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== Modalità di gioco ==
== HIGH FORM RULES ==


Su Board Game Arena, Tash-Kalar può essere giocato da 2 a 4 giocatori e in 2 distinte modalità:
High form is currently only implemented as a two-player game on BGA.


- '''"Forma Suprema":''' I giocatori realizzano punti quando completano un obiettivo corrente e per i pezzi leggendari presenti nell'Arena. Questa modalità è disponibile solo per 2 giocatori.
=== Terminology ===
Pieces are ranked in order: '''common, heroic, legendary.''' '''Upgrade''' and '''downgrade''' mean changing the rank of a piece by one step. A higher ranked piece may count (for summoning or tasks) as if it were of lower rank.  


- '''"Duello Mortale"''': Non ci sono obiettivi da completare. I giocatori realizzano punti distruggendo pedine nemiche, evocando creature leggendarie e quando l'avversario invoca una carta impeto. il Duello Mortale può essere giocato da 2 a 4 giocatori.
A '''move''' is one square in any direction (including diagonals). A '''leap''' is from any square to any other.
A '''standard move/leap''' is permitted onto any empty square or one occupied by a piece of a lesser rank.
A '''combat move/leap''' is permitted onto any empty square or one occupied by a piece of ''the same'' or lesser rank.


Il gioco in scatola prevede anche modalità a squadra in entrambe le modalità.
Any piece previously occupying the destination square of a move/leap is destroyed. You may destroy your own pieces. "Converting" a piece to a different colour counts as destroying it, but upgrading or downgrading it does not.  


== Setup ==
When text on a card refers to the name of the Being, it is referring to the piece in the square where it is summoned.


Ogni giocatore inizia con 6 carte pescate a caso: 3 esseri del proprio mazzo, 2 leggendari e 1 impeto.
=== Setup ===
Each player receives 3 cards from their personal deck, plus 2 Legendary Beings and one flare from the common decks. Four cards are drawn for the task queue. The first three are immediately available; the fourth is not yet available. None of the first three tasks may be "advanced" (certain 3-point tasks), and there may not be three tasks of the same type among the four on display (BGA automatically enforces these rules).


Nella modalità '''"Forma Suprema"''', vengono rivelati 3 obiettivi correnti più 1 come prossimo obiettivo.
=== Turns ===


Nella modalità '''"Duello Mortale"''', il giocatore che gioca per secondo piazza 1 pezzo comune di ogni colore nei quadrati marcati dell'Arena.
The starting player takes a single action. In subsequent turns, each player takes two actions. These may be any of the following:
* - Place a common piece on any empty square
* - Summon a being
* - Discard a card and (optionally) return other cards to the bottom of their decks. ''(Only permitted once per turn.)''
In addition, before or after any action, a flare may be played, if one or both of its conditions are met.


== Game play ==
Once a turn is over:
* - You may claim one task card and earn its victory points (VPs) if you meet its conditions.
* - If necessary, replenish your hand from the appropriate decks and update the task queue. (Automated on BGA.)


Si comincia dal primo giocatore scelto a caso e si procede in senso orario.
=== Playing a Flare ===
Ogni turno prevede 2 azioni, tranne il giocatore iniziale che ha solo 1 azione disponibile come primo turno.
Each flare lists two numbers: X/Y. The top effect may be activated if a player has X fewer upgraded pieces on the board than their opponent; the bottom effect if they have Y fewer pieces in total on the board. Effects activate in top-to-bottom order.


Azioni possibili:
=== Summoning ===
If your pieces are in the formation on a Being’s card (in any orientation or mirror image), you may summon the piece in the top left corner: it is placed via a combat leap onto the white square in the pattern. For most beings, the white square is empty, but some require a piece of your own to be present in the square. Once the Being is summoned, the effects listed on its card are activated.


- '''"Piazzare 1 pezzo semplice"''' del tuo colore su un quadrato vuoto. Se non hai pezzi disponibili devi riprendere 1 dei tuoi pezzi semplici o eroici già piazzati sull'Arena in precedenza e dopo piazzarlo dove vuoi.
Patterns for Legendary Beings require one or more heroic pieces. Each legendary piece on the board earns 1 VP. Each player can place a maximum of 3 legendary pieces on the board. If one is destroyed, 1 VP is lost.


- '''"Evocare un essere"'''. Leggi più avanti
=== Discarding ===
Once per turn a player may discard a card. They may also return as many other cards as they like (regular cards, legends, flares) to the bottom of the appropriate decks. Once the turn is over, they replenish their hand as usual.  


