descentwodrules.pdf

The Well of Darkness

2 Burn Tokens

2 Web Tokens

1 Stun Token

26 Treasure Markers

9 Power Potion Markers

11 Money Markers

6 Relic Markers

2 Miscellaneous Markers

1 Furr the Spirit Wolf Marker

1 Haunt Marker

Thank you for purchasing this expansion to Descent:

Journeys in the Dark. This expansion includes new

game components, new rules, and new quests.

Using This Book

This rulebook contains new rules for use in Descent:

Journeys in the Dark. These include changes to or clar-

ifications of the original Descent: Journeys in the

Dark rules, entirely new rules for the expansion, and

answers to frequently asked questions about the game.

While this expansion is designed to be used in its entire-

ty, it is possible to play using only some of the new ele-

ments, such as the new heroes, new monsters, or new

overlord cards, if so desired.

Kobold

Distantly related to beastmen, kobolds are small and

physically weak. Individually, they are cautious foes, but

they attack viciously when their courage is bolstered by

numbers. The most intelligent kobolds are known to

devise cunning traps to protect their homes. They can be

identified by the war paint they wear on their faces.

All cards from The Well of Darkness expan-

sion are marked with a small well symbol on

their fronts, to allow you to separate them from your

Descent: Journeys in the Dark cards.

The Descent: Journeys in the Dark

Replacement Cards

Several replacement cards for Descent: Journeys in the

Dark are included in this expansion. These cards were

changed for various reasons after the release of the base

game, and revised cards are included here for your con-

venience. These changed cards include replacement

monster reference cards for the Beastman and the

Skeletons (4 cards total), 1 copy of “Acrobat” (a skill), 1

copy of “Divine Retribution” (a skill), 1 copy of

“Explosive Rune” (an overlord card), 2 copies of “Bow”

(a town store item), 1 copy of “Bow of Bone” (a silver

treasure), 1 copy of “Golden Armor” (a silver treasure),

and 1 copy of “Dragon Scale Mail” (a gold treasure). To

use them, simply remove the old cards from your

Descent: Journeys in the Dark card decks and replace

them with these revised cards before playing.

The Quest Guide section of this rulebook begins on

page 9.

Components

Ferrox

An insane wizard created these blighted creatures from

razorwings many years ago. Their hunger for blood has

spelled the doom of many an adventurer, and wounds

inflicted by ferrox tend to cause serious blood loss and

heal very slowly. The most powerful ferrox have a white

stripe in their hair and are capable of draining the life ener-

gy from their opponents and using it to heal themselves.

This Rulebook (the second half of which is a Quest

Guide)

6 Hero Sheets

6 Plastic Heroes

27 Plastic Monsters

12 Tan and 6 Red Plastic Kobolds

4 Tan and 2 Red Plastic Ferrox

2 Tan and 1 Red Plastic Golems

110 Cards

6 Monster Reference Cards

39 Overlord Cards

4 Fighting Skill Cards

4 Subterfuge Skill Cards

4 Wizardry Skill Cards

12 Town Store Cards

6 Copper Treasure Cards

8 Silver Treasure Cards

9 Gold Treasure Cards

6 Relic Cards

12 Replacement Descent: Journeys in the

Dark Cards

10 Map Pieces

1 Room Piece

3 Corridor Pieces

4 Intersection Pieces

2 Dead End Pieces

73 Prop Markers

48 Obstacle Markers

23 Trap Markers

2 Staircase Markers

1 Bolt Template

33 Effect Tokens

14 Bleed Tokens

14 Daze Tokens

Golem

Constructed from stone and iron, golems are some of the

most fearsome opponents an adventurer can face. Their

skin is nearly impenetrable, deflecting weapons that nor-

mally cleave through armor with ease, and golems laugh

at poison, fire, and other methods commonly used to kill

well-armored foes. The best-built golems have golden

eyes and can easily ignore traps and spells designed to

slow them down.

Component Overview

Below are summary descriptions of the various compo-

nents included in The Well of Darkness. They should

help you identify the components and introduce you to

how they are used.

