dqimp - rule booklet

8/9/2019 DQimP - Rule Booklet

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INTRODUCTION

Welcome adventurer, to the Dragon's Castle. Your quest

is simple enough but dangerous; get inside the castle,

take whatever treasure you find along the way, and then

get out before time passes midnight! Along the way youllencounter fierce monsters and treacherous traps, and

must find your way through locked doors and heavy

portcullises. And if you have any plans on getting into the

Treasure Chamber - youll even risk facing its guardian;

the dragon itself!

COMPONENTS

15 Labyrinth tiles

2 Catacomb tiles

1 Treasure Chamber tile1 Entrance/Exit tile

6 Development Cards

5 Dragon Cards

2 Ring Cards

2 Amulet Cards

2 Character Cards

2 Character counters

1 Playaid

1 Quick Reference Card

1 Highscore booklet

1 Rule booklet

the photo on the back of the Character cards, made by

Paul Mutton, and the front of this booklet - created by

astrokevin.

Thank you Jeremiah for giving us such a wonderful gameand tool to play around with.

Special thanks goes to matildadad for your excellent

ZimP playaid, to BoardGameGeek.com for hosting the

files of this game, to all of BGGs members who

supported me and this game during development, and of

course the makers ofDrakborgen and Legenden: Dan

Glimne, Jakob Bonds and Gustav Bonds.


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Should you have a torch, you only need discard a

Development card and may pick any one Stair tile to

emerge from.

If there are no Stair tiles on the table when you fall intothe Catacombs, then you wander around endlessly until

you eventually die of starvation - regardless of whether

you have a torch or not.

WINNING THE GAME

The game is won whenever you decide to permanently

leave the castle and time hasn't passed beyond midnight.

You may then record the total worth of all your treasure

on the Highscore booklet.

LOSING THE GAMEYou lose the game whenever your character die or as

soon as time passes beyond midnight and you're still

inside the castle. All your treasures are discarded and you

may not record anything on the Highscore booklet.

CREDITS

Dungeonquest in my Pocketis a game variant ofZombie

in my Pocketdesigned by Jeremiah Lee, and based on the

Swedish board game Drakborgen and its sequel

Drakborgen Legenden. Rules and card designs for this

variant belongs to Tomas Engstrm. Most artwork either

comes from Drakborgen Legenden, including characters

and tiles, or random Internet sources such as

SETUP

Begin by sorting out the Treasure Chamber tile and

Entrance/Exit (thats the big one). Now, set aside five

randomly chosen Labyrinth tiles and add the Treasure

Chamber. Shuffle these and place them in a pile, thenshuffle the remaining tiles (leave the Entrance/Exit on the

table) and stack them on top of the other six. This is done

in order to prevent the Treasure Chamber from coming

into the game too quickly (who would build a castle

where all the treasure is right next to the entrance?).

Now shuffle all of the Development cards and Dragon

Cards, and place them somewhere in front of you within

reach. Also lay out the Playaid, Amulet Cards, and Ring

Cards somewhere on the table. Next is to pick a character

and place him in front of you (put the other one away).

Get a pencil and a piece of paper for keeping track on

your health and the value of any treasure you'll find. You

should find yourself some small tokens as well, such as

drawing pins (placing them upside-down).

Now you're ready to head out into the Dragon's Castle!

MOVEMENT

Every turn begins with movement. This is done by either

moving your character to an adjacent Labyrinth tile

already on the table, or by drawing a new one and

placing it as you see fit.


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Note: You can only enter another room as long as it is

connected on both sides/tiles. E.g. if one tile shows a

door but the tile that it is connected to has a wall on that

side, then you may not pass through from eitherside.

Note: When placing a tile, you may not put two doors or

portcullises against one another unless forced to.

DRAWING

Once your character has moved onto another tile (except

the Entrance/Exit), you must draw a Development card to

find out what encounter you have - by reading the text

that corresponds to what time it currently is.

Note: Whenever you are required to "discard a card" due

to some event or encounter, these are the cards todiscard - not the Dragon Cards or any of the other ones.

TIME PROGRESSING

Whenever the last Development card is drawn and

resolved, regardless of what reason there is to this

(discards counts as well) - time may progress within the

game. Look at the icon depicted in the top left corner of

the last card to be drawn to see whether time on the

Playaid progresses one step (a sun), two steps (two suns),

or not at all (a cloud). Then reshuffle the deck and

continue as normal.

