The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era

Setup: Choose a province and difficulty, prepare its enemy bags and encounter decks, and create each adventurer’s race, stats, starting skills and class. For the first session, jointly choose one of three drawn guild cards and follow its gazetteer setup; later sessions use the province and quest recorded after the previous session.

Day sequence: Advance the day, then resolve Overland, Encounter, Reward and End of Day phases. Normally the first day is spent in the starting town. Complete the guild quest by the end of day 12; failing a required quest step or running out of days normally ends the campaign.

Travel and encounters: Base movement is up to three adjacent hexes, modified by province effects. Extra movement adds light fatigue to every adventurer and cannot exceed the base movement allowance. The final location triggers, in priority order, a guild/side quest, town or landmark encounter; follow its text for peaceful choices or battle.

Towns and advancement: Each adventurer normally has two town actions for shopping, skill-line training, inns or side quests; a group action costs one action from everyone. During rewards, each adventurer receives XP and may buy stats, skill dice or better Cooldown. Skill dice require the trained line and appropriate level prerequisites; retain at most three unspent XP.

Battle setup and rounds: Assemble and deploy according to clash, delve or dungeon rules. Normal enemy pools use party size and XP; session finales instead use difficulty tables. Each round resolves adventurers, companions and then enemies, with enemies acting from highest level to lowest and following their targeting priorities.

Adventurer turns: Recover dice from the left of the cooldown track according to Cooldown, then perform movement, engages, class abilities or delve exploration. Each engage obeys battle form, sight, range and Stamina/Magicka dice limits. Every engage after the first adds one light fatigue, or two on Expert. You may engage, complete one move, then engage again, but cannot interrupt a move with an engage.

Cooldown and attrition: Exhausted skill dice enter cooldown; drained skill dice leave the available pool for that battle. Normal recovery moves overfatigue to the back of the track instead of clearing it. After round five, fatigue rounds add overfatigue and deal true damage based on its total in the track, putting pressure on the party to finish or retreat.

Ending and saving: Battles normally finish after the current round when the objective is achieved, the party retreats or everyone is defeated. Recover drained skill dice after battle, but do not clear the entire cooldown track. End-of-day healing and limited dice removal depend on difficulty. A successful guild quest ends after rewards, skipping End of Day; record and store progress for the next session. Win by completing the third-session endgame.