v1.2

What's Changed

• Translated the rulebook to multiple languages: French, Polish, Spanish, Ukrainian are done; Russian and German are in progress. Please talk to us if you want to help with the translation.
• Decreased the size of the PDF
• Added a section with list of components with pictures to help visually identify what is what, like done in the official rulebook, but shows components from all expansions
• Fixed rules about removing cards during trading
• Fixed rules about using the deck for Secondary Hero
• Fixed rules about possible targets for Ranged units
• Fixed rules about Paralysis
• Removed wrong rules about which cards can be used outside of Combat
• Clarified rules about Defense token
• Clarified rules about AI combat
• Clarified rules about Quick combat
• Clarified anatomy of Map Tiles and a corner case about Blocked Fields
• Clarified what the misprinted Windmill tile does - the tile is saying "?"
• Clarified the list of visitable locations that they are Visitable
• Moved the trading table to back cover, as it's needed very often
• Made the difficulty table and trading table easier to read
• Made the image in Setup section more visible while looking at the setup steps
• Visually clarified when the combat with neutrals starts
• Renamed the Other Rules section to Trading, the AI Heroes section to AI Rules
• Turned multiple images with text and tables to actual text, which can be translated
• Various typographic fixes
• Multiple internal changes to improve the process of writing the book and translating it
• Removed the component list pdf, as Archon published their content guides for every expansion. For the case if for some reason it's needed, the old list is still available in version 1.1 in the github repository

Full Changelog: v1.1...v1.2

v1.1

What's Changed

New rule book content:

• New Difficulty section with optional rules table from the original. The difficulty table was moved to the back cover of the rule book.
• Explanation of scenario end in Campaign Solo Mode
• Mentioning of 3+ player game in the Introduction
• Visualizing of all the dice types where they're mentioned for the first time
• Explanation about depleting AI Decks

Rule book fixes:

• Title page is now page number 1, page numbers correspond to numbers as seen in PDF readers
• As of now, this project has 15 direct contributors. They're all listed in the Credits section.
• Setup image now includes missing Movement Tokens
• Various typos and layout fixes
• Printable document now has an even number of pages to ensure easier printing

Components list fixes:

• Removed a duplicate form core game heroes list
• Fixed all the card/token count errors
• Moved all the tokens to appropriate sections

Other:
As of this version, this project now supports translations. Efforts are ongoing to translate the document to Polish, Spanish, and French.

Full Changelog: v1.0...v1.1

v1.0

I know that I originally wrote that I’d want this release to be something where I’m 100% happy with everything but that’s just not possible. It hurts to be a perfectionist. It has also been long due to have another release of any kind and since many people are already receiving the game, it makes sense to push into a basically feature-complete release at this point.

Changelog:
-It’s… probably pretty clear how much has changed when you open the new file.

-Sections now have notice boxes for important rules and exceptions.

-Many new high quality graphical assets either ripped from various sources or scanned from a physical copy of the game.

-Multiple proof readings done by various people, attempts to Capitalize most game-related terms in a consistent manner. Changed the voice of the text to command “you” 90% of the time to make it more direct and consistent.

-All map location types are now actually pictured and named.

-Added many people to the credits. I think everyone from this thread is there now? If you feel that you’ve contributed (by messaging me, commenting somewhere etc. etc.) and your name isn’t there please let me know. I’ll stop manually gathering names for the list now since it probably never was such a good idea to try and get absolutely every contributor’s name there. Still, I’m doing my best at honoring those who have shown their interest in this!

-A component list for all expansions is a sub-file found in the repository. I think there’s some mistakes there, we’ll fix them.

-Much backend magic done on the GitHub repository.

What’s still missing:
-Big battlefield isn’t mentioned at all. Describing its rules should be its own file, I think. The expansion itself could be name-dropped however.

-A brief card clarification/FAQ section to mention at least Diplomacy and Pit Lords since both cards have hidden attributes in their abilities that aren’t written on the cards themselves. Maybe the “attacking a wall/gate” box could be moved here as well since that information is currently missing because I couldn’t fit it into the citadel combat section? The dream would be to have scans of all cards and a separate FAQ for them all.

v0.4

Changelog:
-Numerous graphical improvements. Almost every asset has been replaced with a higher quality one. Too many to count.
-Layout of text changed to resemble the two-column style of the original.
-Spell checking, rewriting, etc. etc.
-Added gameplay examples.
-Added credits section.

v0.3

Changelog:

-GitHub repository created for version control, preservation and better collaborative workflow.

-A mountain of work to turn basically all assets into high quality, transparent equivalents.

-Many, many improvements to overall text layout, formatting, fixing mistakes, clarifying rules, etc.

Todo (that I can remember right now):

-Consistent capitalization/bold/italics text.

-Actually start adding those examples of playing the game.

-Fish for some rule clarifications that are still unclear to me (losing combat against neutrals for instance).

-Clarify/add some of the missing expansion content such as fully explaining random towns and at least mentioning big battlefield.

v0.2

Changelog:

-So much stuff I really can't remember to list it all.

-Ditched Word permanently. This version was built using LaTeX.

-Rebuilding everything in a different program was slow at first but it will be way faster now to change and add things. Most sections are referenced by hyperlinks now.

-Applied all suggestions and corrections I've received so far as well as I could. Pruned a huge amount of unnecessary text. Tried to explain most rules in only one place and then referencing that place. As I've said before, this provides me such great insight into how bloody difficult it is to write good rules without any holes. I still get the itch to over explain some specific situations but those are better reserved for FAQs.

-A specific change I just remembered: I completely omitted the phrase "deck of might and magic" because I was just sick of seeing it mentioned so many times. I know some cards in the game itself do reference it, but I just replaced it with "[your] [hero's] deck" to improve the text's flow.

-Added some picture examples and meta text. I still haven't rewritten the official examples or any equivalents, this will come in the next upload here.

-Also removed some pictures that I couldn't be bothered to place back (yet?). The treasure die results table for example isn't anywhere.

-Added expansion and location sections to the end. These were hastily written because I'm 1) very tired from working on this 2) we can't get all the specifics on all the expansion content yet because nobody has them.