MEEPLE QUEST

PROTOTYPE RULES
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Index
Introduction 3

Game Objective 3

Game Components 4

The villains 4
The heroes 4
Combat dice 5
Equipment cards 5
Treasure cards 5
Equipping with new objects 5
Monetary system 5
Exploration cards 6
First player token 6
Representative of Evil Lord 7
Villain dashboard 7
Boss character cards 7
Player mats 8
Bonus tokens 8
Magic backpack tokens 8
Relic blessing tokens 8
Sacred Relic tokens 8
Meeple trap tokens 9
Treasure chest tokens 9
Summon portal tokens 9
Summary cards 9
Game tiles 10
Teleport tokens 10
Saving the Princess 10

Setting up 11

Game turn 12

A. Hero Phase 12
Moving around the game board 12
Exploring the dungeon 13
Fighting 13
B. Phase of Villains 14
C. Phase of Corruption 14
Keeping track of the Evil Lord 15
Hero death 15

End of the game 15

Solitary game 15

Modular game 16

Credits and Rights 16

An arcane and dark power looms over Meeple if the hero dies we have the change to send
Land, where there is a mighty kingdom known another one, no worries. At the beginning it
as Meeple Kingdom. In this kingdom, magic might seem a good idea to collaborate with the
relics that balanced the Good and Evil forces rest of the players and to try to create a
were protected. These relics have been stolen balanced party. But, remember, there can only
and are getting corrupted by a being so called be one winner.
Evil Meeple Lord. Now the Meeple King requires
brave heroes that can save his kingdom and,
consequently, the whole Meeple Land from
falling into the Darkness. But not think that you
Game Objective
are the only adventurers coming to help, there In order to win this game not only we must win
are more rival parties that have arrived from its mechanism (an evil artificial intelligence), but
far away lands in order to recover the relics also the rest of the players. For this purpose, we
must achieve three Sacred Relics of any color
and, therefore, get the glory and all the rewards
combination except the corrupted ones (these are
that this epic and dangerous adventure will
dark and they cannot be taken, later on the aim
bring. Do you feel up to it?
for this will be explained) and leave with them
through the entrance of the dungeon.
Nevertheless, the villain meeples could also win
Introduction if they manage to corrupt Meeple ...
This game is for 1 to 5 players and take us to
dark dungeons or, who knows? you might
even come across deep caverns and gloomy
woods, infected with ruthless creatures. The
board will be put together randomly with
every turn as players explore. As brave heroes
recruited by the King of Meeple Land, our
mission is to clean the place and get as many
treasures as we can, since these will provide
us with the fame and glory that we desire so
much. However, we never forget the Sacred
Relics stolen by villain meeples, who are
taking Meeple Land into the Darkness. In order
to recover the Sacred Relics, we count on
several kinds of heroes that will support us in
achieving our aim with success, although only
one hero can be chosen for this adventure, and
... Land, and they will achieve so if the Evil The heroes
Level reaches the square with the eye of the
The characters of the players are represented
Evil Lord. These can happen mainly if several
by color meeples (red, green, blue, yellow and
heroes die or if some relics get corrupted. In
orange).
order to help us recover the relics there are
golden relics that are used as joker, they are
Each player counts on 4 cards that represents
very rare and of great value.
his 4 heroes available in the game. When a
player has an active hero in the dungeon, he
In the case we earn three relics of the same
must place his corresponding card in the
color, these will bless us and will provide us
Player Mat. These cards point out the starting
with a special bonus. If so, we will obtain the
life, the movement, the skills, if the hero has
blessing token of our color.
any, and the amount of power to start with.

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Example: The blue player earns 3 relics,
2 oranges and 1 golden. He gets blessed
by the Sacred Relics.

Game Components  Warrior: Throws 2 extra dice in combat.

