Vantage

Use the released 2025 base game for 1–6 players, each controlling one character. The challenge pool contains eight dice plus two per player. Follow location 000 for characters, mission, crash locations and starting stats.

Take clockwise turns, normally performing one location, card or depart action. Commit before reading the cost and bold action description; do not inspect the result before deciding.

Normally you may perform only one location action at each location per game, even if you return later. Card and depart actions are separate; follow explicit exceptions on locations or actions.

Any player may spend matching skills to reduce cost by one each. Roll challenge dice equal to the remaining cost. Only if too few dice are available, first refresh all challenge dice from grids and the central penalty area into the pool.

Place rolled dice one at a time into legal open slots, one die per slot. Use your grid or, with permission, other players’ impact slots. At the same location, permission also allows use of their ordinary slots.

Unplaced time, morale and health results cause the corresponding losses. Blanks go to the central penalty area and setbacks return to the pool. Read the action result and gain its benefits afterward; a future benefit cannot pay an earlier cost.

If anyone’s time, morale or health reaches zero, immediately read the mission entry in the Take storybook before gaining action benefits. Follow its instructions; finish the interrupted procedure only if allowed to continue.

Place gained vertical cards in open spaces of a 3×3 grid with your character in the center; cards cannot be freely rearranged. Reserve capacity comes from icons. Reserved cards refresh their dice and retain boost, but their slots, abilities and powers are inactive.

Only you may view your location; describe its art, text and options. Grids and supplies are public. Normally pay boost from the card whose power you use; location-action boost goes on your character. Helping others requires the appropriate impact marking or explicit text.

An instruction to continue grants another action; optional continuation is your choice. A completed mission may end play or leave time to pursue a destiny. Completing a destiny and choosing to read its ending entry ends play. Reset all components afterward. Solo controls one character without stand-in players.