Radlands

The base game is for two. Use only the original 34 camps: draw six each, keep three, reveal together, and return the rest. Draw a starting hand equal to the total draw numbers on your camps and prepare your Raiders and Water Silo. People and events share a draw deck.

Each turn has Events, Replenish, then Actions. Resolve your event at zero, then advance remaining events one space. Draw one card and collect three water; the starting player collects only one on their first turn. All later turns provide three.

During Actions, repeat affordable actions in any order: play a card, spend two water to draw, junk a hand card, spend one water to take Water Silo, or use an ability. Return all regular and extra water at turn end; water does not carry over naturally.

Pay a person’s printed water cost and place them before any of your camps, even a destroyed camp. Each column holds at most two people, with a new person placed in front of or behind the existing one. If all columns are full, first destroy one of your people. Newly played people are not ready.

Pay for an event and put it at its numbered queue space. If occupied, use the first empty space behind it; if none exists within the three-space queue, it cannot be played. A zero-time event resolves immediately and is discarded instead of entering the queue.

A card with none of your cards in front of it is unprotected. Ordinary damage targets an opponent’s unprotected card: turn it sideways, and destroy it if damaged again. Destroyed people are discarded and camps flipped. Effects explicitly saying any, all, or one of follow their text and ignore protection.

Use abilities only on ready cards, paying first and resolving the full effect. A person is not ready if played, restored, activated this turn, or damaged. An undestroyed camp may be ready while damaged. Using an ability makes that card not ready for the turn; mark even zero-cost uses.

Junk a hand card without paying its play cost to receive its junk icon effect. Spend one water to take Water Silo into hand, then junk it later for an extra water and return it to your play area. Water Silo may remain in hand across turns.

A punk is a facedown person from the deck top with no abilities; never inspect its reverse side. One damage destroys it and returns it facedown to the deck top. Restore turns one of your damaged cards upright, but a restored person remains not ready this turn and a card cannot restore itself.

Win immediately when all three opposing camps are destroyed. Raid icons place or advance your Raiders event, whose resolution makes the opponent choose a camp to damage despite protection. Reshuffle discards when the deck first runs out; its second exhaustion ends the game in a draw.