The components are limited to the amount
that there in the box. If a component cannot be
placed, this can be ignored. This section
explains their use.
The villains
They are the evil creatures of the game that
are controlled by AI (artificial intelligence) call
Evil Meeple Lord and sometimes by the player
who represents the Evil Lord in that turn (it
will be explained in more detail later on). In
this game there are three kinds of villain
meeples (of black color); minions, mini-bosses
and the Boss of the minions.
The characteristics of these villains are the
following:
 Minions: They move 3 squares, have 1
life point and throw 2 dice in melee
combat. They deliver 1 power point to
the hero that destroy them.
 Mini-bosses: They move 3 squares, have
2 life points and throw 3 dice in melee
combat. They deliver 2 power points to
the hero that destroy them.
 Boss: Check the section cards of bosses.
 Mage: He can re-rolls a die without
having to spent a power point. Besides,
when he earns power points, he gets the
double of the rest of characters. As
additional free action, he can spend 5
power points in order to place or move
his teleport token to the square that he
occupies, as long as this is empty and it is
not a special tile (as the starting tile).
 Priest: Each villain meeple eliminated
makes him recover 1 lost life point. He
cannot have more life points that his card
indicates.
 Rogue: He can leave the squares with
villains without having to spend power
points, and also can enter the squares
with enemy meeple traps without being
affected. In addition, during his
movement he can move an extra square.
Combat dice
When a hero throws
the dice when
attacking, the results
of the colors of the hero
count as impacts. These
impacts are usually direct
(there is no defense except for some equipped
treasure cards) and these impacts count as
damage. Also, there must be taken into
account the Combat Bonus Token that the
player has, which means that the color of that
token counts also has impact (this token will
be explain further later on). This means that
we have 33% probabilities for success as hero.
The heroes are impacted by villains with their
own colors and black (they have a 50%
probabilities of impact).
Equipment cards
Each hero starts with his own equipment card,
this card shows the face of the hero and has
white border. This card usually indicates the
number of dice that can be thrown in combat.
Some of these cards might require spending
power points in order to be fully used or to
activate a special ability. On the reverse of
these cards we can find the advanced version
of the weapon. This side of the card has golden
border.
Example: Stuff of Light is the
Mage's advanced weapon. It
attacks with one die and offers a
free re-roll. By spending one
power point it turns into a range
attack. Besides, it is a two handed
weapon with melee attack.
The equipment cards are placed next to the
hero card on the Player Mat. They can neither
be discarded nor sold.
Melee attack: in the same square.
Adjacent attack: in the same square and
also in adjacent orthogonal squares.
Range attack: in the same square, in
diagonal squares and also up to two
orthogonal squares.
Treasure cards
They are similar to the equipment cards. The
heroes get them by opening the chests they
come across while exploring the dungeon.
Also, it is possible to get one of these cards by
destroying an evil summon portal. These cards
are never harmful for the player and are kept
hidden to the rest of the players.
One-use object: The card indicates when
to use it. Once used, it will be discarded.
Equipping with new objects
The heroes will only be allowed to equip
themselves during their turn and up to a
maximum of 2 cards. It is not possible to equip
with cards that have the same icon and that
together add up more than two hands. The
cards with potion icons cannot be equipped
and must be kept in the "player hands". If the
hero dies, the equipped cards are ruled out,
the non equipped cards and those with a
potion icon can be kept by the player. An
equipped object cannot go back to the "player
hands", they must be discarded in order to be
replaced.
One-hand object.
Two-hand object.
 Event icon. They must be shown as soon as section in order to learn how it is built. For one
they are taking out of the Treasure Deck and player only 2 tiles of each type are used. For 2
their instructions must be carried out. or 3 players it is recommended 3 tiles of each
type so that the game is more agile.

The event Power Up! will

be shown by turning over
the equipment card of the 1
hero.
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Monetary system
Some of the treasure cards have
money value. As free action a
player can exchange cards that are 1 Type of tile to be placed. 4 A mini-boss of villains is
placed.
in his hands, for the value of 4 meeple coins, in
order to get a relic. For this purpose 2 relics 2 A relic token is placed 5 Forced adjustment for
will be taken out of the Relic Reserve, having facing up. single player games.
to choose one and return the other one. 3 Two villains are placed.

