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Game: Blue Moon

Pub: Fantasy Flight Games (2004)

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Page 2: Rules summary/reerence back

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Setup

Place the 3 dragons onto the middle o

the game board. Each player takes a people set.Display the leaders ace up next to the game board.

The remaining 30 cards orm the players deck.

Shufe and place them ace down as a draw deck

next to the game board. Each player draws the top

6 cards rom his draw deck into his hand. Pick the

starting player o the rst fght.

Turn Sequence

On the frst turn o each fght, the starting player

cannot play a booster or a support card, unless his

cards specically allow him to play additional boosteror support cards.

In special power text, I reers to the player o the

card and you to the opponent.

The game consists o independent consecutive ghts.

Players take alternate ull turns as ollows:

1 Beginning o Turn

2 LEADERSHIP

May play one leadership card.

3 Retreat rom Fight?

4 CHARACTER

Must play one character card.

5 BOOSTER or SUPPORT

May play one booster or one support card.

6 Announce Power

7 Reresh Hand

8 End o Turn

Leadership

Place the leadership card ace up partially over-

lapping your leader card and implement the eects.

Subsequent leadership cards are played on top.

Character

To continue the current ght, you must play a

character card ace up into your combat area. Only

the most recent character cards played are active

until they are covered by subsequent character cards.

Booster or Support

A booster card is played ace up partially overlapping

the last character card.A support card is played ace up into your support

area. All support area cards remain active during the

entire ght.

Announce Power

The player who starts a ght chooses either earth or

fre as the element o the ght when announcing his

power on his starting turn. This remains xed or the

entire ght (unless changed by a mutant).

Announce your total power in the chosen

element that results rom all your active

cards. Your opponents active cards can

infuence your total power.

The total power you announce on your turn must at

least equal that o your opponent at this time.

I you cannot at least matchyour opponents total power,

you must retreat during the Retreat rom Fight phase

and may not play character, booster or support cards.

Reresh Hand

Generally you reresh your hand rom your draw deck

to 6 cards. I you already have more cards in your

hand, you keep the additional cards.

Winning a Fight

I your opponent retreats, his turn ends immediately

and you win the ght and attract one dragon.

I you have a total o 6 or more cards (not necessarily

all active) in your combat and support areas you

attract one additional dragon.

For each dragon attracted, select one o the dragons

rom the game board and place it in ront o you.

However, i your opponent has dragons in ront o

him, select the dragon(s) rom your opponent andplace them on the game board instead.

Both players now remove all their cards rom their

combat and support areas and place them ace up on

their respective discard piles (Leadership cards stay

on the Leadership pile). Both players reresh their

hands to 6 cards; i you already have 6 or more cards

in your hand, you keep those cards.

The retreating player starts the next ght.

Declining a Fight / Rereshing Cards

The starting player o a ght cannot retreat on his

starting turn, but may instead discard 1, 2 or 3

cards rom his hand during the Retreat rom Fight

phase and reresh to six cards. The other player now

becomes the starting player.

You are orced to retreat i you have no character

card to play. You may play a leadership card as usual

beore declining the ght.

Game End

When one player has used up cards in his draw deck

and his hand then no new ghts may be started and

the game ends as soon as the current ght is over. The

player with the most dragons on his side is the victor.

I the game ends with all 3 dragons on the game

board, then the player who ran out o cards loses.

A player wins the game instantly i he has all 3

dragons on his side and then attracts urther dragons.

Victory points can be recorded or individual games.

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SHIELD

A Shield behind a fre or earth value deends against your opponents total power

in this element, irrespective o the size o his power.

The number in the shield contributes towards your own announced total power as

usual. You are allowed to reduce the total power in the ght.

STOP

You may not play any urther cards during your turn.

Your turn continues with the announcement o your total power.

RETRIEVE

Active cards with this icon at the very beginning o your turn may be returned to

your undisclosed hand. You may keep them or replay them this turn.

Exception: I your opponents combat area contains active character cards with

the Retrieve icon then you may not apply this unction on your character cards.

PROTECTED

These cards are protected rom any opposing eects when active in the combat

or support areas.

The cards cannot be ignored or discarded, and their values cannot be reduced,by the opponent.

FREE

These cards do not count towards your limit o one character card and either one

booster or one support card.

Free cards may also be played on the starting turn o a ght and must be played

during their appropriate phase. You may not play ree cards i a card instruction

specically disallows the play o the respective card type.

PAIR

Two character/booster cards with identical frst words in their names and this

icon may be played together instead o a single character/booster card.

Stagger the two cards on top o each other, so that all their inormation is visible.

GANG

You may play any number o character cards rom the same gang (identical frst

words in their names and the same color Gang icon) instead o a single character

card, and you may add more character cards to the gang in later turns.

I you have played character cards o the same gang on your previous turns,

and there are no other active cards in your combat area (character cards not

belonging to the Gang or booster cards), then you can add one or more character

cards o the same Gang rom your hand. Stagger the cards on top o each other,

so that all their inormation is visible. To keep the Gang active, you must add at

least one more character card rom the Gang each turn.

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