Barbarian Vince Rules: Folding Instructions

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phases). If you fail, continue the turn as normal.
the Rest phase (i.e. skip the Travel and Encounter
Value, you successfully Lay Low—proceed straight to
is equal to, or greater than, your location’s Lay Low
encounters and rest. Make a random draw. If the result
encounter), you may attempt to Lay Low to avoid any
turn (and aren’t currently involved in an ongoing
If you had an encounter at your current location last
1. Lay Low
Lay Low ▶ Travel ▶ Encounter ▶ Rest
Each turn has the following sequence:
Turn Order
▶ Play the X0 Encounter card on your first turn.
▶ You begin the game in Ulendi, on Map 1.
your starting ready hand.
▶ Take this item card, Player Card, and Map 1 card as
item marked as Common. Discard any others.
▶ Draw cards from the Draw Deck until you find an
the bottom of this deck.
draw deck. Place the One Year Has Passed card on
▶ Shuffle the remaining cards, face down, to form the
Passed, and X0 Encounter cards from the deck.
▶ Remove the Player Card, Map 1, One Year Has
Setup
drawn in-game, follow its instructions immediately.
One Year Has Passed: When this special card is
once the draw result has served its purpose.
is never considered part of any hand. Discard the card
2. Travel
You may travel to an adjacent map location following
the travel paths, shown as dotted lines on the maps.
When you travel off the edge of a map, search the
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draw deck for the relevant new map card, as indicated
on the current map’s Map Key, and add it to your
ready hand. Follow the travel path from one card’s
location to the next.
Skill Bonuses: The experience of travel is beneficial,
and rewards you with a Skill Bonus, as noted at the top
of the map card. As long as that card is in the your
ready hand, your base skill is altered as indicated. If
you exhaust the map card as part of a skill check, the
modifier counts towards that check. A card’s bonus
modifier is ignored while it is in your exhausted hand.
3. Encounter
You must have an Encounter every turn unless you
successfully Lay Low. To determine the encounter,
make a random draw to get a difficulty number for the
encounter. Then draw from the draw deck until you
get a card with a terrain type that matches your
current location. Discard any cards that do not not
match. Resolve the encounter on the matching card
that corresponds to the terrain type and difficulty
number. This card is not considered part of any hand.
Example: Vince is currently in Spraymere (U, G).
First, he makes a random draw; it is a 4. Next, he
draws one card at a time until he finds a U or G card.
He eventually draws a U card. He plays the encounter
listed under the number “4” on this card this turn.
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number found at the bottom-left of the card. This card
top card from the draw deck. The result is the random
Random Draws: To make a random draw, take the
exhausted hand to your ready hand.
Restoring Cards: To restore a card, move it from your
your ready hand to your exhausted hand.
Exhausting Cards: To exhaust a card, move it from
card, move it to the bottom of the draw deck.
Discarding Cards: If you are instructed to discard a
have been used (exhausted) during play.
Exhausted Hand: Cards you have in-hand but that
Ready Hand: Cards you have in-hand, ready to play.
encounters, items and random numbers from.
Draw Deck: The main deck of cards that you draw
Decks: You must manage 3 sets of cards during play:
with swamps and goblin infested mountains.
The southeast part of the Land, by the shore,
round brackets)
Terrain Types (in
— X2
Spire of X’Argex
brackets), and
Value (in square
11+ A,O
with Lay Low Felgrim Swamp
Map Locations,
7+ M,O
Goblin Pass
— X3
adjoining maps
Goblin Mines
directions of
1
5 Skill: +1 Survival
Map 2: Gob Mountains
showing the
2
Map Key
Map Name and Skill Bonus
Map Number
Map Cards display an area map:
Most encounters have a challenge that needs to be
overcome. If multiple options are listed, you may
choose which option to take. Discard the card once
the encounter is resolved unless specified otherwise.
X-Encounters: Several map locations have “X” class
encounter types (X<number>; e.g. X12) – these are
specific story encounters. When you have an
encounter in one of these locations, search the draw
deck for the specific story encounter card.
Z-Encounters: There are several numbered types of
“Z” encounters (Z1, Z2, etc). These are all separate
terrain types. (i.e. If you are instructed to attempt a Z2
encounter, you must draw a Z2 card, not a Z1 card.)
Encounter Modifiers: Some locations on the map list
a terrain type with a modifier (e.g. F+2). Add the
modifier to the random draw if playing an encounter
for that terrain type. For example, “F+2” means that if
an F encounter is drawn in this location, you must
add +2 to the encounter’s difficulty number. This
generally means an encounter is more difficult.
Running Out of Encounters: Should the draw deck
no longer contain any cards that match a location
because you have all of the relevant quest cards
in-hand, you must choose a card from one of your
hands with an appropriate terrain type to play an
encounter from. During the encounter, the chosen
card is temporarily considered part of the exhausted
hand. Afterwards, the card is moved back to
whichever hand it started in. If the chosen card is
currently held as an item, you are still considered to
be carrying the item.
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Unique
pick your battles carefully.
Mushroom of Recovery
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Random Number
Recovery +1
encounters will not lead to this, but some will—so
away in that spire of his along the eastern shore.
friend, the wizard X’Argex. He’s probably locked himself
Right now you could use some company, maybe even your
classes, name, and description permanently removed from the game. Most
You walk through manageable weather. No encounters.