This icon represents the villain

Exploration cards boss of the game. There is only
one exploration card with this
These cards indicate the tile that must be icon.
taken and how to organize his content
(summon portals, villains, relics, treasure
chests...). For the One Player Mode, the arrow
shows the position as it has been explored. First player token
This token is a reminder of the player who
For 2 or more players, the player in charge of carries out his actions in the first place during
the Evil Lord will decide how to adjust the tile. the Hero Phase. At the end
of each game turn, this
The Exploration Deck cannot have more cards token must be handed to
that tiles are available in the game (if there are the player on the left.
4 corner tiles, then there will be a maximum of
4 corner exploration cards). Check the Set Up
Representative of Evil Lord card, 5 power points and a relic, as long as its
ability allows it, otherwise this will be ignored
This token is show who should throw the dice
(if already in possession of three relics, the
of the villains, choose the orientation of the
reward relic gets wasted). Remember, winning
tiles, choose target in case of a tie of malignant
a relic means to take two Relics from the
AI...
Reserve, to keep one and return the other.
At the start of the game it is handed to the
player on the right of the starting player and
once there has been a whole
turn completed (all three 1
phases) it is given to the 5
2
player on the left. In the
section of game preparation
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this is explained in more 3
detail. 4
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Villain dashboard 1 Name of the Boss. 2 Type of attack.

This board allows to keep track of the progress

3 Amount of dice for 4 Illustration of the
of evilness in Meeple Land. When the level
attack. Boss.
reaches the square with the eye of the evel
lord, Meeple Land will fall into darkness and 5 Amount of life. 6 Skill of the Boss.
the players will lose the game.
7 Movement points.
It comes with two wooden black counters, the
octagonal piece is initially placed in the box
that shows the number of players. The cube is The small skeletons
the counter for the life of the Villain Chief. are invoked by the
Lich and are
equivalent to normal
Minions.

In addition, in this board there are three

spaces to place the card of the villain chief and
the exploration and treasure card decks.

Boss character cards

These cards, apart from letting the players
know what kind of creatures they face, also
indicates the characteristics of the Boss and
his skills, which will apply only when it
appears in the game. When a boss is
eliminated, the hero will receive a treasure
Player mats
The hero card and the starting equipment
cards are placed on this board. A further two
spaces allow to place two treasure cards that
the hero has obtained during the game.
There are two bars in order to keep track of
the life and power of the players by using
wooden cubes. A hero will not be allowed to
have more life that his cards indicates, but he
will be allowed to accumulate up to 20 power
points as the limit of the bar shows.
Magic backpack tokens
Each player has a magic backpack of relics.
When a hero dies, he lays his magic backpack
in the square where he died in order to
identify where he left the relics obtained so
far. The magic backpack token is placed on the
board. There is only one backpack per player.
If the active hero of the player is killed and
leaves his backpack, his new hero will have to
get it before he can carry on taking more relics.
The limit of relics that fit in the backpack is 3.
The relics inside the backpack cannot get
corrupted, but one by one they can get stolen
by other players.

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2
3
5

Relic blessing tokens

1 Space for the hero
card.
3 Space for two further
equipment cards.
5 Track for the hero’s life
counter.
Each player has a blessing token that can be
2 Space for the starting
used when obtaining three Sacred Relics of a
equipment card.
same colour. There is a different type of
4 Track for the power blessing on each side of the token, and the
counter. player will choose with which of them to start
as soon as he gets the three sacred relics. In
the corruption phase he will be able to change
the type of blessing.

In addition, to facilitate the preparation, the

board shows the common values of life and
power a hero starts with.

Bonus tokens
With these tokens the chance of impact
increases when throwing the dice, not only in
combat but also in any occasion that requires
throwing dice (how they are handed to the
players will be explained later on). For all
purposes players are represented by two
colors, the character card color and other
components, and the bonus token you
received from another player.
Sacred Relics tokens
They represent the relics that players must get
to win the game (expect the corrupt ones).
There are two types, the sacred relics that are
those of the colors of the players, and the
golden ones that are like wildcards, and the
corrupted relics, these are dark and cannot be
taken and means an obstacle for the objective
of the heroes.
Corrupt relics will become mini-bosses in the Treasure chest tokens
corruption phase if they do not get destroyed
These appear through exploration cards. A
and they will return to the Reserve of Relics.
player can use his hero free action to open a
They have a life point and they get impacted as
chest. He will take a card from the treasure
villains. Destroying a corrupt relic gives 2
deck and keep it. In the case that the card
power points and the destroyed relic gets
contains an event, this will apply the effect
ruled out of the game.
immediately. The treasure token is taken away
of the game board.

