RU L EBO O K
A v en tu r i a Ad ven tu r e C ard Game:
D u el r u l es
A duel card game for two or more Aventurian Heroes of age 14 and up by Lukas Zach and Michael Palm.
Contents Goal of the Game
It’s the goal of the game to improve your hero by
Please note that the Duel rules only use the playing Action Cards in a tactically clever way and
following contents of the box. All other con- defeat your opponent’s hero by reducing that he-
tents are part of the Adventure rules starting ro’s life points to zero.
on page 11. To do so this basic set provides you with four iconic
heroes with very diverse backgrounds: Arbosh the
Dwarven blacksmith, Mirhiban the mage from the
Southlands, Carolan the Halfelven rogue, and La-
4 Hero Decks consisting of: yariel, an Elven hunter from the wilderness.
1 Hero Card
30 Action Cards ...Arbosh son of Angrax finally managed to corner that
4 Hero Counters brazen rogue! Even with his astounding climbing skills
4 Life Point Counters he wouldn’t manage to get out of this dead-end-street.
9 Fate Points That fancy Elf had dared to snatch his money pouch
from him, so Arbosh had to chase him through half of
4 D6 (six-sided dice) the city. With every step he took on his short Dwarven
4 D20 (twenty-sided dice) legs his anger had increased, so that it reached a very
critical stage right now. Without giving the Halfelven
time to explain himself, Arbosh brandished his throw-
ing hatchet and stormed towards him...
Setup
First, each player receives one life point count-
er and sets it to 40 life points ( ). (The life point Ranged Combat
counters have to be assembled before the start of
Hero Card Action Cards the first game.) Magic
Hero Counters
Fate Points
Life Point Counter
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There are presorted hero decks in the game, each
consisting of 1 hero card and 30 action cards. (You
can see which hero a card belongs to by the hero’s
abbreviation beside the card’s title. This helps to
distinguish the decks at all times.)
Each player picks a hero deck and puts down a
hero card with the side face-up that explains his
special ability.
The hero card shows the attributes Close Combat ( ),
Ranged Combat ( ), Magic ( ) and Dodge ( ). This
side of the hero card also shows the hero’s basic
equipment, which is an attack the hero will always
possess, and the hero’s special ability, which pro-
vides a unique advantage during play.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Card effects never take away
a hero’s basic equipment and special ability.
Next, the players shuffle their action cards and
put them face down as their draw pile.
Hero Card
Dodge
Close Combat
Hero’s Name
Basic Equipment
Special Ability
Card Type
Hero Shorthand
 An Action Card shows the endurance cost you
have to pay when you play the card, and the
card’s effect. Also it notes what type and catego-
ry of card it is (see Deck Construction on page 9).
The symbol in the lower right corner indicates
that this is a card from the Aventuria basic box.
Every expansion set will have its own symbol.
Action Card
Endurance Cost
Hero Shorthand
Card Name
Card Effect
Card Type
Card Categorie
Aventuria Box
Then the players each draw 5 cards from their
draw pile to make their starting hand. At this
point, each player may examine the cards in their
starting hand and then remove as many of them as
they want and replace them with new cards from
their draw pile; this card replacement occurs just
once at the start of the game. Each player shuffles
the unwanted cards back into their draw piles.
Example: Arbosh’s player draws the cards “Bat-
tle-Axe,” “Orc-Nose,” “Warhammer,” “Ox-Herd,” and
“Carousing” at the start of the game. That is way too
many close combat weapons, so he decides to remove
the Battle-Axe, Orc-Nose, and Ox-Herd and draw three
new cards in return. He draws the cards “Iron Forest
Crossbow,” “Helmet,” and “Feat of Strength.” Then
he shuffles the Battle Ax, Orc-Nose, and Ox-Herd back
into his draw pile.
Each player takes one D6 (six-sided die) and one
D20 (twenty-sided die).
Next, place 2 fate points ( ) per player in the
middle of the table.
Shuffle the Hero counters of all participating he-
roes and draw one at random. His player takes the
first turn. In return he doesn’t receive a Fate point.
The other players each take 1 Fate point ( ) from
the middle of the table. After the first player takes
his turn, the other players follow clockwise until
the end of the game.
...Carolan was surprised that the stumpy Dwarf was 4 Play Up to 2 Endurance
so fast on his feet–and even managed to keep track of Cards
him in the heavily crowed streets. The rogue had no
Endurance cards are vital to playing the game,
other choice than to face him in battle now. He didn’t
as you expend them in order to play action cards
really intend to hurt the Angroscho, and even consid-
during the game. In this phase, you may put up
ered just throwing the stolen money at his feet. After
to 2 cards face down as endurance cards. Place
all the pick-pocketing was merely meant as a welcome
greeting to Vinsalt. But Carolan was prepared for these new endurance cards upright on the table
to show that they are not yet exhausted. The new
things like this and brandished his sling. A well-aimed
shot would cool down the angry Dwarf. endurance cards may be cards from your hand or
cards that were previously played onto the table as
permanent cards (permanent cards are explained
After deciding the starting hero the Hero counters below).
are put aside–they are not used for the remainder You may play any action card as an endurance
of the Duel game. card. You should pick cards that you do not need
at the moment, since a card played as an endur-
ance card is no longer an action card and cannot
How to Play use its effect for the rest of the game. You may look
at your played endurance cards at any time.
Endurance cards tend to accumulate from turn
Each player’s turn goes through the following to turn. That means you can play more powerful
phases. action cards. If you think you have enough endur-
ance, you may decide to play only one or no cards
during this phase.
1 Start the Turn
Some action cards have an effect you can or must
resolve at the start of your turn, in which case re-
solve them now. If there are more effects than just
one, the player decides the order in which they are
resolved. If there are no cards of this type, then
this phase is skipped.
2 Draw 2 Cards from the
Draw Pile
Draw 2 cards from your draw pile and place them
in your hand. When the draw pile is used up, the
discard pile is not shuffled anew. Instead, the game
goes on, but you cannot draw any more cards.
A player has the right to look at the discard piles of
all players at all times. She is not allowed to change
the order of the cards.
3 Ready Any Exhausted
Cards
If you have any exhausted endurance cards or
played action cards (turned sideways on the
table, as explained below), turn them up-
right again. These cards are no longer ex-
hausted, and you may use them again.
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Example: Drawing cards and assigning endurance cards
Draw Pile 1.
Endurance Cards
Draw two cards
Card Hand
...Arbosh realized that he wouldn’t be able to over-
come the thief with simple methods. He had to rely
on more drastic measures. Whilst his opponent’s sling
stones bounced of his shield and helmet, he gathered
his strength. Then he drew his most powerful weapon:
The “Orc-Nose,” a heavy, one-handed battle axe. Us-
ing his shield as a distraction, he struck at the thief’s
legs, hoping to at least make him stumble over the
weapon’s long haft.
5 Actions
You may now play as many action cards from
your hand as you want, and/or make attacks in
any order, as long as you can pay for them with
endurance cards. You may switch between playing
action cards and making attacks as often as you
want.
Play Action Cards
If you want to play an action card, you must pay
the endurance cost shown at the upper left cor-
ner of the card. Exhaust ( ) the necessary number
of endurance cards (turn them sideways) to show
that they have been used to pay for a card (each
endurance card has a value of 1). The endurance
cards may only be exhausted once you play the rel-
evant action card.
Draw Pile 2.
Endurance Cards
Put up to two cards
of your choice from
your hand face down
as endurance cards
Card Hand
Endurance costs of X mean that you decide how
much endurance to use; X can be 0, too.
After paying the endurance cost, place the action
card face up in front of you. Read the card’s effect
aloud. Some cards have an effect that comes into
play as soon as they are played, while others take
effect later in the game.
The card’s text describes whom it may target:
• If the text mentions a hero, you may play the
card on your hero, another hero of your team,
or an opposing hero.
• If the text mentions an opponent, you may use
the card only on an opposing hero.
• If there is no information given, you may use
the card only for your own hero.
Some cards have a paragraph “In an adventure.”
Those rules are only used when the heroes team
up to face an adventure (see “Aventuria Adventure
Rules” on page 11 et seq.).
…The Orc-Nose actually scored a hit on Carolan. Ar-
bosh was even able to follow up with a mighty swing,
and even though the weapon was ripped out of his
hands, it managed to pierce his opponent’s light leg
amour, sending him to the ground screaming...
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Draw Pile 3.
Endurance Cards
Card Hand
One-off and Permanent Action Cards
Many cards have an effect that is resolved imme-
diately after playing the card. Afterwards the card
is discarded face-up on the player’s discard pile.
those One-off cards are indicated by a red card
frame.
A black card frame means that the played action
card is a permanent card that stays in play. Some
permanent cards remain in effect for a long dura-
tion, others can be activated once at a later time to
take effect.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If there is no other time in-
dicated on a permanent card, then you can use it
during your turn only.
You cannot have a duplicate card in front of
yourself.
Some permanent cards may be played on another
permanent card in play to improve it. If the im-
proved card is discarded or taken back into the
hand, the improvement is discarded—put it into the
discard pile of the player who originally played it.
Permanent cards that improve a Hero’s attributes
are placed under the hero card to show the im-
provement.

