INTRODUCTIONWelcome to a strange and terrifying worldinspired by the stories of Howard PhillipsLovecraft, his literary circle, and the classicCall of Cthulhu roleplaying game.

In the CALL OF CTHULHU CCG, players takeon the roles of intrepid investigators andunspeakable horrors, trying to succeed attheir dangerous missions while opposed bythe forces of their opponents.

IMPORTANT CONCEPTSUnlike traditional card games where all play-ers share a deck, each CALL OF CTHULHUCCG player customizes his own deck ofcards from any cards in his collection.

The starter box that you have purchased con-tains the rules, story cards, and game cardsneeded for one player. However, there areover 200 different cards for you to collect andtrade in the Arkham Edition alone. You maypurchase more cards or trade with yourfriends in order to add to your collection, giv-ing you more options for building your owndeck. Look for expansions in the future thatwill add even more cards to the CALL OFCTHULHU CCG universe.

These rules are for playing the CALL OFCTHULHU CCG with two players. Rules formultiplayer games can be found atWWW.CTHULHUCCG.COM.

GAME OVERVIEWThe focal points of the CALL OF CTHULHUCCG are the story cards, which are drawn atrandom from a fixed common story deck andplaced in the middle of the table between theplayers. During the game, players take turnsplaying character and support cards fromtheir hands, then using these cards to achievesuccess at these stories.

While characters are committed to a story,they may face opposition in four differentarenas: Terror, Combat, Arcane, andInvestigation.

Every turn, as a story resolves, the activeplayer may receive success tokens on his sideof a story card. When a player has accumulat-ed five success tokens on his side of a storycard, he wins that story. A player that winsthree stories immediately wins the game!

THE FACTIONSThere are seven different factions in the CALLOF CTHULHU CCG, each with its own unique

take on the mythos. Each faction is represent-ed in the game with a unique symbol andcolor/texture on its card border. You can readmore about the backgrounds and motivationsof these factions on WWW.CTHULHUCCG.COM.The factions and their symbols are as fol-lows:

_ The Agency{ Miskatonic University} The Syndicate[ Cthulhu] Hastur< Yog-Sothoth> Shub-Niggurath

Cards with a grey border and no specificresource symbol are neutral. Neutral cardsdo not belong to any faction.

THE GOLDEN RULEIf the rules text of a card contradicts the textof this rulebook, the rules on the card takeprecedence (with a few exceptions, as listedin the rules).

EXHAUSTED, READY & INSANENormally, when you put a card into play fromyour hand, it comes into play in the readyposition; that is, face up on the playing sur-face in front of you.

When a card has been "used" for some pur-pose, like committing to a story or to activatean ability, it is exhausted. To show that acard is exhausted, it is turned 90 degrees side-ways. A card that is exhausted cannot exhaustagain until it has been readied once more.

When you are asked to ready an exhaustedcard, simply return that card to its normal up-right position.

Some effects will cause a character tobecome insane. To reflect this, flip that cardover so that it is face down on the table (seemore on insanity later).

RESOURCES & DOMAINSEnclosed in your starter box, you will findthree cards depicting nothing but a largethree-way split piece of artwork. These areyour three Domain cards. Before starting thethe game, each player places his threeDomain cards in his play area. Domains areused, along with the resources attached tothem, to pay for cards that you want to playfrom your hand.

In order to play a card from your hand, youmust drain a Domain (by placing a token onit to indicate that it has been drained). Thedrained Domain must have at least as manyresources attached to it as the cost of the cardthat you want to play (read more about pay-ing for cards later).

THE CARDSThere are four different types of cards in theCALL OF CTHULHU CCG. Each card has aunique title, piece of art, and collector statis-tics.

There are four levels of rarity in this game:fixed (F) (meaning you will only find thiscard in a starter deck), common (C), uncom-mon (U) and rare (R). Rarity and collectornumbers are printed on each card.