The golden relics behave as wildcards, each of

them are equivalent to any color, so they can
be used to get the Blessing of Relics.

Summon portal tokens

Meeple trap tokens
Each player has a total of 4 trap tokens of his
color and there are also villains traps that can
appear in the exploration cards.
On these tokens Minions will appear in the
Corruption Phase. As with chests, these tokens
appear throughout the game with the
exploration cards. They
can be destroyed by a free
action of a hero, needing
to spend 5 power points.
In this case the player will
win a treasure card.

Summary cards
They are used as a quick reference in order to
know how to perform a full game turn, also
indicating all kind of actions that a player can
make with his character. The game turn is
more detailed in these rules.

The traps of the players can only be placed in

empty squares where the hero is, in tiles of
any type except special or initial. The trap
makes any meeple (villain or hero opponent)
passing through them lose a life point, but
does not interrupt his movement. The heroes
of the same color of the trap can cross and stay
in these squares without activating the trap,
the same with the villains and his traps.
Rogues can remain and cross any square with
a trap even though it is not of their own color.
When a trap is activated, the token is
discarded from the game and cannot be used
again by the player to whom it belongs. The
villains that are eliminated by traps offer
power points to the owner.
Game tiles
There are five different types of tiles apart
from the starting tile that is a special one.
Rooms, corridors, corners… they form the
dungeon as heroes explore.
Up to a maximum of 4 meeples of any size are
allowed to be in a same square (unless
indicated otherwise). If there are 4 meeples, it
will not be possible for any other meeple to
enter the square (hero o villain). This
restriction also applies to rogues.
The starting tile differs from the others
because it has special corner squares with
snail stairs. The villains cannot enter these
squares, therefore they ignore the heroes that
occupy them.
Starting tile Normal tile
Teleport tokens
These magic portals are connected among
each other. A hero can go from one to the other
by spending a movement point and a power
point as part of his movement. The villains also
take into account these portals when
calculating their shorter route toward the
heroes.
All the magic portals work exactly the same
although they have different colors.
Each Mage can place or move the portal of his
own color by spending 5 power points. This
can only be placed on an empty square, except
in special tiles where the Mage is, as the
starting one.
Saving the Princess
This character can appear in the dungeon at
any point of the game in the dungeon. The
princess is worth a golden relic and occupies
the space of a meeple. The hero that is on the
same square than the princess can take control
of this as a free action, and he will take the
card that represents it. Another hero could
take her control. The villains ignore the
princess. If a hero dies and is carrying the
princess, this will stay on the square where the
hero died. The princess comes with a character
card, and exploration card (room type) and a
pink wooden meeple.
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Setting up
1. Each player must take the following items of
his color:
 The player board
 1 wooden meeple
 4 hero cards
 4 equipment cards, one for each hero
 2 wooden cubes
 1 magic backpack token
 4 meeple trap tokens
 1 teleport token
 1 bonus token
 1 blessing relic token
2. Preparing the Relic Reserve
Each player must take his 3 color relics, 1
golden relic and 1 corrupted one (or 2
corrupted per player for 2 players game and 3
corrupted for solitary play mode). All of them
must be placed facedown and mixed. This is
called the Relic Reserve.
3. Preparing the exploration deck
The exploration deck must be separated by tile
type, and each of the decks are shuffled
independently. According to the number of
tiles, the same number of exploration cards is
taken. If the Boss is included, then a room type
card less is taken. Once this is done, then all
cards are put together in one deck and are
properly shuffled. If the Boss is included, this
card is put approximately in the middle of the
deck. Depending on the number of players, the
number of tiles could change. Check
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Exploration Cards (page 6) and Solitary Play
Mode (page 15).
4. Placing the starting tile
The starting point of the dungeon is the centre of
the table, where the starting tile must be placed.
The squares with snail stairs are starting squares
where the players meeple will be placed. Once
these squares have been left by the heroes, these
will only be allowed to come back having got three
sacred relics.