- '''"Scartare 1 carta essere del tuo mazzo"'''. Se lo fai puoi anche mettere una o più carte (anche leggendarie o impeti) in fondo al rispettivo mazzo di pesca.
=== Running Out of Pieces ===
If a player needs to place a piece and has no more in stock, they must pick up one from the board before placing the new piece. (Heroic and common pieces come from the same pool--in the original boardgame, they are reverse sides of the same piece--but there are only three legendary pieces for each colour.)


Le azioni possono essere eseguite in qualsiasi ordine. Puoi prima "piazzare" e poi "evocare" o viceversa (puoi fare una sola azione di scarto per turno). Devi sempre usare le tue azioni disponibili. Puoi invocare un impeto (leggi più avanti) prima o dopo un'azione. Invocare un impeto non costa nessuna azione.
=== Game End and Scoring ===
When one player scores 9 VPs or draws the last card from their own deck, game end is triggered. Everyone plays one more turn, including the player who triggered endgame. Even if their score decreases below 9 due to destruction of a legendary piece, the game still ends.


Il tuo turno finisce pescando altrettante carte di quante ne sono state giocate, in modo da avere sempre 3 carte essere del tuo mazzo, 2 leggendarie e i impeto. Se peschi l'ultima carta del tuo mazzo, potresti finire la partita anche con meno di 3 carte essere in mano.
High score wins. Tiebreakers are, in order, (1) number of upgraded pieces; (2) total number of pieces.


'''"Forma Suprema"''': Alla fine del tuo turno puoi completare solamente 1 dei compiti disponibili, se hai soddisfatto i suoi requisiti.
== DEATHMATCH RULES: TWO PLAYERS (DUEL) ==


'''"Duello Mortale"''': Alla fine del tuo turno, realizzi punti per le pedine nemiche distrutte: 2 punti per una leggendaria, 1 punto per un'eroica e 1 punto per ogni coppia di pedine semplici distrutte.
No tasks are used. Opening positions are marked on the game board. The first player to score 18 VPs triggers the endgame.  


Nella ''Mischia Mortale'' (3-4 giocatori) fai punti per ogni pedina nemica distrutta nei diversi colori. Il tuo punteggio finale è determinato dal colore nel quale hai il punteggio più basso.
Destroying pieces scores VPs as follows:
* - 1 VP for every 2 common pieces, rounded down
* - 1 VP for a heroic piece
* - 2 VPs for a legendary piece


Non realizzi punti se distruggi tue pedine e per tutte le pedine semplici nemiche spaiate di un solo colore. Puoi appaiare 2 pedine semplici nemiche di diverso colore e decidere in quale colore realizzare i punti. Realizzi 1 punto (nel colore che preferisci) ogni volta che evochi 1 leggenda (promuovere un pezzo eroico non conta come un'evocazione leggendaria). Se il tuo avversario invoca 1 carta impeto tu guadagni 1 punto.
Summoning a legend scores 1 VP. This VP is not lost if the piece is later destroyed.


== Summoning a being ==
If you play a flare your opponent gains 1 VP.


To summon a being, use 1 action and do the following:
== DEATHMATCH RULES: THREE OR FOUR PLAYERS ==


- '''Play the card''' from your hand and choose a square on the board where your pieces match the pattern on the card.
Setup: In three-player Deathmatch, the third player places one common piece adjacent to each diamond symbol. In four-player Deathmatch, the fourth player places one common piece adjacent to each diamond symbol for the first, third and fourth players. As usual, the first player only gets one action. (Sounds complicated? Don't worry, BGA automates the setup.)
The pattern can be rotated (by 90, 180, or 270 degrees). Mirror images and flips
also count as a match.
The pieces used to summon the being can be the same rank as those depicted
in the pattern or higher rank.
Empty squares are not important to the pattern.


- '''Place a piece of the indicated rank''' (upper left corner of the card) on the square
Scores are tracked separately in each colour. Your final score is the lowest of these scores. (The second and, in 4-player games, third lowest scores are used as tiebreakers.)
indicated by the white-framed square in the pattern.
This square may be empty, unless the pattern says it must be occupied by one
of your pieces.
If the square is occupied by a piece of the same rank or lower, destroy that piece
when you put the new piece on the square.
If the square is occupied by a piece of higher rank, you cannot summon the
being.
If all your pieces of that type are already on the board, you may
still be able to summon the being by picking up a piece that is not required for the pattern and use it as
the new piece.