Story CardsThis deck of 10 cards (found in your starterbox) represents the strange tales and horrorsof the city of Arkham and its surroundingareas. The story deck in this starter box iscalled “Lovecraft Country.” FFG plans torelease a new story deck once a year with dif-ferent cards and rules to be used in organizedplay.

You only need one deck of story cards for atwo-player game.

Character CardsCharacter cards represent intrepid investiga-tors, scientists, and adventurers, as well as theunspeakable minions and Outer Gods of themythos. You need character cards in order tosucceed at story cards and win the game.Once played, characters remain in play untildestroyed by game or card effects.

Support CardsSupport cards represent locations, items,tomes, vehicles and attachments. Onceplayed, support cards remain in play untildestroyed by game or card effects.Exception: Cards that are attached to anoth-er card (most often support cards) are imme-diately destroyed (put into the discard pile) ifthe card they are attached to leaves play forany reason.

Event CardsEvent cards represent spells, actions, disastersand exciting plot twists. Event cards are nor-mally played from your hand, their text effectresolved, and then placed in your discardpile. CARD ANATOMY1. Title - the name of this card. A card with abullet next to its name is unique.2. Descriptor - the descriptive text here (ifany) contains thematic information about thecard, and is an extension of the card’s title.(See “Deck Building Rules” for for moreinformation.)

3. Cost - the number of resources you needwhen draining a Domain in order to pay for acard that you wish to play from your hand.Note that at least one of the Domain'sresources must match that of the playedcard’s faction.4. Faction Symbol - the faction the cardbelongs to.5. Icons - the abilities of the character duringthe icon struggles of a story card.

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6. Skill - a measure of how much a charactercan contribute towards your success at astory.7. Subtypes - special designators that haveno rules, but may be affected by other cardsin play. Examples include Deep One,Investigator, and Government.8. Card text - the special effects unique tothat card.9. Keyword - Keywords are found at the topof a card’s text effect, in bold type. Examplesinclude Heroic, Willpower, and Fast. Thepresence of a Keyword indicates that the cardhas one of the special abilities described laterin these rules.10. Resource Icon - When a card is attachedupside down to one of your Domains, it isconsidered a resource, and adds its resourceicon to a Domain when drained to pay forcards or card effects.11. Art Credit - the name of the card's illus-trator.12. Collector Info - denotes the rarity andcollector number of the card.13. Struggle Icons (story card only). Theorder in which the icon struggles of a storyare resolved. These icons can be added orremoved by card effects.

ICON BOOSTERSThere are a few cards (such as the ElderShoggoth) that have a large struggle icon(identical to those on the story cards) printedin its text box. When such a card is eitherattached to a story or committed to a story (inthe case of a character), it forces an addition-al icon struggle of that type while the story isbeing resolved. This additional icon struggleis resolved according to the order of theprinted icons.

For example, if the Elder Shoggoth is com-mitted to a story, a Terror struggle wouldresolve twice; once as normal, and one addi-tional time immediately thereafter (beforeCombat) due to the Terror icon brought bythe Elder Shoggoth. (If a third Terror iconbooster was added to the story, all threeTerror struggles would be resolved beforeCombat.)

UNIQUE CARDSSome cards in the game are unique. They aremarked with a bullet (•) before their cardname to indicate their uniqueness.

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copy of that card. It is possible, however, forboth players to have the same unique card inplay at the same time. If a unique card isdestroyed or leaves play for any other rea-son, you are allowed to play another copy ofthat unique card according to the normalrules.

FOR YOUR FIRST GAMEIf you have the “Mythos” starter box, removefrom your deck all cards that are not part ofthe Cthulhu or Hastur faction. If you have the“Investigators” starter box, remove from yourdeck all cards that are not part of theMiskatonic or Agency faction. Set aside theremoved cards; you won’t be using them thisgame.

SETUPBefore you begin playing the CALL OFCTHULHU CCG, both players follow thesequick steps in order:

1. Shuffle your deckAs you would with a deck of playing cards,shuffle the cards in your deck until they aresufficiently randomized.

