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DRAGONLANCE
WARRIORS OF KRYNN

RULEBOOK
TABLE OF CONTENTS The First Time You Play
Overview Before playing for the first time, punch out the game’s
- The First Time You Play 1 components and open the Recruit cards. Set aside the
- Playing through Scenarios 1 Veteran and Legendary cards and tokens for later use.
- Turn Sequence 1 You’ll also want to read the rest of this rulebook.
Battlefield Overview 2
Setting Up a Scenario 3 Once you’ve set up the game, start playing with scenario
Battlefield Components 3 0, “Training Grounds,” in the scenario book.
- Tiles 3
- Markers and Tracker 4 Playing Through Scenarios
- Tokens 4 After scenario 0, the campaign’s scenarios should be
- Cards 5 played in order. Each scenario tells you how it ends and
- Dice 5 provides you any special rules it requires. Depending on
Building Your Hero 6 how well the heroes meet the scenario’s objective, they
- Hero Board and Stress Marker 6 can earn rewards that increase their capabilities the
- Class Cards 6 next time you play. At the end of each scenario, record
- Ability Cards 6 the results in the Campaign Chronicle on the back of
Key Terms 7 the scenario book, and take any honor cards earned for
On Your Turn
1: Event Phase
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use in subsequent scenarios.
2: Action Phase 8 For scenarios 1–4, use only Recruit cards and tokens.
- Activate a Class Power 8 For scenarios 5–8, add in Veteran cards and tokens. For
- Initiate a Conflict 8 scenarios 9–12, add in Legendary cards and tokens.
- Initiate an Encounter 9
- Move Your Hero 9 Turn Sequence
- Play Free Action Cards 10 In every scenario, the heroes each take turns as they try
- Put Out a Fire 10 to meet the scenario’s objectives. When it’s your hero’s
- Transfer Equipment 10 turn, you play through the following phases in order: (1)
3: Respite Phase 10 event phase, (2) action phase, (3) respite phase, and (4)
4: Battle Phase 10 battle phase. Those phases are detailed in the “On Your
- Battle Starts; Activate Class Powers or Play Cards 10 Turn” section (page 8). After your turn, play passes to
- Activate Commander Powers 10 the next player in clockwise order, and that player goes
- Resolve Fights between Lines
- Update Controlled Battle Tiles
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through the same phases.
- End the Turn 11 The group keeps playing until you reach one of the
Ending a Scenario 11 scenario’s end conditions. For more information on how
- Aftermath 11 to finish a scenario, see “Ending a Scenario” on page
- Campaign Chronicle 12 11.
Tiers of Play 12
- Veteran Tier (Scenarios 5–8) 12
- Legendary Tier (Scenarios 9–12) 12 Time to Drop Knowledge
D&D Companion Adventure 13 You can enhance Warriors of Krynn by playing it in concert
Scenario Entries 13 with the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game adventure
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen. “D&D
OVERVIEW Companion Adventure” on page 13 explains how to combine
these experiences.
Dragonlance: Warriors of Krynn is a cooperative battle
game in which 3 to 5 players join the War of the Lance,
with each person playing a hero who aids the valiant
Alliance against the Dragon Queen’s invading army.
The war unfolds in a multiple-scenario campaign, with
play progressing through 3 tiers—Recruit, Veteran, and
Legendary—as the heroes take on greater challenges. In
each of the scenarios, the heroes bolster troops, harry
enemy units, and carry out side missions—all with the
aim of overcoming the terrifying might of the Dragon
Army.

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SETTING UP A SCENARIO
Take the following steps when setting up a scenario
(these steps refer to components described in the next
few pages):
1. Turn to the scenario’s entry in the scenario book,
then set up the battlefield tiles according to its
diagram.
2. Shuffle the Recruit vile champion tokens face down
to make a pool. For each vile champion location
shown in the scenario’s diagram, place a random vile
champion token on that tile. Turn the vile champion
tokens face up as you place them.
3. Set up the Alliance and Dragon Army commanders
and units as shown in the scenario. Commanders
and units may be either ready or shaken at the
beginning of a scenario, and units sometimes start
with barricade tokens underneath them.
4. Create the event deck using the event cards listed in
the scenario, shuffle it, and place it near the
battlefield face down. (Players may look at the event
cards they are putting into the deck before shuffling
it.)
5. Shuffle the equipment deck, and place it near the
battlefield face down.
6. Sort the unit cards into 6 decks of each type (Foot,
Missile, and Mounted for both the Alliance and the
Dragon Army). Shuffle them individually and place
them near the battlefield.
7. Place the key moment tracker near the battlefield
with the key moment marker on 0.
