The Kings of the Ring is a fast-paced, one-on-one miniature fighting game played using a standard 52-card deck. Players move their fighter figures around a 5x5 grid and attack each other based on the symbols drawn from the deck, with the goal of reducing the opponent's life points to zero. Players take turns playing up to 5 cards for actions like moving and attacking, and the game ends when one fighter defeats all opponents or the deck is exhausted. Additional rules allow for special attacks from certain spaces on the board and replacing cards with jokers.
The Kings of the Ring is a fast-paced, one-on-one miniature fighting game played using a standard 52-card deck. Players move their fighter figures around a 5x5 grid and attack each other based on the symbols drawn from the deck, with the goal of reducing the opponent's life points to zero. Players take turns playing up to 5 cards for actions like moving and attacking, and the game ends when one fighter defeats all opponents or the deck is exhausted. Additional rules allow for special attacks from certain spaces on the board and replacing cards with jokers.
The Kings of the Ring is a fast-paced, one-on-one miniature fighting game played using a standard 52-card deck. Players move their fighter figures around a 5x5 grid and attack each other based on the symbols drawn from the deck, with the goal of reducing the opponent's life points to zero. Players take turns playing up to 5 cards for actions like moving and attacking, and the game ends when one fighter defeats all opponents or the deck is exhausted. Additional rules allow for special attacks from certain spaces on the board and replacing cards with jokers.
The Kings of the Ring is a fast-paced, one-on-one miniature fighting game played using a standard 52-card deck. Players move their fighter figures around a 5x5 grid and attack each other based on the symbols drawn from the deck, with the goal of reducing the opponent's life points to zero. Players take turns playing up to 5 cards for actions like moving and attacking, and the game ends when one fighter defeats all opponents or the deck is exhausted. Additional rules allow for special attacks from certain spaces on the board and replacing cards with jokers.
The Kings of the Ring is an easy, fast-playing one-on-one Black Cards (earth) = move fighting game. It’s meant for quick, relaxed gameplay with Red Cards (blood) = attack / parry miniatures. Diamonds and Clubs: “straight” symbols, meaning “straight” actions (horizontally or vertically). Hearts and Spades: “oblique” symbols, meaning “oblique” actions (in diagonals). Game Material The Kings of is played with: In other words: a 54 playing card game Spades: diagonal move 2 pawns or 2 fighter figures Clubs: horizontal/vertical move a 5 square x 5 square game area Diamonds: diagonal attack/parry 10 coloured markers for each fighter, representing Hearts: horizontal/vertical attack/parry. their life gauge. Card value has no influence, except when parrying – Set up normally, only the symbol matters. In one-on-one games, players start the game in opposite corners of the ring. Attacking If more players are involved, place them in corners, then if The attacker may choose to: there are more than 4… Do your best to place them as hit: take an endurance marker from his opponent. fairly as possible! Push: push his opponent one square away – in the direction opposite to the pusher’s (provided there’s Deck room to do so, of course). In one-on-one games, it is recommended to play with a 54 card deck until all the cards in the pile have been drawn. Parrying If more players are involved, use a 54 card deck; once all When a fighter is hit, the player can parry the attack by the cards in the pile have been drawn, re-shuffle those that playing a card of the same symbol AND of superior value. have been used into a new (and final) pile. III) ADDITIONAL RULES II) RULES The King’s Square! Goal In most rings, players are encouraged to move to the To defeat your opponents, either by knocking them out central square: the King’s Square. When fighting on that (they have no more endurance markers left) or by being in square they inflict double damage ! better shape than them when time runs out (you have more endurance markers than them at the end of the game). The Eye of the Tiger Game ends when all but one fighter have been knocked Jokers can replace any card in the game. out, or time runs out: when the last card has been drawn from the deck and all players have played their last card. Rotten Tomatoes A player who doesn’t perform any action during their turn Who plays first? (ie: doesn’t play any card, or doesn’t discard any) makes Each player draws a card from the pile – the best result the audience unhappy. The fighter loses an endurance (with 2s being the weakest and Aces being the strongest) marker because of the number of rotten tomatoes received. gets to play first. Then randomly put the cards back in the pile. Credits Sequence of play 5 cards are dealt to each player. Players play in turns. Rules by Chien Sauvage. Players can never have more than 5 cards in their hand. Playtesting by DragonTigre, Le Manchot, Gilel, During their turn, players can play from 0 to 5 cards, Walktapus, Gloranthan Army, PKP, Banana and/or throw away as many cards as they wish. But they Tyrant. can only draw up to 2 cards at the end of their turn. Illustrations by Gilel. One card played corresponds to one basic action: move Rings by Walktapus, PKP, Gloranthan Army. the fighter one square aside, or hit an opponent. English version by Banana Tyrant Sample Arena
Symbol Memo Walkatapus’ ring. PKP’s ring Figure by Hasslefree Miniatures Figures by East Riding Miniatures/Golgo Island
Gloranthan Army’s ring
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