2. Shuffle and Deal Story CardsOne player shuffles his story deck (the otherplayer puts his away), and deals three storycards face up to the center of the tablebetween the two players.

3. Place DomainsFind your three Domain cards and place themnext to your deck. They should form a “backrow” in your playing area.

4. Draw Setup HandDraw eight cards from your deck. This isyour setup hand. Choose five of these cardsto be your opening hand. The remaining threecards will become your starting resources.

5. Attach ResourcesTake the remaining three cards from yoursetup hand and attach one, upside down, toeach of your three Domains. The card bottomand resource icon should be all that is visibleabove the Domain card. The attached cardsare now considered resources. (Your oppo-nent may look at your resources if he wantsto.)

Once these steps are complete, the game isready to begin!

TURN SEQUENCEThe CALL OF CTHULHU CCG is played over aseries of turns. Each player completes hisentire turn before the other player takes histurn. Before the game begins, randomly

determine which player will take the firstturn.

Your turn is divided into five phases, whichmust be taken in this order:

1. Refresh phase2. Draw phase3. Resource phase4. Operations phase5. Story phase

When you have completed all five phases,your turn is over. Below is a detailed outlineof the turn sequence.

Important Exception: During the very firstturn of the game, the starting player mayonly draw 1 card during his draw phaseand must skip his entire story phase. Thisis known as the "first player penalty," andonly applies to the starting player on thevery first turn of the game.

Refresh phaseFirst choose and restore one of your insanecharacters (if any) by flipping it face up andexhausting it (or leave it exhausted if it isexhausted already). A restored character is nolonger considered insane, but remain exhaust-ed until your next turn.

Then ready all of your exhausted cards inplay (except the one just restored) andrefresh your drained Domains by removingany tokens on them.

Draw phaseDraw 2 cards from your deck. If at any point you have no cards remainingin your deck, you are immediately eliminatedfrom the game and your opponent is the win-ner.

Resource phaseDuring this phase you may choose a singlecard from your hand, and attach it, upsidedown, to one of your Domains as a resource(there is no limit to how many resources canbe attached to a Domain). As explained earli-er, the number (and type) of resourcesattached to a Domain is important when thatDomain is drained to pay for playing cards(or card effects). A resource is no longer apart of your hand, and cannot be used foranything else.

Operations phaseThis is the only phase in which you areallowed to play character and support cardsfrom your hand. Only the active player (theplayer whose turn it is) may play characterand support cards during this phase.

In order to play a card from your hand (or toactivate certain card effects), you must payfor it by draining a Domain with sufficientresources (place a token on the Domain toillustrate that it has been drained).

A Domain cannot be drained to pay for a card(or card effect) unless it has a number ofresources attached equal to or greater than thecost. Importantly, also note that when drain-ing a Domain to play a non-neutral card, atleast one of the attached resources must be ofthat card’s faction (this does not apply toNeutral cards).

A Domain that is drained cannot be drainedagain until it is refreshed by card effects orduring the refresh phase.

Cards with a cost of 0 do not require aDomain to be drained in order to pay theircost, nor do they require a resource match inorder to be played.

After playing a character or support cardfrom your hand, place it ready and face-up inthe playing area in front of you. It is recom-mended that you play all your characters inone area, and all of your support cards inanother area, so that you and your opponent

can easily survey the gaming area.

Example: During his operations phase, Darinwishes to play an Elder Shoggoth from hishand. To do so, he must drain one of hisDomains that has at least 4 resourcesattached, one of which must be a CTHULHUfaction resource "[" (the Elder Shoggoth ispart of the Cthulhu faction).

Important: Remember that at least one of theresources attached to the Domain must mustmatch the faction of the card being played.This is called making a resource match.

Important: You can never drain more thanone Domain to pay the cost of playing a cardor activating a card effect! Many times youwill "overpay" for a card, because the drainedDomain will have more resources attachedthan the cost of the card. The additionalresources paid are immediately lost; they donot "carry over" to the next card played.