8. Each player chooses a hero board and hero figure
and takes a stress marker, then places their hero
board in front of them and their hero figure on the
Command Tent or Command Post tile. Each player
begins the scenario with their stress marker on 0 on
the stress tracker at the bottom of their hero board.
9. Each player chooses class cards (as appropriate for
the scenario’s tier), places the cards in front of them,
and takes the ability cards listed on the back of the
class cards. (Ability cards form each player’s hand of
cards, which should be placed face up to be visible to
all players.)
10. Place any honor cards earned during the campaign
face up near the battlefield.
11. If the heroes lost the previous scenario, you start
play with the loss bonus: Draw 2 equipment cards
and give them to any player or players. Then, as a
group, decide where to place 2 tactic tokens on any
Alliance lines.
12. Read the text in the scenario’s “Starting the
Scenario” section aloud, and learn the scenario’s
special rules. Choose a starting player, and the
scenario begins.
BATTLEFIELD COMPONENTS
Each scenario includes a list of the game components in
play and a diagram of its battlefield. Other components
may be put into play during the scenario.
If you run out of a type of token or marker, no more are
available until some in play are removed. If the effect of
a card or power can’t be resolved in full, resolve it as
much as possible. For example, if an effect says to apply
2 hits to a line that has only 1 unit, you would still apply
1 hit to that unit.
Tiles
Adventure Tiles
Adventure tiles represent areas where heroes might
encounter boons, obstacles, and conflicts as they make
their way around the battlefield. Only heroes, vile
champions, and certain tokens may be placed on
adventure tiles. Some adventure tiles have powers that
heroes can activate (see “Initiate an Encounter” on page
9). When an effect causes an adventure tile to be flipped,
transfer any tokens and figures on that tile to the new
face-up side.
Battle Tiles
Battle tiles are regions that can become flanks of the
battles between Alliance and Dragon Army units.
Each battle tile has 6 battle lines—3 for each side—on
which units are deployed. Each battle line has space for
6 units. The image below and the shapes on the battle
tile note where to set up each type of unit on a battle
tile.
Dragon Army Mounted →
Dragon Army Missile →
Dragon Army Foot →
Alliance Foot →
Alliance Missile →
Alliance Mounted →
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 MARKERS AND TRACKER Tactic Tokens
Tactic tokens are added next to battle lines to represent
Unit Markers
a tactical advantage. Each tactic token on a battle line
The Alliance and Dragon Army each have 3 unit types: increases the combat strength of that line by 1 for its
Foot, Missile, and Mounted. Unit markers are limited to next fight. Once the line has fought, its tactic tokens are
their respective battle lines on battle tiles—they can’t removed. Tactic tokens can’t be added to a battle line
move from line to line. Unit markers stay on their tile with no units. If all the units on a line are removed, any
unless moved by certain effects. tactic tokens on that line are also removed.
Key Moment Tracker and Marker Vile Champion Tokens
The key moment tracker and marker track important Vile champion tokens represent servants of the Dragon
narrative moments in a scenario. Each time a key Army who oppose the Alliance heroes. Vile champion
moment occurs, move the marker farther along the tokens are found only on adventure tiles.
track and read the next scenario entry listed in the
scenario book. War Engine Tokens
TOKENS War engine tokens represent fearsome Dragon Army
weapons. Each appears on an adventure tile and is
Barricade Tokens accompanied by a war engine card that explains its
Barricade tokens provide defense to units, both by powers.
absorbing hits that would apply to a unit on a barricade
and by preventing any unit on a barricade from being Wilderness Tokens
shaken by the effects of cards and powers. Each unit Wilderness tokens indicate that a tile has become a
can have only 1 barricade, and barricades can’t be wilderness tile during a scenario (see “Wilderness” on
placed on spaces without units. Once a barricade has page 8).
absorbed a hit, it is removed. Any card or power that
would directly Shake a unit on a barricade has no effect
on the barricade or the unit (see “Ready/Shaken,” page
7, for the effect of Shaking a unit). If a unit on a
barricade is removed directly by a power, the barricade
is also removed.
Fire Tokens
A fire token occupies 3 unit spaces on half of a battle
line. When a fire token is placed on spaces with units,
those units are removed. Units can’t be added to any
space with a fire token. If a fire token would be placed
on an Alliance line, choose where to place it. If a fire
token would be placed on a Dragon Army line, the token
must be placed so that it removes the fewest Dragon
Army units possible.
Flank Tokens
A flank token states the relative position of that battle
flank in a given scenario: far left, left, center, right, and
far right. When the “Active” side is up, the battle tile it’s
on is the active flank.
Objective Tokens
Objective tokens are used differently depending on the
scenario. Each scenario tells you what they represent
and how they will be used.
