The game master's deck is comprised of hazards, encounters, environment, and artifact cards. A game master must deal 3 hazards and at least 5 encounters per stage.

Encounters:

• Encounters are cards that are dealt by the game master and are situations that players will find themselves in such as encountering enemies or bonuses. Some encounters have silver hearts which means they can be hacked.

Hazards:

• These are cards put players in grave dangers or put players at a disadvantage the next encounter for a certain amount of rounds.

Environment:

• These cards depict where the adventure takes place.

Artifact:

• Reward cards that can contain either one of these items and everyone gets one:

  • A powerful artifact (1 time use)

  • A wealth card (exchange for more cards)

  • A class effect (duel class)

Decide your classes:

• To begin, players must first decide which class. Each class has a display of HP, a passive ability, and a energy pool. The green dots represent your energy pool and determine how many cards a player can use per round. All energy regenerates at the beginning of each round.

Assort your decks:

• Once you and the other players have decided your classes it's time to hand pick your assorted decks. Choose 20 cards wisely from you class deck and once you have finished know that once you've used all your cards from your assorted deck you will start drawing from the class deck.

Dealing your hand & drawing:

• You will start with a hand of 3 and will draw 2 cards per round. You will put any cards you used into a discard pile and shuffle it with the rest of you class cards. You are only allowed to have up to 20 cards on hand.

• Some cards are a one time use only.

Stages:

• There are 3 stages and they determine the difficulty of the encounters and how many hazards you come across dealt by the game master. You always start on stage 1 or Tier I

Turn Order:

• When the game master begins the stage, Allies go first. Whoever is the oldest starts first and it will go clockwise from there.

• Enemies go last unless stated otherwise by either an encounter card or a hazard card.

Combat:

• When you have engage in combat you can deal the cards you energy pool can expel or simply pass.

• When dealing attacks be sure to place the card near the enemy you are attacking until the end of the round then retrieve your cards

• If you inflict status effect cards or activate passive cards such as a drone then place them either on the enemy or infront of you for as many rounds stated on the card or until it's been exhausted.

• Each Stage has a Boss and has 3 times the HP than normal enemies defeat them to win your special rewards.

Important Values:

• HP: The overall well being of a character. Having 0 HP kills a character.

• Energy: The amount of effort a character can exert in one turn.

• Armor: Permanent damage reduction from attacks. Does not apply to Bleed.

• Shield: Temporary protection to HP, adding to the total and disappears after 1 round.

• Damage: Subtracts from health, targeting shields first, then reduced by armor, then affects HP.

• NAN: A value for nanomachines, which engineers use to build automatons.

Effects:

• Weaken: Target deals -1 damage with all attacks. Lasts until cleansed.

• Disrupt: Target deals -1 damage with all attacks, lasts 2 rounds.

• Marked: Target takes +1 damage from all attacks.

• Stun: Target cannot act for 1 round.

• Shuffle: Shuffles the player’s deck.

• Draw: Player draws one card from their deck.

• Heal: Target regains listed value as healing.

• Bleed X, /(Y) rd: Target takes X damage at the start of every round for Y duration.

• Regen X / (Y) rd: Target heals X HP at the start of every round for the listed duration.

• Delay X: Effect on card takes place immediately after X rounds have passed.

• Exhaust: Card cannot be used for the rest of the encounter and is removed from the discard pile.

• Taunt: Target must be attacked first by their enemies. Effect ends after being hit by an attack.

Losing/Winning the game:

• Win the game by taking on at least all 3 of the stages or simply just finishing a stage

• You lose if all members HP drops to 0