- Once the new piece is on the board, '''resolve the effect''' printed on the card.
When you score common pieces, first all common colour pairs are scored; then, if two common pieces of different colours remain, you may choose which colour to score against.


- After resolving the effect, discard the card.
When you summon a legend, you may choose which opponent to score 1 VP against.


== Invoking a flare ==
You may meet one or both criteria for a flare against multiple opponents, in which case you may choose whom to trigger it against (and give them 1 VP).


You can invoke a flare on your turn before or after any action.
Endgame is triggered by a player scoring 12 (for three-player) or 10 (for four-player) VPs in a single colour.
To invoke a flare, you must meet at least one of the criteria:


- You meet the upper criterion if one of your opponents has '''that many more upgraded
=== Improvised Summoning ===
pieces''' (heroic and legendary) on the board than you.


- You meet the lower criterion if one of your opponents has '''that many more pieces (total)'''
Once per game, and once for each opponent's colour, a player may use an opponent's piece as their own when summoning a Being. (Thus in a 3-player game, a player may perform two improvised summonings; in a 4-player game, three--one for each opponent's colour.) Only one piece may be used per improvised summoning: you may not use two different opponents' pieces simultaneously.
on the board than you.


If you meet the upper criterion, you resolve the upper effect. If you meet the lower
== EVERFROST EXPANSION ==
criterion, you resolve the lower effect. If you meet both, you resolve the upper effect
Several Beings in the Everfrost deck have "frozen effects". These effects do not have to take place immediately upon summoning; they can be activated later ("thawed"), like a flare. Only one such frozen effect may be stored at a time; if you summon a Being with a frozen effect and already have one in storage, you must discard one or the other frozen effect.
first, then the lower.
If you meet the criteria against several opponents, you choose against whom you compare.
Once the card has been resolved, discard it.


== Resolving effects of beings and flares ==
== NETHERVOID EXPANSION ==
Many of the effects in Nethervoid depend on a special marker called the "Gateway", which is automatically created when a Being is summoned; that marked piece is now called "The Gateway". It follows these rules:
1) If no Gateway is on the board, the next summoned common or heroic Being will create a Gateway.
2) If a common Gateway is on the board, then if a heroic Being is summoned it will shift to the new piece.
3) If the Gateway is heroic, summoning another heroic Being will not affect it.
4) Legendary pieces may never become the Gateway; summoning one has no effect on the Gateway. If an upgrade would turn the Gateway into a legendary piece, the Gateway marker is removed from the board.


No other action can be taken and no flare can be invoked until the entire effect of the
== ETHERWEAVE EXPANSION ==
card is resolved.
Many Etherweave cards have a "warp" effect; this is a free action that may be played in advance of the card itself, regardless of whether the pattern for that Being is on the board at present. However, until the card itself is summoned, the warped card still counts as being in your hand, and you may not use any more warped effects (though may otherwise summon cards as normal). Leaving a card "in the warp" reduces your score by 2; this penalty is removed the moment the warped card is summoned.
Some parts of an effect may be optional:
(NB: A warp may not be played on the first turn of the game.)
 
Several Etherweave cards allow you to swap pieces or temporarily remove them from the board; neither of these actions count as destroying a piece (for the purpose of High Form goals or Deathmatch scoring).
- May indicates that a certain part of an effect is optional.
 
- Up to always includes 0.
 
Any parts that are not specified as optional are mandatory.
If an effect cannot be performed fully, do the parts that can be done.
When a card uses its own name, it is referring to the piece on the board that represents
the summoned being.
 
'''Keywords''':
 
- Upgraded piece: a heroic or legendary piece.
 
- Non-legendary piece: a common or heroic piece.
 
- Piece: If a piece is not specified as belonging to you or an opponent, then the
effect includes any player's piece.
 
- Marked space: a colored space in the pattern. If the text does not refer to marked
spaces, the colored spaces in the pattern are just illustrational.
 
- Adjacent square: one of eight squares sharing an edge (orthogonally adjacent)
or a corner (diagonally adjacent) with a given square. If the given square is not
specified, assume it is the square currently occupied by the newly summoned
piece.
 
- Distance: the shortest number of moves required to get from one square to
another. For example, adjacent squares are at distance 1.
 
- Move: A move is always onto an adjacent square. A move onto an occupied square
destroys the piece that was there.
 