Stop Tokens
Stop tokens indicate a tile has become a stop tile during
a scenario (see “Stop” on page 8).

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CARDS DICE
Commander Cards BATTLE DICE
In most scenarios, each side has a commander card Battle dice are used to resolve battles and conflicts.
assigned to each battle tile. A commander may be ready Each battle die has one or more of each of these faces:
or shaken. Ready commanders have powers that
activate before some battles. A commander’s power Single Hit, 1 hit
affects only that commander’s battle tile unless the Double Hit, 2 hits
power specifically says otherwise. The shaken side of an Woe, 1 hit to a unit on the attacking line or 1 stress
Alliance commander card shows the actions needed to to a hero
Refresh that commander (see “Refresh a Shaken Blank, No effect
Commander” on page 9).
During Battle. For an attacking Alliance battle line,
Equipment Cards hits are applied to the Dragon Army, while each Woe
Equipment cards are single-use items. The timing for result is a hit applied to the Alliance battle line.
playing each piece of equipment is printed on the card.
When a player uses an equipment card, it is removed. If For an attacking Dragon Army battle line, hits are
all equipment cards are removed over the course of a applied to the Alliance, while each Woe result is a hit
scenario, the equipment deck remains out of play for the applied to the Dragon Army battle line.
rest of that scenario. Heroes may transfer equipment to During a Conflict. Hits a player rolls count toward
one another (see “2: Action Phase” on page 8). meeting or exceeding that conflict’s difficulty (see
Event Cards “Initiating a Conflict” on page 8), while each Woe result
Event cards are drawn at the start of each player’s turn. causes the hero to take 1 stress.
They have an effect and then tell you about the battle SKIRMISH DIE
that will occur that turn. For example, event cards can The skirmish die is used to determine which battle lines
cause skirmishes, affect the number of units in a battle will be involved in a skirmish (and whether commander
line, or move the battle to a different flank. Each powers will activate before the fight begins). The
scenario uses a particular set of event cards listed in the skirmish die’s faces use these symbols:
scenario book.
Honor Cards Foot, The Foot lines fight.
Missile, The Missile lines fight.
Honor cards are earned by completing missions in Mounted, The Mounted lines fight.
scenarios. There are two types: reputations and medals. Commander, The commander symbol appears
At the start of each scenario, all honor cards earned above a battle line symbol to indicate that ready
during previous scenarios are in play as a shared pool. commanders’ powers activate before the skirmish.
Any player can use those honor cards as though they
were ability cards (page 6) in that player’s hand. Honor
cards can be played only with correct timing. Once an
honor card is used, it is removed until the beginning of
the next scenario.
UNIT CARDS
The Alliance and the Dragon Army each have 3 unit
card decks, 1 for each type of unit: Foot, Missile, and
Mounted. Unit cards are revealed when a battle line
becomes the attacking line during battle (see “Battle
Phase” on page 10). They can affect the defending
side’s units and commanders, determining the number
of battle dice rolled, the line that hits are applied to, and
more.
WAR ENGINE CARDS
War engine cards describe the powers of the Dragon
Army’s weapons, which are represented on the
battlefield by war engine tokens. Keep a war engine
card near its token for reference.
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 BUILDING YOUR HERO
At the start of a scenario, you choose a hero figure, a
hero board and stress marker, and a Recruit class card.
One side of each hero board has the name and an
illustration of a hero from the world of Krynn.
Backstories for these heroes appear in the scenario
book. Alternatively, you may use the nameless side of a
hero board and your class card choice to represent any
hero you imagine.
Whenever you start a new scenario, you may keep the
same hero or build a new one.
Hero Board and Stress Marker
Hero boards include a reminder of actions you can take
on your turn, as well as a stress tracker. As your stress
changes, move the stress marker along the stress
tracker. For Recruit-tier scenarios, your maximum
stress is 4; for Veteran-tier scenarios, it’s 5; and for
Legendary-tier scenarios, it’s 6. See “Stress” on page 8
for more details.
Hero Board
Stress Marker
cost of 1 action and the associated ability card. Those
labeled “Response,” like the Rage power, can be
activated by discarding the associated ability card in the
circumstance listed.
You can use each class power only once per turn, but
you may use multiple different powers during the same
turn. Unless a class power specifically states otherwise,
it affects only the tile your hero is on when you use the
power.
ABILITY CARDS
Ability cards represent your hero’s range of abilities.
Some ability cards must be played during the action
phase on your turn, and some can be played as a
response on any player’s turn if their requirements are
met. An ability card’s power affects the tile your hero is
on. Ability cards can also be discarded to activate class
powers.