Boulders

Boulders are dangerous moving

obstacles that kill any figures they

hit. Boulders block line of sight and

movement. See page 5 for further

details.

New Miscellaneous Markers

Furr the

Spirit Wolf

The

Haunt

New Heroes

These new heroes can be easily incorporated into

Descent: Journeys in the Dark. Simply shuffle the new

heroes in with the others when choosing heroes at the

start of the game.

BoulderRamps

Boulder ramps are used to change

the direction in which boulders

move.They do not block line of sight

or movement. See page 5 for details.

The Furr the Spirit Wolf marker represents a new ani-

mal companion available to heroes with the proper

Fighting skill. See page 6 for further details. The Haunt

represents an unkillable apparition that the overlord

controls in the first of the new quests in this expansion.

New Monsters

The new monsters in this expansion appear in the new

quests in this rulebook. Additionally, the overlord can

spawn them in any of the quests from Descent:

Journeys in the Dark through the use of the spawn

cards included with this expansion. The overlord may

use all of the monsters from this expansion in addition

to all of the monsters from the base game.

New Staircase

This staircase is identical to those included in

the base game.

New Cards

This expansion includes new cards for the skill, shop,

and treasure decks. These cards can simply be shuffled

in with their respective decks before the game begins.

Bolt Template

New Relics

The six new relics can be acquired in the new quests

included with this expansion.

Note: For thematic reasons, the kobold figure shows

two kobolds crouching together. For game purposes, one

kobold figure represents only one kobold.

Monsters or traps with the Bolt ability (see page 6) use

this cardboard template to determine the spaces affected

by their attack.

New Overlord Cards

Three of the new overlord cards are intended to be

added to the overlord deck from the base game (2 copies

of “Kobold Swarm” and 1 copy of “Ferrox Tribe”). The

other overlord cards have a colored, hexagonal gem

between their threat cost and threat value. This gem con-

tains the card’s treachery cost. Treachery is explained on

page 3.

New Map Pieces

The new map pieces are used in the new quests in this

rulebook, and they give players more options for con-

structing new quests.

New Effect Tokens

New Props

The new props included with this expansion are listed

below.

Bleed

Daze

New MonsterReference Cards

The new Beastman and Skeleton cards are intended to

replace the ones from the original game. The other new

monster reference cards provide the game rules and sta-

tistics for the new monsters featured in this expansion.

These tokens are used to track two new lingering effects

– Bleed and Daze. See page 6 for further details.

Lava

Lava damages figures that move through it,

but it does not block line of sight.

New Treasure Tokens and

Markers

Mud

Mud costs 2 movement points per square to

move through instead of 1, but it doesn’t

block line of sight.

Dart Fields

Dart fields have a chance of damaging

and dazing figures that move through

them, but do not block line of sight. See

page 4 for further details.

Power Potion

New Relics

These markers represent the power potions introduced in

this expansion (see page 5) and the new relics featured

in the new quests.

Scything Blades

Scything blades have a chance of

damaging and causing bleeding in

figures that move through them, but

do not block line of sight. See page 4

for further details.

Expansion Rules

The Treachery Gem

New Props

Obstacles

Lava

Lava markers do not block line of sight, but

if a figure (hero or monster) moves on to a

lava space, the figure immediately suffers 2

wounds that cannot be reduced by armor. In addition, 2

burn tokens are placed on the figure.

This section contains rules for the new game elements

included with this expansion.

Treachery

With the Well of Darkness expansion, the overlord

player has the ability to customize the overlord deck

from the base game using treachery.

Large figures are affected by lava, but only if they make

a move that results in the entire figure occupying lava

spaces.

Most of the new overlord cards have a hexagonal, col-

ored gem between the gems for their threat value and

their threat cost – this is their treachery cost. At the

start of each quest, before the game begins (step 6B), the

overlord receives a certain amount of treachery with

which he can customize his base overlord deck.

If a hero or monster is aware of lava, it may jump across

the lava as though it were a pit.

