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Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood
#65BGG8.8RATING
Updated Sep 12
1–4
PLAYERS
30–90
MINUTES
4
BEST WITH
3.7
HEAVY
ERRATA4
Refresh Phase recovers all cooldown-0 cards, not only Ability Cardspublisher
- RULING
- "All cards at position 0 should return to your hand during the refresh phase not just ability cards. This is an error in the rulebook." Item Cards sitting at cooldown 0 therefore return to hand in the Refresh Phase exactly as Ability Cards do.
AUTHOR: Shadowborne Games (Shadowborne Games, publisher)SOURCE: boardgamegeek.com(60 replies)DATE: 2024-01-24The Free Company Sheet overrides the rulebook on Free Company Trait costspublisher
- RULING
- "p3 of both rulebooks states components override the rulebook in all cases in terms of conflicts so that gives the FC sheet precedence here and thankfully the sheet is correct." Where the rulebook's Free Company Trait descriptions (notably Scavenger and Field Medic) disagree with the Free Company Sheet, use the Sheet. The publisher confirmed the rulebook text is a print error that could not be corrected without delaying shipment.
AUTHOR: Shadowborne Games (Shadowborne Games, publisher)SOURCE: boardgamegeek.com(4 replies)DATE: 2023-11-30"Rear" and "front" on Ability Cards always mean the target's arcpublisher
- RULING
- "There is a error on some cards like backstab that seem to imply rear rather than rear arc. These should be overruled by this errata." Any Ability Card referring to rear, flank or front is referring to the *target's* arcs, measured from the target's facing.
AUTHOR: Shadowborne Games (Shadowborne Games, publisher)SOURCE: boardgamegeek.com(19 replies)DATE: 2022-09-14Warbear "Swipe" should not reference the front arcpublisher
- RULING
- "Yeah, its a error on the card. It should not say front arc." Resolve Swipe using the three hexes shown in the card illustration; ignore the printed "in your front arc" wording.
AUTHOR: Shadowborne Games (Shadowborne Games, publisher)SOURCE: boardgamegeek.com(8 replies)DATE: 2022-08-30
DESIGNER CLARIFICATIONS5
Ability Card effects are optional once one effect is performablepublisher
- CONTEXT
- Players were unsure whether every effect printed on an Ability Card had to be carried out, and in what order effects could be skipped.
- RULING
- "To perform an ability card you must be able to perform at least one of the effects on the card... If an ability has more than 1 effect such as move 2 then attack you can just do the Move 2 part and ignore subsequent effects if desired." Earlier effects may also be skipped: with a Move 2 and attack card, "you could choose not to move but then attack." Effects that are after-effects of an attack on the same row, such as knockback, cannot be declined separately.
AUTHOR: Shadowborne Games (Shadowborne Games, publisher)SOURCE: boardgamegeek.com(14 replies)DATE: 2022-09-25Multi-target attacks that draw once still deal separate damage instancespublisher
- CONTEXT
- Cards such as Piercing Arrow, Ice Spike, Chain Lightning and Hail of Arrows hit several targets but draw damage only once, and are not Area of Effect attacks.
- RULING
- "Yes, these are separate instances of damage and are not added together." Each target's Defense is applied to its own instance of the damage rather than to a single pooled total.
AUTHOR: Shadowborne Games (Shadowborne Games, publisher)SOURCE: boardgamegeek.com(13 replies)DATE: 2022-07-11Enemies choose a target and move one at a timepublisher
- CONTEXT
- Groups of activating enemies raised the question of whether all enemies lock in targets first and then move, or resolve targeting and movement individually.
- RULING
- "Enemies sequentially target and move. Example: Rat A, B and C activate. Rat A picks its target and moves, Rat B picks its target and moves, Rat C picks its target and moves. All Rats then attack sequentially (attacking together where the mob rules are applicable)." Each enemy therefore evaluates targeting against the board state left by the enemies that moved before it.
AUTHOR: Shadowborne Games (Shadowborne Games, publisher)SOURCE: boardgamegeek.com(22 replies)DATE: 2022-07-17Melee Area of Effect attacks do not require Line of Sightpublisher
- CONTEXT
- The thread's opening summary claimed melee AoE attacks could only target characters in Line of Sight; the publisher struck that line out when confirming the rest of the summary.
- RULING
- Melee AoE attacks require no Line of Sight, so a character can strike enemies standing behind an obstacle: "you can imagine the halberd user reaching over the wall to get to those behind or a scythe head hitting an enemy on the far side of the tree." Ranged AoE attacks still need Line of Sight to the centre hex only, and that hex must hold a valid target unless the ability explicitly targets a hex.