Throughout the game, abilities use the colors shown
above and the following abbreviations:
STR: Strength DEX: Dexterity CON: Constitution
INT: Intelligence WIS: Wisdom CHA: Charisma

Class Cards
At the Recruit tier, you get your class’s Recruit class
card, which determines your hero’s 2 mastered abilities,
the 4 ability cards you will have in your hand, and the 3
class powers you will have access to.
At Veteran tier, you’ll also get your class’s Veteran class
card, and at Legendary tier, you’ll also get your class’s
Veteran and Legendary class cards. These cards will
grant you additional starting ability cards and access to
more class powers (see “Tiers of Play” on page 12).
Class Card
Ability Cards
Mastered Abilities
Your hero has 2 mastered abilities set by their class.
Mastered abilities help you during encounters and
conflicts you face in scenarios.
Class Powers
Class powers represent your hero’s class-specific
abilities. You may activate one of your hero’s class
powers by discarding an ability card. For example, a
barbarian may discard a Constitution ability card to
activate one of their Constitution-based powers or a
Strength ability card to activate their Strength-based
power.
Class powers can be used only at specific times. Those
labeled “Action,” like the barbarian’s Awake power, can
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KEY TERMS
ACTION TIMING
A card or power with action timing can be played during
your turn’s action phase. See “2: Action Phase” on page
8 for more details.
ACTIVE FLANK
The active flank is the battle tile where units are
presently engaged in combat. A battle tile can become
the active flank due to an event card or another effect.
When a battle tile becomes the active flank, flip its flank
token to the green Active Flank side. That tile remains
the active flank until another event card or effect makes
another tile the active flank. Only 1 tile at a time is the
active flank. When a new tile becomes the active flank,
flip the previous tile’s flank token to the red side. The
active flank can change many times over the course of a
scenario.
ADJACENT/NEIGHBORING TILES
Tiles are adjacent to each other if they touch. Battle tiles
are neighboring if they are either adjacent to each other
or separated from each other only by adventure tiles.
BATTLE LINE
A battle line, or just line, is a row of units on a battle tile.
The Alliance and the Dragon Army each have a line for
each unit type: Foot, Missile, and Mounted.
DISCARD PILE
Each player has their own discard pile for ability cards
they discard or play. Additionally, the event deck and
each unit card deck have their own discard piles. A card
in a discard pile is still in play—it hasn’t been removed.
FREE ACTION TIMING
Some cards and powers have the words “Free Action”
printed on them, which means that you can play them
as free actions during your turn’s action phase (see
“Play Free Action Cards” on page 10).
PLACE A HERO
Some cards and powers let you place a hero on a tile
instead of moving there. When placing a hero, ignore all
the tiles between the hero’s origin and the destination—
any vile champions or stop tiles between those tiles
don’t affect the hero.
READY/SHAKEN
Commanders and units on the battlefield are either
ready or shaken. They show whether they are ready or
shaken in the following ways:
Commanders. Each commander card has a ready
side and a shaken side.
Units. When a unit is ready, the solid side of its
marker faces up. When a ready unit takes a hit, it
becomes shaken, and its marker is flipped over so
the hollow side is up. If a shaken unit is hit, it is
removed.
REFRESH/SHAKE
Refreshing a shaken commander or unit makes it ready.
When text says to Shake a commander or unit, make
that commander or unit shaken.
REMOVE
When a card or an object is removed, it is no longer
considered to be in play or on the battlefield. When
units are removed, they return to the pool of available
unit markers that can be added to the battlefield. When
non-event cards are removed, they return to play at the
beginning of the next scenario unless an effect returns
them to play sooner.
RESPONSE TIMING
Some cards and powers have the word “Response”
printed on them, which means that they may be used
only in response to certain conditions. If a card or power
must be played as a response, it states the condition
that allows it to be played. For example, several cards
and powers can be played only “At the start of battle” or
“After battle dice are rolled.”
Many cards and powers have the response timing “After
battle dice are rolled.” A hero can use them after battle
dice are rolled in a conflict, in a battle, or due to a
commander power, as long as the hero is on the
affected tile. A hero can play these cards and powers
after dice are rolled but before the results are resolved.
REVEAL
To reveal a card, turn it over so its text is visible to all
players, resolve its effects, and place it on top of the
discard pile.
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Some adventure and battle tiles contain an obstacle
represented by either a stop symbol printed on the tile
itself or a stop token placed on the tile. If you move onto
a tile that has a stop symbol or token on it, you must
stop moving until your next turn, unless an effect allows
you to cover the symbol or remove the token.
A tile can’t be both a stop tile and a wilderness tile. If an
effect would add a stop token to a tile with a wilderness
symbol on it, the stop token should cover the wilderness
symbol or replace the wilderness token.
