Die Gralssuche Quick Reference
May 25, 2010

Marker Types:

• Green and Purple Edged: A companion, placed next to the player's board.
  A hero can have at most 4 companions. They can be discarded at any time by placing the counter face down on the current space.
  Each strengthens a skill. Some offer a choice which the player must choose when the counter is found, placing a matching cube on the counter to indicate which.
  Each also has a special skill which can only be used once, after which the counter is removed from the game: Arthur: one trial in any skill
  Bors: one ranged skill
  Gawain: one melee skill
  Guinivere: exchanges two clues between any two Grail Books (including the hero's Grail Book).
  Lancelot: one trial in any skill
  Merlin: removes from the game one companion belonging to another player
  Mordred: removes a Grail Clue from another player's Grail Book
  Morgause: one magic skill
  Parzifal: is placed in the Grail Book at treated as a Grail Clue in the skills he strengthens
  Tristan: gives a Solution Stone
• Green Edged: This is an optional Encounter:
  Alte Abtei: Passing one of the tests at the Old Abbey yields the reward on the back of the counter (sometimes an enemy which must be immediately fought).
  Boat: Place it at L4. Crossing the lake no longer costs a gold coin.
  Cart Maker: May spend 4 gold, flip over the counter and receive a cart.
  Don Hobiro: May spend a gold and try a ranged skill test. Failure means the range skill number is increased by 1.
  Fountain of Life: Replenish lost health by rolling 1 die. This is the number received up to starting maximum.
  Gänseschar: By spending 1 gold the player can by flown by the Flock of Geese to a new location up to two map tiles away, horizontally or vertically; it's okay to change direction in the middle. The landing site must be a beige space. The Geese will wait here for the next customer. Using the Geese counts as an action.
  Gasconier: May spend a gold and try a melee skill test. Failure means the melee skill number is increased by 1.
  Glücksspiel: At the Game of Chance the hero discards a gold, a health point or an experience cube and chooses two numbers in the range 1-6. Then he rolls the die and if the result is one of the numbers, he receives 3 gold.
  Land Portal: May spend a gold and try the magic skill. Success permits swapping two maps (and all their contents) with one another.
  Market: Shuffle the market counters, draw 3 randomly (6 at the large market) and then either buy them or sell them to others in any order. Active player receives 1 gold commission per item sold to another player. Prices are fixed.
  Mirabar: May spend a gold and try a magic skill test. Failure means the magic skill number is increased by 1.
  Ranger: Place at I5. This red secret passage is now treated as a normal passage.
  Rätsel: This is a Riddle which can be solved if the hero discards a yellow Solution Stone (received for fulfilling tasks). The back of the riddle shows the reward the hero receives.
• Purple Edged: This is a Grail Clue. To get it, hero must pass a trial in one of the colors on the right of the tile.
  A gained clue is placed in the hero's grail book. Each adds 1 to the hero's skill level in one of the colors shown on the left of the counter. If the clue shows more than one color, the player must choose upon receiving the counter which one is to apply. Denote this by placing a matching cube on the counter.
  Collecting four clues makes it possible to attempt a grail search (see Winning). The number of clues the hero has in a color is deducted from the skill number for the test.
• Red Edged: This is an Enemy which must be fought in one of the colors of the tile's colored dots. The numbers inside the dots lower the hero's chances. Losing incurs the penalty left of the dots (some require losing the experience cube of the player's choice). Defeating it gives the reward shown at the bottom, the marker exits play and a new tile is drawn from the bag.
  Red Knight: Requires two trials in one turn. Losing the first one costs a health point and the attempt is over, but if both are successful counter is turned over and a 1 health point shield earned.
  Shade: If defeated by it, place the health point next to the counter. Future trials against it require defeating it one extra time for each health. Defeating it earns a number of gold pieces equal to the roll of one die.
• Yellow Edged: These are Items which are generally placed in the yellow boxes of the hero's board.
  Armor: A hero can have at most 1 armor, 1 shield and 1 helmet.
  Cart: increases movement speed to 6, but cannot enter red spaces or be combined with horse or boots. Leave at the entrace to secret passes where it can be stolen by another player
  Excalibur: This weapon increases both magical and melee skills.
  Kompass: Enables its carrier, as its entire movement for the turn, to move from a red space to the next red space, but only vertically or horizontally. Note that for this purpose the I5 space is also considered red.
  Schutzreif: The wearer of the Armband of Protection can give up an experience cube or a gold instead of losing a health, but not the reverse: should loss of an experience cube or a gold be required, losing a health point is now allowed.
  Weapons: A hero can have at most 1 weapon.
• Blue Edged: Task. Put it on the hero board, unless it's full, in which case the task may not be taken. When a task is accepted for the first time a new tile is drawn from the bag. Marker says where it must be delivered. Delivery yields the rewards shown at the bottom of the counter and triggers drawing a new tile from the bag.

• Hero chooses the skill and rolls the number of dice he has in that skill. He picks 2 of these dice to use. A result equal to or less than the skill number (which may be modified by the enemy), succeeds and earns the reward.