6 End of turn
Once you play all the action cards and make all the
attacks you want, your turn is over.
If you have more than 7 cards in your hand, dis-
card cards until you have only 7 left.
Some action cards have an effect you can or must
use at the end of your turn, in which case, resolve
them now. If there is more than one effect, resolve
them in an order of your choice.
Once finished, play continues clockwise from the
starting hero.
Requirements for
Action Card Effects
Many of the cards have a requirement listed with
the effect. Some cards have multiple requirements.
You must fulfill all requirements before using the
card’s effect:

Permanent and one-off cards • Fulfill the Requirements

If the text of the action card mentions a require-
ment such as Play after an enemy plays a card,
then the requirement has to be met to play the
action card. The action card must be played im-
mediately after the requirement is met. More
than one action card with the same require-
ment may be played by one or more players, if
all other requirements of play are also met.

• Exhaust the Action Card ( )

The action card must be exhausted (turned
sideways) to show that it has been used. An ef-
fect that requires exhausting the card may only
Permanent card One-off card Attribute improving permanent card be used if it hasn’t been exhausted yet. Per-
(black frame) (red frame) placed under hero card manent cards that do not have to be exhausted
as a requirement may be used more than once.
One-off cards may never be used more than
once; they always have a one-time effect and
are discarded immediately after.

Example game • Pay Additional Endurance

after about 2 turns A number in front of the effect (“, :” or “:”)
gives the number of endurance cards you
must exhaust every time you use the effect. En-
Permanent Cards durance costs of X mean that you decide how
much endurance to use; X may be 0, too.

Hero Card
• Making a Test
If you have to make a test, roll a D20. You want
a result equal to or lower than the value of the
relevant attribute. If there is a number with a
plus sign (+), then the test is easier. A minus
sign (-) means the test is harder. If you have to
make a test+5, add +5 to your current magic
Fate Points stat and try to roll under or equal to the num-
ber. If you are successful, you can use the card’s
Draw Pile effect. Discard one-off cards after the test, even
if the test was not successful.

Discard Pile

Endurance Cards Life Point Counter

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...the traveling mage Mirhiban had watched the fight
between the two squabblers from a nearby balcony.
She had met with Carolan a couple of times and didn’t
want to see him getting cut to pieces by an angry
Dwarf. Yet still, he was already lying on the ground
and the Dwarf seemed determined to finish him off. So
she decided to make the fight her own. But not with-
out safety precautions. Her spell “Armatrutz” would
protect her from the furious hits from the Dwarven
axe. She concentrated on the magic formula and
hoped that fate would be on her side and make the
spell work. If she failed then she wouldn’t have enough
time for a second try...
Making an Attack
The hero’s basic equipment and many cards like
weapons and spells allow players to make an at-
tack. Each attack is further qualified by the type of
attack, either Close Combat ( ), Ranged Combat
( ) or Magic ( ).
Each turn, you may make no more than one of each
type of attack. In other words, just one close com-
bat, one ranged combat and one magic attack per
turn! If you have more than one card of the same
attack type, you may only attack with one of them.
An attack is made up of the following steps:
• Pick a target
• Pay endurance and exhaust attack card
• Attack Roll
• Opponent tries to dodge
• Damage Roll
• Determine life point loss
Before each attack, pick one opponent as
the target. Then make an attack roll.
Attack Roll
Exhaust ( ) the attack card, pay the en-
durance cost for the attack, and roll a D20,
trying for a result equal to or below the at-
tribute value of the attack (for example, if it is
a attack, roll against ranged combat). As with
other tests, some cards may make the attack roll
easier or more difficult.
If you fail the test, your attack has no effect.
If you succeed with your attack roll, you hit your
opponent. The opponent tries to dodge the attack.
Dodging an Attack Armor only reduces the damage ( ) of attacks,
If an attack roll is successful, your opponent makes never the damage of other card effects.
a dodge test. If he rolls equal to or below his
dodge value ( ) with a D20, he dodges the at-
tack and reduces your damage roll by half. If
not, he suffers full damage.
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Damage Roll
Next, the attacker determines the damage ( )
of the successful attack by rolling the dice men-
tioned on the attack card and adding the sum of
the dice to the fixed value shown (i.e. “2D6+3 ”).
If the enemy dodged the attack, halve the damage
( ) (rounding up).
Example: The Dwarf attacks the Mage with his Bat-
tle-Axe. He has a close combat attribute ( ) of 14, so he
has to roll a 14 or less to hit. He rolls a 3 and is successful.
The Mage dodges the attack by rolling a 5, which is equal
to or below her dodge stat ( ). Therefore, the 1D6+4
of the Battle-Axe is halved. The Dwarf rolls a 5 and does
9 , which are reduced to 5 (9 / 2 = 4.5, rounded to 5).
Subtract the damage ( ) done by an attack from
the opponent’s life points ( ). That is, if he isn’t
wearing armor.
Armor
Armor protects a certain location of your hero’s
body: head, chest, arms, or legs. You may only
have one armor card in play per body location
for your hero. If you want to change the armor on
a body location, simply discard the armor already
in play for that location.
To use the protection of armor and its addi-
tional effects, you have to exhaust the armor
card ( ). Subtract the protection of the ar-
mor from the points of damage of a -, -, and
-attack. If this reduces the damage to 0 or less,
your hero is unharmed. If not, subtract the remain-
ing damage from your hero’s life points ( ).
IMPORTANT NOTE: You have to decide which
of your armor cards in play reduces the damage
of an attack. Only that amor’s protection and ef-
fects may be used. You may not use more than
one armor card per attack to reduce damage.
Example: In the next turn, the Mage hits the Dwarf with
an Ignisphaero ( attack). The Dwarf doesn’t dodge and
the Mage rolls 10 . The Dwarf wears Chain Mail (pro-
tection 4) and a Helmet (protection 3). He decides to use
the Chain Mail to reduce the damage ( ) by 4. Since he
has only 5 left, he also decides to discard the Chain
Mail, reducing the by another 3. He loses 3 (10 - 4 - 3
= 3). He continues the game with 2 . He couldn’t also
have discarded the helmet to reduce the damage, be-
cause you may only use and discard one armor card per
attack.
...Carolan still had a couple tricks up his sleeve. While
the Dwarf was busy beating out the flames that sur-
rounded him, he got back up on his feet. But even so
the Dwarf was already lifting his axe again and came
charging towards him. Skillful and nimble like a cat
he dodged out of the way. Still, under normal circum-
stances the axe should at least have scratched him,
but for now Phex the god of thieves was on his side
and nothing bad happened...