STRESS
When a hero expends effort or something goes wrong,
they take stress. For example, a tile with a vile
champion due to a Woe result or leaving a tile with a
vile champion on it. When a hero’s stress changes,
move their stress marker higher or lower by the
specified amount. Once a hero has reached their
maximum stress, they must remove 1 card from their
hand per additional stress they would take.
If a hero would take stress beyond their maximum and
they have no cards in their hand, the scenario
immediately ends in a loss.
WILDERNESS
A tile with a wilderness symbol printed on it or a
wilderness token on it is a wilderness tile. A tile can’t be
both a stop tile and a wilderness tile. If an effect would
add a wilderness token to a tile with a stop symbol or
token on it, the wilderness token should cover the stop
symbol or replace the stop token on that tile.
ON YOUR TURN
A player’s turn progresses through 4 phases in order.
EVENT PHASE
Reveal and resolve event cards.
ACTION PHASE
Use your actions.
RESPITE PHASE
Reduce your stress or regain ability cards, if
possible.
BATTLE PHASE
Resolve this turn’s battle.
1: EVENT PHASE
Reveal the top card of the event deck, and follow the
instructions in the card box labeled “Right Now” before
doing anything else. Some event cards tell you to reveal
another event card. When that happens, reveal the next
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event card and resolve its “Right Now” text. Continue
until you reveal an event card with a box labeled “Battle
Phase” at the bottom—this box will let you know the
kind of battle that will occur in the battle phase. When
you have resolved that card’s “Right Now” text, the
event phase ends.
Key Moments
Each scenario’s event deck contains the Key Moment
event card. When this card is revealed, advance the key
moment tracker by 1, check the table in the scenario’s
“Key Moments” section to find the corresponding
scenario entry, then look it up in the “Scenario Entries”
section of this rulebook and follow its instructions.
2: ACTION PHASE
During each of your turns, you get 4 actions you can use
during the action phase. You may spend actions on any
combination of actions from among those below. You
can take the same action more than once. Additionally,
you can play cards with free action timing. Once you
have taken all the actions you wish to take and played
all the free action cards you wish to play, the action
phase ends.
Activate a Class Power
You may spend 1 action and discard the required ability
card to activate one of your hero’s class powers if that
power has action timing (see “Class Powers” on page
6).
Initiate a Conflict
Conflicts are challenges that involve risk, such as trying
to defeat a vile champion or complete a dangerous
scenario-specific task. You can initiate a conflict if your
hero is on the same tile as a vile champion or on a tile
specified by the scenario.
Each conflict specifies a numerical difficulty and an
ability. A vile champion’s difficulty and associated ability
are shown on its token, while the difficulty and
associated abilities of a scenario-specific conflict are
noted in the scenario. A conflict’s difficulty is reduced by
1 if the specified ability is one of your hero’s mastered
abilities. Initiating a conflict requires spending at least 1
action.
To succeed in a conflict, you must roll hits on the battle
dice equal to or greater than the conflict’s difficulty. You
may start with 1 battle die to roll during the conflict.
You may spend any number of your remaining actions
and discard any number of ability cards of the specified
type to add that many dice to your dice pool—the total
number of dice you roll during the conflict.
Once your dice pool is set, roll the dice and count the
hits. If the hits equal or exceed the difficulty, you
succeed. If you defeat a vile champion this way, remove
it. If you roll more hits than the difficulty against a vile
champion, you also draw 1 equipment card. If you roll
fewer hits, you fail, but you may spend 1 or more actions
to try again.
Example: Initiating a Conflict
You are playing a Fighter, and you initiate a conflict against a
Hill Giant, a vile champion whose difficulty is 3 and whose
associated ability is Constitution.
1. You initiate the conflict by spending 1 action. You have 1
battle die.
2. Because your hero has Constitution as a mastered ability,
the vile champion’s difficulty is automatically reduced
from 3 to 2.
3. You spend 1 additional action and discard a Constitution
ability card to gain 2 more dice for your pool.
4. You roll a Single Hit, a Double Hit, and a Woe for a total of
3 hits (see “Battle Dice” on page 5).
5. You win the conflict, and the vile champion is removed.
You draw 1 equipment card because you exceeded the
difficulty. Because of the Woe result, your hero takes 1
stress.
Initiate an Encounter
Encounters are the heroes’ interactions with a
scenario’s locations, objectives, and characters. You can
initiate an encounter if your hero is on the same tile as
the thing you seek to encounter.
You may not initiate an encounter on a tile that has a
vile champion on it. You may initiate more than 1
encounter during your turn, but you may not initiate the
same encounter more than once during the same turn.
