Too Many Bones

Setup: Choose a Tyrant and difficulty, build enemy stacks from its listed creature types, and give each player a Gearloc with its starting skills. Use Solo encounters for one Gearloc or General encounters for multiple Gearlocs; mix in that Tyrant’s encounters and put Special encounters 001–003 on top in order.

Daily sequence: Advance the day counter, draw an encounter and choose an option, collect its specific and general rewards if successful, then recover. Failure skips rewards but still leads to recovery. The next day advances regardless of the previous result.

Training: Health, dexterity, and skill training always succeed. Attack and defense require their prescribed dice checks; a failed attempt lets you spend that point elsewhere. Follow skill arrows and prerequisites on the Gearloc mat. Consumables cannot be acquired through ordinary training.

Battle setup: A standard enemy-point total is the current day multiplied by the number of Gearlocs, adjusted by the encounter. Build the queue using the largest point values possible. Normally four enemies can be on the mat; replacements enter after the end of a round and receive initiative positions according to their type.

Gearloc turn: Resolve start-of-turn effects, pay dexterity for movement, choose one target, then roll selected dice simultaneously using remaining dexterity. Melee attacks require an adjacent legal target; skill damage is not an Attack. Resolve results as needed, allocate active or locked dice and Bones, and use at most one Backup Plan skill per turn.

Enemy turn: Melee enemies pursue the closest reachable opponent, moving up to two spaces, then use their strongest/weakest targeting icon to break distance ties. Ranged enemies stay put and select opponents using their targeting icon. Resolve skills, roll dice, apply defense, attack damage, and Bones-triggered skills in order; a Tyrant then resolves its special die.

Fatigue and failure: After round five, fatigue rounds remove one health from all units on the mat at the start of each round, normally without prevention. A full-party knockout immediately ends the battle and forfeits its rewards, but the adventure continues. During recovery, each Gearloc chooses full healing, a loot search, or scouting as its individual option.

Final objective: After reaching the required progress, the party can challenge the Tyrant instead of drawing an encounter in a later encounter phase. The challenge uses a day. Defeating the Tyrant ends the final battle without clearing other enemies. A failed challenge may be retried while days remain; exceeding the day limit without victory loses the adventure.