Story phaseThis is where most of the action in the CALLOF CTHULHU CCG takes place. During thisphase, the active player commits his charac-ters to stories in an effort to place successtokens on his side of those story cards, whilehis opponent tries to prevent him from doingso.

The story phase is played in three steps:

1. Active Player Commits2. Opponent Commits3. Stories are Resolved

Step 1 - Active Player CommitsThe active player decides which of his readyCharacters in play will commit to which ofthe three stories, and then commits all ofthose characters to the three story cards at onetime. When a character has been committedto a story, exhaust that character and move itin front of the specific story card. You maycommit any number of characters to eachstory, as long as they are not already exhaust-ed. Each character may only be committed toone story.

The active player may choose to not committo any or all of the stories during this step. Ifthe active player decides to not commit atleast one character to a story, the phase endsand the player’s turn is over.

Example: Darin has 5 characters in play.During step 1 of the story phase, he decidesto commit one character to story A, two char-acters to story B, but does not commit anycharacters to story C. Darin does not com-mit his two remaining characters because hebelieves that he will need them during hisopponent's turn.

Step 2 - Opponent CommitsYour opponent (the non-active player) maynow commit any number of his ready charac-ters to any story where you have committedat least one character during step 1.

Step 3 - Stories are ResolvedThe active player now selects one story at atime to be resolved. When resolving a story,the committed characters will go through aseries of struggles, and finally the activeplayer will determine if he has met success atthat story (see the detailed section "Resolvinga story card" for more detail).

At the end of your story phase, play passes toyour opponent, who then must complete hisentire turn. In this way, turns pass back andforth between players until one player haswon the game.

RESOLVING A STORY CARDDuring the story phase, in the order deter-mined by the active player, each story card(that contains committed characters) must beresolved. This is done by following these fivesteps:

1. Terror Struggle2. Combat Struggle3. Arcane Struggle 4. Investigation Struggle5. Determine Success

The Terror, Combat, Investigation, andArcane struggles are also called icon strug-gles. Note that the order of the icon strugglesis printed on the left side of each story card.

Resolving an Icon StruggleTo resolve an icon struggle (such as"Terror"), the active player counts the totalnumber of the relevant icon on all his com-mitted characters at that story. Then the oppo-nent does the same for his characters that arecommitted to the story. The player (activeplayer or opponent) that has the most icons ofthe relevant type wins that struggle andimmediately exercises its specific effect (seebelow).

If the players tie in number of icons (theyboth have an equal number of icons of therelevant type, including zero) then nothinghappens and the game proceeds to the nextstep.

Note that icon boosters do not count as iconswhen comparing the total number of iconsduring an icon struggle.

@ Terror StruggleThe player who loses a Terror struggle mustimmediately choose one of his characters(committed to that story), if able, to goinsane. That character is no longer consideredto be committed to the story (the character isthought to have fled the scene, gibbering anddrooling).

Important exception: Characters that have aterror (@) icon, or the Willpower keyword,can never (regardless of card effects) goinsane for any reason, nor may such a charac-ter be chosen to go insane.Thus, if all of thelosing players’ characters (at that story) pos-sess the Terror icon, then losing the Terrorstruggle has no effect on that player.

# Combat StruggleThe player who loses a Combat struggle mustimmediately choose one of his characters(committed to that story) to take a wound, ifable.

Most characters are destroyed (go to the dis-card pile) after taking a single wound. Somecharacters, however, have the Toughnesskeyword which allows them to take addition-al wounds before being destroyed. A charac-ter with Toughness +2, for example, will bedestroyed only after receiving its thirdwound. Each time a character is wounded,indicate this by placing a token on that char-acter.

$ Arcane StruggleThe player who wins an Arcane struggle mayimmediately ready any one of his characterscommitted to that story (the character is stillconsidered to be committed to that story, butis no longer exhausted). Note that the readiedcharacter does not need to have the Arcaneicon.

% Investigation StruggleThe player who wins an Investigation strug-gle may immediately place a success tokenon the story card currently being resolved.This could cause you to instantly win a storycard. If this is the case, take that story cardand resolve its effects before continuing (see"Winning a Story Card").

