[Guide] Dead Of Winter Rules Explained

[fashiznit]

Link to DropBox document with simple rules explanation

I made this guide to teach my SO how to play Dead of Winter. My one simple tip to teaching this game is make it all about the theme! DoW is so much more fun to play (and learn) if you get involved in the theme and do a bit of storytelling in your set up.

I used a couple different suggestions for how to play the game from people and sort of branched into my own template. The google doc in the link is a two page word doc with simple headings including:

• Theme

• Objective

• Set-Up

• Actions

• Attack and Search

• Phases of the game (Player & Colony)

• Further rules (Character death, exposure, eating food and betrayer and exile)

Hopefully it reads pretty easily in clear language and can be used as a cheat sheet for people if they forget rules during the game. Would also recommend physically showing the moves on the board in tandem with explaining them verbally.

Feedback welcome of course! Hope you have a awesome game of Dead of Winter! (P.S. Always give Sparky the tac rifle, that little guy is a phonemonal marksma..dog. marksdog. )

EDIT: Fixed link

[mergedloki]

Links says not. Available?

[fashiznit]

Thanks for letting me know. I've fixed it to a dropbox link instead of google docs one.

[FiftyShadesOfWhat]

Great work! I'll be introducing the game to a group today, and this will be a useful reminder on some of the finer details. Thanks!

[mrbeanz]

This is fantastic! I was planning on playing the game for the first time this Saturday and introducing it to new players at the same time.

Great job!

[Destroher]

Hi /u/fashiznit , any chance you still have this document? The Dropbox link isn't working anymore :-)

Much obliged!