Choose your expansions and way to play — competitive, solo against the Dark Lord, or the cooperative Darksworn saga — for exact setup steps, a full rules reference, and a searchable index of every rulebook. The dice decide who takes the throne.
Select the sets on the table. Every step and ruling below adapts to your choices.
Follow the steps in order. Each cites its source. Citations to the “Combined Guide” refer to the fan-made, unofficial Combined Expansions Setup Guide v5, which is used only where no official rule exists and never overrides the official rulebooks.
Every component the rulebooks list for your sets and way to play, with its count — tap a picture to enlarge it. Crimson Seas and Darksworn (shown in the co-op saga) list theirs without pictures; Flames & Frost, Shadowvale and the mini-expansions have no list.
Tap a heading to open it. Contents adapt to your sets and way to play.
Answers from this page come first, then every matching page of the base rulebook, every selected expansion, and the unofficial (fan-made) combined expansions guide.
