform you as to how much damage you've received.
- Your travel is reduced by 1 MP per turn as travel will be slower and sluggish.
- In combat, you are -1 TH&D and -10 Stlh% and -10 Run% as your stamina is severely compromised.
- When casting a spell, your Cast% is cut in half as you find it hard to concentrate.
- You may not use a normal rope & hook for fear of falling. If you have the rope of command or an ability to climb without a rope, you may still climb but you must make 2 safety checks.

The penalties for being both poisoned AND diseased:

- Instead of healing a HP at the beginning of a round, you lose D8 HP until your HP drops below 24. At that point, you lose 2 HP per round. This is handled automatically by the game and The Kingdom News will inform you as to how much damage you've received.
- Your travel is reduced by 2 MP per turn as you can barely stay on your feet.
- In combat, you are -2 TH&D and -20 Stlh% and -20 Run% as you're not in any shape to be fighting anything.
- You are incapable of casting spells in this condition.
- You may not use a rope or climb at all because you simply can't.

This is a handy way to move your character token to a specific location or directly to a [Rival] anywhere in the game without having to drag it around to where you want it. If you are moving to a specific location not listed in the menu, send the token to a nearby location and them manually move it to the specific spot.

If your HP ever reaches zero, you are dead. If this should occur, select [Kill Me]. This will effectively remove your character from the game and dump most of your belongings in the location where you died. You may see error messages. Ignore them. Everything is working and I don't know why the error messages appear.

On the next round, during your normal turn, and if no other player has received the Knowledge of the Mystic Realm (KotMR), you may create a new character the same way you did at the beginning of the game. The main difference being, you will not have a choice of race or sex ...you will simply be given a new character. You will inherit some of the previous character's things like their funds.

Creating your new character is the only action you may make during that round, just as if it were Round 0. You may begin your adventure with your new character on the next round.

If any player has received the (KotMR), no new characters may enter the game. If the only players that have the (KotMR) should die, then the players that have lost their characters may create new ones on their next turn.

Whenever you use the [Send to Inventory] option on an item, it is sent to this 'Card Drop' box. You should then drag those items to the appropriate area on the inventory sheet. As we've seen in the character creation section, the clan shield was used to create your character, receive your character's talents and their gift.

When you [Get Your Quest] from Zerox the Kingmaker, the relic that you must find will appear in this box with the notation 'FIND' on it (as shown in the above example). This shows that you have your quest. When you find your relic in the palace and you [Send to Inventory], the relic will appear here without the 'FIND' notation. This shows that you have your relic. When you bring it back to Zerox, you would use the [Give to Zerox] option on the relic and the [Receive the Knowledge of the Mystic Realm] from Zerox and your relic will be replaced with a KoTMR token showing that you have the KotMR.

This is where you would place the talents that you received when your character was created. Review Talents for more information.

Gold and gems have their own pouches. As you can see in the example, this character has 3 gems in their gem pouch and 13 coins ($1300) in their gold pouch. Each pouch is considered a single item as far as victory spoils are concerned. When you beat a rival in a single segment of combat or persuasion, you may take the pouch with all the rival's gold or the pouch with all the rival's gems. Keeping this in mind, when you have gold and/or gems, you may want to get them to the Bank (deposit gold) or the Lapidary (examine and sell gems) before you lose them in a confrontation.

If you've hired a Tygal, you would place the Tygal chit here to show that you have the ability to communicate with your independents. Review Tygals for more information.

This is where you would place locks that you find randomly or by successfully picking a lock in the palace. Review Locks for more information.

You may receive other miscellaneous counters or chits that don't have a specific area on the inventory sheet. Just place them here along with the locks.

This is where you would display your collectibles. If you do not have a carrier of some kind, you may only have 6 collectibles. The above example shows that this character has six collectibles but they also have a Hiker's Pack which is a carrier that does not count towards collectible limits and allows the character to carry two extra non-living collectibles that will fit inside of it. You'll note the two cards that are under the hiker's pack card to show that these extra items are inside the pack.

How you display your collectibles is up to you but they should be displayed in a way that makes it easy for you and others to determine where something is being carried. As will be pointed out later, some things need to be in-hand or carried by you personally in order to be effective so make sure you don't have a necessary 'in hand' item shoved in a hikers pack or on a donkey.

This simply means that you can't travel anywhere. However, you are fully aware and can react normally to anything that happens to you and may perform any other activity that would normally be allowed ..except travel. You do NOT draw events or re-encounter your current location when losing turns.

Whether passed out, sleeping, knocked out, drugged, paralyzed, whatever, an incapacitated character has no clue as to what is happening around them. If a character enters a location with an incapacitated rival, they may take victory spoils as if they just bested them in combat. They may NOT cause them injury and they may only encounter the incapacitated rival once per affliction. Other living beings will ignore an incapacitated character as they'll assume they're dead.

Although rare, you may have an encounter that is so traumatic that you become catatonic. It will last for 3 turns during which time you will wander around aimlessly. At the beginning of your turn, the next player in sequence will move you one location in any direction of their choosing (under normal movement rules) and you would draw events normally. Events will be executed as follows:

-- If you discover something you could normally keep (collectible, gold, gem, etc.) you'll simply leave it there.
-- If you encounter something you would normally interact with (except occurrences & creatures), the event is ignored.
-- Occurrences are encountered normally.
-- Creatures will strike you for normal damage and then leave you alone. The creature will remain in the location where encountered. You will earn no XP for this.
-- If a rival enters your location, they may treat you as incapacitated (see above).