5. Revealing the type of adventure monster
The Bosses card deck must be shuffled and one of
the cards is randomly taken. The chosen card is
placed on the villain board and the black life
counter is placed on the number that is shown on
the card.
6. Level of evilness of Meeple Land
According to the number of players, the evilness
counter is placed in the corresponding square on
the villain board.
7. Placing the treasure deck
The treasure cards must be thoughrouly shuffled.
These cards must be placed on the space assigned
for this purpose on the Villain board.
8. Starting player And Evil Lord
representative.
The starting player is randomly chosen. He will be
the first one in playing the hero phase. When the
Corruption phase is completed, this token will be
handed to the player on the left.
Each player hands his bonus token to the
player on the left. Concerning the Evil
representative Lord token, the player on the
right of the starting player will get this. In the
corruption phase this will also be handed to
the player on the left. Consequently the player
whose turn is the last one will always be the
representative of the Evil Lord.
9. Choosing and placing the hero
The starting player takes the meeple of his
color and places it on any of the four squares
with snail stairs of the starting tile. The rest of
the players do the same clockwise. They can
choose the same square than other players, as
long as there are not more than four in the
same one.
The starting player chooses a hero card and
places it on the space of the player board
meant for this purpose along with his
corresponding equipment card. Afterwards
the rest of players do the same clockwise.
Game turn
The turn consists of three main phases that
take place sequentially. Once the three phases
have been carried out, it can be said that a
whole turn of the game has been completed.
A. Hero Phase
All players must complete this phase before
carrying out the next one. Each hero has 3
actions that can be performed or skipped, as
well as choosing the order in which to carry
them out. It is not allowed to repeat actions.
The starting player will be the first one, and
then the rest of players clockwise.
1. Move: The hero can move up to the
maximum of squares shown in his hero
card, as well as using the power stated in
the card or the abilities related to the
movement. Besides, the player is allowed to
move an extra square by spending one
power point.
2. Attack: The player can attack by throwing
the combat dice available for his hero, as
well as using the power of the cards or
abilities that affect the attack. He can attack
not only villains, but also corrupted relics
or other heroes.
3. Free action (only one):
 Placing a meeple trap: A hero can place a
trap in the square where he is if it is empty.
It is not allowed to place traps in the
starting tile.
 Opening a chest: A player has the option of
opening a chest that is found in the same
square that he occupies. This is done by
taking a treasure card from the treasure
card deck. Then the chest token is taken
away of the game board.
 Taking a relic: A player has the option of
taking a relic that is found in the same
square that he occupies (if there is enough
space in the magic backpack).
 Recovering the magic backpack: The hero
will be able to recover his backpack and its
content if he occupies the same square, or
from any other place of the gameboard by
spending 5 power points, plus 5 extra points
for each relic inside.
 Destroying a summon portal: A player can
destroy a summon portal that is found in the
same square that he occupies by spending
5 power points (even if there are other
meeple in the square).
 Level up: The hero will be able to improve
his weapon by spending 15 power points.
 Summon of a relic: By spending 20 power
points the hero can obtain a relic. He will
take two relics, will choose one of them and
will return the other to the relic reserve. All
the corrupted relics must be returned to the
reserve, so if both of them are corrupted the
hero will not keep any.
 Resting: if a hero occupies a square without
villains, as free action he has the chance to
recover one power point, as long as he has
got less than players in the game. In solitary
games, it is possible to recover one power
point only if he has none.
 Selling: the hero has the chance to sell 4
coins in order to get a relic.
 Free action of ability or card: Besides,
there are hero abilities and objects that
allow carrying out other free actions.
Moving around the game board
Heroes and villains can only move
orthogonally, not diagonally. A hero that
occupies a square with villains (no enemy
heroes) will have to spend one power point for
each villain in order to leave the square. It is
important to remember that not more than 4
meeples are allowed in one square. The
movement cannot be stopped to carry out an
action and then continue the movement.

