Overview

Castle Ravenloft is a cooperative dungeon-crawl board game set in the D&D universe. Players select heroes (Dragonborn Fighter, Human Rogue, Dwarf Cleric, Eladrin Wizard, Human Ranger) and explore randomly generated dungeons beneath Castle Ravenloft. Each turn, players move, attack monsters, explore new dungeon tiles, and face encounters. The game features multiple adventures with different objectives — all played cooperatively.

Components

• 40 dungeon tiles
• 5 hero cards and power cards
• 30+ monster cards and monster tokens
• Encounter cards, Treasure cards
• Villain cards (including Count Strahd)
• Adventure book with 13 adventures
• 200+ tokens and markers
• 20-sided die

Setup

1. Choose an adventure from the adventure book. It specifies the starting tile, villain, and win conditions.
2. Each player chooses a hero and takes their hero card, power cards, and figure.
3. Shuffle the dungeon tile stack (as specified by the adventure).
4. Shuffle monster, encounter, and treasure decks.
5. Place heroes on the starting tile.
6. Each hero starts with hit points as shown on their hero card and 2 healing surges.

Turn Structure

Each player’s turn has three phases:

1. Hero Phase: Move and/or attack.

• Move: Move up to your speed (typically 5 squares). Diagonal movement is allowed.
• Attack: Use an At-Will or Daily power to attack monsters. Roll the d20 and add your attack bonus; if the result equals or exceeds the monster’s armor class, you hit and deal damage.

2. Exploration Phase: If your hero is at the edge of an unexplored tile edge, draw a new dungeon tile and place it. Then draw a monster card and place the monster on the new tile.

3. Villain Phase: If you did NOT explore a new tile, draw an encounter card (usually something bad). Then activate each monster you control — monsters move and attack according to their cards.

Actions

At-Will Powers: Can be used every turn. Basic attacks and abilities.

Daily Powers: Powerful abilities that can only be used once per adventure.

Utility Powers: Special defensive or movement abilities.

Healing Surges: Spend a healing surge to regain hit points. Each hero starts with 2. Some treasures or abilities grant additional surges.

Scoring / Victory Conditions

Victory conditions depend on the adventure:

• Defeat Count Strahd or another villain
• Find a specific treasure or artifact
• Escape the dungeon
• Survive a certain number of turns

Losing: If any hero is reduced to 0 HP and has no healing surges remaining, all players lose. The game is fully cooperative — you win or lose together.

Special Rules & Edge Cases

• Defeating Monsters: When a monster is reduced to 0 HP, it is defeated. The player who defeated it draws a treasure card.
• Experience Points: Defeated monsters grant XP. Spending 5 XP cancels an encounter card. Spending 5 XP lets you level up (flip your hero card).
• Line of Sight: Attacks require line of sight. Walls block line of sight.
• Conditions: Slowed (move only 2 squares), Immobilized (cannot move), Poisoned, etc.
• Traps: Some encounter cards place trap tokens. These activate when heroes move through them.
• Difficulty adjustment: Adventures include tips for making them easier or harder (more/fewer healing surges, XP, etc.).

Player Reference

Phase	Action
Hero Phase	Move (up to speed) and/or attack (At-Will or Daily power)
Exploration Phase	If at unexplored edge: draw tile + draw monster
Villain Phase	If no exploration: draw encounter. Then activate your monsters

Combat: Roll d20 + attack bonus >= monster’s AC = hit Healing: Spend healing surge to regain HP (2 per hero) Win: Complete adventure objective cooperatively Lose: Any hero at 0 HP with no healing surges