(O) Outdoors: Peaceful Travel
Item Information, with item You lose the game if your character dies, or is
Goblin Pass.
Either Failure: Discard a card, and you are moved to
through here with no Encounters from now on.
Success: Keep this card as an item and you may move
X-encounter Quests are completed successfully.
Combat check: 1@ 8+ (Round Speed: 3, Damage: 1)
and difficulty number
Then the King:
Combat check: 2@ 7+ (Round Speed: 2, Damage: 1)
You win a Major Victory if all three of the Major
First the guards:
grouped by terrain type
Fail, and you must fight to get out.
Z1 encounter as you try to escape the mines.
◆ To flee, you must win a Hide 7+ check and then play a
Quest”). These will be revealed as you adventure.
(map 5) on your next turn.
Encounter Listings,
to the “Big Tree.” You must move to Hardscrabble Plains
Mushroom of Recovery (this card), and tells you to head
card encounter outcome will state that you “win the
◆ If you offer to find the Princess, the King gives you the
a troll and taken north.
beautiful daughter, Slobberina, was kidnapped by
the card contains any of the major X-encounter Quests in the game (the
Goblin King. He appears distraught, for his only
discovered by the watch and brought before the O
You follow a passage deep into the mines. You are
List of Terrain Types You win a Victory when you successfully complete
X3 (X3) The Goblin Mines
tell your adventurer’s story: Winning (and losing)
Quest Cards make up the majority of the deck, and
cards as you wish. This may be performed anywhere.
Main Types of Cards
Discard: You may also deliberately discard as many
cards to draw a random Uncommon item in trade.
cards and places to hold/store the cards when in play.
game. The only components required are the deck of When in a City (C, G), you may discard four or more
Key Concepts Barbarian Vince is a solitaire card-driven adventure Common item in trade.
Introduction you may discard two or more cards to draw a random
Number
3 Trade: When in a Village (V), City (C, G) or Port (U),
Random you kill? There are a lot of wolves. action twice.
sort of adventures will you have? How many wolves will successfully Laid Low this turn, you may perform this
you are of age and must seek your fortune alone. What skill worth of cards back to your ready hand. If you
Area info
used to trade with under your father’s stern eye. Now Recover: You may restore up to your current Recovery
8+ U,V
Eastshore
Barbarian, look upon the city of Ulendi, with which you discard, as outlined below.
red lines)
As your father rides off into the sunset, you, Vincent the
During the Rest phase, you may recover, trade, and
8+ G+2,C
(dotted
Irontree City
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Paths 4. Rest
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Travel
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Hand Limit: There is no hand limit in the game—you
— a solitaire card adventure —
right way up to read, and add it to your ready hand.
Rotate the new item card so that the item text is the
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3a. Checks You must perform the relevant skill check (as above)
Random Checks: To perform a random check, make a the number of times listed, each time getting a result
random draw and follow the instructions listed. of equal to, or greater than, the target number listed.
Example: “Combat check: 2@ 6+” means Vince must
Skill Checks: Usually listed as “<Skill> check:” (e.g.
“Combat check:”), these are tests of skill required to make two combat checks, each with a target of 6+.
perform a particular feat, such as fighting an ogre. Each attempt at an individual check is called a round.
Round Speed: If specified, you may only play as many
To perform a skill check, you must exhaust at least one
card from your ready hand, then make a random cards as the Round Speed listed for each round.
Damage: If you failed the check attempt for a round,
draw. Compare this against the encounter’s target
number or list of outcomes. and the skill check lists a Damage, you must exhaust a
number of cards equal to the Damage listed and try
Modifiers: Some cards provide a modifier to a specific
skill. If these are exhausted for a check, any modifiers again. You have the option of which cards to exhaust
as damage, unless the encounter states otherwise.
relevant to the check are added to the random draw.
Reusable cards: If you finish a round and still have
Skills/Curses: If you have an item card with a modifier
listsed as a “Skill” or a “Curse”, it adjusts your base skill cards in your ready hand, you may restore one
“Reusable” class item. Note that some Reusable items
as per a map Skill Bonus. Therefore, if you have a “+1
Charm” Skill card, every card played is one higher for specify conditions for their reuse.
Discarding Cards: You may never discard a Map card
charm checks, even if that card is not exhausted for
the check itself. Skills (but not Curses) are ignored or the Player Card. These remain in your exhausted
hand until restored. You may not discard a “Curse”
whilst the card is in your exhausted hand.
card, until the stated conditions are met.
Outcome: Follow the instructions listed for the check
result. Checks versus a number (e.g. “Make a Hide If you are unable to discard a card, ignore the result.
check: 9+ to hide”) have only a success/failure result. If you ever have to discard a “Unique” item, it returns
If you exhaust all of your cards without successfully to its original location (listed on the card). If you
passing the check, or fail any of the conditions of the return there, you may skip any related encounters,
challenge, immediately follow any failure directions. retrieve the item, and place it in your ready hand.
Multiple Skill Checks: Challenges may involve Item Draws: If you are instructed to draw one or
more items of a certain class (Common, Uncommon),
having to pass a check several times. These are worded
as “<Skill> <number of checks>@ <target number>”, draw cards from the draw deck until you find an item
of that class. Discard any cards of the wrong item class.
sometimes followed by Round Speed and Damage.
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