Example: The warrior of the blue player cannot move diagonally, but he can do it orthogonally
toward the corridor tile. He has a three square movement and he moves the maximum, but he must
spend one power point in order to cross a square with a villain. He decides to spend two further
power point to move two extra squares.
Exploring the dungeon
When a hero occupies an entrance/exit square,
he will be able to explore a new tile as long as
he still has at least one movement point left. In
that case, the hero will take an exploration
card and will place the tile as shown in the
card. The meeple must be placed in the square
of the tile as he entered. In games with more
than one player, the player Representative of
the Evil Lord will choose the orientation of the
tile.
Entrance
and / or exit
square.
When a hero explores the last tile of the game,
the content of the tile will be placed as
indicated in the card and then the player will
gain a relic (he will take two and will keep one
that is not corrupted). Then another relic will
be randomly placed in the middle square of
the starting tile.
Fighting
A hero that shares a square with other
meeples (villains or rival heroes), or these are
at the reach of his type of attack, then he will
be in a position to choose whether to attack
this square. In that case he will roll as many
dice as allowed by his equipment, abilities and
any other modifier. All the results obtained of
his same color and the color of his bonus token
will mean impacts. These impacts turn into
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damage and can be divided among the
different enemies within the attacked square.
Besides, it is possible to re-roll the dice by
spending one power point for each dice (as
many times as desired). The defender, if it is a
hero player, will also have the chance to spend
one power point to make the attackers re-roll
a dice when there is an impact against him.
For each villain eliminated, the player will
obtain two power points (depending on the
type of villain the amount will change). The
power points will only be obtained at the end
of the combat, not during. The corrupted relics
that are destroyed will mean two power points
for the player. The mini-bosses have 2 life
points, therefore, when receiving only one
damage point, they are overturned with the
purpose of showing that it is only wounded,
but not killed.
In the case that in the attacked squares with
villains there is also another hero, the attacker
can choose to ignore the left over impacts in
order not to damage the hero of the other
player.
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Example: The Warrior has an ability of +2 dice in
combat and a sword that allows him to roll a dice in
melee combat. He is faced with two
minions that occupy the same
square. The player will roll three
dice and any blue result will
mean an impact. As he also has
the bonus green token, any
green result will also be an
impact.
B. Phase of Villains
Once all players have completed the phase of
heroes, all villain meeples will be activated.
Firstly the minions, then the mini-bosses and
finally the Boss. All movements will take place
before starting the attacks. The movement is
always toward the closest hero. If there is a tie,
then the villains will go toward the hero with
less life points. If still there is a tie, the
representative of the Evil Lord will choose the
direction to follow. If there is a hero trap in the
way, if the distance is exactly the same the
villains will sidestep the way with the trap.
Since there cannot be more than 4 meeples in
the same square, if villains cannot enter they
will remain in the closest adjacent square. If
they can attack, they will attack the hero with
less life points. In the case of tie, the
representative of the Evil Lord will choose the
target.
When villains attack, they hit the target when
obtaining the same color of the attacked hero,
the color of the hero’s bonus token, as well as
the black color. When there are
several villain
meeples in the same squares, all combat dice
are rolled at the same time and all the results
will impact the same victim (villain meeple do
not share the damage, they enter a blinding
maelstrom of the weakest). The hero can make
the villain re-roll the dice by making use of
power points. Nevertheless, the villains
cannot re-roll the dice by themselves in order
to improve their results, neither other players
can spend their power points to do so).
Unless stated otherwise, minions and mini-
bosses always have melee attack.
C. Phase of Corruption
This phase has to be carried out sequentially
according to the following order:
1. New minions appear in the summon
portals. Check out all summon portals in
case the level of Evilness must increase.
2. Check if the Level of Evilness must
increase due to the lack of exploration
cards.
3. The corrupted relics return to the Reserve
of Relics and these are replaced by mini-
bosses.
4. The Sacred Relics could get corrupted.
5. A hero with blessing of Relics will be able
to choose the kind of blessing for the
next turn.