…Mirhiban, with both her endurance and her self con-

fidence strengthened by her defensive spell, stepped
out into the alley and shouted at the Dwarf to leave his
victim be, but apparently the noise from the nearby
street drowned out her voice. “Dwarves are fire resis-
tant, right?” she thought. “Then this here will serve
him as a proper warning.” First in her mind and then
in her hands she conjured a glowing fireball and threw
it at the Dwarf. He was too distracted by his attacks on
the rogue to be able to properly react or even jump out
of the way. Not to mention the fact that the alley was
way too narrow to allow anyone to get out of the way
of the fiery bolt. On that day Mirhiban learned that
Dwarves are not at all fire resistant. Arbosh’s armor
absorbed much of the damage, but he had to let go of
his melting chain shirt...
Special Features
Special Ability
Each hero has a special ability that you may use
once per game. If there is no other time indicated
on the hero card, you may use the special ability
either on your turn or on an opponent’s turn.
After you use your hero’s special ability, turn the
hero card over so that the back of the card is face
up. This side does not list the special ability, to
show that it was used.
Free Actions
Usually, you may only play action cards in phase 5
of your turn.
Action cards marked as a free action are an excep-
tion. They are indicated by their endurance costs
written in white on a dark background (top left).
You may play them at any time, during any phase
in your turn or an opponent’s turn, as long as you
have enough endurance to pay for them.
If more than one player wants to play or use an ac-
tion card, the first player to say so aloud may use
his effect first. If both players speak at the same
time, the player whose turn it is decides the order
in which cards are played.
Example: The Elf Scout attacks with her Elf Bow and
costs the Rogue a whopping 10 with her attack. The
rogue has saved  endurance for such a situation and
plays Hidden Dagger as his free action. He may play the
card if he has lost life points ( ) through an opponent’s
attack. The opposing hero loses 5 . The Hidden Dagger
is not an attack, so the Elf cannot dodge and cannot use
armor to reduce the damage ( ).
Healing
Many cards allow a hero to regain life points ( ).
You track this on the life point counter. You may
never have more life points ( ) than your starting
amount.
Free Action
(red border and dark
shaded endurance costs)
...The scabby thief and his magic assistant had es-
caped from Arbosh and he was furious about it! The
Halfelf had dropped the stolen money pouch – maybe
just accidentally – but that didn’t do much to console
the Dwarf, who had lost a valuable armor and suf-
fered blisters all over his body. He wouldn’t give up
the pursuit. But before he could get back to it, Layariel
the Elf appeared before him. His old friend made him
sit down with a voice that tolerates no dissent, and
then tended to his wounds. Seeing her use the magic
of her people to do so made him feel uncomfortable
once again, but he knew that she wouldn’t take no for
an answer in this matter, so he just let her go on with
it, until Layariel’s “Balsam” brought him back to full
strength...

Hero Card Hero Card

(Front) (Back)

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Critical Success
If you roll a 1 on the D20 for an attack or test,
it is always considered successful. In addition, you
may immediately draw a card from your draw
pile. This is not the case if the roll was a reroll due
to some effect or an action card effect lowered the
result to a 1.
IMPORTANT NOTE: In Aventuria we use D20
with a a dark eye symbol ( ) instead of a “1”.
Critical Failure
If you roll a 20 on the D20 with an attack or test,
it is always considered a failure. In addition, the
targeted opponent draws a random card from your
hand and immediately discards it.
Only a natural die roll result of “20” results in a crit-
ical failure. If the result becomes a 20 due to a game
effect or modifier, this does not count as a critical
failure.
If you use a game effect that allows you to make an
immediate reroll (for example by using a fate point,
see below) and this reroll doesn’t also result in a 20,
then you don’t have to discard a card.
Fate Points
If your attack does not succeed due to a failed
attack roll, you may take a fate point ( ) from
the middle of the table. This is also allowed if you
rolled a critical failure (see above)!
If there are no fate points ( ) left there, you may
take a fate point from another player; that player
may no longer use this fate point.
If you succeed at a previously failed attack due to a
reroll, you do not receive a fate point ( ).
You may discard a fate point ( ) back to the mid-
dle of the table to get one of the following advan-
tages:
Draw additional cards from the draw pile
At any time during your own turn or that of your
opponent, you may draw 1 card from your draw
pile for every discarded fate point ( ).
Receive one endurance
At any time during your own turn or that of your
opponent, gain  additional endurance until the
end of the current turn for each fate point ( ) you
discard.
Reroll an attack End of the Game
Discard a fate point ( ) gained from a past attack
(not from the attack just made) to reroll a failed
attack. You may continue rerolling as long as you If your hero’s life points ( ) drop to 0 or below, you
have valid fate points ( ) to spend, but the last go unconscious and are eliminated from the game.
result you roll is the one that counts. You cannot use healing cards at this time, unless
the card gives an explicit exception.
If the attack fails despite rerolling, you do not re-
ceive another fate point ( ), because you used a Remove the eliminated player’s cards from play
fate point ( ) for the reroll. and continue the game. The game ends when only
one hero has life points ( ) left, and that hero’s
You are allowed to use the fate point ( ) to reroll
player wins.
an attack roll, even if the original roll was a critical
failure. If all the heroes’ life points ( ) drop to 0 or below
at the same time, the winner is the player with the
Example: The Tulamydian Mage has no fate points ( ).
She exhausts her last endurance to make a magic attack.
hero whose life points ( ) are equal to or closest
to 0.
She fails her attack roll and gets 1 fate point ( ) for it.
There are no fate points ( ) in the middle of the table, so If there is a tie, then the game is a draw, so play
she can take one of the 4 fate points ( ) of her opponent. again!
The Mage cannot use her new fate point ( ) to reroll the
attack, because she got it from the current attack.
Later in the game, the Mage has 2 fate points ( ), but no
endurance left. She puts 1 of her 2 fate points ( ) back
in the middle of the table to receive 1 endurance, which
she uses to make a magic attack. The attack roll is not
successful, so she spends her second fate point ( ) to
reroll the test. The test fails again. The Mage does not get
another fate point ( ) for the failed attack.
...Eventually Arbosh and his friend Layariel managed
to find the rogue and his spell-casting companion. The
Halfelven thief was still wounded from the battle and
Arbosh used the element of surprise. The rogue man-
aged to get out a “But I gave the money pouch back
to y...” before a strike with the blunt edge of Arbosh’s
axe sent him to the ground. He was certainly done for
the day.
“And now you will follow us to the city watch!” Arbosh
barked at the surprised mage. She stepped backwards
and held up her hands in a pacifying way.
“There’s no real need to let it come to that, right?
You do have your gold back, master Dwarf. And there
might even be a way for you and your friend to earn
even more, if you hear me out...”
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 Team Play ...After some initial hesitation Arbosh and Layariel
ES DB TM HR