Determine SuccessAfter the four icon struggles, the active play-er determines if he has been successful at thestory. He now adds the combined Skill valuesof all his characters currently committed tothe story. This number is the total skill. If thetotal skill value of the active player exceeds

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the total skill value of the opponent, then theactive player may place a success token onhis side of the story being resolved.

In addition, in order to be successful at astory, the active player’s total skill mustalways be at least 1 or higher. If his total skillis zero or less, he does not succeed at thestory.

Note that characters that were destroyed ordriven insane during the icon struggles do notadd their skill value to determine success.

Note also that only the active player mayplace a success token for being successful ata story. If the non-active player has the mosttotal skill at this story, nothing happens.

Unchallenged Stories: If the active playersucceeds at a story, and the total skill of hisopponent was zero (or less), the story is con-sidered unchallenged, and the active playermay place an additional success token on thestory card.

If, at any time, a player has five or more suc-cess tokens on his side of a story card, heimmediately wins the story and may chooseto execute its effect (see below). When aplayer wins his third story card, he immedi-ately wins the game!

WINNING A STORY CARDImmediately after a player has won a storycard (which happens the moment that a play-er has five or more success tokens on his sideof the story card) that player takes the storycard, chooses whether or not to execute itseffect, and then places it prominently face-upin his game area to illustrate that he has wonthe story.

After a story card has been won, and itseffect executed or declined, it is replaced by anew story card from the story deck. Thus, if astory card has been won before it is fullyresolved (usually by having the fifth tokenplaced from an investigation struggle), it isreplaced before players compare total skill todetermine success.

Characters that were committed to a storythat was won are no longer considered com-mitted to any story.

The Story Card’s EffectEvery story card has a special powerfuleffect. When a player wins a story card, thatplayer chooses whether or not to execute theeffect. Once the effect has been executed (ordeclined), the story card (and its effect) are nolonger a part of the game, except for victorypurposes.

After a story card has been won and its effectexecuted (or not), discard all success tokens(for both players) that had been placed bythat story. These success tokens are now lost.Then draw another story card from the storydeck and place it where the old story used tosit. In this way, there will always be threestory cards between the players on the table.

If, through card effects, multiple story cardsare won at the same time, the active playerdecides the order in which they are won.Resolve each win as above before moving on.

If, through card effects, both players wouldsimultaneously win a story card, the activeplayer wins the story.

Note that the story deck must always containthe same 10 story cards found in this starterbox. You may not change the contents of thestory deck before a game.

End of TurnAt the end of the story phase, players haveone more chance to take actions (such asevent cards or card abilities in play), and thenall characters are uncommitted from their

story cards. They are no longer considered atthat story, and may commit to different storycards in the future, when and if they are able.

Play then passes to your opponent, whobegins his turn with his ready phase.

KEYWORDSCharacters may have one or more of the fol-lowing keywords (this is always indicated inbold type above their rules text or printed up-side down at the bottom of a card). The key-words in the Arkham edition are as follows:

Heroic/VillainousIn the CALL OF CTHULHU CCG, a player isallowed to build a deck that contains bothinvestigators and and the horrors of themythos. The most extreme personalities ofeither side, however, will never work togeth-er.

During the game, you cannot play (or bringinto play via card effects) a Heroic characterif you control any Villainous characters.Similarly, you cannot play a Villainous char-acter if you control any Heroic characters inplay.

LoyalWhen you drain a Domain in order to pay theresource cost of playing a Loyal card, theDomain must contain enough resources ofthat card’s faction to pay for its entire cost(normally, only 1 resource match is suffi-cient).

Example: Darin wants to play the charactercard "Yog-Sothoth" during his operationsphase. Yog-Sothoth is a cost 7, Loyal memberof the Yog-Sothoth Faction. In order to playthis card, Darin must drain a Domain thatcontains at least 7 resources showing theYog-Sothoth resource symbol.

