Select an Adventure from the Adventures Book: There are 5 levels of difficulty (tutorial, easy, medium, hard, and very hard). Choose the game modality: Cooperative or Pvp (with a traitor). 

Read the adventure intro and apply its conditions to the game. Then each player chooses a Hero. Place miniatures or standees at the Dungeon entrance (or where the Adventure requires) and start to play!

 

About the PvP mode. In this modality, there is a chance that a player is a traitor, but this is not sure. The possible presence of a traitor brings an Rpg flavor to the game! Players start to speech each other, trying to understand their real nature. There is always a hidden competition between players to find the best items or gain a powerful spell or a higher level. PvP mode introduces this individual aspect, no matter if there is not a Traitor in the group, and the tension created is very similar to what you feel playing an Rpg, like D&D.

How does it work? All players draw a Pvp card at the game setup, and the card says, Hero or Traitor. The Pvp deck comprises X Hero cards and 1 Traitor card, where X is the player number. So maybe all players are Heroes.

Traitors have a different final aim. They must collaborate with others to reach common goals, but in the end, they have to reveal their real intention and act at the right moment.

 

Each game lasts a maximum of 18 rounds (called Hours). Each round, your opponents become stronger and more numerous: The track on the Hour board changes color from green, yellow, orange, and then red. Players place Encounter miniatures on the Hour track: the subsequent encounter with the same opponent will reveal a stronger Creature (Elite monsters, Leader, and finally a Boss).

The Adventure will ask you to do something: free a prisoner, find a precious artifact, kill a specific Boss, find the exit, etc. In addition, there are several Side-Quests: you have to update the Hour board Side Quest section when you complete them.

 

You have to explore the Dungeon looking for it.

There are two ways to find this: collecting Clues or using a Dungeon Map. The first way allow you to collect Clues cards. Each card has a sentence that will enable you to select some specific Room in the Dungeon map. With more cards, the selection will be more restrictive to target a unique Room. The second way will require you to follow a specific path of Rooms in the Dungeon map to find the final one, which represents your target Room.

There is an Initiative order, and players act following it.

To determine the initiative, you must roll players' cubes (1 each in the player color), plus 1 cube for the Creatures and 1 for Melee Combat. Then put them in a line following the North-South dungeon direction, and you have it!