Overview

• Glow plays in 8 days (rounds)
• The player with the most bursts of light at the end of the game wins.

Selecting an Adventurer

• Players use the same adventurer throughout the entire game

Anatomy of the adventurer cards

• Upper left-hand corner: resources (big dice) the adventurer will provide you
  • Different colored dice have different die faces, each color die has an additional face of matching resource (hover to see the die faces)
  • Purple die has a face that earn you 2 footprints
  • Yellow die has a face that earns you 3 bursts of lights
• Upper right-hand corner: some adventurers will provide you with additional bursts of light at game end
• Bottom: condition (right side of arrow) and effect (left side of arrow) triggered when the condition is met
  • Pocana had no condition/effect

Game Play

• Each round has 5 phases
• Players start on 10 of the score track
• Prior to the start of the first round, 9 small dices are rolled and are placed on the meeting track (strip below the main board) according to the resources facing up
  • Track position with no die will receive a footprint token

Morning

• Recruit your companion and obtain the corresponding small dice above the companion
  • The initial dice faces were only used to determine their posiitons on the meeting track. They will be rerolled at a later time to determine the resources that you will receive.
  • In a 2-player game, the first player will choose an additional companion to discard (send to cemetery) after choosing their companion
• Dice not selected will remain will remain in place for the next round

Anatomy of the companion cards

• Very similar to that of an adventurer card with a few exceptions
  • The companion that will provide you with an additional large die will be indicated on the upper left-hand corner
  • Certain companion may have negative impact at the end of the game, i.e. substract bursts of light from your total
  • symbol with a small cricle and stripe across it under it = effects are triggered in the absence of the specified symbol
  • skull = this companion will be sent to the cemetary (discarded for the rest of the game) when the effect was triggered

Late morning

• Roll all of your dice
• Players can reroll as many times as they like provided they have
  • reroll tokens
  • companions that give them the ability to reroll (once per turn)
  • opt to move backward on the score track to the next reroll symbol
• Players can reroll up to two dice each time
• Players can also opt to spend 3 reroll tokens to change one die face to any die face

Noon

• Resolve your cards according to the result of your dice
  • Each die can be apply to each card once
  • Cards can be triggered more than once if the conditions are met multiple times (i.e. if your cards call for 2 leaves to be triggered, having 4 leaves will allow you to trigger the effect twice)
  • Player decide on the order the cards are triggered (be mindful if you are discarding a companion that comes with a die, discarding this companion first will remove the die for your remainder cards)

Afternoon

• Move your company (refer to the main board)
  • for The Province of Shadows, your company starts on the bottom left-hand corner
  • for The Archipelago of Darkness, your boat starts in the middle of the board
• Player use their available die faces or footprint token to move on the map, each die can be used once
  • footprint tokens act as wild cards
  • be mindful that certain path costs resources to traverse and certain villages (locations with bursts of light) costs resources to enter
• Choice of placing an emcampment in villages
  • placing an encampment ends your movement/turn
  • the placement of the encampment determines the number of bursts of light that a player will receive at game end

Evening

• The small dice are placed back onto the meeting track according to their current die faces

End-of-Game Scoring

• Adventurer and companions - addition and substraction from player's adventurer and remaining companions are added
• Journey board - bursts of light from the location of the emcampment (Province of Shadow) or boat (Archipelago of Darkness) is added
• Fireflies - any player with same or more fireflies from their companion and tokens will receive 10 additional bursts of light
• Footprint tokens - each remaining footprint is worth one burst of light