FastWhen resolving a story, the player who con-trols the most Fast characters committed tothat story, wins all ties during icon strugglesand when determining success at that story.Note, however, that a tie of zero is still evenand has no winner. If the players also have anequal number of Fast characters at that story,ties are resolved as normal, with no effect.

Toughness +XCharacters with Toughness may be woundedan additional X times (mark each wound byputting a token on that character). For example, a character with Toughness +2can take 2 wounds without being destroyed.The next wound would then destroy it.

WillpowerCharacters with Willpower can never goinsane or be chosen to go insane, regardlessof card effects.

InvulnerabilityCharacters with Invulnerability can never bewounded or chosen to be wounded, regard-less of card effects.

EXPERT RULESFollowing are some of the more intricaterules of the game. You do not need to knowthese rules in order to start playing, but itmay help to refer to them from time to time.

TIMING RULESEach player may take actions (by playingevent cards or using character abilities) dur-ing each step of every phase except for cer-tain intervals of play (see the turn sequencediagram for details). In particular, during theresolve story card step of the story phase, nocard effects or actions may be taken until allthree stories have been resolved. The activeplayer always takes the first action in anyphase.

Actions are taken one at a time. After a play-er has taken and resolved an action, he mustallow his opponent the opportunity to takeand resolve an action before he can takeanother, etc.

An action is resolved completely beforeanother action may be taken (exception: dis-rupt; see below)

A Response is an action that can only beplayed if the circumstances described in itstext are met. Responses are always worded ina fashion similar to the example below:

“Response: after a character is destroyed, put1 success token on a story card.”

A response cannot be played until the effectthat triggers it has fully resolved. A responsecan only be played once per trigger.

Special Exception: there are several respons-es that take place after a card is destroyed.Normally, cards do not have any effect whilein your discard pile, but a card that has aresponse triggered by its own destructionmay be activated.

A Forced Response is an action that a playermust trigger when its circumstances apply.

Disrupt is a special action that can actuallycancel or change an action just taken by theopponent. Remember that all actions are fullyresolved before the next action may be taken.The Disrupt action can create the only excep-tion to this rule.

When a card, or card effect, is cancelled, itscost must still be paid (and thus wasted).Cancelled event cards are immediately dis-carded.

Timing Example:Darin and Tommy are playing a game, and itis Darin’s operations phase. Because it isDarin’s turn, he has the first opportunity totake an action. He chooses to play a GrizzledVet (Agency character, cost 3) by drainingone of his Domains with 4 resources attached(two of those resources are Agency (_),enabling his required resource match).Tommy has no Disrupt or Response actions totake, but he would like to take one action. Heplays the event card Committed (Hasturevent, cost 2) by draining a Domain with 2resources attached (one of them is a Hastur(]) resource, enabling the match). Theevent states “Action: choose a character.That character goes insane.” He chooses theGrizzled Vet as his target. Darin, not wantinghis Grizzled Vet to go insane, plays the eventcard Hair of the Worm (a 0-cost Disruptaction; this does not drain a Domain) thatcancels the event Committed. This is allowedbecause Disrupt actions actually precede theaction taken immediately beforehand. Theevent Committed is now cancelled. Tommyhas no responses, and it is Darin’s turn totake an action. He then plays a Mayor’sOffice (4-cost Agency location).

Cumulative EffectsMany effects in this game are cumulative andtake effect multiple times if multiple copiesof that effect are in play. For example, ifthere are three copies of the card “ShadowedReef” (Cthulhu support card with the text:Deep One characters gain @”) in play, eachcopy adds a terror icon to all Deep One char-acters. Thus, in this case, all Deep One char-acters would gain three terror icons.

Note that a response may take effect multipletimes if multiple copies of that effect are inplay (but still only once per card per trigger).

Destroy and SacrificeWhen a card is destroyed (this includes acharacter that has taken a fatal number ofwounds), it is placed into the discard pile.

A character that is sacrificed is also placed in

the discard pile. You can only sacrifice cardsthat you control, that is, you can never sacri-fice an opponent's card.

