Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island

Setup and round: Choose a scenario and follow its map, event-deck, and round instructions. Each player takes a character, two action pawns, and a personal invention. Resolve Event, Morale, Production, Action, Weather, and Night in that order; skip the first round’s Event phase.

Events, morale, production: Resolve an event immediately and place it in the threat area; a card pushed off the left end triggers its threat effect. Actions can remove threats first. Morale normally gives or costs the first player determination, with wounds for unpaid tokens. Active sources on the camp tile produce resources available immediately.

Joint planning: Assign all player action pawns before resolving anything. Building resources, tools, terrain, and other requirements must already exist during planning: wood gathered later cannot fund a building action that round. New resources and items normally wait in Future Resources until the phase ends; determination, wounds, and track-level changes have immediate exceptions.

Resolution order: Resolve Threat, Hunt, Build, Gather, Explore, Arrange Camp, and Rest, choosing the order within each type. The character with the top pawn in a stack resolves the action and takes its personal benefits and consequences; others support. Hunting needs two pawns and a beast in the hunting deck; use combat strength and weapon differences rather than normal action dice.

Risk and costs: Building and gathering or exploring adjacent to camp normally use one pawn with three matching action dice, or two pawns for automatic success. Distance and special tokens add pawns. Success, wounds, and adventure resolve independently: failure can still cause injury and adventure, and awards two determination. Failed builds return assigned resources; automatic success does not cancel a mandatory adventure token.

Camp and recovery: Build inventions, shelter, or levels of roof, palisade, and weapons; roof and palisade need shelter already present during planning. Each Rest pawn heals one wound. Arrange Camp normally gives two determination and one morale; with four players choose one benefit. Each resource source can be gathered once per round, and each invention or exploration location attempted once per round.

Weather and night: Roll the scenario’s weather dice and include weather tokens. Each snow cloud first costs one wood; then subtract roof from total rain and snow clouds, paying one food and one wood for each unblocked cloud. Each missing resource wounds all characters in camp. Resolve animals and storm next. At night each character eats one food or takes two wounds; lacking natural or built shelter causes another wound, and unstored perishable food spoils.

Victory and player counts: Normally win together immediately on achieving the scenario goal. A player character’s death, an inaccessible camp tile, or reaching the deadline without the objective causes defeat, subject to scenario exceptions. Two players add Friday; solo also adds Dog, uses two-player building costs, keeps the player as first player, and raises morale by one before each Morale phase. Friday’s death does not immediately lose the game; Dog only supports Hunt or Explore.