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  This new two-character expansion includes the friendly Collegium librarian, Melvyn, as well as the turncoat teacher of defensive magic, Marah!Melvyn;The most bizarre area of the Greyport Mages’ Collegium is the Arcane Archive - a vast extraplanar space storing all manner of powerful and dangerous items. The runemaster Melvyn has navigated the Archive for decades as its chief archivist, giving him plenty of experience with strange artifacts and arcane oddities!The Good: He’ll show you convoluted artifacts that you don’t understand.The Bad: Then he’ll beat you at convoluted games that you don’t understand.Marah;As a long-time professor, Marah terrorized the most powerful graduates to come out of the Collegium with her harrowing assignments and barbed wit. After looting the Arcane Archive, she broke her ties with the Collegium and now torments her former students with baleful magic and enfeebling curses!The Bad: Her malicious maledictions can be excruciating.The Worse: After a tongue-lashing from her, though, you might just wish for the curses instead!★ Two brand-new characters for The Red Dragon Inn! Requires a base game to play this expansion.★ Melvyn the Minotaur is a friendly archivist and master of runic magic!★ Marah the Maledictor is a rogue ex-professor of the Mage's Collegium, and an expert in curses!★ Includes a new Tavern for the Pub Crawl rules variant (introduced in RDI 8) - The Swozzled Sorcerer!★ Includes player mats and deck dividers for use in The Character Trove.Components• 40 Card Melvyn Character Deck• 12 Card Rune Deck• 40 Card Marah Character Deck• 15 Card Malediction Deck• 15 Card Marah Boss Deck• 5 Card Marah Boss Malediction Deck• 2 Prize Cards• Tavern Event Card• 6 Card Tavern Drink Deck• Fortitude and Alcohol Content Markers• Gold Coin Tokens• Player Mats• Deck Dividers compatible with The Red Dragon Inn 5: The Character Trove• Rules

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You are a cultist, trying to establish your faction's rise to power. Fight over rituals and mythical monsters as you seek victory and control of the cult. Roles   Each player is given a role that will remain hidden throughout the game, except the High Priest. This role will determine your win condition: High Priest - Root out corruption in the cult. Kill all Cabalists, the Heretic, and survive. Cabalists - Seek to take control of the cult. Kill the High Priest. Faithful - Protect the High Priest from threats to their power. Kill all Cabalists, the Heretic, and the High Priest must survive. Heretic - Burn the whole cult to the ground. Kill the entire cult, yourself included if necessary. Extra abilities   Each player will also be given a: Character card that determines their starting health, special ability, and a power symbol that provides an additional way to gain life from the dice. Secret sigil card, which gives each cultist a once per game power, will also be given to each player. Mechanics   A player will take a turn by first rolling their dice up to 3 times. They then decide where to commit their dice: to rituals to gain altar effects to temporarily empower themselves, finish a ritual in order to gain its powerful effects permanently, stab other cultists, gain life, or give life to other cultists. If a player is killed, they are not eliminated. Instead, they become a wraith. They will roll dice on their turn still, just less. They cannot commit dice like normal but instead haunt the dice of enemies and allies by giving, replacing, or discarding dice.

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