(equa l n um ber o f p l ayers ) decided to join their shady counterparts. Carolan fi-
nally had the opportunity to explain the pick-pock-
eting as a misunderstanding and Arbosh felt a little Light Close
Sort the participating players into two teams of bit of remorse for his harsh reaction. The four quickly 6 6 4 6
Combat Weapon
equal size and seat them alternately around the decided that their talents were quite good at comple-
table. Play progresses clockwise from the starting menting each other. The traveling mage Mirhiban Medium Close
2 6 2 4
hero, as usual, but you may make Close Combat ( ), was even able to present some references that con- Combat Weapon
Ranged Combat ( ) and Magic ( ) attacks only vinced the Dwarven blacksmith that she didn’t belong Heavy Close
against the opposing team’s hero that has the most to the dreaded dragon worshipers. Obviously there 0 4 0 0
Combat Weapon
life points ( ) remaining. If two or more oppo- remained some degree of distrust, but the thirst for
Light Ranged
nents have the same number of life points ( ) re- adventure and sympathy for their new-found com- 6 4 4 6
Combat Weapon
maining, the attacker decides which one to attack. panions proved to be stronger than that. Their voyage
The team that manages to defeat a hero of the should lead them from Vinsalt in the south to the far Medium Ranged
4 4 2 4
opposing side first wins. If more than one hero is eastern part of the continent–a region that Arbosh Combat Weapon
eliminated at the same time, the team with more hadn’t visited before. His greatest adventure still lay Heavy Ranged
heroes remaining wins. If there’s a tie, the team ahead of him... 2 2 0 0
Combat Weapon
that has the most life points ( ) left wins.
Light Armor 4 2 0 4
During team play you may spend fate points ( )
for other players of your team, to allow them to Medium Armor 2 4 0 2
draw 1 card, receive  endurance, or reroll 1 at-
tack.
Build your Own Decks Heavy Armor 0 4 0 0
Equipment 4 2 4 6
As usual, the card’s text describes whom it may
You may create your own hero decks from all avail- Advantage 4 4 6 8
target during team play:
able cards, according to these rules:
If the text mentions a hero, you may play the card Talent 8 8 6 8
• You must always use exactly 30 action cards.
on your hero, a hero on your team, or a hero on the 6 0 12 0
• You may include up to two copies of each card Simple Spell
opposing team.
in your deck. Complex Spell 2 0 10 0
If the text mentions an opponent, you may play the
card only on a hero on the opposing team. • You may use cards that have the hero abbrevi- Simple
ation highlighted in black only in a deck with 0 0 0 0
If there is no information given, you may use the Liturgical Chant
that hero. You can find the hero abbreviation to
card only for your hero. Complex
the right of the card title. 0 0 0 0
Liturgical Chant
• Promotional cards count as normal cards of
their category and may be used in a hero’s deck Free Action 6 6 6 8
Adventures accordingly.
• Reward cards may only be used in a hero’s deck Important Note: This list is not set in stone, but
Once you have played a couple games using the after consulting with the opposing player(s). subject to change! You can find the most recent
Duel rules, you are ready to join up Please note that in tournaments it version here:
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players cooperate to reach the ad- ward cards may be used or not. As in
venture’s goal and support each other adventure the maximum number of re-
in battles. ward cards in a hero’s deck is limited to 3. FAQ
You can find more on this in the Adven- • Each action card has a symbol for
ture rules starting on page 11. its category (for example, light close com- We present the Aventuria rules as comprehensive
bat weapons ( )). On the table to the and unambiguous as is possible within the confines
right you can see the maximum of how of this rulebook. If you have detailed questions or
many cards of each category a hero is may wish for extended rules explanations, please con-
have in his deck. tact us at feedback@ulisses-spiele.de. We are
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 Summary Game Symbols
Setup Close Combat
1. Set life point counter to 40 life points ( ) Ranged Combat
2. Put down hero card (with special ability side face-up) Magic
3. Shuffle action cards and draw a starting hand of 5 cards (replace cards and Dodge
reshuffle if desired) Fate Point
4. Place 2 fate points ( ) per player in the middle of the table Life Point
5. Draw hero counter to determine starting hero (all other players receive 1 ) Damage Point
 Endurance
Exhaust Card
Game turn summary
Each player’s turn goes through the following phases.
1. Resolve “At the start of the turn” cards
2. Draw 2 cards from the draw pile
3. Ready any exhausted cards
4. Put up to 2 cards face down as endurance cards (from your hand or permanent cards in play)
5. Actions (any order)
Play action cards (pay endurance cost, discard one-off cards, keep permanent cards )
Make an attack (attack card required, only once per type of attack)
 pay attack’s endurance cost
 Roll equal or below the attack attribute ( , , )
Failure: Take fate point ( )
Success:
• Dodging: Opponent rolls equal or below his dodge attribute ( )
• Roll weapon’s damage (damage is halved and rounded up if successfully dodged)
• Reduce damage by amor value; the remaining damage is subtracted from opponent’s life points ( ).
6. Resolve “At the end of the turn” cards and reduce cards in hand to 7 if applicable

Fate points
Discard to get one of the following advantages:
• Draw a card (any time)
• Receive  endurance until the end of the turn (any time)
• Reroll an attack (you don’t receive fate points for failing again)

Additional rules
Special ability: Use once per game, at any time during your own turn or opponent’s turn
Free actions: The only action you can play at any time. All other actions can only be played during one’s own turn.
Roll a 1: Critical Success! Success and draw a card from the draw pile.
Roll a 20: Critical Failure! Failure and an opponent’s draws 1 random card from your hand an discards it.

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 A v en tu r i a Ad ven tu r e C ard Game:
A d v en tu r e r ules
Cooperative adventures for 1-4* Aventurian Heroes of age 14 and up by Lukas Zach, Michael Palm, Markus Plötz and Christian Lonsing

Contrary to the Duel rules the other players re-

Contents Goal of the Game ceive no fate points.

All contents from the Duel game (page 2) The heroes join up as a group to face an adventure. *with the contents of this box up to 4 players
4 Skill Cards This requires you to coordinate your strategies and can participate in the following adventures.
29 Adventure Cards help each other out if necessary. Only as a team Later supplements will allow for parties of 6 or
will you be able to reach your goal and gain pre- more heroes.
50 Henchman Cards cious reward cards.
14 Reward Cards
29 Special Cards
12 Event Cards Prepare your Heroes
7 Leader Action Cards
1 Demon Card “Irrhalk” The players prepare their hero decks and life
3 Demon Ability Cards point counters ( ) as described in the Duel rules.
6 Grave Cards In addition they receive their hero’s skill card.
59 Life Point / Adventure Counters Place 2 fate points ( ) per player as well as an
adequate number of dice in the middle of the table.
10 Time Counters The players decide who of them will become the
6 Doom Counters starting hero. He gains the starting hero token.
1 Starting Hero Token Event Card
1 Rule Booklet
1 pad with Hero Documents Starting Hero Token

Important note: We recommend you play at

least one Duel game before going on the first
adventure. Adventure Tokens
(5s and 1s)

Life Point Tokens

Time Counter Doom Counter (5s and 1s)
Leader Action Card

Hero Action: Guess Name

Every hero max.
1x per turn
:
Craft roll
(you sing)
or Knowledge roll (you take a guess)
or Persuade roll (you flirt with him)

Place x 3 adventure counters on

this card. For every successful roll
remove one counter. When all counters
are removed, the heroes learn the
Kobold’s name and can attack him like
a normal opponent.

