How to Play Dark Souls: The Card Game 

I wasn’t specific about that and you are absolutely correct. Thank you for pointing that out.

I appreciate the support.

That’s nice to hear - thank you

Thank you. That’s a nice compliment. I’m not positive what the background music is anymore. I know I got it off soundstripe.

You're welcome!

How does the loot work, is it a loot card per character or just one for the group?

@WhichOneIsHe it would be one for the group. Souls and loot are shared by all players

This game could be a lot worse in my opinion. There’s a nice little reference card as well, all that being said - there are better games to spend your money on anyways

Yes, all the loot goes into the inventory and can be divided among players. Think of the inventory as like the inventory in the game, you always have it, but since you don't have any of the equipped you can't use it at the moment, but everything in there stays. Only your deck you draw from has to be the card size described. Otherwise, there's no limits to the inventory, you could have all the cards in the game in there (impossible, but if you houseruled it, everything can go in there). Before your first encounter after rebuilding your deck, you must shuffle you're new deck. As above, you can keep everything you collect. You may just not be able to use it if your deck is already full.

Yea. The sequence goes: Enemy attacks. You discard 3 cards to represent the damage. If there are no more enemies, the enemy phase ends. You then draw back up to 6 cards. Then you start your activation. During your activation, you can only draw cards when you do the action to discard and draw or after your activation is complete.

You can move after. You can do any of the actions in any order you want and can do all of them if you wish, but only one of each can be performed

Well it won't be the exact same encounter most likely, but yes, the whole board is essentially reset when you rest at a bonfire. Any encounters you completed before have to be redone to fight the boss.

Yes, from the instructions, you take off the "Encounter Cleared" token(s) when you rest at a bonfire, and you have to clear it again after resting if you choose that path again (of course new enemies will be drawn). Very much in the spirit of the game in how enemies "respawn" after resting at a bonfire (besides bosses).

Good question - I played it as you discard them. I do not believe the rule book specifies that. The new rule book might though.

You separate them exactly as I showed them, by the picture on the front. -0:55 You'll have a class deck made up of cards with the same symbol as your class in the top right hand corner (you can custom build decks later) so for the knight, you take all the cards with the sword and shield symbol in the top right hand corner shuffle them up and draw six cards from that deck.

Cardboard N' Plastic oh, thanks for the help

You're welcome. Hopefully that clears things up.

That is an excellent question. The rule book is a bit vague on this, but I believe since you can’t stack the same conditions on top of each other - it is meant to be read that the 1 damage goes through armor since it’s applied as part of an attack. So in your example I believe that yes, the enemy would be dead.

@@Paint_to_play Brilliant, I thought so too. Else it would make most conditions quite useless. Like why even apply poison if it's going to be mitigated by the armor :/ But I didn't want to just make up my own rules xD And potentially make it easier than it should be.

I believe the cards are the same size - they use the same size sleeve. As for the player board it’s not very big - sorry I don’t have exact measurements as I sold the game awhile ago but it’s smaller than most cars playmats if that helps

I honestly don’t remember and do not own the game anymore. You’d have the check the manual or perhaps BGG has some information on exact numbers of starting decks

David Hess bothered you that much huh?

Rulebook only says to remove them from the board so I would assume the intention is to discard them.

The inventory is basically a storage area. You can put as many cards as you like in there, but you can't use them (actually wish they had called in player storage over inventory). Wyhen you rest, you can look in there and add cards to your deck or take cards out of your deck and add them to the inventory. And yes, reshuffle the whole pile of discard cards, you may have taken cards out anyway, and then place it face down and draw your new hand.

@@Paint_to_play Very helpful. Thanks for clearing that all up. Much appreciated!

@@jordanb.1477 No problem, happy to help. All these questions actually help me for making better how to plays in the future as well. :)

Nope, only when you rest. Otherwise, if you continue fighting whatever cards left it all you have for that encounter.

Haha thank you. I’m glad it helped you

Well hopefully this video explains how you play it. 😃 if there are any specific questions about mechanics or rules questions I’m happy to answer them

You have to kill the skeleton twice!