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 Witcher Fights (1V1)
May fight any Witcher at your location and they
Core Rules cannot refuse. Locations Skellige
Cannot fight a Witcher you played Poker with.

Types of Cards Cannot fight a Witcher at a School, or a

◊ Blue – Fast Attack
◊ Red – Strong Attack
◊ Green – Dodge
◊ Yellow – Defensive Sign
◊ Purple – Offensive Sign
Looking Through Your Deck
Any time you are not the active player, and
after suffering fatigue.
Potions
Maximum of 4, regardless of Alchemy level.
If the limit is exceeded, discard any chosen
down to 4.
Shields - Refilling
Only after fights, and through combat cards.
Location Actions
You must move before taking a location action.
Each locations’ action can only be performed
once per turn.
location with a Closed Tavern token.
Train attribute of your choice.
Meditate
Only if you have reached the highest level of Add a card, with 2 options.
an attribute and trophy is available.
Add a 0 cost card to your discard (if available only).
Cannot have a trophy of the same attribute.
Lose 1 Gold and pick a 1-cost card to your discard
Cannot win with this trophy (can still earn it). (if available only).
Exploration If you do not have a Level 1 or 2 Monster Trophy, randomly
If a card allows the player to draw any 1 card pick a Level 1, and take their Trophy. If you have 1+ Level 1 or 2
of some cost and none are available, they Monster Trophies, you may discard one and upgrade to a random
reveal cards from the action deck and add Trophy one level higher.
the first card of that cost. Put the rest in a
common discard pile.
Instant Results – if you are unable to receive
or lose something, do as much as possible. If you do not have a Level 1 Monster Trophy, randomly pick a
Quest Results – must move before claiming Level 1, and take their Trophy.
the quest reward (the next turn).
If your defense is lowered, your shield may
lower as well.
Randomly draw a Level 1, 2, or 3 Monster. Proceed to Phase 2,
and Fight that monster. If you are defeated, shuffle the monster
Hand Limit back into the pool.
7 Cards. If supposed to draw more, stop.

General Fight Rules Draw 4 Potions. Discard to 4.

Dice Poker
◊ Keep cards in your hand – DO NOT DRAW.
Each turn, you may play with each Witcher, at
any location you share. ◊ Combine and shuffle deck & discard.

You cannot play Poker with a Witcher you
fought that turn.
A Witcher you challenge must have gold and
cannot refuse.
Non-active player rerolls first.
Active Player wins ties.
◊ Once Life Pool Deck runs out and you
discard/play your last in-hand card, KO. Gain a up to 1 of each Trail Token.
◊ When both fighters lose their last card
on the same Fight Turn, the player
who played the card(s) which led to
that situation is not knocked out and Gain 3 Gold.
considered the winner.

Locations
Gain 1 level of indicated attribute, only if it is equal or lower than
your level.
Alchemy – gain 1 Potion
Defense – raise Shield by 1.
Draw 1 potion.
Play Dice Poker with locals. Place 1 gold, 2 from bank. Player to
your right rolls for locals.
Witcher School. Spend gold equal to level of attribute +1 to train.
Your specialty can only be trained at your school.
Attributes do not have to be trained evenly.
Talk to locals about monster information. Player collects 1 gold,
then selects a terrain token of the monster they wish to track.
Draw a token of that type, and place it face-up with a1 Gold.
When you enter that location, you get the Gold and the token is
turned over to represent the Trail token.
If you have 0 Gold, gain 1.
You may Trash 1 or 2 Action Cards from pool.
May Trash a card from your hand, and gain a new card with a
printed cost that is lower, the same, or 1 higher. Add this card to
your hand.
Fight Turn Order
◊ Use Potions, Specialties, and Card Effects.
All of these count toward your attack.
◊ Play a Combo. 1 card is still a combo.
◊ Resolving Combo: Dealing Damage.
Monsters do so from top of deck. Witchers
reduce shields first, then discard from
deck, then from hand.
◊ Resolving Combo: Raising Shields
◊ Resolving Combo: Special Effects
◊ Replenish Your Hand: Add or subtract any
modifiers from your combo and/or effects.
◊ Place Combo in discard pile.
Monster Fight Turn
On the initial attack, player controlling the
monster determines Bite or Charge. Counter-
clockwise after this point.
If a player is forced to trash a card in their
hand and have none, trash the topmost card of
their deck instead.
Defeating a Monster
◊ Gain 2 Gold
◊ Move up Trophy Tracker; Suffer Fatigue
◊ Spawn a new monster 1 level higher.
Level 3 spans a new level 3. If none are
available, make a new pile from the
Driven-Away monsters of that level.
◊ Discard ALL Trail tokens for that monster
from all players. (Quest tokens remain)
◊ For 4/5 Players, see rule book.
Driving a Monster Away
◊ Gain 2 Gold.
◊ Discard Monster card and miniature.
◊ Add a printed 0-cost card to your discard.
◊ Spawn a new monster of the same level.
Complete Defeat
◊ Take 1 Trail token matching monster.
◊ Add a printed 0-cost card to your discard.
◊ During this turn only, you can only draw up
to two cards during Phase 3.
After a Fight
◊ Shuffle your deck, discard, and hand
together to form a new deck.
◊ Raise your Shield to your Defense level.
Witcher Fight Outcomes
Gain Gold equal to the reputation of your
opponent (found on the Trophy Tracker)
You can only gain a trophy if you attacked a
Witcher and won.
After the fight, both players raise shields to
defense level, shuffle their deck/discard/hand,
and draw based on performance (see rule
book).

