Rules Compendium

Challenge Rating N is the level total required by the standard Warlord Order to defeat that Dungeon.

Place the stated number of charge counters on the card when it begins or enters play.

A Character gains Cursed while it has a Cursed Item equipped or Cursed Action attached. It cannot equip another Item to the same equip location while that source remains.

Dual Wield permits two Weapons, but not two Weapons and a Shield. When equipping a Weapon or Shield, resolve equip-location conflicts immediately: with two Weapons, destroy a Weapon; with a Weapon and Shield when equipping another Weapon, choose a Weapon or the Shield to destroy. Equip locations are checked only when equipping an Item (section 302.7.1), not continuously.

Encumbered is automatically gained while the Character has at least three Items equipped. It has no intrinsic penalty unless another card refers to it.

Epic changes the normal deck copy limit to one copy of that named card in constructed play.

Each instruction to Heal removes one wound, if the Character has a wound to remove.

Journey is a movement instruction that moves the Character one rank forward or backward, subject to legal movement and formation repair.

A natural odd roll from a melee or ranged strike misses a Planar target even if its modified total reaches AC. Strikes generated directly by spell effects, including delayed strikes, ignore Planar. A strike from an ability merely granted by a spell is not itself an effect of that spell. Advantage keeps the highest even result if one exists; disadvantage keeps the lowest odd result if one exists.

Reach extends the normal melee target distance from within one rank to within two ranks.

Reserved cards cannot be part of the starting army or otherwise start in play.

Strikes with the named damage type suffer disadvantage when targeting the resistant Character. That Character has advantage on skill checks caused by actions with the matching damage type.

Stalwart prevents opposing card effects from changing the Character to spent or stunned. It can be granted by an attached Action or equipped Item.

Look at the top two cards of the deck. Put any number on top in any order and put the rest on the bottom in any order, giving six possible arrangements for two distinct cards.

True Strike blocks effects that would cancel the Character’s strike or change its target.

The Character is prohibited from equipping Items while it has Unarmed.

Unique applies to cards, not just Characters. When a card would enter play, it cannot enter if you already control a card with the same name in play that has Unique, even if the incoming card lacks Unique. You may bring in a Unique card if the same-name card already in play does not have Unique. You may not start with more than one copy of the same Unique card. The restriction is not continuously rechecked afterward.

Ward protects any card with the keyword, not just Characters, from opposing actions that do not produce a strike. Ward alone does not block strike-producing actions or their strikes; all other targeting restrictions still apply.

Strikes with the named damage type gain advantage against the Character. That Character has disadvantage on skill checks caused by actions with the matching damage type.