Buffy the Vampire Slayer Fights Back Generate Attack, Recruit Points, and Against the Players! the Big Bad, Like Special Abilities
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® ™ Overview How to Win Welcome to Legendary ®: Buffy the Players must work together to attack Vampire Slayer! Big Bads like the evil Big Bad successfully four The Master, Angelus, and Glorificus times. If they do this, then the Big command a mob of Demonic Villains, Bad is beaten once and for all, and planning dark Schemes to wreak all the players win the game for the havoc on Sunnydale, home of the forces of good! In addition, defeating Hellmouth. Only you can stop them Villains and rescuing Bystanders by leading Buffy and the rest of the earns each player Victory Points. Scooby gang. After the Big Bad is defeated, the player with the most Victory Points In this game for 1-5 players, each is the best slayer of all and the player starts with their own deck individual winner. of basic cards. At the start of your turn, you play the top card of the Villain Deck for Villains to invade How the Evil the Sunnydale, capture Bystanders, Big Bad Wins and create special events. Then, you Unlike other games, Legendary ®: play Hero cards from your hand to Buffy the Vampire Slayer fights back generate Attack, Recruit Points, and against the players! The Big Bad, like special abilities. You use your Attack The Master or Angelus, isn’t played to defeat Villains. You use Recruit by a player. Instead, the game itself Points to recruit better Heroes for plays the part of the Big Bad. your deck. Throughout the game the Big Whenever your deck runs out of Bad works to accomplish an evil cards, you shuffle your discard pile Scheme. Every Scheme card has a to make a new deck, including all the part that says “Evil Wins,” which new Heroes you recruited. This way tells you how the Big Bad completes your deck gets stronger and stronger their Scheme. If the evil Scheme is over time. Build up enough Power, completed, then the Big Bad wins and you can defeat the Big Bad! the game, evil reigns and all the But be careful: If the players don’t players lose! dispatch the Big Bad quickly enough, then the Baddies will complete their nefarious Scheme and win the game for forces of darkness! 1 Some Heroes now have Light or Your First Game Dark Special Abilities. Those Abilities For your first game, follow the setup are used when it is Light or Dark rules on the following page, using respectively (See Special Abilities the specific card stacks listed there Page 10). instead of choosing card stacks at random. After your first game, you can have fun using different Heroes, Villains, Big Bads and Schemes, so there are always new challenges to master and new combinations to explore. Familiar with Legendary®? Here’s what’s new. If you have played other Legendary ® titles, then there are only a few new things that you need to know before you jump right into Legendary ®: Buffy the Vampire Slayer. First off, this is a Legendary ® game not a Legendary ® Encounters game, so its core rules are similar to other Legendary ® games. Secondly, Legendary ®: Buffy the Vampire Slayer introduces two new mechanics to the Legendary system. 1. Courage Tokens- Courage Tokens represent heart and pluck of the Heroes in the Buffyverse. (See Courage Tokens Page 13). 2. Darkness Track- The Darkness Track represents the battle between good and evil that is pervasive throughout the course of Buffy: the Vampire Slayer. (See Advance Light/Dark Page 13). 2 Your First Game - Cards to Use Big Bad: The Master Scheme: Epic Struggle Heroes: Angel, Buffy Summers, Rupert Giles, Willow Rosenberg, Xander Harris Villain Groups for the Villain Deck: For 2 players: Order of Aurelius, Demons, Hellhounds For 3 players: Order of Aurelius, Demons, Hellhounds, The Scourge of Europe For 4 players: Order of Aurelius, Demons, Hellhounds, The Scourge of Europe, Vampire Initiates For 5 players: Order of Aurelius, Demons, Hellhounds, The Scourge of Europe, Vampire Initiates, Mayor’s Minions 3 4 Game Setup Game Stacks Place these stacks of cards on their Player Decks spaces on the board. Use all the Give each player their own personal cards of each type: 12-card deck, made of these cards: • 15 Potential Slayer (face-up) • 8 Watchers • 30 Wounds (face-up) Card Number INITIATIVE SOLDIERS • 4 Initiative SoldiersCard Number: 140 Card Name: Initiative: 140 • 30 Bystanders (face-down Card Name: Initiative INITIATIVE SOLDIERS Soldiers INITIATIVE SOLDIERS Card Number Soldiers Card Number Card Number Character Name / Card Name: Watchers Character: 140 Name / Card Name: WatchersCard: 141 Name: 141: Watchers Card NumberSubtitle: N/A and shuffled) Card NumberCharacter Name / WATCHERS : INITIATIVE SOLDIERS Character: 141 NameCharacter / Name / WATCHERS Card NameSubtitle: Initiative N/A Card NameSubtitle: Watchers: N/A WATCHERS: 141 Master: Shield Trooper Subtitle: WATCHERSN/A Master: Shield Trooper Card NumberSubtitle: 141Master: N/A: Shield Agent WATCHERS Soldiers Character NameMaster /WATCHERS : Shield Agent JOYCE SUMMERS Card NameMaster: Watchers: Shield Agent Character: 140 Name / Subtitle: N/A Card Number: 133 Character: Name / WATCHERS Subtitle: N/A Master 141: Shield Agent WATCHERSCard Number Card Name: Joyce Card NumberSubtitle: N/A Master: Shield Trooper Card Name: Initiative POTENTIAL SLAYER Summers Card Name: Watchers Master: 141: Shield Agent Soldiers Card Number: 139 Character Name / Character Name / Character Name / Card Name: Potential Subtitle: N/A CardSubtitle Number: N/A Subtitle: N/A Slayer Master: Bystander CardMaster Name: :141: WatchersShield Agent Character Name / Master: Shield Trooper 1 Character Name / Subtitle: N/A 1 Subtitle: N/A Card MasterNumber: Shield Agent BUFFY ™ & © 2017 FOX. ©2017 UDC. Printed in China. Master: Shield Officer Card Name: Watchers 111 1 BUFFY Character Name / ™ & © 2017 FOX. ©2017 UDC. Printed in China. 1 1 BUFFY ™ & © 2017 FOX. ©2017 UDC. Printed in China. 1 Subtitle: N/A 1 1 Master: Shield Agent & © 2017 FOX. ©2017 UDC. Printed in China. 1 1 BUFFY ™ BYSTANDER BUFFYBUFFY ™ && ©© 20172017 FOX.FOX. ©2017©2017 UDC. Printed inin China.China. Advance the Light. & © 2017 FOX. ©2017 UDC. Printed in China. BUFFY ™ & ©BUFFY 2017 FOX. ©2017 UDC.™ Printed in China. ™ & © 2017BUFFY FOX. ©2017 UDC. Printed in China. & © 2017 FOX. ©2017 UDC. Printed in China. BUFFY ™ ™ & © 2017 FOX. ©2017 UDC. Printed in China. BUFFY 2 Card Number: 136 Instead of playing this, you may discard it BUFFY ™ & © 2017 FOX. BUFFY ©2017 UDC. Printed in China. ™ to advance the Light. & © 2017 FOX. ©2017 UDC. Printed in China. Card Name: Wound Character Name / Subtitle: N/A3 BUFFY ™ & © 2017 FOX.Master ©2017 UDC. Printed in China.: Wound Courage Tokens WOUND Healing: If you don’t recruit any Give each player 1 Courage Token. Heroes or defeat any Villains on your turn, you may KO BUFFY ™ & © 2017 FOX. all the Wounds from 0 Place the rest of the tokens in a pile ©2017 UDC. Printed in China. your hand. in the Courage Token Space. Big Bad and Scheme Pick 1 Big Bad at random and place the Big Bad card face-up on the Big Bad space on the board. Take the 4 Big Bad Tactics cards that match the Big Bad you selected and place them underneath the Big Bad card face- Card Number down in random order. Card Name: King of Vampires Card Number Character Name Card Name: The Har/ Subtitle- : Big Bad vest :Tactic-Master : 73 Master 74: Big Bad Tactic Character Name ER THE MASTER HE MAST / Subtitle: Big BadIC- T THE HARVEST BIG BAD FRUIT PUNCH MOUTH BIG BAD TACT Card Number: 71 Tactic-MasterBIG BAD TACT IC-T Master: Big Bad Tactic HE MAST KING OF VAMPIRES Card Name: Master ER : 72 BIG BAD TACT Card Number ER Character Name / HE MAST Subtitle: N/A Card Name: Fruit IC-T Punch Mouth IC-T Darkness Counter Master: Big Bad PERGAMUM CODEX HE MAST Character NameBIG BAD TACT / Subtitle: Big Bad ER Place the Darkness Counter on the 1 Tactic-Master Master: Big Bad Tactic 4 4 : 75 Advance the Light three times. Each other - player discards a random card. Advance the Light three times. Dark space of the Darkness Track. Rescue Bystanders equal to the Light. 4 Card Number Advance the Light twice. Draw cards equal to the Light. 4 Card Name: Per BUFFY Has + equal to the Dark. ™ 7 Always Leads: Order of Aurelius gamum Codex & © 2017 FOX. ©2017 UDC. Printed in China. 7 BUFFY Dark: Play a Villain from the Villain Deck. Character Name ™ & © 2017 FOX. ©2017 UDC. Printed in China. Master Strike: Set the Dark to 3. BUFFY ™ & © 2017 FOX. ©2017 UDC. Printed in China. 4 / Subtitle: Big Bad Each player discards a random card for Advance the Light twice. Defeat a Villain with each Master Strike that has been played. + Tactic-Master Victory Points equal to or less than the Light. 7 7 & © 2017 FOX. ©2017 UDC. Printed in China. BUFFY ™ & © 2017 FOX. ©2017 UDC. Printed in China. Master: Big Bad Tactic ™ BUFFY 7 Pick 1 Scheme card at random and place it face-up on the Scheme space on the board. Follow the setup instructions in the “Setup” section for that Scheme. A Scheme card’s “Setup” section always tells you how many “Scheme Twist” cards to add 5 to the Villain Deck. Place that many Scheme Twist cards onto the Villain To Add Deck space to start the Villain Deck. Villain Groups: • Each Big Bad card says that the Many Schemes also have unique Big Bad “Always Leads” a particular special rules. Name Villain Group or Henchman Group. EPIC STRUGGLE Card Number: 124 Card Name: Epic Be sure to include that group as Struggle Character Name / Subtitle: N/A one of the groups you add to the Master: Scheme Villain Deck. Card Type • Pick the other Villain Groups at random.