There are three kinds of encounters—Activate a Tile’s
Power, Refresh a Shaken Commander, and Examine an
Objective, each of which is described below.
Activate a Tile’s Power
Each power specifies an action cost and an ability. This
cost is automatically reduced by 1 if the specified ability
is one of your hero’s mastered abilities. You may
discard any number of ability cards of the specified type
to reduce the action cost by that amount. The action
cost can’t be reduced to less than 1 action.
Example: Activating a Tile’s Power
You are playing a Fighter, and you initiate an encounter to
activate the Mine Entrance tile’s power, whose action cost is
3 and whose associated ability is Constitution.
1. Because your hero has Constitution as a mastered ability,
the action cost is automatically reduced from 3 to 2.
2. You discard a Constitution ability card to reduce the action
cost from 2 to the minimum cost of 1 action.
3. You spend 1 action to activate the Mine Entrance tile’s
power.
REFRESH A SHAKEN COMMANDER
If you’re on a tile with a shaken Alliance commander,
you can Refresh that commander. The commander
card’s shaken side specifies an action cost to refresh the
commander and an associated ability. This cost is
automatically reduced by 1 if the specified ability is one
of your hero’s mastered abilities. You may discard any
number of ability cards of the specified type to reduce
the cost by that amount. The cost can’t be reduced to
less than 1 action.
EXAMINE AN OBJECTIVE
You may spend 1 action to initiate an encounter with a
scenario objective (represented by an objective token as
specified in the scenario book). When you do, refer to
the scenario to find out what happens next.
MOVE YOUR HERO
Moving your hero to an adjacent tile costs 1 action.
Tiles Connected by Roads
Some tiles have roads, which can connect to roads on
other tiles. Yellow pointers at the edges of tiles show
where connections are available. When you spend an
action to move your hero onto a tile with a road, you
may move along the road to any tile along the road
without spending additional actions. In the example
below, you could move along the road from the far left
adventure tile to the battle tile without spending more
actions. The road ends there, so you’d have to spend
another action to move to the adventure tile on the right.
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STOP TILES
If you move to a tile that has a stop symbol or token on
it, you must stop moving, even if you’re moving along a
road. Unless an effect allows you to remove the stop
token or uncover the stop symbol, you can’t move again
until your next turn. However, you may still play a card
or activate a power that places your hero on a different
tile (see “Place a Hero” on page 7).
VILE CHAMPIONS
If you move off a tile with 1 or more vile champions on
it, even if traveling by road, you take 1 stress for each
vile champion on that tile.
ENEMY TERRITORY
You can’t move from the Dragon Army’s side of a battle
tile to an adjacent adventure tile; you must use another
route.
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 PLAY FREE ACTION CARDS
Ability, equipment, and honor cards with free action
timing can be played as free actions. These cards must
be played during the action phase of your turn, but they
don’t count toward your total of 4 actions.
PUT OUT A FIRE
You may spend 1 action to remove a fire token from the
tile your hero is on.
TRANSFER EQUIPMENT
On your turn, you may spend 1 action to either give an
equipment card to another player or receive an
equipment card from another player. In either case, the
other player’s hero must be on the same tile as your
hero, and only the player whose turn it is spends an
action.
3: RESPITE PHASE
During the respite phase, if your hero is on a tile with no
Dragon Army units or vile champions on it, you may
take respite: either reduce your hero’s stress by 2 or
return 2 ability cards from your discard pile to your
hand.
If you still have actions left, you can take respite again
for each remaining action. For example, if you have 1
action left, you can take respite a second time, allowing
you to do one of the following during this phase: return
4 ability cards to your hand, reduce your stress by 4, or
regain 2 ability cards and reduce your stress by 2.
4: BATTLE PHASE
Each turn ends with a battle on the active flank—either
a skirmish (1 battle line from each side fights) or an all-
out battle (all 3 pairs of lines fight, one after the other).
The kind of battle is set by the last event card revealed
during the event phase.
Activate class powers or play cards.
Activate commander powers.
Resolve fights between lines.
Update controlled battle tiles.
End the turn.
If the battle is a skirmish, roll the skirmish die before
the start of battle. If you roll the foot, missile or mounted
symbol, only that line fights. If you roll the Foot, Missile,
or Mounted symbol plus the commander symbol on the
same face, commander powers may also come into play
(see “Activate Commander Powers” on page 10).
BATTLE STARTS ACTIVATE
CLASS POWERS OR PLAY CARDS
First, heroes on the active flank may activate class
powers or play cards if those powers or cards have one
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of the following response timings: “at the start of battle,”
“at the start of a skirmish,” or “at the start of an all-out
battle” (if the battle is an all-out battle). Heroes can use
as many eligible cards or powers as they want in any
order.