- Standard move: This type of move can be only onto an empty square or a square
occupied by a piece of lower rank.
 
- Combat move: This type of move can be only onto an empty square or a square
occupied by a piece of equal or lower rank.
 
- Standard leap and combat leap: A leap is the same as a move, except the square
doesn’t have to be adjacent. If not specified, a leap can be onto any square on the
board.
 
- Place: Like the “place” action. However, if there is no piece of the specified color
and rank available, the piece cannot be placed.
 
- Upgrade: Legendary pieces cannot be upgraded. To upgrade a common piece, flip
it over. To upgrade a heroic piece, remove it and replace it with a legendary piece.
If none is available, the heroic piece cannot be upgraded.
 
- Downgrade: Common pieces cannot be downgraded. To downgrade a heroic piece,
flip it over. To downgrade a legendary piece, replace it with a heroic piece. If none
is available, the legendary piece cannot be downgraded.
 
- Destroy: To destroy a piece, remove it from the board.
 
- Convert: To convert an enemy piece, replace it with one of your pieces of the same
rank (unless a different rank is specified).
 
When keeping track of '''how many enemy pieces you destroyed''', count pieces you
destroyed during summoning, pieces you destroyed with moves and leaps, pieces you
destroyed with a “destroy” effect, and pieces you converted. Neither upgrading nor
downgrading ever counts as destroying a piece.
 
== The end of the game ==
 
The end of the game is triggered when a player draws the last card from his or her deck.
 
In '''High Form''', the end of the game is also triggered if a player has 9 or more points at the end of any
player’s turn.
Count the points for tasks claimed (by the player or by the team) plus 1 point for
each legendary piece of that player’s color currently on the board. (It doesn’t
matter how the piece became legendary.)
 
In '''Deathmatch''', the end of the game is also triggered if a player reaches or surpasses 18 points.
 
Once the turn that triggers the end is done, play continues so that each player gets one
more turn, including the player whose turn triggered the end. Then the game ends.
The player with more points wins.
If there is a tie, the tiebreakers are, in this order: number of upgraded pieces on
the board and then total number of pieces on the board.
If there is still a tie, it remains unbroken.
 
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These rules are extracted from CGE's full rules for Tash-Kalar.

Revision as of 16:31, 20 July 2021

HIGH FORM RULES

High form is currently only implemented as a two-player game on BGA.

Terminology

Pieces are ranked in order: common, heroic, legendary. Upgrade and downgrade mean changing the rank of a piece by one step. A higher ranked piece may count (for summoning or tasks) as if it were of lower rank.

A move is one square in any direction (including diagonals). A leap is from any square to any other. A standard move/leap is permitted onto any empty square or one occupied by a piece of a lesser rank. A combat move/leap is permitted onto any empty square or one occupied by a piece of the same or lesser rank.

Any piece previously occupying the destination square of a move/leap is destroyed. You may destroy your own pieces. "Converting" a piece to a different colour counts as destroying it, but upgrading or downgrading it does not.

When text on a card refers to the name of the Being, it is referring to the piece in the square where it is summoned.

Setup

Each player receives 3 cards from their personal deck, plus 2 Legendary Beings and one flare from the common decks. Four cards are drawn for the task queue. The first three are immediately available; the fourth is not yet available. None of the first three tasks may be "advanced" (certain 3-point tasks), and there may not be three tasks of the same type among the four on display (BGA automatically enforces these rules).

Turns

The starting player takes a single action. In subsequent turns, each player takes two actions. These may be any of the following:

  • - Place a common piece on any empty square
  • - Summon a being
  • - Discard a card and (optionally) return other cards to the bottom of their decks. (Only permitted once per turn.)

In addition, before or after any action, a flare may be played, if one or both of its conditions are met.

Once a turn is over:

  • - You may claim one task card and earn its victory points (VPs) if you meet its conditions.
  • - If necessary, replenish your hand from the appropriate decks and update the task queue. (Automated on BGA.)

Playing a Flare

Each flare lists two numbers: X/Y. The top effect may be activated if a player has X fewer upgraded pieces on the board than their opponent; the bottom effect if they have Y fewer pieces in total on the board. Effects activate in top-to-bottom order.

Summoning

If your pieces are in the formation on a Being’s card (in any orientation or mirror image), you may summon the piece in the top left corner: it is placed via a combat leap onto the white square in the pattern. For most beings, the white square is empty, but some require a piece of your own to be present in the square. Once the Being is summoned, the effects listed on its card are activated.

