Frosthaven

Cards and initiative: Secretly choose two cards and designate one for initiative, or declare a legal long rest. Characters and monsters act from low to high initiative. Character ties use the second card and then party choice; characters act before monsters on a tie.

Actions: Perform one card’s top action and the other’s bottom action, in either order. You cannot use two tops or two bottoms. A half can instead become its corresponding basic Attack 2 or Move 2, ignoring that half’s other icons.

Attacks and conditions: Draw an attack modifier separately for each target, then resolve shield, ward, brittle, and other applicable effects. Direct damage does not draw an attack modifier. Poison adds one to attacks targeting the figure and prevents a heal removing poison from restoring hit points; healing also removes wound, brittle, and bane.

Loot: Build the loot deck from the scenario table. Looting a token draws a card that may provide coins, lumber, metal, hide, herbs, or a random item. Characters must loot tokens and treasure in their hex at turn end; more distant loot normally requires a Loot ability. Money and resources are resolved at scenario end, and uncollected loot is not awarded automatically.

Resting and exhaustion: A short rest requires at least two discarded cards. For long rests, active cards without lost icons also count as discarded under the official erratum. At round end, a short rest loses one card at random and returns the remaining discarded cards to hand. A long rest uses the entire initiative-99 turn: choose one card to lose and return the remaining discarded cards to hand; active cards without lost icons may remain active. Long resting allows Heal 2 and recovers spent items, not lost items. Zero hit points, or being unable at round start to play two cards or rest, exhausts the character.

Scenario end: Achieving the goal, exhausting every character, or meeting a special failure condition triggers the end, but finish the current round. If completion and failure occur in that same round, the scenario is lost. Exhaustion does not reduce the scenario’s character-count variable.

Resolving the scenario: Restore character health, cards, and item states. Earned experience and gold are retained. Completion also grants level-based bonus experience, looted resources, and qualifying battle-goal rewards; loot left on the map is not collected automatically.

Outpost: Resolve passage of time, the outpost event, building operations, downtime, and construction in order. Normally build or upgrade one building; lose two morale for a second. Personal materials craft equipment, while outpost materials fund buildings, with separate shared-use rules for herbs.