Mansions of Madness: Second Edition

Use the companion app to select a scenario and register the products and investigators in play, then set up starting locations and possessions as instructed. A solo player controls two investigators; in multiplayer, each player normally controls one. Do not enable expansions whose components are not prepared for this game.

Each round has an investigator phase followed by a mythos phase. Investigators choose their turn order, with each taking one turn of up to two actions. An action may be repeated. App options with the action icon cost an action; simply inspecting an option without that icon does not.

A move action allows up to two spaces. You may interrupt it with your other action, then finish the remaining movement. Exploring, searching, interacting, attacking, and trading have their own position requirements and conditions. Melee attacks normally target a monster in your space; ranged attacks require a target within range.

Before voluntarily leaving a monster's space, or taking an action there other than attacking or moving, resolve an evade check against the monster in that space with the highest awareness. Its effects may forfeit your action. Attacking itself does not require an evade check, and moving through a monster's space does not waive the check when leaving it.

For a test, determine the dice pool from the skill, modifier, and other effects. Roll at least one die even if the pool would be smaller, then resolve successes as instructed. Each Clue spent converts one investigation result to a success, not a blank. Darkness restrictions and explicit card effects take precedence.

The mythos phase resolves events, monster activations, then horror checks. Each investigator checks only against the monster within range with the highest horror rating, and makes no check if none is in range. Investigators affected by the same monster each resolve the same check instruction generated for it by the app.

Record Damage and Horror with cards, counting both faceup and facedown cards. Reaching health or sanity first makes you Wounded or Insane and discards the corresponding facedown cards; reaching that threshold again while already in that condition eliminates you. Scenario objectives and timing determine the outcome, rather than a kill count. After an investigator is eliminated, the group loses if the investigation is still incomplete at the end of the next investigator phase; eliminating everyone causes an immediate loss. Insanity and other special effects may change an individual's victory conditions, and eliminated investigators normally cannot win with the group.