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Shadows Over Camelot Rules Summary V2 SUPPORT THE EOG BY BECOMING AN OFFICIAL MEMBER SIGN UP AT ORDEROFGAMERS.COM The Esoteric Order of Gamers orderofgamers.com High quality materials for the dedicated devotee of immersive, thematic tabletop games. Game rules summaries, foamcore box plans, articles, interviews, reviews, videos, tutorials, forums – and lots more. @EOGamers gplus.to/EOGamers facebook.com/EOGamers EsotericOrderGamers instagram.com/orderofgamers v2 May 2011 Game: SHADOWS OVER CAMELOT Publisher: Days of Wonder (2005) Page 1: Rules summary Page 1: Rules summary Merlin’s Company Print on card (ensure you are printing at 100% scale) laminate and trim to size. These sheets are intended only for the personal use of existing owners of the game for additional reference. Universal Head makes no claim whatsoever to the rights of the publisher and copyright holder, and does not benefit financially from these player aids. Artwork from the original game is copyrighted by the publisher and used without permission. This PDF may not be re-posted online, sold or used in any way except for personal use. Setup Progression of Evil Quests Set up the boards (for the Lancelot and Dragon Draw a Black Card You must play specific combinations of cards to win board, Lancelot’s side is faceup) and place the Relic Draw the top card, read it aloud and apply its effect. Combat Quests. If a Solo Quest is abandoned all miniatures on their respective boards. White cards played so far are discarded. A Special Black card can be cancelled if you and/ Each player randomly takes a Coat of Arms and or your fellow Knights collectively play 3 Merlin cards. Tournament vs the Black Knight introduces himself and their Special Power to the A Standard Black card is played faceup on its Perpetual, Solo, Combat Quest. group. Place your Life Die set at 4 on the Coat of corresponding Quest (the last one played on a Quest Arms and your miniature at the Round Table. Quest for Lancelot Solo Combat Quest. can be cancelled by a Merlin card). Give one Merlin card to each player then shuffle the Lancelot’s Armour: When drawing a Black card, the Lancelot and Dragon cards are placed on whichever of White, Black and Loyalty cards into decks. Deal 5 owner may draw the top two and keep one, placing these Quests is currently in play. White cards to each player and place the rest on the other at the bottom of the deck. Unlike other relics, the board. Deal one Loyalty card to each player who A Black Knight, Lancelot or Dragon card may be Armour remains with the Traitor even if unmasked. secretly looks at it and places it under his Coat of played facedown (not read aloud) to hide its value. Dragon’s Quest Group Combat Quest. Arms. Unused Loyalty cards are put away unseen. This allows the player to draw a free White card. Appears only after Lancelot’s Quest has been finished. Each player selects one White card and places it on If the Quest on the card is no longer in play, a Siege the Round Table. Players discuss how these cards Engine is added to Camelot instead. Quest for Excalibur Group Quest. should be shared. Discarding a White card while on the quest moves Losing a Life Point Excalibur one step closer to the Knight’s side. A King Arthur begins the game and play proceeds Points can never go below 0 or above 6. Do not reveal Merlin card cannot be used to cancel a move. The clockwise. your Loyalty if you die. Knight triggering the last move receives Excalibur, even if not on the Quest. Excalibur: Adds +1 to the Cards are usually played faceup. All cards Heroic Actions played must be discarded facedown. outcome of any combat quest (including vs Siege Moving to a New Quest Engines) the owner is on. At any point the owner may If a White or Black deck ever runs out, shuffle choose to sacrifice it to cancel ANY Black card drawn. the discards of BOTH decks into fresh decks. Each move to a new Quest requires an Action. Movement between the areas of Camelot (Siege Quest for the Holy Grail Group Quest. All TIES in the game are always resolved in Engines and the Round Table) does not. favour of Evil. The Dark Forest card is played next to the Quest, not Performing a Quest-Specific Action in on the track. Holy Grail: If a Knight falls to 0 Life Points and is about to die, the owner may restore him Collaborating If a Quest’s End Conditions are met, move all Knights on the Quest back to the Round Table (at no cost), to 4 points. The Grail then vanishes. Declarations of intent, resources and capabilities