Patterns for Legendary Beings require one or more heroic pieces. Each legendary piece on the board earns 1 VP. Each player can place a maximum of 3 legendary pieces on the board. If one is destroyed, 1 VP is lost.

Discarding

Once per turn a player may discard a card. They may also return as many other cards as they like (regular cards, legends, flares) to the bottom of the appropriate decks. Once the turn is over, they replenish their hand as usual.

Running Out of Pieces

If a player needs to place a piece and has no more in stock, they must pick up one from the board before placing the new piece. (Heroic and common pieces come from the same pool--in the original boardgame, they are reverse sides of the same piece--but there are only three legendary pieces for each colour.)

Game End and Scoring

When one player scores 9 VPs or draws the last card from their own deck, game end is triggered. Everyone plays one more turn, including the player who triggered endgame. Even if their score decreases below 9 due to destruction of a legendary piece, the game still ends.

High score wins. Tiebreakers are, in order, (1) number of upgraded pieces; (2) total number of pieces.

DEATHMATCH RULES: TWO PLAYERS (DUEL)

No tasks are used. Opening positions are marked on the game board. The first player to score 18 VPs triggers the endgame.

Destroying pieces scores VPs as follows:

  • - 1 VP for every 2 common pieces, rounded down
  • - 1 VP for a heroic piece
  • - 2 VPs for a legendary piece

Summoning a legend scores 1 VP. This VP is not lost if the piece is later destroyed.

If you play a flare your opponent gains 1 VP.

DEATHMATCH RULES: THREE OR FOUR PLAYERS

Setup: In three-player Deathmatch, the third player places one common piece adjacent to each diamond symbol. In four-player Deathmatch, the fourth player places one common piece adjacent to each diamond symbol for the first, third and fourth players. As usual, the first player only gets one action. (Sounds complicated? Don't worry, BGA automates the setup.)

Scores are tracked separately in each colour. Your final score is the lowest of these scores. (The second and, in 4-player games, third lowest scores are used as tiebreakers.)

When you score common pieces, first all common colour pairs are scored; then, if two common pieces of different colours remain, you may choose which colour to score against.

When you summon a legend, you may choose which opponent to score 1 VP against.

You may meet one or both criteria for a flare against multiple opponents, in which case you may choose whom to trigger it against (and give them 1 VP).

Endgame is triggered by a player scoring 12 (for three-player) or 10 (for four-player) VPs in a single colour.

Improvised Summoning

Once per game, and once for each opponent's colour, a player may use an opponent's piece as their own when summoning a Being. (Thus in a 3-player game, a player may perform two improvised summonings; in a 4-player game, three--one for each opponent's colour.) Only one piece may be used per improvised summoning: you may not use two different opponents' pieces simultaneously.

EVERFROST EXPANSION

Several Beings in the Everfrost deck have "frozen effects". These effects do not have to take place immediately upon summoning; they can be activated later ("thawed"), like a flare. Only one such frozen effect may be stored at a time; if you summon a Being with a frozen effect and already have one in storage, you must discard one or the other frozen effect.

NETHERVOID EXPANSION

Many of the effects in Nethervoid depend on a special marker called the "Gateway", which is automatically created when a Being is summoned; that marked piece is now called "The Gateway". It follows these rules: 1) If no Gateway is on the board, the next summoned common or heroic Being will create a Gateway. 2) If a common Gateway is on the board, then if a heroic Being is summoned it will shift to the new piece. 3) If the Gateway is heroic, summoning another heroic Being will not affect it. 4) Legendary pieces may never become the Gateway; summoning one has no effect on the Gateway. If an upgrade would turn the Gateway into a legendary piece, the Gateway marker is removed from the board.

ETHERWEAVE EXPANSION

Many Etherweave cards have a "warp" effect; this is a free action that may be played in advance of the card itself, regardless of whether the pattern for that Being is on the board at present. However, until the card itself is summoned, the warped card still counts as being in your hand, and you may not use any more warped effects (though may otherwise summon cards as normal). Leaving a card "in the warp" reduces your score by 2; this penalty is removed the moment the warped card is summoned. (NB: A warp may not be played on the first turn of the game.) Several Etherweave cards allow you to swap pieces or temporarily remove them from the board; neither of these actions count as destroying a piece (for the purpose of High Form goals or Deathmatch scoring).