The treachery gem on the new overlord cards

may be either green (for Events), purple (for

Traps), or red (for Monsters). The number in the

hexagon indicates the card’s treachery cost.

Mud

Mud markers do not block line of sight, but a

small figure (hero or monster) must spend 2

movement points instead of 1 to move onto

a mud space, or from one mud space to another. It costs

only 1 movement point to move from a mud space to a

non-mud space. If a small figure only has 1 movement

point, then it cannot move onto a mud space.

The overlord’s base deck consists of all his cards that have

no treachery gem: This includes all the cards from the

original Descent: Journeys in the Dark, as well as

“Ferrox Tribe” and two copies of “Kobold Swarm,”

which are new to this expansion.

Unspent Treachery

For every 2 points of leftover treachery (of any type),

the overlord draws 1 extra overlord card to start the

game, up to a maximum of 8 cards.

When customizing his deck, the overlord player swaps

out cards from his base deck for cards that have a

treachery cost. Each quest states how much treachery the

overlord receives when playing that quest. This informa-

tion is found above the chest contents chart for that

quest. (Treachery for quests from Descent: Journeys in

the Dark can be found in the “Treachery for the

Original Quests” sidebar.)

Large figures are affected by mud, but only if they make

a move that results in the entire figure occupying mud

spaces.

Example: Thyme adds his remaining treachery together

(3 trap treachery + 2 monster treachery) for a total of 5

treachery. He draws 2 extra overlord cards to start the

game (giving him 5 cards total), and the final point of

treachery is wasted.

If a hero or monster is aware of mud, it may jump across

the mud as though it were a pit.

Traps

Treachery comes in three types: Events (green), Traps

(purple), and Monsters (red). Power cards are paid for

with event, trap, or monster treachery as well, depending

on the color of their treachery gem. In order for the

overlord to add a card that has a treachery cost to his

deck, he simply spends the listed amount of treachery

(making sure to spend the proper type), then he adds the

card to his overlord deck, removing any one other card

of his choice from the deck. The overlord may swap out

as many cards from the overlord deck as he wants in this

manner as long as he has enough treachery to pay for

them all.

Resetting the Overlord Deck

At the end of the game, the overlord deck is restored to

its original condition, removing all cards that have

treachery costs from it and returning the original cards

to it.

Scything Blades

Scything blade markers do not

block line of sight, but each time a

hero or monster moves so that any

part of the figure is occupying a scything blade space, it

risks being hit by the scything blade. The hero or mon-

ster must then roll 1 power die. On a surge, nothing

happens. On any other result, the figure immediately

suffers 2 wounds that cannot be reduced by armor and

gains 1 bleed token (see page 6).

Treachery forthe Original Quests

The overlord should receive the treachery listed

below when playing the nine quests from Descent:

Journeys in the Dark.

Scything blades cannot be jumped over.

Dart Fields

Example: Thyme, the overlord for this game, receives 2

event treachery, 6 trap treachery, and 2 monster treach-

ery at the start of a quest. He finds this information by

looking on the quest map, above the chest contents

chart. He decides that he wants to add “Rolling Stone”

(3 trap treachery), “Danger” (1 event treachery), and

“Empower” (1 Event treachey) to his deck. This leaves

him with 0 event treachery, 3 trap treachery, and 2 mon-

ster treachery, which he chooses not to spend. He then

adds the 3 cards he has chosen to his overlord deck and

chooses 3 other cards to remove from it (in this case, an

“Aim,” a “Gust of Wind,” and a “Hordes of the

Things” card).

Event Trap Monster

(green) (purple) (red)

Dart field markers do not block line of

sight, but each time a hero or monster

moves so that any part of the figure is

occupying a dart field space, it risks

being hit by a dart. The hero or monster

must then roll 1 power die. On a surge,

nothing happens. On any other result,

the figure immediately suffers 1 wound

that cannot be reduced by armor and gains 1 daze token

(see page 6).

