Arcadia Quest

Players and guilds: CMON’s base rulebook supports 2–4 players. Each player selects a Guild and chooses three different Heroes; those heroes remain the guild’s team throughout the campaign unless a new campaign begins. Players control their own figures and resources while facing scenario monsters and rival guilds. The current Tycoon Games base product description also highlights guild heroes, quests, dice combat, and equipment upgrades.

Scenario setup: Choose the current Scenario from the Campaign Book, then follow its map to place double-sided tiles, doors, starting areas, Quest cards, Monsters, and Exploration tokens. Each scenario specifies the components, monster levels, and board orientation it uses. Place the guild’s three heroes in its assigned starting area and give the guild its campaign starting equipment. For a first campaign, follow the rulebook’s suggested opening scenario.

Player turn: Players take turns clockwise. On a turn, choose exactly one option: Activate a Hero or Rest the Guild. The player may not do both in the same turn. When activating, choose one Hero and perform Movement and one Attack in either order, or perform only one of those actions. The Hero’s Movement must be completed all at once, and each activation provides three Movement points.

Movement and board spaces: Each Movement point can move a Hero to an edge-adjacent space, use a portal of the same color, or open or close a door at the edge of the current space. Diagonal movement is not allowed, and walls or closed doors block movement. Space capacity creates Full or Blocked conditions. Check adjacency, line of sight, doors, and the target space before moving or attacking.

Attacks and defense: The attacking Hero chooses an available Attack card, gathers the number of black Attack dice shown on it, and exhausts the card. The targeted Character gathers white Defense dice from its Defense value and equipment. Hit symbols count according to whether the attack is Melee or Ranged; Critical results count as successes and add another die. Damage accumulates toward a Character’s Life value, at which point the Character is killed and handled as the rules prescribe.

Resting and monster reactions: Rest the Guild to unexhaust cards, reorganize equipment or Exploration tokens, and resolve matters such as resurrecting killed Heroes as described in the rules. After a Hero attacks a Monster, that Monster may make a Payback Reaction. The player to the active player’s right usually controls the Monster and applies its movement, attack, and target rules. Defeating a Monster can earn the coin reward printed on its card or contribute to a quest.

Quests and scenario victory: Scenarios include PvE Quests and PvP Quests. A PvE Quest concerns the environment, monsters, or a task specific to that scenario; a PvP Quest relates to defeating rival Heroes. Mark a completed quest with a Guild token. The first player to complete a quest may receive its coin bonus, and some quests also award equipment. In a three- or four-player game, the first Guild to complete three quests, including at least one PvE quest, wins; in a two-player game, two quests are enough.

Campaign and modes: The standard campaign plays six of the eleven scenarios: three in the Outer Circle, two in the Inner Circle, and the Final Showdown. The previous scenario’s winner usually chooses what comes next. Between scenarios, players upgrade their Heroes, buy equipment, and resolve Death Curses while recording campaign information. The base book also has an Optional Episodic Mode for a standalone multiplayer scenario; CMON’s Solo Mode v1.3 is a separate optional rules release, not part of the standard multiplayer turn sequence.