Saving Silvana

Skill Card Adventure Card Grave Card Reward Card Demon Ability Card

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 The Adventure
A normal adventure is made up of three acts, but
there are also short adventures made up of only
one act each. You can play each adventure multi-
ple times and earn reward cards that you can add
to your hero decks.
Each adventure consists of narrative texts and
game instructions, which can be found in the ad-
venture section of this booklet, as well as a num-
ber of adventure cards.
At the bottom of each adventure card you find the
title of the adventure it belongs to, followed by the
number of the act if the adventure comprises mul-
tiple acts.
In addition to the adventure cards the adventures
use common use cards and counters–those are
not specific to one particular adventure but can be
reused in multiple adventures. The common use
cards are comprised of henchman cards, reward
… The Dwarven smith Arbosh, the Elf Layariel, the
rogue Carolan and the mage Mirhiban ventured out
into the world to learn more about the fantastic con-
tinent of Aventuria. Initially they had been on their
own. Arbosh wanted to find out more about the cul-
ture of humans, Layariel was looking for her missing
brother, Carolan was on the run from the clutches of
a vengeful bandit leader who was betrayed by him,
and Mirhiban did not have the money to pay for the
luxuries of a regular academic study and thus found it
only natural to travel around by offering her magical
services. In those days the “occupation” as an adven-
turer was a quite common sight. Scholars and priests
spoke of a fateful Age of Heroes and recent historical
events had shown that there was indeed a demand
for these kinds of heroes. Aventuria’s east had fallen
into the hands of evil demon worshipers and the rest
of the continent was riddled with small scale warfare,
border conflicts, and inheritance disputes. There were
even rumors of a reinvigoration of the cult of the evil
Nameless God. Everywhere village elders, priests, and
nobles turned to wandering “heroes” to help them
with their many problems. Making the world a better
place might not have been the major goal of our four
heroes, but in their search for fame and fortune it was
a more than welcome side effect. None of them knew
what fate would hold in store for them...
Narrative Text and Game Instructions
Before you begin your journey, you visit the archives in the temples and in
the Council of Perainefurten to find out more about the Wildenstein barony.
Maybe this information can be of help to you later on?
Narrative Text
Each hero has to make a Knowledge roll.
Critical Success: You are very well prepared. Take 2 .
Game Instructions
Success: You find some useful information. Take 1 .
Failure: You don’t find anything useful. No effect.
Critical Failure: You collect misleading information. Remove 1
from the middle of the table until the end of this adventure.
cards and special cards (event cards, leader ac- A hero’s hero deck is only used during combats.
tion cards, demon ability cards and grave cards). This means that a hero’s action cards cannot be
The counters are comprised of hero counters, life used outside of a combat. So for example a hero
point counters, time counters and doom count- cannot heal lost life points with a “healing potion”
ers. Sort all the cards and counters and place them outside of combat, even if one of these was left
nearby at the beginning of an adventure. from a previous combat.
The adventure starts with the first act. Read the Now turn to the adventure section of this booklet
narrative texts and resolve the game instruc- and jump right into your first adventure “Saving
tions from the adventure section of this booklet in Silvana” (page 18). Return here when the first
the order in which they appear. Narrative texts are combat starts.
written in Italics, game instructions are arranged
in boxes.
If no specific player is pointed out, you may de-
cide freely which player is reading a narrative text
Combat
aloud. Sometimes there is more than just one nar-
rative text available, depending on the outcome of During each act there will be one combat. It fol-
the heroes’ actions (i.e. victory or defeat in a bat- lows the Duel rules in many respects, apart from
tle); in this case read only the applicable text. Ev- the fact that the players are not facing each other
ery time specific cards come into play or a combat in battle and instead band together to fight against
starts, this is pointed out by the game instructions. the opponent’s provided by the adventure.
Many game instructions require one ore more he-
roes to roll on a skill. A skill roll is handled similar-
Additional Cards
ly to an attribute roll in the Duel rules. Each hero’s In addition to the normal hero deck cards an ad-
skill values can be found on his skill card. Depend- venture combat comprises the following cards.
ing on a hero’s grade of success in such a roll he has
to follow the relevant game instructions. The difficulty
Each combat comes in one of four difficulties:
IMPORTANT NOTE: The heroes are allowed to easy, normal, difficult and legendary. At the
use fate points ( ) to reroll a die in their skill start of the combat you have to decide on one of
rolls. those difficulties. We recommend you pick the
“easy” difficulty for your first adventure. During
the combat the time scale of the chosen difficulty
The adventure specifically mentions the outcome
comes into play.
of a critical successes or critical failures on skill
rolls. This replaces the basic rule that a dice roll
of “1” allows drawing a card and a dice roll of “20”
means discarding a card.
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 Leader Card Henchman Card
Leader’s Name Keywords Henchman’s Name
???, the Kobold Threatpoints
Supernatural, Leader
3 (TP)
Starting
x
Keywords Can only lose after the
heroes complete the Henchman’s
hero action “Guess Name.“
1-2 = Kobold Curse: The hero with the 8 Life Points Special Rules Starting
Leader’s most endurance cards returns one ran-
Life Points
Special Rules
dom endurance card back into her hand.
3-5 = Kobold Scolding: The hero with
0 Dodge
the most cards in her hand discards one
card randomly. Dodge
6-9 = Heat weapon: The hero with the most Armor
takes one of her weapons in play back onto
her hand or loses 2D6 . If she has no weapons, Armor
nothing happens. Action
10-12 = Healing spell: Heals all of his fellow
warriors 5 . Action
13-20 = Nothing: Evil laughter. Illustration
Julia Metzger

Saving Silvana Action Table Action Table

Adventure’s Name
Time Effects
Time Scale

Card Name Time Scale (Easy)