• Recovering Health Points:
  • Spending one full turn at the hero's house restores all lost points.
  • Each full turn at the Temple (N5) or White Village (I5) restores one health point.
  • Roll one die at the Fountain of Life. This is the number received up to starting maximum.
  • Drink a healing potion obtained from the market.
• Health Points from Armor: These are called Artificial health Points. They cannot be healed or regenerated. When lost, place the points on the item. If all the points granted by the item are lost, discard it.
• Death: Losing the last health point:
  • All experience cubes, gold, improvements, grail clues, companions, items, tasks are lost except that one item, companion or grail clue may be retained by the hero's heir.
  • Other special items (not market items), companions and grail clues are placed face down by the dead hero's player, observing the following rules:
    • only on beige spaces which are free of markers, houses and figures
    • at least five spaces away from one's own house (counting all spaces)
    • placed showing their front or PA sides
  • Market items are placed with the other market items.
  • Tasks are left in the space where the hero died.
  • Reset to the hero's starting health points, gold and movement points.
  • Place the hero on his house tile.

• The game ends either when the winner succeeds at four Grail trials. To find the grail:
  • First the hero must collect four grail clues.
  • Second he goes to the location named by the topmost Grail Discovery Site marker.
  • Third he takes the search action.
  • If all four clue trials are passed, the grail is found; otherwise, the current Grail Discovery Site marker is placed face down under the pile, the next one turned up and the grail figure moved to the new location.
  • When any trial attempt fails, the hero loses this clue from his Grail Book and 1 health point. This clue is placed in the bag, provided that the bag still has at least one other counter, but if the bag is already empty, place the clue face down on the space containing the hero's house. Then the current Grail Discovery Site marker is placed at the bottom of the pile as the Grail appears to located elsewhere. The next Grail marker is turned up and the Grail Figure is placed on the new location. The next grail search attempt must occur there.

1. Move. May move a number of spaces equal to the numeral on the foot icon.
   Crossing between two blue locations on map L costs 1 gold unless there the boat is on the lake.
   To pass through a secret passage requires a two dice roll: 5 for red, 6 for green or yellow. Failure means stopping on the path and rolling again next turn. If this also fails, reach the other side and stop. Resume normal movement next turn.
   Must stop moving if you hit a PA or Fundort or enemy counter, or run out of movement points.
2. Take Actions. Actions you can take, in order, are
   1. Combat Enemy (at most one)
   2. Use the place (at most once)
   3. Encounter a green marker (at most once)
   4. Accept task (at most one)
   5. Fulfil task(s)
   6. Resolve treasure(s)
   7. Search for the Grail (at most once)

1. Put the "Fundort des Grals" counters that come with this game in the bag. Add to it the following PA counters from the original game: Boat, Cart Maker, Don Hobiro, Fountain of Life, Gasconier, Land Portal, Markets (both), Mirabar, Ranger, Red Knight, Shade.
2. Each player chooses a hero. Their special notes:
   Flink(a) - has a special Thieving skill which is fixed at 7 and can apply any green experience cubes when using it to steal any item (including gold), but not clues, from another hero in the same location. But if the roll is failed, the hero loses 1 health point. Using Thieving counts as an action, not a fight.
   Galahad - can pick up covered Grail Clues without trial. Takes clues from open counters normally (i.e. by defeating the creature, delivering a Solution Stone, or a successful trial).
   Morgaine - finds all hidden paths (green, yellow, red) without trial and crosses the lake without payment.
   Skills of heroes from Helden in der Unterwelt:
   Bard - may ignore any red-bordered marker
   Centaur - cannot carry armor or wear sandals
   Gladiator/Amazon - can re-fight a lost combat at cost of 1 health.
   Gnome - can add two skill values before rolling any test. Any difficulty modifier is only applied once. Use the dice number from any one of the skills. When fighting an Enemy with a gray spot, can do this only if the two skills are tied for least number of experience cubes.
   Shaman - can add 1 vs gray spot creatures and has +1 for non-combat magic.
   
3. Players put correct amounts of gold and health points on their hero sheets.
4. Each player gets a Gralsbuch (grail book) mat.
5. There are three options for setting up the map (for the Introductory version see the instructions in the original game):
   1. Each hero randomly gets a map tile which is not H or N. This is the hero's starting region.
   2. The unchosen map tiles are shuffled and dealt out at random.
   3. The starting regions are placed at the corners of the map (using opposing corners if only two players).
   4. Each hero's house is placed in his home region and the character next to it.
   5. Choose either the Standard or the Unknown version:
   Standard Version:
   1. The map tiles are dealt out face up.
   2. Distribute two chits from the bag beige spaces on each map tile. PA markers show their PA side. Fundort tiles show the Fundort side.
   3. The Grail Discovery Site markers are mixed and stacked. The top marker is revealed and the grail figure placed at the indicated coordinates.
   Unknown Map Version:
   1. The map tiles are dealt out face down.
   2. Distribute two chits from the bag face down on each map tile. PA markers show their PA side. Fundort tiles show the Fundort side.
   3. During the game, when a character enters a map tile, the two markers are placed at the two tile entrances at the extremes from the opposite direction. For example, if entering from the east, the tiles are placed at the north and south entry points.
   4. If a counter needs to be relocated to a specific location, but its map tile is not visible yet, it is held to the side until the map tile is available.
   5. The Grail Discovery Site markers are mixed and stacked. The top marker is revealed and the grail figure placed at the indicated coordinates, if its map tile is visible.