#game rules

1. Whenever you take a card, put one green token in the Puerile Pit

2. Record your own demerits in the Velvet Journal but don't tell your compatriots the exact value (you can disclose your use of the VJ)

VtM's Humanity as just another damage tracker. You start with 10 empty boxes, and mark off Superficial slash or Aggravated cross damage for violating personal Convictions or chronicle Tenets. Superficial Humanity damage can be recovered by behaving humanely, restoring your awareness of mortality through acts of kindness or Touchstone time. Aggravated Humanity damage cannot be healed, ever.

I've found a game that is played on the island, it appears similar in form to chess or perhaps more like draughts.

Overview

Rune Casting is a two-player game. The aim of the game is to defeat your opponent by combing your rune stones to cast certain moves to force your opponent to remove tiles from the board.

Components and Rules

A board is a 10x10 grid which is placed between the two players.

Each player has a set of 80 stones containing two lots of 40 individual rune characters.

A dice is rolled to determine which player takes the first turn.

Stones are placed one at a time anywhere on the grid, players want to combine three stones in a row to cast a move, this is called a set. There are 120 possible sets with corresponding moves.

Players can place stones next to another players stone and include that players stone in their set.

Winning or Ending the Game

The game is won by taking over 80 spaces on the board, having placed all your stones.

If the board fills up before either player can reach 80 the game ends without a winner.

There is also a maximum time limit of two hours, if the game time reaches this before a player has won, the stones on the board are counted and the player with the most tiles wins.

There are many strategies to winning. Some players prefer to place stones quickly to increase their chances of placing 80 stones before the time limit as well as confusing their opponent. On the other hand some players take more time to place stones to plan out their moves and try to win by exceeding the time limit with the most tiles.

Moves

Competitions

Rune Casting competitions are held three times every school year at Cape Morrigan Academy.

Competitions have four leagues: Preparatory (ages 6-10), Junior (ages 11-15), Senior (ages 16+), Expert (won more than 2 competitions)

Competitions are held in a tournament style, players are paired up and the winners will go on to compete further until there are two players in the finale. The winner of the finale wins the competition.