Chuft Two Player Apex Theropod Variant

Chuft’s two‐player (or possibly more) variant for Apex
Theropod 2nd Edition
This variant is for people who prefer a more Build the Event deck as normal, with this exception:
"multiplayer solitaire" approach to the game rather take one of the bosses from the boss deck, unseen, and
than the confrontational "Battle Royale" rules which shuffle it into cards 4‐6 of the 7 normal event cards. So
came in 2nd edition. Unlike the 1st edition, players will your deck will end up like this:
not face the situation of one player running into two
bosses while the other runs into none.
‐ 0‐3 Emergence cards
Eggs are also now guaranteed to be available to every ‐ 3 normal Event cards
player regardless of the fickleness of the Evolve deck. ‐ 3 normal Event cards plus a boss, shuffled
‐ 1 normal Event card
‐ Impact and Extinction cards
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Leave any unused boss(es) face down to the side in the

Setup: boss deck for now. (In a two player game the boss
"deck" will be one face down boss card, in a three
player game it will be two bosses, etc.)
Choose one boss and its Minions per player as usual to

be in the game.
Note there ends up being one boss TOTAL in the Event

deck, regardless of the number of players.
Build the Hunt deck as normal, except leave the bosses
out. Put their Minions in. Set the bosses aside face
down and shuffle them a bit to form a boss deck. There
will be one boss per player in the boss deck. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
Remove the Eggs from the Evolve Deck and create a Play changes:
separate, face‐up stack of Eggs to create an Egg Deck
next to the Evolve Deck. Eggs:
0. Eggs are no longer in the Evolve Deck. They are in

their own separate face‐up deck. Once per player turn,
when a player goes to replenish an Evolve Pool space,
the player may fill it with an Egg from the Egg Deck
instead of drawing a random card from the Evolve Deck.
This guarantees both players access to Eggs.
1
First Boss encounter: to shuffle into the Afflictions Deck the next time
another player faces a Boss. The player may then finish
When the turn's Event card is drawn, the card drawn their turn as normal (spend Evolve points etc).
might be the boss that was placed in the Event Deck. If A player who defeated a boss will not face one again,
this happens, follow this sequence for the special "Boss they just continue playing to try to increase their score
encounter" turn: as high as possible via hunting, enjoying the fruits of
being the dominant predator in their area. They do
nothing during the Extinction round if the game is still
1. Draw the next Event card and resolve it immediately. ongoing at that point.
It is the Event in effect for this turn as normal.
5. If a player fights but fails to defeat their boss, return

2. Recycle the Game Trail as normal for a boss their boss face down to the boss deck. The player may
appearance. Nobody will be hunting this turn. then finish their turn as normal (spend Evolve points
etc).
3. Boss Battles: One at a time, players each face one

boss. 6. In addition to the normal game end condition (end of
the Extinction round) the game also ends the instant all
a. The First Player goes first, and faces the boss that was bosses have been defeated.
drawn from the Event Deck.
b. Other players (in clockwise order) will then each face

a boss drawn from the boss deck.
Second Boss encounter (Extinction round):
c. No two players will face the same boss; if a boss is
defeated it goes in that player's Hoard, otherwise, it is 7. During Extinction, players who did not defeat their
placed at the bottom of the boss deck for later, when boss earlier will now face a boss again in a final battle as
they face a boss again during Extinction. usual, one player at a time. If this applies to more than
one player, assign the bosses randomly to players from
d. The usual fight or flight options apply. the boss deck. As per above, before each boss fight,
Afflictions are returned from the Eliminated Pile to the
‐‐ if the player chooses flight they miss their next player Afflictions Deck and that deck is reshuffled.
turn (i.e. they do not get a player turn after the boss Note if a player defeats a boss, per rule 4 above,
battles are done). Return their boss face down to the Afflictions are all removed from that player's cards (and
boss deck. from the dead Boss) and returned to the Elimination
Pile for shuffling back into the Affliction Deck for the
‐‐ if a player chooses to fight, before the fight begins, next player's Boss battle.
recycle any Afflictions in the Eliminated pile back into
the Affliction Deck and then shuffle it.
Scores are totaled as usual for players who defeated a
boss. A player who does not defeat a boss by the end of
4. If a player defeats a boss, remove all Afflictions from the Extinction round loses automatically. If all players
that player's deck (and from the dead Boss) and place fail, they all lose.
them in the Eliminated pile, where they will be available

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Chuft’s two‐player (or possibly more) variant for Apex

Theropod 2nd Edition

Leave any unused boss(es) face down to the side in the

Choose one boss and its Minions per player as usual to

Note there ends up being one boss TOTAL in the Event

0. Eggs are no longer in the Evolve Deck. They are in

5. If a player fights but fails to defeat their boss, return

3. Boss Battles: One at a time, players each face one

b. Other players (in clockwise order) will then each face

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