Rope; grants safe passage through the Footbridge tile.

Cannot be lost.

Potion; drink to regain 3 Health Points. One use only.

Key; unlocks any one door and/or portcullis. One use

only.Torch; emerge from the Catacombs through any Stair tile

you choose. Cannot be lost.

Plate gloves; grants the wearer +1 Strength. Cannot be

lost.

Elven boots; grants the wearer +1 Agility. Cannot be lost.

Amulets and Rings are the most powerful items available

in the game and therefore not very easily obtained.

Whenever you manage to find one of these ornaments -

shuffle the two cards available and randomly draw one of

them.

CATACOMBS

Whenever you find yourself in the catacombs and do not

have a torch, discard a Development card for each turn

that passes rather than resolving it - but first look at the

number in the lower left corner of that card. If there is a

Stair tile which corresponds to the number shown, then

you find a way out and emerge here (but do not draw

another Development card, you have no encounter). If

not, then you lose 1 Health Point as you stumble around

helplessly.


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injuring you for 1 Health Point. You may make as many

attempts getting through the rubble as you want.

Footbridge; passing through this tile requires a great

sense of balance not to fall into the abyss beneath. Afterresolving the Development card, pass an Agility test to

make your way to the other side of the room. Failure

means that your weight suddenly tips over and you crash

down into the darkness - taking 2 Health Points as you

land.

Furthermore, you are now lost in the Catacombs.

Stairs; two tiles contains stairs which leads in and out

from the Catacombs. The number is used for when trying

to find your way around in the darkness (unless you have

a torch).

Treasure Chamber; for as long as you remain in this

room, discard a Development card for each turn rather

than resolving it, and then pick one of the five Dragon

Cards to see whether you manage to steal some treasure

unnoticed or if the dragon wakes up.

You may not re-enter this tile once the dragon has

awakened (if you are still alive at this point).

ITEMS

Here's a complete list of usable items within the game

and their purpose:

Each time this happens, your character recovers 1 Health

Point from resting up.

MONSTERS

Although most of the castle's foul residents are sleepingduring this time of the day, some can still be found

wandering the halls. Not everyone will attack you on

sight though; whenever you have the opportunity to

"turn back", you may discard a Development card instead

of attacking and move back to where you came from.

Note: If there's a portcullis or door between your current

position and the tile that you arrived from, then you

cannot escape - even if you have a key.

COMBATWhenever you are forced or choose to fight a monster, a

game of rock-paper-scissor begins. Pick an attack out of

these three: Sweep, Slash, Stab. Then use the Random

Attack Table at the back of this rule book to see what

your opponent does.

Sweep beats Slash

Slash beats Stab

Stab beats Sweep


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Every successful attack inflicts one wound on you or your

opponent. If you both pick the same attack, that round is

a draw.

Combat will continue like this until either one of youdrops dead, or you may choose to discard a card to flee

after three rounds of combat. You may only escape back

to where you came from. If that route is blocked by a

door or portcullis, you cannot flee from combat.

Consult the Monster Chart below to see how many

Health Points each monster has:

Drow 1HP

Giant Spider 1HP

Skeleton 2HPOrc 2HP

Wraith 3HP

Werewolf 3HP

Vampire 3HP

Minotaur 4HP

TESTS

Whenever you are asked to make a test against a certain

attribute (Strength or Agility), draw the next

Development card and look at the number in the lower

left corner of the card. As long as it's lower than the

attribute that you're testing against, you succeed at

whatever it is that you're doing.

DOORS AND PORTCULLISES

Whenever you enter a tile that has a door or portcullis

depicted on it, you may either spend a key to open it or,

if you lack this piece of equipment, pick the door lock or

lift the portcullis and walk through it.

To picklock a door, make a test against your Agility.

To lift a portcullis, make a test against your Strength.

Two doors or portcullises that are back to back counts as

only one obstacle, thus they only require one key to open

or one test against the corresponding attribute.

Note: Every door and portcullis passed through is locked

once you've moved through it.

SPECIAL TILES

Apart from the usual rooms and corridors where nothing

but the event on the current Developer Cards occur,

some tiles work a little differently and have their own

rules.

Pile of rubble; passing through this tile requires some

brute force to get through all the junk inside the room.

After resolving the Development card, pass a Strength

test to make your way out of the room (pick any exit).

Failure means that something heavy knocks you over -

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