Time Counters at
Start with 8 .
Draw Piles Start of Combat
start of combat 5, 3, 1 : Draw a new henchman card
Many adventure combats use specific draw piles,
and place it to the right of the other
opponents. At the start of combat first place the henchman
that are put together at the beginning of a com- cards. In order to do so you first have to assemble
0 : This turn the Kobold has twice as
Game Effects many actions ( ) as usual. bat in accordance to the game instructions for that a draw pile with all henchman cards whose key-
combat. During combat cards are drawn from these words correspond to the keywords provided by
Spieleffekte bei draw piles. An example for a draw pile is an event the combat’s game instructions, listed in the sec-
deck, from which cards are drawn every time the tion “Henchmen.” After shuffling the deck, draw
Ablauf der Zeit
time scale says so, or a leader action deck, from one card after the other from that deck. At the top
Saving Silvana which cards are drawn every time the “leader ac- right of each henchman card its Threat Points
tion” result is rolled on a leader card’s action table. (TP) are listed. Keep drawing new cards until the
Adventure’s Name Cards from draw piles are not immediately shuf- sum of their threat points is equal to or higher
fled back into the draw pile–instead each draw pile than the threat points listed in the combat’s game
Time Scale has its own discard pile. instructions.
From the four time scales pick the one that corre- Some combats may use multiple draw piles at the The henchman cards are placed in a row from left
sponds to your chosen difficulty. Place a number of same time. to right in the order in which they are drawn, in
time counters () on top of the card as noted on the middle of the table so that each player can read
the card. At the end of each combat round remove them. The draw pile with the remaining hench-
one time counter () and look if the card notes a ...Despite the advancement of human civilization, most man cards is put nearby in case there are addition-
game effect that takes place at that time. Also parts of Aventuria were still covered with wilderness. al henchmen drawn from it as reserves during the
check other cards for Time Effects, where some- Marauding Orcs attacked the settlements bordering combat. Place the leader card at the left of the row
times game effects take place according to a specif- their lands. In the Svelt valley those blackfur mon- of villains (sometimes there is more than one lead-
ic number of time counters () on the time scale. sters had even seized control over some human cit- er card).
ies. Further to the east the redfur Goblins became the
Next you place life point counters on each lead-
Opponent Cards people’s major menace. But by far the worst enemy to
er and henchman card according to their start-
humankind were... humans themselves. From simple
These cards represent opponents that the heroes ing life points. Some opponents (especially lead-
highwaymen all the way to tyrant barons and horri-
have to face in combat. There are two types of op- ers) may have a variable number of life points ( )
ble demon worshipers, who tried to open the gates of
ponent cards: that usually depends on the number of heroes ( )
hell on every night of the full moon... Mirhiban could
Henchman cards provide regular enemies that only hope that their image of humanity wouldn’t suf- participating in the combat. Like heroes the oppo-
can appear in many different adventures, so they fer too harshly from the inevitable encounters with nents can usually not raise their life points ( ) over
make up their own card type. their start value. Some game effects may allow to
this kind of scum...
Leader cards are thematically connected to the do so, but this is then mentioned expressly with
relevant act of the adventure, so they are part of the relevant game effect.
the adventure cards.
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The hero counters of all participating heroes are
placed face down and shuffled in the middle of the
table.
The doom counters are placed nearby.
At the beginning of combat the heroes draw 5 cards
into their hands as usual, including the usual rules
for removing and replacing cards.
Combat Rounds
An adventure combat consists of a number of combat
rounds. Each round comprises the following steps:
1) This step comprises the phases 1 to 4 of the Duel
rules (“Start the Turn,” “Draw 2 Cards from
your Draw Pile,” “Ready Any Exhausted Cards,”
and “Play Up to 2 Endurance Cards,” page 3).
The main difference is that all heroes resolve
all of theses phases simultaneously. All players
ready their exhausted cards, then draw 2 action
cards and decide if and which cards to put face
down as endurance cards. If there are exhaust-
ed cards from the adventure, then these are also
readied during this step.
2) Now each hero takes her turn, starting with the
current starting hero (as indicated by the start-
ing hero token), playing action cards and mak-
ing attacks. (This step comprises the phases 5
and 6 of the Duel rules (“Actions” and “End of
Turn,” pages 4 and 5.)
3) Now the opponents (leaders and henchmen)
take their actions, from left to right in the or-
der in which their cards are arranged (see “Op-
ponent’s Turn”).
4) Then one time counter () is removed from the
time scale and the game effects from the time
scale card are resolved (i.e. drawing of an event
card) in accordance to the current number of
time counters on that card. Once the last time
counter is removed from the card, the game ef-
fects listed for 0 time counters () are resolved
on that and on every subsequent combat round.
5) Check if any opponent card or other card used in
the adventure lists game effects in accordance
to the current number of time counters () on
the time scale and resolve them if applicable.
6) At the end of the combat round the current
starting hero hands her starting hero token to
player sitting to her left, who now becomes the
next starting hero.
Hero Turn
When you take a turn (Step 2 of the combat round),
you do so in accordance with the usual Duel rules,
but with the following additional rules:
Example for the placement of leaders and henchmen
The game instructions of the second act of “Legacy of Wildenstein” note that “Henchman cards with
the key words “Guard” and “Servant” are used. In the basic box this is the case for the cards “Evil
Maid,” “Fearful Watchman” (two cards), “Hunchback,” “Crossbowman” (three cards), “Loyal Body-
guard” (three cards), and “Tough Watchman” (three cards). These 13 cards are used to assemble the
henchmen draw pile.
The threat value is “Number of heroes ( ) x 6,” so in a game with 2 participating heroes the total
threat value would be 2 x 6 = 12.
At the start the leader “Baron of Wildenstein” is put up on the left. Then the players draw their first
henchman from the henchmen draw pile. It is a “Loyal Bodyguard.” The total threat value of cards
on the table is now 5 (the Loyal Bodyguard’s TP), which is below the required 12, so another card is
drawn. It is another Loyal Bodyguard, so the total threat value rises to 10. Its still below 12, so another
card is drawn. Its a Tough Watchman! His TP is 7, so the total of the threat value on the table is now
17. This is higher than the required 12, so the placement of henchmen is finished. The heroes have
to face the following opponents:
Baron von Wildenstein
8
Undead, Leader
x
Attacks against the
