DARK DUNGEON

CRAWLER'S FIELD GUIDE

How to play

Choose a quest in Crossroads Town, then enter the mine. Complete its requirements and return to the Questmaster. In campaign mode, complete two Easy, two Medium, then two Hard quests to earn Hero. Personal quests earn coins but no title.

1. Move: click a neighboring floor square or use the direction buttons. You may split movement around other actions. Amber squares show legal next steps. Run adds 2 movement but prevents other actions; you need a torch. An adjacent enemy must be fought or fled.
2. Explore: reach an open edge and use the matching Explore button. Inspect the drawn card, choose its orientation, and spend one torch. A Lost Map can reveal a neighboring tile without spending light or waking its enemies. A disconnected card can create a dead end.
3. Interact: stand beside a container, fire, trap, or door. Loot rolls add your current torch value: crate 5+, barrel 6+, tomb 8+. Chests need a key or Tools and offer a choice of two cards. Loot remains on the floor until picked up. Containers are searched once, even on failure.
4. Fight: one attack or flee attempt per turn. Roll your d6 plus Attack against the enemy's d6 plus Attack. The loser takes 1 Life damage; ties do nothing. Choose eligible book rerolls before accepting the result. Enemies also fight on their turns.
5. End turn: each awake enemy moves and may attack. Press Continue dungeon turn to advance through them. Disease sets Attack to zero for two turns; poison removes one Life at the start of each of two turns. A snare costs the current remainder and next turn.
6. Return: reach a gate to leave. If no enemies remain, return instantly. Town offers quests, trade, rest, rumors, books, paths, and your protected stash.

Survival tips

Torches make looting easier. Spending your last torch summons a boss at your original gate. Placing the eighth goblin also summons a boss. A campfire restores Life and Torch once, but only after clearing that hall. The starting hero values differ; Life can recover up to the card's maximum of 8 and Torch up to 4, plus equipment. Inn recovery restores starting values instead.

One weapon plus one simple and one great rune may be equipped. A backpack occupies a slot and expands total slots from 3 to 6, leaving 5 for other items. Unequip items before selling or delivering them. Empty extra slots before removing a backpack.

Solo web edition notes

• Main rules follow your v1.2 manual. Original card artwork and values come from your supplied print-and-play cards. Some Path examples in v1.2 differ: this build uses the six supplied Path cards, all marked Vagabond. A charge is gained per triggering event, including the final star space. No unavailable Pathfinder card effects are invented.
• One character is controlled by the player. Cooperative, competitive, arena, and goblin modes are outside this solo build.
• The 30 original tiles are transcribed onto an 11 × 7 grid. Large tomb drawings occupy two cells; either edge can be approached for looting. Tile rotation is 0° or 180° to preserve the rectangular card alignment. Gate-facing edges cannot be covered. If neither orientation leaves a gate clear, the card returns to the bottom of the deck and you may choose another route.
• All ordinary enemies pursue the hero across revealed rooms once awake. Ties use a fixed path order; illusion target ties are random. Non-goblin enemy trap interactions are not specified clearly; this edition leaves traps for the hero.
• Mirror Image is once per expedition; it gets its own movement allowance. The AI randomly chooses between equally close hero/illusion targets. Giant Strength charges restore per expedition. All passive book bonuses are automatic; eligible rerolls remain your choice.
• Ranged Path powers require connected floor and cannot cross locked doors. Piercing Shot stops at a wall. The two-arrow power can strike the same survivor twice.
• Loot items stay at your square (or a defeated enemy's square). Coin cards convert immediately. Chest cards not chosen are discarded. An unclaimed reward can be declined when inventory is full. Merchant stock uses the supplied copy limits minus your carried copies; purchases cannot be sold back during the same town visit.
• New expeditions reshuffle the supplied decks, excluding carried items. Quest counters persist, except Gates resets for each expedition. A replacement hero inherits stashed coins and books; books of another character type remain stored but inactive.
• Choices, dice results, dungeon turns, and inventory are autosaved. Refreshing cannot undo a completed roll. Export a save for a portable backup. Clearing browser storage removes local saves.

This is an unofficial alpha adaptation, with source credits preserved. Browser visual and audio verification was unavailable during creation; report any discrepancies against the supplied cards.