6. The tokens of the Starting Player and the
Representative of Evil Lord player are
handed to the players on the left.
1. If there are at least 5 summon portals, the
level of Evilness will go up one position.
Besides, for each summon portal a minion will
appear. In the event that there are not further
available minions, the player that is in
charge of the
representative of the evil
Lord will choose in
which portals they will
appear. It can happen
that in the square
occupied by the
summon portal
there are already 4
meeples. In this
case no minions
will appear on
that portal.
2. When all the tiles are placed and there are
not exploration cards left, then the level of
Evilness will increase in one.
3. The corrupted relics that are on the game
board will be replaced by a mini-boss (as long
as there are not 4 meeples in the square and
there are mini-bosses available). The
corrupted relic will be mixed again with the
rest of the relics on the Reserve.
4. The sacred relics that are on the game board
could get corrupted. One by one and for each
relic the representative of the Evil Lord will
roll as many dice as players in the game
(except the golden ones that cannot get
corrupted, neither the ones inside a backpack).
If there is at least one result of the color of the
villain (black one), the relic will get corrupted.
In the case of turning corrupted, this is
replaced by a corrupted relic from the
Reserve. If there is no corrupted relics left (all
of them have been destroyed), then one of the
destroyed relics will be taken (will go back
into the game). Once this is done, the relic that
has just got corrupted goes back into the
Reserve. Remember to increase the level of
Evilness in one.
5. In the case that the hero of a player is
blessed by the relics, he could change the type
of blessing for the next turn of the game.
6. Finally, the player in charge of the token of
the representative of Evil Lord will handed it
to player on the left, as well as the player with
the Starting Player Token.
Keeping track of the Evil Lord
There is an Evil Level that is used to count the
level of the corruption of Meeple Land. When a
hero dies or a sacred Relic gets corrupted, the
level of Evilness will level up. Besides, in the
corruption phase if there are 5 or more
summon portals or there are not exploration
cards left, the Evil Level also will increase. In
the case that the Evil Level reaches the square
with the eye of the Evil Lord, then all players
will loose and Meeple land will succumb into
the Darkness.
Hero death
The meeple of the player is replaced by his
magic backpack and his meeple is placed in
any of the squares of the starting tile (squares
with the snail stairs of the starting tile). The
card of the death hero is discarded and all his
equipment (the player can keep the treasure
cards such as potions and objects not
equipped). In the next turn the player will
enter the dungeon with a new character (and
he will have the chance to get equipped with
those cards that had not used before). In
order to get relics, the player will have to
recover his magic backpack first.
End of the game
The game is over when any of the following
happens:
 The Evil Lord Meeple wins due to the
level of Evilness. In that case, none of the
players will win.
 When a player has three Sacred Relics
(whether of his own color, a combination
of colors or using the golden relics), he
will be able to leave the dungeon through
any of the squares with the snail stairs of
the starting tile and he will win the game.
Solitary game
The rules for playing in solitary are almost the
same that for any amount of players, except
that, when exploring, the tile must be placed
by following the orientation of the arrow. The
Reserve of Relics will include 3 corrupted
relics (4 to increase the difficulty). The player,
when preparing the game, must take a bonus
token of any other color. The exploration card
deck must have only two cards of each type,
instead of 4. The game is yours and you are free
to try with more if you like.
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some parts can be added and removed parts to Sánchez (fre3men - www.heroquest.es), as
facilitate the game, expanding or reducing the well as the authorship of the game. All right
game experience. reserved. It is not permitted the unauthorized
distribution of any kind. This document is in
 Villain bosses: do not choose a Boss development (the described materials could
card. Cover the space of the villain board vary in quantity and format). All illustrations
with the reverse of a card. Likewise, do in this manual are property of Meeple Quest®.
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 Saving the Princess: do not include the
exploration card with the princess when
preparing the exploration deck.
 Monetary system: The treasure cards
will not have monetary value. Therefore,
it will not be possible to exchange cards
for a relic.
 Evil meeple traps: When preparing the
exploration deck, do not include those
cards that contain evil meeple traps.
 The dark side: discard the treasure card
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