Now create the city's available supply of items using all copies of the red-sword-back Standard Items 1-14. Hand each player a red wooden Hit Point Tracker to keep track of their current health at the bottom of their character mat, starting at the number located below the level 1 indicator.

Hand each player a blue wooden Experience Tracker to keep track of their current experience on the right side of their character mat, starting at 0. These are numbered for players 1 to 4, with the number in the lower left corner of each card, and consist of 6 '+0', 5 '+1', 5 '-1' and a single '+2', '-2', '2x' and 'Null' card each. Personal Quests do not have to be kept secret, but they can be if you wish.Įach player receives a standard 20-card Attack Modifier Deck from the game's (not the character's) box (crossed swords back). Pick a quest that you think goes with the character you created. Each player is dealt 2 random personal quest cards and chooses 1 to keep, returning the other to the personal quest deck followed by a shuffle.

Shuffle the 24 dark gray Personal Quest cards. Leave the attack modifier adjustment cards inside the character's box (the cards with the crossed swords on the back).Įach player then takes a sheet of his or her class' corresponding Character pad, fills out the name, and writes down the 30 Gold every character starts with in the Gold Notes section. Find the Party pad, take a sheet and fill in your party's name.Įach player chooses a starting Character Class (Brute, Tinkerer, Spellweaver, Scoundrel, Cragheart, or Mindthief), and opens the corresponding character and miniature boxes, then takes that character's character mat, deck of level 1 ability cards, and the 5 character tokens.

Gloomhaven rules