can apply the Quest’s Victory or Defeat consequences, be discussed as long as comments are non-specific Pict and Saxon Wars Perpetual Group Quests. and discard the cards played on the Quest. and in character and do not refer to specific values. If a 4th figure is placed on a War, that War is lost. Playing a Special White Card Game Turn Read the card aloud and apply its effect. You can Camelot never play more than one Special White card per turn. Round Table: A Knight may stay at the Table and draw 1 Progression of Evil 2 White cards (unless he already has 12 or more cards). Healing Yourself You must choose one of the following 3 actions: Discard 3 identical cards and go up a Life Point. Siege Area: A Knight may remove an Engine by – draw a Black card, read it and apply its effects; playing as many Fight cards as desired and then Making an Accusation rolling under the total value. If the roll is equal or – add a Siege Engine around Camelot; or This can only be done if there are at least 6 Siege greater, the Knight loses a Life Point. – lose a Life Point. Engines around Camelot or at least 6 Swords on the Round Table. Each Knight may choose this Action Game End 2 Check End of Game Conditions only once during the entire game. 3 Heroic Actions Accuse a Knight of being the Traitor. Reveal his The game is lost if one of the following happens: You must choose one (or more in special cases) of the Loyalty card; if Loyal, turn a White Sword on the a. Camelot surrounded by 12 Siege Engines following 5 actions: Table to its Black side. If a Traitor, add a White Sword b. 7 or more Black Swords on the Round Table to the Table. The Traitor turns his Coat of Arms over – move to a new Quest; c. All Loyal Knights killed. and follows the instructions there. – perform an action related to the Quest you’re on; Otherwise, after the first Action in which a 12th Additional Heroic Actions: Sacrifice Sword (or more) is laid on the Table. If the Traitor is – play a Special White Card; Once per turn, a Knight may sacrifice a Life Point for still alive and undetected, he reveals his Loyalty card – Heal yourself; or an additional Heroic Action. and turns 2 White Swords to Black. – Accuse another Knight. You can never perform the same Heroic Action The game is won by the loyal Knights if there is a 4 Check End of Game Conditions twice in the same turn. majority of White Swords. Merlin’s Company Setup Modifications Travels and the Travel Deck Disposing Black cards for Completed Quests Shuffle the 16 new Travel cards to form aTravel deck, Each time a Knight chooses to move to a new Quest When Black cards are drawn that relate to a Quest placed facedown off the board. as a Heroic Action during his turn or through the that is no longer in play, they are now permanently use of his Special Power (Sir Tristan), he must first removed from the game, rather than discarded. Place the Merlin figure next to the deck; he does not declare where he wishes to move, then draw a Travel enter the board until the first Merlin Travels card is Drawing such a card still leads to the addition of a card from the Travel Deck and apply its effect before drawn. Siege Engine around Camelot, whenever applicable. potentially completing his move and reaching his Add the 14 new Black cards to the original game’s intended destination. Black cards and the 23 new White cards to the 7 and 8 player games No other moves in the game trigger the draw of a original White cards. Travel card; only those made by a Knight as a Heroic The game now accommodates up to 8 players Then proceed with the game’s normal set-up. Action during his turn or through the use of his (7 Knights and King Arthur). However in 7 and 8 Special Power. player games, add the second Traitor card to the mix New Knights of Loyalty cards at the start of the game. King Arthur is always present; first assign his Coat of Nothing Happens ... nothing happens. The Knight Arms at random to one of the players. completes his move and successfully reaches the The 2 Traitors do not know who the other might be, Quest of his choice. or even if another one is present in the group or not. When drawing Knights, you may now either: Merlin Travels The Knight successfully reaches the At game’s end, if there is one undiscovered Traitor, – Replace the entire set of original Knight’s Coat Quest of his choice and Merlin’s figure is moved to he will have to turn over 2 White Swords to the Black of Arms (including Sir Bedivere, but excluding his side on this new Quest.
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