Monster Trail
Mutagens
When you gain a level, instead of drawing 1/2
cards, you get a new Mutagen:
◊ Draw 3 cards from the Mutagen deck.
◊ Choose 1, shuffle the others into the deck.
When you reach level 4 or 5, go through this
step two times.
Mutagens can be used once per fight.
Bombs
Whenever you would draw a Potion, you may
instead discard 1 Potion or 1 Gold and draw
a Bomb.
Maximum of 4.
During a Fight, you can use a combined
number of Potions and/or Bombs equal to or
lower than your Alchemy level.
Bombs do NOT count as potions.
Dimeritium Bombs are only usable with the
“Monster Weakness and Special Attacks”
mechanic from this expansion.
Advanced Action Cards
Retaliation and Evasion both have a passive
ability that is triggered if discarded as a result
of damage taken – either from deck or hand.
Cards with Trashing a card in their cost
override +1 / -1 symbols on the board for cost.
You cannot choose a card with a Trash cost
from the Vengeberg location action, or any
effect telling you to take a 0, 1, or 2 cost card.
If told to gain any card from the pool, you can
choose cards with a Trash cost and do not
have to trash cards to take them.
Monster Setup Changes
Special setup for Monster deck:
◊ Shuffle Monster Fight Cards (20)
◊ Draw 4 and remove them
◊ Place another 4 face-down near Large
monster cards (16)
◊ Add 4 Special Attack and shuffle
◊ When level 3 monster appears, add the 4
cards set aside back into the deck (20)
Monster Weakness
After starting monsters are placed (and
when new monsters spawn), players draw 1
location token corresponding to that monster,
and place a random face-down Weakness
Token on their location. If there are 1 or more
Witchers there, discard and repeat.
Weakness Tokens are picked up like
Trail tokens. When picked up, read the
corresponding paragraph on the Large
Monster card. Place a new Weakness token.
When starting a Fight with a monster, may use
some/all Weakness Tokens.
If monster wins, keep your tokens. If Monster
is defeated or driven away, all tokens for that
monster are returned.
Special Monster Attacks
If a Special Monster Attack card is revealed
during the monster attack, the special is
activated over Charge or Bite.
If a Special Monster Attack card is revealed as
the result of damage, the controlling player
stops, the special passive ability is read with
the effect applied, then resolves the remaining
damage.
Wild Hunt Builds Up Its Power
When Wild Hunt enters Location with 1+
Witchers, Special Ability is activated (on card).
Round Ends
Move Tracking token to the next row on the
Round Tracking board.
Fighting Hounds
Players sharing space can fight together.
Does not count as “Monster Fight.”
May only Fight each Hound once per Phase 1.
Each Player who Fights:
◊ Draw cards based on Hound card
◊ Lower Shields based on Hound card
Each Player fighting creates one combo. Only
damage and shield symbols are used.
If Players deal enough or excess damage:
◊ Wild Hunt loses Shields = excess damage
◊ Reveal random Hound token of same level.
Each player that fought gains that bonus in
any chosen order.
If Players don’t deal enough damage:
◊ Each player fighting discards their hand.
Wild Hunt Fight Preparation
Players Prepare
◊ Each player shuffles their deck & discard.
◊ Wild Hunt card is turned over.
Wild Hunt Life Pool is prepared
◊ Shuffle all 20 Monster Attack cards
◊ Discard 4, add 4 Wild Hunt Attack cards
Wild Hunt Fight Structure
◊ All players at the same location as the
Wild Hunt each perform a Fight Turn (any
order). Must complete full Fight Turn
before next player can start.
◊ All players not at the same location are
moved there (do not Fight this round).
◊ The Wild Hunt performs a Fight Turn.
◊ Players remaining take a Fight Turn.
Repeat until either Witchers are knocked out,
or the Wild Hunt is defeated.
Passive Ability on Special Attack Cards
If 1+ Special Attack cards are discarded during
a Player’s turn, then the “Passive Ability” on
each of those cards is activated. These are on
the bottom half of cards with a cracked icon.
Wild Hunt Fight Turn
Any player discards the top card from the Wild
Hunt’s deck face up.
◊ Special Attack – Each player applies the
same effect.
◊ Standard Attack – Each player flips the
Charge/Cite token separately and applies
the corresponding effect.
Being Knocked Out
If a Witcher has 0 cards in hand and deck,
they don’t perform any further Fight Turns, or
apply Wild Hunt attack effects.