AUTHOR: Shadowborne Games (Shadowborne Games, publisher)SOURCE: boardgamegeek.com(5 replies)DATE: 2022-08-30Five Curatives per chapter is a hard cap that Herbalist cannot exceedpublisher
- CONTEXT
- The Herbalist Free Company Trait grants 2 Curatives per purchase, which appeared to allow 10 Curatives against the Apothecary's stated maximum of 5.
- RULING
- "Max is 5 per purchase as you have bought the whole shop." The cap of 5 Curatives per chapter is absolute regardless of the number of Apothecary visits or Free Company Traits held; Herbalist reduces the Iron cost of reaching the cap rather than raising it.
AUTHOR: Shadowborne Games (Shadowborne Games, publisher)SOURCE: boardgamegeek.com(5 replies)DATE: 2022-07-29
Q&A4
Running out of Encounter Stage Cardspublisher
- QUESTION
- What happens if the entire Encounter Stage deck is depleted before the Encounter ends?
- ANSWER
- Reshuffle the discarded Stage III cards and form a new Stage deck from them.
AUTHOR: Shadowborne Games (Shadowborne Games, publisher)SOURCE: boardgamegeek.com(11 replies)DATE: 2022-07-03Might deck running out in the middle of a drawpublisher
- QUESTION
- If you must draw 4 Might Cards but only 3 remain in that deck, do you draw the 3, reshuffle the discards, and then draw the fourth?
- ANSWER
- Yes. Draw the remaining cards, reshuffle that colour's discards into a new draw deck, and complete the draw from it.
AUTHOR: Shadowborne Games (Shadowborne Games, publisher)SOURCE: boardgamegeek.com(9 replies)DATE: 2022-10-02When Injury Cards must be playedpublisher
- QUESTION
- Must an injured Oathsworn take the first turn of the Oathsworn Phase in order to play their Injury Cards, and do Injury Cards Battleflowed back into hand have to be played again?
- ANSWER
- No to both. Other players may take turns first; the Injury Cards only have to be the injured character's own first action of that Oathsworn Phase. An Injury Card that returns to hand via Battleflow does not need to be replayed until a new Oathsworn Phase begins.
AUTHOR: Shadowborne Games (Shadowborne Games, publisher)SOURCE: boardgamegeek.com(25 replies)DATE: 2023-10-11An Oathsworn dying during the Story partpublisher
- QUESTION
- When a character dies during the Story, when does the replacement join, which Permanent Token do they take, and what carries over?
- ANSWER
- The replacement joins immediately at the point of Quick Leveling, so if the story text then grants a token the new character receives it. They are free to choose any Permanent Token rather than copying the rest of the Free Company. All items carried by the dead character are lost, but their Iron carries over, since Iron is treated as a shared purse rather than something on their person.
AUTHOR: Shadowborne Games (Shadowborne Games, publisher)SOURCE: boardgamegeek.com(16 replies)DATE: 2022-07-29
EDGE CASES3
An enemy with nobody in Line of Sight can still attack after movingpublisher
- SITUATION
- An enemy has no valid target in Line of Sight, moves toward the closest Oathsworn, destroys an obstacle on the way and finishes its move adjacent to one or more characters.
- RULING
- It attacks. "This can allow monsters to gain attack the closest Oathsworn who, had they been in LoS, would have been the natural target for an earlier step in the 'choosing a target' hierarchy." Interrupt cards may still be played to force it to change target once it is about to attack.
AUTHOR: Shadowborne Games (Shadowborne Games, publisher)SOURCE: boardgamegeek.com(6 replies)DATE: 2022-08-30Attacking with the intent to miss is legalpublisher
- SITUATION
- A player makes an attack they expect to miss — spending no Animus — purely to trigger Battleflow and collect a Combat Token from the Determination Rule.
- RULING
- Legal. "Fully Legit thing to do. Thematically you could consider it as repositioning between attacks."
AUTHOR: Shadowborne Games (Shadowborne Games, publisher)SOURCE: boardgamegeek.com(6 replies)DATE: 2022-08-19A large enemy knocked into another large enemypublisher
- SITUATION
- Knockback drives a large enemy into another large enemy, or into a multi-hex obstacle, and it is unclear how many hexes of contact matter and which location takes the damage.
- RULING
- Both large characters lose 1 HP regardless of how many of their hexes touch, and the same applies when a large enemy is knocked into a multi-hex obstacle. The location that loses the HP is determined by the North then West rule.
AUTHOR: Shadowborne Games (Shadowborne Games, publisher)SOURCE: boardgamegeek.com(5 replies)DATE: 2022-09-01
Last researched: 2026-08-12
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