Introduction

What is Hearthen Realms?

Hearthen Realms combines the fantasy role playing and variable game elements of standard dice games with the physical and tactical styles of trading card games, all augmented by the newest blockchain technologies. Our goal is to create the most fun, unique, collectable and accessible table top and online experience available. the TCG was conceived by two childhood friends,  a Senior Product Designer and a Sales / Growth marketing manager on a mission to create the game they always wanted to play. It all started with an idea, an opportunity and a whole lot of late nights. We absolutely love the game and hope you do to!

What this guide will cover.

• Basic concepts behind items and heroes in the game
• How to play the game
• Understanding roll based combat

Equipment

To add more variance to both builds and compositions, heroes will be able to add both a weapon and a piece of armor to each hero on their roster with a resource cost during play. Each weapon and armor piece is extremely unique and can add several modifiers or turn the tide of battle each turn.

Rules for adding equipments

• Only one armor item may be added per hero.
• Only one weapon item may be added per hero.
• Adding an item costs resource (spirit) and stays equipped throughout the game unless swapped for another.

*Note: not all items are created equal with some being far more powerful and costly, use your spirit wisely!

Weapons

Most weapons in Hearthen Realms in simple terms, add to a heroes base attack stat, increasing base damage of all abilities. Players will have to make critical decisions on both when and what weapon they allocate to each hero.

For Example

1. Player 1 equips a weapon for Hero A.
2. Hero A has a Strength number of 15.
3. Weapon B has a modifier that increases Strength by 5.
4. Hero A now has a base strength of 20 for the remainder of the game.

Armor

Much like weapons, Armor typically increases more defense stats for heroes like health points and base defense level. The rarity or how powerful a piece of equipment is determines the amount of resource cost to add to each hero.

Game Rules & Getting Started.

Hearthen Realms requires at least two people to play and is a 1v1 arena style tactical combat system.

A player begins by selecting their 4 heroes for combat along with any equipment or spirit needed for the match. Each player then will arrange their heroes in the chosen turn order starting at 1 from left to right. When it is a player's turn, if they choose to use their turn to equip an item, the item will be tucked under the chosen hero card, symbolizing that the item is now equipped.

With all heroes selected and both players decks ready, each player will roll for initiative on who initiates combat first. The highest roll being the starting player.