baron are only possible
6
via the “Jump onto the Chandelier”
hero action. As long as he is not
wounded, he has +1 .
1-4 = 2attack: The hero with the most
hand cards loses 1D6+1 . The baron
heals himself by the same amount.
5-12 = Leader action: Draw a leader
action card and resolve it.
13-20 = Nothing: Smiles menacingly.
6-4  = Blood Rage: If the baron
is not wounded, the Heir loses 5 .
Illustration: Nele Klumpe
Wildenstein II
• You can attack opponents in the same way you
would attack an opposing hero. Opponents with Hero Action
dodge value of “–” are not allowed to make a
dodge roll. The opponent’s armor value is sub-
tracted from the damage ( ) of each and every
Close Combat ( ), Ranged Combat ( ), Magic Card Name Hero Action: Mingle with the Crowd
Every hero max.
( ) attack that hits him, and the remaining Who? How 1x per turn
damage reduces his life points ( ). If this reduc- often? :
es an opponent’s life points to 0 or below, then Stealth roll:
he is defeated. In case of a henchman his card is Skill Roll
Until the end of the next turn you may
shuffled back into the henchmen draw pile. In reroll each once.
case of a leader his card is removed from the
game. Some henchmen are not shuffled back
Game Effects “Sometimes the best way to hide is not to
hide at all.”
–famous saying among Blessed Ones of
into the henchman draw pile, but instead are Phex
removed from the game—this is mentioned on
their card. Adventure Name Wildenstein II
• You gain 1 fate point ( ) via the normal rules +Act Number
for each opponent that is defeated by you. You
don’t gain any fate points for opponents who
leave the combat without being defeated. • Action cards in your hero deck with a text box
• In many combats so-called “hero actions” are starting with the words “In an adventure:” use
placed as cards. You can use those as if they the rules in that text box instead of the normal
were permanent action cards of your hero. Most rules of the card. If there is no such text box,
hero actions come in tandem with a skill roll then the card uses the normal rules during an
that you have to succeed at in order to use the adventure–all parts of them that are not appli-
action. Additional costs, conditions and effects cable to the heroes’ opponents are ignored.
of hero actions are noted on the relevant card.
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 Opponent’s Critical Success
A dice result of 1 on an opponent’s action die means
that additionally to the dice roll result he gains an-
other action in the same turn.
Opponent’s Critical Failure
A dice result of 20 on an opponent’s action die
means that his turn ends immediately after resolv-
ing the dice roll result.
Random Target
Many actions of the opponents are aimed against
specific targets. In case such a target cannot be
clearly determined, it is determined randomly.
Draw a hero counter from the middle of the ta-
Example for ble and turn it face up. The hero depicted on
“In an adventure” the counter becomes the target of the attack.
If instead of determining a random target from
When using the card “Blinding flash” in an ad- the whole group you have to determine a tar-
venture, completely ignore the card effect “An get from only some of the heroes, keep drawing
opponent’s attack roll is subsequently raised by counters until you draw a valid target.
5.” (The opponents in a adventure make action After a hero has been determined randomly, all
die rolls instead of attack rolls.) Instead the text uncovered counters are put back face down into
in the box is used: “An opponent’s action die the pile and reshuffled.
roll is subsequently raised by 3.”
The hero with the most...
Some opponents pick the hero with the most fate
• If a card effect mentions an “opponent,” then
points ( ), life points ( ), and so forth as the tar-
this effect may be used on an adventure’s
get of their attack. If in this case one or more he-
henchman or leader card. If it mentions a
roes have the same number of fate points ( ), life
“hero” instead, then this effect can only be used
points ( ), etcetera, chose one of them at random.
on heroes.
• A player is allowed to use his fate points ( )
to allow another player to reroll an failed at- Remove from the game
tack or skill roll. He is not allowed to use the Some game effects can cause cards and fate points
fate point ( ) for any other effects. (Important to be removed from the game. In an adventure
note: This is an intentional deviation from the with more than one act they are gone only for
Duel game team rules!) the current act. At the start of the next act all
removed fate points are returned to the middle
Opponent’s Turn of the table. Cards that were removed from the
game are returned to their original decks.
The heroes’ opponents are made up from one or
more leaders, accompanied by a group of hench-
men. They act from left to right, starting with
the leader. Each enemy’s card notes the number of
actions ( ) an opponent has per combat round.
Some opponents (especially leaders) have a vari-
able number of actions, usually dependent on the
number of heroes ( ). Roll one d20 for each ac-
tion ( ) an opponent has and look up the relevant
result in his action table.
Sometimes the rules texts mention the “fellow
warriors” of an opponent. This means all other op-
ponents other than that specific opponent himself.
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...After a couple of weeks on the highways of the realm
the four adventurers had become a good team that
wouldn’t feel threatened by simple highwaymen. Five
rundown guys in rags and tatters had ambushed them
from the underbrush. They were armed with jagged
swords and clubs. Mirhiban almost felt sorry for those
guys. They were most likely former peasants who had
lost their livelihood during the demon worshipers’ in-
vasion–their dark influence had corrupted the plants
in the eastern part of the realm and ruined the soil of
the land for many years to come. After an easy vic-
tory over the bandits Mirhiban made sure that they
had learned their lesson and allowed them to retreat
into the woods, even so Layariel and Arbosh protested
against it...
Most of the opponent’s actions are attacks. Each
one of them lists the type of attack ( , , or )
and how many damage points it causes. Oppo-
nent’s attacks follow the same rules as heroes’ at-
tacks during a duel between two heroes. A hero
may thus roll on her dodge ( ) attribute and use
action cards in order to reduce the damage or re-
act in other ways to the attack.
...Finally a real fight: While crossing the Black Sickle
mountains the group stumbled upon a band of Ogres.
Those man-eaters where as big as a house and posed
a threat to all travelers. In their case Mirhiban’s mer-
cy had its limits–the massive beasts had the average
intelligence of a fencing post and had wrought havoc
on the denizens of the realm in previous times. Arbosh
and Layariel had heard similar stories, so they cut
down the monsters one after the other. But then an
even more hideous creature appeared before them–a
massive ogre that towered even over his large breth-
ren. Someone or something had made the extra effort
to equip one of the creature’s arms with a long and
rusty steel blade. With murder in its eyes the beast
shuffled towards Carolan, who had not yet noticed its
presence...
 combat round. At the beginning of the next round
Opponent’s Turn Example she returns into the game and normally resumes
combat.
Baron von Wildenstein