ACTIVATE COMMANDER
POWERS
Next, activate the commander powers of ready
commanders on the active flank, depending on the type
of battle:
All-Out Battle — activate if instructed to by the last
event card’s “Battle Phase” text.
Skirmish — activate if the skirmish die’s result
included the commander symbol.
If commanders on both sides are ready, activate the
Dragon Army commander’s powers first.
RESOLVE FIGHTS BETWEEN
LINES
Perform the following steps for each line that’s fighting.
If the battle is an all-out battle, all 3 lines fight in the
following order: Foot, Missile, then Mounted (from the
inside of the battle tile to the outside).
1: DETERMINE COMBAT STRENGTH
Determine the combat strength of the 2 lines that will
fight. To do this, add the number of units (ready or
shaken) on that line to the number of tactic tokens on
that line (see page 4 for how tactic tokens work). The
line with the greater total is the attacking line. If the
lines’ combat strength is equal, the Dragon Army’s line
is the attacking line. Once the combat strength of a line
is determined, remove any tactic tokens on that line.
2: REVEAL A UNIT CARD
Reveal a unit card from the deck matching the attacking
line’s unit type. If that line’s unit deck is empty, shuffle
its discard pile to form a new unit deck first.
When the unit card is revealed, any hero on the active
flank may play cards and activate powers with the
response timing “When a unit card is revealed.” Once
any responses have been resolved, resolve the unit card
and put it in the corresponding discard pile.
3: ROLL BATTLE DICE AND APPLY HITS
Apply hits according to the unit card. A unit card states
whether to apply a certain number of hits or to roll
battle dice. The unit card also states which of the
defending side’s lines takes any hits that are rolled (for
example, an Alliance Missile line might apply its hits to
a Dragon Army Mounted line). Once hits have been
applied to the defending line, any hits from Woe results
are applied to the attacking line. If a unit card says hits
may be applied to any line, the hero whose turn it is
decides which defending line to apply them to.
Use these guidelines when hits are applied:
Hits to a line are applied to its barricades, if any,
first. After a barricade has absorbed 1 hit, it is
removed. Any remaining hits are applied to that
line’s units.
A ready unit that takes 1 hit is shaken.
A shaken unit that takes 1 hit is removed.
Heroes on the active flank may choose to absorb hits
instead of units or barricades. For each hit they
absorb, a hero takes 1 stress.
Apply hits to a line until the hits have all been
applied or no units remain on that line.
If a unit card is targeting a line with no units, it
doesn’t apply hits to that line, but any other effects
still happen.
UPDATE CONTROLLED BATTLE
TILES
A tile becomes controlled by one side either when all
the opposing side’s units are removed from that tile or
when all the opposing side’s units on that tile are
shaken.
When a tile becomes controlled, remove all
commanders from that tile. Then remove all shaken
units from the defeated side. Finally, move that tile’s
flank token and 1 unit of each type from the victorious
side to a neighboring battle tile (for example, the Center
Flank token would move to either the right or left flank
along with a Foot unit, a Missile unit, and a Mounted
unit from the victorious side). Once control is
established, war engines can’t add units or tokens to the
controlled tile, and any power that would affect that tile
is ignored.
When the Dragon Army takes control of a battle tile, add
a stop token to that tile. Then check the scenario book
to find the scenario entry listed under “Dragon Army
Control,” locate that entry in the “Scenario Entries”
section that starts on page 13, and read it aloud. The
events of a scenario entry can cause the scenario to end
in a loss.
As tiles become controlled, uncontrolled battle tiles may
gain multiple flank tokens, so they’re more likely to be
the active flank on future turns. It’s possible for the
entire battle to focus on a single tile that holds all the
flank tokens.
If all the battle tiles become controlled and the
scenario hasn’t ended in a loss, the scenario
The outcome depends on which side
immediately ends.
controls more tiles.
Controls More Tiles Outcome
Alliance Win
Dragon Army
Tie
Loss
Hold
END THE TURN
The turn ends once the battle has been resolved and any
controlled battle tiles have been updated. If you revealed
the Key Moment event card during the event phase,
shuffle the event discard pile (including the Key
Moment card) and add the pile to the bottom of the
event deck. Play then passes to the player on the left.
ENDING A SCENARIO
A scenario always ends when one of the following
occurs:
The final key moment is read.
The Dragon Army takes control of too many battle
tiles (set by the scenario’s “Dragon Army Control”
section).
A player has no ability cards left when their hero’s
stress would increase beyond the maximum
(automatic loss).
All the battle tiles become controlled (outcome
varies).
Each scenario also has one or more scenario-specific
end conditions, such as completing the objective.