Into the Dark

The Brothers Durnog

Problems of Life and Death 3

Spoiled Brat

Last Wishes

The Eternal Guardian

The Black Blade

The Trapped Ruins

Old Friends

Dart fields cannot be jumped over.

crushed and killed, and then the boulder shatters and is

removed from the board.

Boulder Movement

BoulderRamps

Boulder ramps do not block line of

sight or movement. However, if a

boulder moves into any space con-

taining a boulder ramp, it is turned in the direction indi-

cated by the ramp.

New Treasure

The following new type of treasure can be found in the

dungeon.

PowerPotion Markers

Power potions are elixirs with magical

strengthening powers. When a hero picks up

a power potion, he may immediately equip it

for free if he doesn’t already have three equipped

potions. He may place the potion in his pack if it isn’t

already holding three unequipped items.

A hero may drink one of the power potions he has

equipped by spending 1 movement point. A hero who

drinks a power potion rolls all 5 power dice on his next

attack. The attack does not have to be made on the same

turn that the potion is drunk, but the effect is canceled if

the hero is killed or drinks another potion before making

an attack.

In the diagram above, the overlord has rolled 4

range for the boulder’s movement, so it moves in

the direction its arrow is pointing until it has

moved 4 spaces. In the process, it moves over a

beastman and Sir Valadir, instantly killing them

both.

On the next turn, the overlord rolls 5 range for

the boulder’s movement. However, it only moves

3 spaces before hitting a ramp that turns it to the

left. After turning, it moves its remaining 2

spaces of movement to the left. As it moves, the

boulder passes over Mad Carthos. Normally, he

would be killed, but he has wisely taken refuge

in a pit, so the boulder passes harmlessly over

his head.

Heroes may purchase power potions from the town shop

for 50 gold.

New Lingering Effects

This expansion introduces two new lingering effects,

described below.

Bleed

A figure that is bleeding is marked with a

bleed token. At the start of that figure’s next

turn, its owner must roll the white die one

time for each bleed token on the figure, losing wounds

equal to the damage indicated by the die results. These

wounds are not reduced by armor. After suffering this

damage, all bleed tokens are discarded from the figure.

Boulders

Boulders block line of sight and are

treated as a wall for purposes of

blocking line of sight, attacks, and

movement. Boulders roll through the

dungeon, crushing everything that

gets in their way.

Any figure in a space that a boulder moves onto is

instantly killed, regardless of wounds, armor, or special

abilities such as Undying. The only exception to this is

figures that are in a pit when the boulder rolls overhead

(see below). Boulders remove rubble obstacles from any

space they move through, but ignore most other obsta-

cles (other than pits, see below). Walls and closed doors

will destroy any boulder that attempts to move through

them. If one boulder collides with another boulder, the

boulder that is currently being moved is destroyed.

Example: Laurel of Bloodwood has 2 bleed tokens on

her at the start of her turn. She rolls the white die twice,

getting a total of 5 damage, so she loses 5 wounds,

ignoring armor. She then discards the 2 bleed tokens.

BoulderMovement

At the start of the overlord’s turn, before he does any-

thing else, he must move all boulders in play. To do this,

he selects a boulder and rolls 1 red die and 1 yellow

die. He then adds up the range shown on the two dice

and moves the boulder that many spaces in the direction

shown by the arrow on the boulder. He then repeats the

process for each other boulder in play.

Daze

Daze tokens indicate that a figure has been

temporarily weakened or distracted by an

injury. At the start of each of that figure’s

turns, its owner must roll a power die for each daze token

on the figure. For each power surge rolled, one daze

token is discarded. Otherwise, the tokens remain. Each

time a figure attacks when it has one or more daze tokens

on it, it loses 1 die (either yellow, green, or black) from

Boulders and Pits

Boulders roll across pits unless the boulder moves com-

pletely into the pit. Any figure in a pit that a boulder is

rolling across is safe from being crushed by the boulder,

but cannot climb out of any space covered by the boul-

der. If a boulder moves completely into a pit, it falls in.

If this happens, any figure underneath the boulder is

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