Wild Hunt
Only Compatible With Core Game, Mages
Expansion, and Monster Trail.
Goal
Collectively defeat the Wild Hunt during a
Fight that takes place after the last round of
the game together.
Before the final Fight, players complete
quests, fight Hounds of the Wild Hunt, and
other usual monsters.
Wild Hunt Buffs
Monster Life Pool cannot exceed 20.
Phase 1
Movement and Actions – can discuss the order
of your movement and actions.
◊ Players can complete their actions in a
row, or alternate with others.
◊ Ends when all players collectively decide,
or cannot perform Movement/Actions.
◊ If a Hound/Wild Hunt are present, cannot
take Location Action.
Fight a Hound – alone or together, if all
sharing same location with Hound.
Exchange – if at the same location, can
exchange/give away any of the following:
◊ Gold
◊ Potions
◊ Bombs
◊ Trail Tokens
◊ Trail Quests
Dice Poker – cannot play against other
players. Special Wild Hunt table (Page 8).
Phase 2
Fight First – cannot fight each other. If 2+
players are at the same location, they decide
which one of them fights the monster alone.
◊ Players in the same location may support
the player fighting the monster if they have
at least one card in hand.
Discard any cards from your hand.
Decrease Monster Life by that number.
Player fighting draws that many cards.
You get one of their Witcher trophies.
Meditate – do not suffer fatigue.
After all Fights/Meditations, any player draws
the top card of the Wild Hunt Exploration deck.
Phase 4
New Monster and/or Hound Appears
◊ Hounds appear at Wild Hunt location.
If a Hound is already there, place it at a
neighboring location.
◊ If new Monster appears, randomly pick
accroding to round. Players pick which
type of terrain marker, but can never have
two of the same type.
◊ If there are 3 monsters present and you
must draw a 4th, the monster is not drawn
and the Shields of the Wild Hunt are
increased by double the monster level.
Wild Hunt Movement
◊ If there are players on the Wild Hunt’s
location, no movement, proceed to Step 3.
◊ Randomly draw a movement token. If a
Player’s token, Wild Hunt moves up to 2
locations towards that player.
◊ Ends movement when they either enter
a location with a player or moved 2
locations.
◊ If Closed Tavern token, move 2 locations
towards ANY player, chosen collectively.
◊ Solo Mode: Wild Hunt always moves 2.
Travel to Dagon
Skellige Exploration card is not read.
Skellige Proceed to Phase 2 of turn and fight Dagon.
Traveling by Ship Dagon Trail Tokens
There can only be 1 ship on 1 island or Two options to obtain Dagon Trail tokens:
continent location. If a player finished their
◊ If you travel to one of the island locations,
turn on an island location, it cannot be visited
by another player until they leave.
and during that travel Dagon emerged.
◊ Fought Dagon and lost.
You cannot use ships to travel:
◊ Between two harbors on the continent
◊ Between two island locations
Unique Dagon Fight Outcomes
◊ Dagon is “defeated” – he is driven away,
◊ Between an island and the Dagon location
and placed on his tracker based on the
player count.
Traveling From Continent to Island ◊ Players do not suffer fatigue or move up
the trophy track for driving him away.
Only once per turn.
Test whether the trip is safe or dangerous, ◊ If a player loses, Dagon remains in place,
according to the Dagon track, and have they receive a Trail token, and the default
a player read the top card of the Skellige rewards for losing a fight.
Exploration deck based on the roll.
Travel back to the continent as a normal
move.
If a Skellige Exploration card is read during
travel, the player does not Explore in Phase 2.
If they cannot Fight or Meditate, they move to
Phase 3.
Traveling From Island to Continent
Up to twice per turn:
◊ Can only happen when the player begins
the turn on an island location, ship back
to continent, ship to one of the island
locations, and back to the continent.

