Shadows over Camelot

• Base Game: 3-7 players
• Merlin's Company: 3-8 players

• Place game boards in middle
  • Quest for Lancelot face up
• Place Excalibur, Lancelot's Armor & Holy Grail on respective quests
• Each player gets:
  • Random Coat of Arms
  • Life points die
  • 1 Merlin card
  • 5 more White cards
  • Random Loyalty card (keep secret)

• Shuffle 16 travel cards to form the Travel Deck
• Merlin figure next to Travel Deck
• Add the 14 new black cards to the black deck
• Add the 23 new white cards to the white deck

1. Progression of Evil. 1 of the 3 following actions:
   • Draw a black card
   • Add a siege engine to Camelot
   • Lose a life point
2. Heroic Actions. 1 of the 5 following actions:
   • Move to a new quest
   • Perform quest action
   • Play a special white card
   • Heal yourself
   • Accuse another Knight

If you sacrifice a life point you can take another different heroic action

• When moving to a new quest draw a travel card

• Have 12 swords at Camelot with the majority of them white
• You get swords from completing quests

• Game is a loss if:
  • 12 siege engines surround Camelot
  • 7 or more black swords are on the round table
  • All loyal knights are dead
• Game is won if:
  • 12 (or more) swords are at the round table and the majority of them are white