8
Undead, Leader

Reanimation Roll
x
Attacks against the
baron are only possible
via the “Jump onto the Chandelier”
hero action. As long as he is not
6
During your turn you may try to reanimate the
wounded, he has +1 .

1-4 = attack: The hero with the most 2

disabled hero of a fellow player per the follow-
hand cards loses 1D6+1 . The baron
heals himself by the same amount.
5-12 = Leader action: Draw a leader
action card and resolve it.
13-20 = Nothing: Smiles menacingly.
ing method: Exhaust ( ) X endurance cards and
6-4  = Blood Rage: If the baron
is not wounded, the Heir loses 5 .
roll one d20 for a reanimation attempt. If the die
Illustration: Nele Klumpe

result is equal to or below X, the disabled hero is

Wildenstein II
During the second act of “Legacy of Wildenstein” the opponents resolve their turn. The Baron of
Wildenstein goes first. His actions ( ) entry lists the symbol “ .” It means that he is allowed to roll
a number of action dice equal to the number of heroes ( ) participating in the combat. In a combat
with 2 heroes he has 2 actions. A player rolls his action die and scores a “1,” so the Result “Magic-At-
tack” is resolved and the Baron receives an additional action, so he is allowed to roll two more times.
The next roll is a “15,” meaning that the Baron smiles balefully but other than that nothing bad hap-
pens. Afterward an “8” is rolled, so a leader action card is drawn from its draw pile and resolved. This
ends the baron’s actions.
After he has acted, it is time for the first Loyal Bodyguard, then the second Loyal Bodyguard, and
finally the Tough Watchman to roll one action die each (shown by the “1” in their action ( ) entry).
After that the opponent’s turn ends.
Disabled hero
A hero’s life points ( ) cannot sink below 0. If they
are reduced to 0, then she counts as disabled.
She is ignored by all further attacks from the op-
ponents, the starting hero token is handed to the
next hero, and she cannot intervene in the combat
in any way. Her permanent cards in play remain
in play, and the cards in her hand as well as her
fate points, draw pile, and discard pile remain un-
changed. If the starting hero is disabled, give the
starting hero token to the next non-disabled hero
to the left.
Disabled heroes can brought back into combat by
raising their life points ( ) above 0, either by ac-
tion cards that heal 5 or more life points ( ) (for
example a healing potion) or by a reanimation
roll (see below). A hero that was brought back into
combat counts as disabled for the remainder of the
...Arbosh had jumped into the mighty ogre’s side with
his Orc-Nose to save Carolan. He cut deeply into his
enemy, but in his death throes the creature smashed
him into a nearby rock face. Layariel was immediate-
ly at his side: “His spirits are fading! We have to act
fast!”...
brought back into combat with X life points ( ).
If the die result is higher than X, the hero re-
mains disabled. The reanimation roll isn’t a skill
roll, so you cannot use a fate point to reroll it.
End of Combat
The combat ends with either a victory or a defeat.
Which game effects lead to a victory and which ef-
fects lead to a defeat is handled differently with ev-
ery combat, as explained in the entry of that name
in the combat’s game instructions. Here is where
the doom counters ( ) come into play.
In case of a defeat the heroes have failed and the
adventure ends. However, the heroes are allowed
to try again:
1) All reward cards the heroes gained during the
adventure are discarded.
2) The act is restarted according to the game in-
structions at the start of the relevant act.
In case of a victory proceed as follows:
1) If your hero’s current life points ( ) are below
30, you are allowed to raise the life points ( )
back to 30. The hero retains all fate points she
had at the end of combat.
2) Pick up all your action cards and shuffle them
back into your hero deck.
3) If you used your hero’s special ability during
combat, then the hero card is now put face up
again.
4) If a victorious combat includes a reward for the
heroes, then you now receive that reward. Usu-
ally you are allowed to draw a certain number
of reward cards from the reward card deck and
distribute them between the heroes. You can
freely decide which hero gains which reward
card. If you cannot agree on who gains what
card, then each of you picks one, beginning
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 When using reward cards you have to adhere to
the same deck construction restrictions as with
the action cards (see page 9), pointing out which
cards a hero may have in her hero deck. The
available card categories are shown on the back
of a hero’s skill card. You may shuffle the reward
card into your hero deck or place it on top of the
deck. This might raise the number of cards in a
hero’s deck above 30 during an adventure.
If you cannot or choose not to use a reward
card, remove it from the game and gain one ad-
ditional time counter () for your personal use
during the “Brief Respite” (see below).
Example: In a game with three heroes (Mirhiban, Ar-
bosh, Carolan) the heroes draw the reward cards “Flit-
termouse,” “Barbed Club,” and “Strong Healing Potion.”
The heroes agree to give the healing potion to Arbosh,
allowing him to heal his fellow heroes in an emergency.
Mirhiban is unable to use any of the other two cards, so
she decides for one additional action during the respite.
This leaves Carolan the choice between the two weapons,
and he decides to take the flittermouse. The barbed club
is discarded.
Brief Respite
Between each act of an adventure the heroes have
time for a brief respite, allowing them to regain
some of their vitality and prepare for the upcom-
ing challenges of the next act. Each player may
choose one of the following actions for each time
counter () that was left after the previous combat.
• Rest: Heal 5 . You may chose this action mul-
tiple times. You cannot raise the life points ( )
above the starting value.
• Preparation: You may choose this action only
once, but you may expend any number of time
counters () for it. Choose one permanent card
in your deck with endurance cost equal to the
time counters you expended and place it in
front of you where it counts as a played card
for the next combat. (In the combat after the
next combat the card is put back into your draw
pile, unless you again choose the “Preparation”
action and expend the relevant number of time
counters.)
• Pray to the Gods: Take 1 fate point ( ). You
may choose this action multiple times, as long
as there are fate points remaining in the middle
of the table.
After resolving the brief respite, the adventure
continues.
…The journey into the so-called “Shadowlands”
hadn’t been pleasant so far. More than once each one Chance Encounter
of them had felt the whooshing wings of Golgari over
their head and barely managed to escape the bird of The chance encounter is a special game mode
death. Sharing those experiences had made the mot- that allows the heroes to fight against a random-
ley group into friends. Now they sat around a campfire ly selected group of enemies instead of going on
once more and tried to catch they breath and maybe an adventure. May the better one win!
even a little bit of sleep–as far as this was even possi- A chance encounter is handled like a normal
ble in these cursed lands. Arbosh’s thoughts were with adventure’s combat. Decide on a difficulty and
his people. Was it a good idea to leave his home in the place the relevant “chance encounter” time
mines and take to the road? Hadn’t he already col- scale in the middle of the table. Then place a
lected enough fame and fortune to impress the Dwarf number of henchman cards, until the sum of
women at home? But on the other hand there was still their threat points is equal to or higher then the
a lot of evil left in the world that had to be vanquished. number of heroes ( ) x 7. This concludes the
Dreadful demonic practices that were an insult to the
preparations and the battle can start!
great god Angrosh, father of all Dwarves. It was to him
There are no leader cards in a chance encoun-
that Arbosh turned now, as he had done many times
ter. For all game effects that refer to a leader,
before. He sat motionless in silent prayer, staring into
the henchman with the highest threat value is
the campfire’s flames, looking for his god’s counsel...
considered the leader. If there is more than one
henchman with the highest value then the one
furthest to the left is considered the leader.
A classic chance encounter is played with all
End of an Adventure available henchman cards, but as an alternative
you could also build a themed draw pile with
The heroes have succeeded at an adventure if they
your “favorite” henchmen. You can also design
your own time scales, use event cards and so
manage to successfully finish its last act. They re-
forth, to make the encounter more interesting.
ceive another reward as pointed out under “End of
Combat” (Step 4). In addition to that they now re- A victorious chance encounter usually doesn’t
ceive experience points. win you any experience points, but you can of
course gain some experience for them if you
For every experience point you may choose one of
want.
the following options:
1) You may pick one of the reward cards you
gained during the adventure and note it on your
hero document. In the following adventures
you may pick up to three of those cards and add
them to your hero deck for the duration of the
adventure. However, while doing so you still
have to adhere to the deck construction rules.
2) Permanently raise one of your skill values by
+1. However, you cannot raise any skill value by
more than 4 points over the starting value.
You may also combine the two options, so if for
example you receive 3 experience points, you may
note one of your reward cards on your hero doc-
ument and raise two skill values by +1 each. You
may also save experience points to use them at a
later time.
In the next adventure the heroes automatically
start with 40 life points ( ) and 0 fate points ( ).
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 Credits Combat Round Game Symbols
Aventuria Summary Adventure Mode
Card Game Duels and Adventures Close Combat
in the World of the Dark Eye Ranged Combat
Duel Rules Start of Combat
Magic
Lukas Zach and Michael Palm 1) Place henchman cards
Dodge
Adventure Rules and Adventures 2) Place leader card(s)
Fate Point
Lukas Zach, Michael Palm,
Markus Plötz and Christian Lonsing
3) Place life point counters Life Point
Additional Texts 4) Pre-position hero counters of participating heroes Adventure Mark
Nicolas Mendrek and Mháire Stritter and doom counters
Damage Point
Editing 5) Every hero draws action cards as usual  Endurance
Thomas Eichelmeyer, Frank Gerken,
Christian Lonsing, Michael Mingers, Michael Palm, Exhaust Card
Markus Plötz, Timo Roth and Lukas Zach
Combat Turn Number of Heroes

Cover 1) All heroes simultaneously perform phases 1 to 4 of the
Actions
Duel rules.
Nadine Schäkel  Time Counter
Layout & Design 2) In a clockwise order, starting with the starting hero,
each player performs phase 5 and 6 of the Duel rules. Doom
Christian Lonsing, Nadine Schäkel
3) The opponents act in the order in which they are
English Version assembled.
Director of Product Development 4) A time counter () is removed from the time scale card and
Timothy Brown the relevant time effect on the card is resolved.
Translation 5) Time effects on opponent’s cards are resolved, if applicable.
Christian Lonsing, Martin Zimmermann
6) The current starting hero hands the starting hero counter
Editing and Playtesting
to the player sitting to her left and the next round begins.
Kevin MacGregor, Shari MacGregor, Eric Simon
The authors thank the countless heroes who
tested this game, especially Andreas, Arne,
Arthur, Axel, Babs, Benne, Caro, Demian,
Florian, Jan, Janek, Katja, Lisa, Lucas, Lukas, Marco,
Mike, Nici, Philipp, Sebastian, Silas,
Stefan, Stoffel, Thilini, Thomas, Ü-Säxle,
Valerie and Werner.
A big thank you to Frauke Forster
for the quotations.

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