Mage’s Expansion
Setup Changes
Based on how many players are Mages.
Gameplay Changes – ALL MAGES
◊ Replace all instances of Witcher/Witchers
to Mage/Mages
Gameplay Changes - SOME MAGES
◊ All instances of Witcher/Witchers refer to
Witchers and Mages
◊ Players gain action cards from their
respective pool
◊ Whenever a player is allowed to discard
action cards, they may choose cards from
either pool in any combination
◊ When a player gains a new action card in
Phase 3, they also discard a card from the
other pool that holds the same position.
Gameplay Changes – Default
◊ Players can Fight each other
◊ Mages can pay gold to train their specialty
at their chosen School
◊ Mages use Wisdom instead of Defense and
replace all instances in text
◊ Mages use Energy instead of Shield and
replace all instances in text
◊ Mages do NOT lower Energy after taking
damage
◊ Energy is spent/gained during Fights and
can exceed Wisdom during Fights
◊ After a Fight, Energy is raised up to
Wisdom level, just like Shields.
Types of Cards for Mages Destruction Tokens
◊ Yellow – Air Gained if you end Phase 1 on a location with a
◊ Blue – Water
Legendary Monster Destruction Token. Reveal it, gain the benefits,
and place it face down on your player board.
◊ Green – Earth
These act as Trail tokens for the Legendary
◊ Red – Fire Win Condition Monster.
◊ Purple –Mind Kill the Legendary Monster
While setting up the Legendary Monsters
life pool, the player controlling it puts away
Location Changes a number of cards equal to the number of
Spending Energy
Destruction Tokens the attacking player has.
Action cards may have an Energy cost on them Players cannot use the Location Action of the
location occupied by the Legendary Monster. The attacking player keeps their Destruction
that can be used.
Tokens.
Mage combos are resolved from left to right,
with energy resolved in order.
Movement for Legendary Monster
Monster Protection Level
After the last player of the turn cycle
Corresponds with your reputation (position on
Protection completes their turn, they reveal the top card
of the Monster Movement deck. All three the Trophy Tracker).
Only affects the very next opponent’s Fight
movements shown are resolved one by one. Reduces the amount of damage attacks do,
turn.
Whenever the Monster leaves a location, place including abilities, potions, bombs, etc.
Even if no damage id dealt, the protection is
lost at the end of the opponent’s turn. a face-down Destruction Token they left.
Protection only reduces damage dealt, not The Legendary Monster cannot be moved onto
effects that discard cards, etc. locations with Destruction Tokens. Siren
If the Legendary Monster is on their main
location, they move towards their secondary
location. Setup Changes
If all the closest locations contain a Place the Siren mini on the Dagon location.
Place the Siren card next to the Dagon card.
Destruction Token, the player chooses any
neighboring location without a Token.
If all neighboring locations contain a Gameplay Changes
Destruction Token, this and all consecutive
Players can move to the Dagon Location, and
movements this turn are ignored.
the Siren intervenes.
Players cannot gain Trail tokens for Siren.
Driving the Legendary Monster Away
If Dagon emerges, Siren is driven-away.
Can be performed if you move into its location Returns if Dagon leaves.
by discarding one card.
If using Monster Weakness/Special Attacks,
Can then perform the Location Action. use the Large Dagon card for Siren.
Rewards
2 Gold, Trophy Card. Do not advance or suffer
fatigue. Does not spawn again.