Horrified

Everyone wins or loses together: defeat every selected monster to win immediately. Reaching the skull on the terror track, or needing a monster card when the deck is empty, loses immediately. One final Hero Phase remains after the last monster card is resolved.

Each turn has a Hero Phase followed by a Monster Phase drawing one monster card, then play passes clockwise. Take up to the action allowance on the hero badge, repeating actions and choosing their order freely.

Move along a lit path to an adjacent space, optionally taking any villagers from the original space. Guide moves one villager between the hero's space and an adjacent space. Heroes and villagers cannot enter water; crossing the river requires a bridge.

Pick Up takes any number of items from the hero's space. Share allows heroes in the current hero's space to transfer any number of items freely, without equivalent trades. Item color, strength and printed location can matter for tasks.

Advance uses items at the location specified by a monster's task. Normally the task must be completed before a Defeat action in that monster's space. Read the relevant mat and monster chapter for precise requirements and exceptions.

A villager reaching the safe location on its standee is immediately removed and the current player draws a perk. Any player may play perks during any Hero Phase, without spending an action.

Resolve a monster card from top to bottom: items, event, then monster strike. Put drawn items at their printed locations; refill an empty bag with discarded items. Ignore events and strike symbols for monsters absent from the game or already defeated.

Resolve strike symbols left to right, completing each monster's movement and attack first. Move toward the closest person along a shortest path, stopping upon reaching someone; tied targets favor heroes. Attack one person in the space, favoring a hero; roll no dice if nobody is there. Frenzy may activate the same monster again.

The attacked hero may discard one item per hit to cancel it. One uncanceled hit defeats the hero and raises terror by one; the hero returns at the Hospital on their next turn with full actions, keeping items and perks. A hit defeats a villager and raises terror by one; heroes cannot discard items for villagers. Resolve power symbols using the monster chapter.

Solo uses one hero and starts terror at 3. Do not use the Courier; remove Special Delivery and Conduct an Investigation, or discard and replace them when drawn. The remaining common rules still apply.