AFTERMATH
If the scenario didn’t end in an automatic win, hold, or
loss, check the scenario’s “Aftermath” section to see
how the heroes and the Alliance fared—each scenario
has its own criteria. The heroes might earn honor cards
depending on the outcome. Record the outcome and
any honor cards earned on the Campaign Chronicle in
the scenario book. Keep honor cards the heroes have
earned separate from the other cards in the storage tray
between scenarios.
Win
The heroes gain a reputation card set by the scenario
and 1 medal card chosen from those available.
Hold
The heroes gain a reputation card set by the scenario.
Loss
At the beginning of the next scenario, the heroes will
draw 2 equipment cards and place 2 tactic tokens.
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 CAMPAIGN CHRONICLE
After each scenario, update the Campaign Chronicle on
the scenario book’s back cover of the scenario book. At
the start of each scenario, check this record to see what
honor cards are in play at the start of the game, and
whether the players should start with extra equipment
and tactic tokens due to a previous loss.
TIERS OF PLAY
The campaign has 3 tiers of play: Recruit, Veteran, and
Legendary. The first 4 scenarios of the campaign are
the Recruit tier, with the Veteran and Legendary
components removed. When the heroes reach the latter
tiers, those components are added into the game, and
other aspects of gameplay change as well.
VETERAN TIER (SCENARIOS 5-
8)
At Veteran tier, add the Veteran class cards, unit cards,
war engine cards, and commander cards to the game.
Bard class card Veteran Duelmaster
At the start of each Veteran-tier scenario, you get your
class’s Veteran class card in addition to your Recruit
class card. You can use the class powers of both. Some
class powers at the Veteran tier require you to remove
ability cards rather than just discarding them.
Your maximum stress increases to 5, and you start with
6 ability cards: the 4 shown on your Recruit class card
and the 2 on your Veteran class card.
Veteran Vile Champions
Two vile champions are introduced at the Veteran tier:
the Aurak Draconian and the Wyvern. Veteran vile
champions are added only by effects that identify them
by name, never by effects that add a randomly chosen
vile champion, and they are never shuffled into the pile
of Recruit vile champions. For each Veteran vile
champion on a tile that a hero moves off, the hero takes
2 stress.
Your Valor Is Known
At the start of each Veteran- or Legendary-tier scenario,
count the honor cards earned during the campaign.
Each scenario specifies a number of honor cards that
represents drawing the Dragon Army’s attention. If the
heroes have earned at least that many honor cards, the
Dragon Army’s strength increases for that scenario.
Each scenario specifies an even greater number of
honor cards to signify that the Dragon Army considers
the heroes a serious threat. If the heroes have earned at
least that many honor cards, add the Your Reputation
Precedes You event card (40) to the event deck at the
start of the scenario.
LEGENDARY TIER (SCENARIOS
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9-12)
At the Legendary tier, add the Legendary class cards,
unit cards, war engine cards, and commander cards.
At the start of each Legendary-tier scenario, you get
your class’s Legendary class card in addition to your
class’s Recruit and Veteran cards. You can use the class
powers of any of your class cards.
Your maximum stress increases to 6, and you start with
8 ability cards: the 4 shown on your Recruit class card,
the 2 on your Veteran class card, and the 2 on your
Legendary class card.
LEGENDARY VILE CHAMPIONS
Two vile champions are introduced at the Legendary
tier: the Death Dragon and the Red Dragon. Legendary
vile champions work similarly to Veteran vile
champions, but they also make their tile a stop tile, and
they have event cards that add them to the battlefield.
D&D COMPANION
ADVENTURE
This game is designed to work with the D&D adventure
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen. Dungeon
Masters can use this game to play through that
adventure’s battles on a grand scale. The adventure
explores how results from this game carry over into
D&D. Players are encouraged to narrate their turns as
they would in D&D and can use their characters’ minis
instead of the hero figures provided in this game.
ROLE OF THE DUNGEON
MASTER
If you are a Dungeon Master including this game in your
D&D adventure, you can participate in playing this
game’s scenarios in two ways; you can play a hero (as
long as the total number of players is 5 or fewer), or you
can bring the role of Dungeon Master to this game by
reading narrative text and scenario entries and by
rolling dice and revealing cards for the Dragon Army.
PORTRAYING PLAYER
CHARACTERS
The details of D&D characters are abstracted in this
game as ability cards and class powers—this keeps the
focus on the epic battles being played out. To
approximate D&D characters, encourage players to
choose class cards that align with their D&D character’s
class features.
At a DM’s discretion, characters might further
customize their hero by swapping their ability cards.
Record whatever adjustments players make to their
class cards to keep them consistent between scenarios.