InsanityWhen a character goes insane, it is flippedface down and all cards attached to it aredestroyed. If a wounded character, regardlessof its Toughness, goes insane, it is immediate-ly destroyed. Likewise, if an insane characteris wounded, it is immediately destroyed.Insane characters have the following statis-tics: 0-cost, 0-skill, no faction, no icons, notraits and no text. An insane character cannotcommit to a story and is never considered tobe committed to a story.

Adding a DomainSome effects in the game allow you to addadditional Domain cards. When adding a newDomain, simply draw the top card of yourdeck, look at it, and then place it face downnext to your existing Domains. That card isnow considered a Domain card and loses all

DETAILED TURN SEQUENCE

1. Refresh Phase

2. Draw Phase

3. Resource Phase

4. Operations Phase

5. Story Phase

SEQUENCES IN GREY BOXES CANNOT BEINTERRUPTED BY ANY ACTIONS OR RESPONSES

(DISRUPTS MAY STILL TAKE PLACE). THEYMUST BE FULLY RESOLVED BEFORE ACTIONS

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• Ready all of your exhausted cards• Restore 1 insane character (exhausted)

• Actions may be taken

• Draw 2 cards

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•Attach 1 resource to a Domain(optional)

• Actions may be taken

• Actions may be takenWhen the active player plays a charac-ter or a support card from his hand, itis considered taking an Action.

• You (active player) commit charactersto stories.

• Actions may be taken

• Opponent (non-active player) commitscharacters to oppose yours.

Resolve each story, in order of yourchoosing. For each story, resolve thefollowing in order:• Resolve Terror (@) Struggle• Resolve Combat (#) Struggle• Resolve Arcane ($) Struggle• Resolve Investigation (%) Struggle• Determine success

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• Actions may be taken

• Characters are uncommitted • End of Turn

• Actions may be taken

• Responses to struggle and successresults may be played

other identification and game functions.Resources can be added to your new Domainduring the Resource Phase (and via cardeffects) as if it were a normal Domain card.

Day/Night/TwilightSome cards in the game will change the“time” to either Night or Day (neither ofwhich have any specific effect, but allowother specific card effects to be active). Atthe beginning of the game, and at any time itis neither Night or Day, the time is consid-ered to be Twilight.

DECK BUILDING RULESIn this starter box you will find 10 storycards, 3 domain cards, and 47 game cards.When constructing your own deck from yourcollection for tournament purposes, you mustuse the following restrictions:

1) Your deck must contain at least 50 cards.2) No more than four copies of a card withthe same title and descriptor may be in yourdeck. (If two cards have the same title butdifferent descriptors, they are considered tobe two different cards.)

Note that as more cards become available forthe CALL OF CTHULHU CCG, the minimumnumber of required cards in your deck mayincrease for organized play.

Organized PlayJoin the Call of Cthulhu community atWWW.CTHULHUCCG.COM to find retailers,special events and tournaments near you. Youcan also visit the site to become a Servitorand help FFG organize CALL OF CTHULHUCCG events and organized play in your area.

Additionally, on WWW.CTHULHUCCG.COM youwill be able to find updates, rules clarifica-tions, community message boards, and excit-ing articles about the game. See you there!

CREDITSGame Design: Eric M. LangAdditional Design & Development: Christian T.Petersen, Kevin Wilson, Darrell HardyArt Direction: Darrell HardyGraphic Design: Scott NicelyCreative Developers: Pat Harrigan and DarrellHardyRules: Christian T. Petersen and Eric M. LangEditing: Christian T. Petersen, Pat Harrigan, GregBenage, and Kevin WilsonExecutive Developer: Christian T. Petersen Special Thanks:To H.P. Lovecraft, for scribing the unspeakable. To Charlie Krank and Lynn Willis at Chaosium, forletting us run with it. To Davanni’s Roseville, for letting us have innumer-able CoC meetings there while nibbling on theirpizza. To our playtesters: too numerous to list, but tooimportant to be left off. Thank you!

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