Monsters, magic & mayhem

Separate the cards into two decks, Treasure and Character deck

Shuffle both decks

Deal 3 treasures across the table, facedown. These become “Rooms”. Place remaining cards to the side

Deal 8 Character cards to each player. Place remaining cards to the side.

Players check to see if they can cast the spells they may have been dealt. A spell caster is denoted by the circled star on the card. Anyone can use Magic Items.

If they cannot cast any spells, they can exchanged them with the same number of cards from the top (x) cards on the leftover character deck. (x) being the number of cards replaced. This can only be done once by each player. Discarded cards are placed at the bottom of the leftover player deck.

Players take turns placing a character card in front of one of the rooms.

Players may place cards in front of any room they want.

Players may place cards in front of 1, 2 or all 3 rooms. 

This continues until both players have played all their cards

The player that didn’t go first starts the battles. Cards are revealed at once.

Magic users go first and play spells when they feel they are appropriate.

Once the final tally is determined for both players in a room, the higher score wins, the room is revealed and claimed by the winner.

After all three battles are determined, the player who wins the most gold wins the game.

Alternate End: The game can be played using the remaining rooms and each player holds the character cards they were first dealt. This is done until all the treasure rooms have been used. The final total of gold recovered determines the winner.