Inside the Box

Components

Every Rylio quest is played with cards, tokens, and a single die for enemy intents. Here's what comes in each box.

The Three Boxes

Rylio ships in three tiers, each scaled to a different play experience.

Try the Game

Starter Pack

For: New players, demos, gifts
Players: 1
Approx. Price: $15–25

Contents

•1 hero (Elaris, the Ranger) with a 10-card starter deck
•1 Quest with its Journey: a path of Dark (fight) and Light (event/rest/merchant) nodes
•A starter enemy set — minions, a normal, and a quest overlord
•A draft pool to grow your deck as you win fights
•1 six-sided die for enemy intents
•Darkness dial track + tokens for Stamina, statuses, damage, and gold
•Quick-start rulebook

The Real Game

Standard Box

For: First proper Rylio experience
Players: 1–2
Approx. Price: $45–55

Contents

•2 heroes — Elaris (Ranger) and Kael (Knight) — each with a 10-card starter deck
•Trade card sets for Hunter and Blacksmith to splash into your deck
•A full draft pool (Common / Uncommon / Rare) that your deck grows from
•A short campaign of linked Quests, each with its own Journey and overlord
•Enemy decks across minions, normals, elites, and overlords — plus Memory cards
•1 six-sided die for enemy intents
•Warband, equipment, potion, relic, and faction cards
•Full token set + Darkness dial
•Complete rulebook + campaign guide

The Full Campaign

Deluxe Box

For: The complete Rylio experience
Players: 1–4
Approx. Price: $100–120

Contents

•Both base heroes — Elaris (Ranger) and Kael (Knight)
•Hunter and Blacksmith trades, fully realized
•The full campaign: linked Quests across realms (The Verdant Wound and beyond)
•Complete enemy, Memory, Warband, relic, equipment, and faction systems
•The three factions: The Crown, the Verdant Kin, the Wandering Folk
•Six-sided dice for enemy intents (one per player)
•Premium tokens (cardboard or acrylic) + Darkness dial
•Storage solution with custom inserts
•Hardcover campaign guide with lore and illustration
•More heroes and trades arrive in later sets

The Cards

Rylio uses a handful of card types, each with a specific role.

Hero Cards

Your protagonist. Shows your HP, your passive ability, and your 3 stamina per turn. Elaris (Ranger) has the Quarry passive; Kael (Knight) has Bulwark. Each hero starts with a 10-card deck that grows across the campaign.

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Hero card example

Deck Cards

The cards you play on your turn — attacks, defenses, and tricks. Each costs stamina. An Ongoing icon means the effect lasts the rest of the fight; a One-Time Use icon removes the card for the fight after you play it; no icon means it returns to your deck. Many apply statuses: Mark, Block, Might, Weakened, Sunder, Poison.

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Deck card examples (Common / Uncommon / Rare)

Enemy Cards

Adversaries you meet at Dark nodes. Each round you roll a d6 per enemy and read the matching intent row. They come in four tiers:

Minions — swarm in numbers
Normals — bring a single trick
Elites — Learn (flip to Side B) at half HP and feed a Memory to the overlord
Overlords — Learn, inherit every Memory the elites fed them, and drop a rare + a relic

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One enemy card per tier (4 examples)

Memory Cards

The heart of Rylio. When an elite survives your opening and takes its first turn, it draws a Memory and attaches it. When that elite dies, its Memory passes to the overlord — which arrives wearing every lesson its lieutenants learned.

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Memory card example

Quest & Journey Cards

Define the adventure. A Quest sets the intro, the starting Darkness, and the overlord. Its Journey is a path of Dark nodes (fights) and Light nodes (events, rests, merchants, warbands) you resolve in order on the way to the overlord.

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Quest card + Journey nodes

Warband Cards

Temporary faction detachments won from elites and warband nodes. Each is a passive boon — ongoing or triggered — that lasts the quest, then leaves. Meeting them seeds the permanent factions.

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Warband card example

Equipment, Potion & Relic Cards

Gear and consumables. Equipment comes in Head, Hand, and Body slots and persists across the campaign. Potions are one-shot effects. Relics are overlord-only rewards, fresh each quest.

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Equipment, potion, and relic examples

Faction Cards

Pledge to one of three factions — The Crown, the Verdant Kin, or the Wandering Folk. Meeting a faction's requirement unlocks an ongoing effect, a once-per-quest power, and super-rare faction cards — some of which can strip a Memory from the overlord.

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Faction card example

The Tokens & Dial

The Darkness Dial

A 0–18 track, not a loss timer. It rises from extra reshuffles and salted Light cards, and falls from Rests and shrines. As it climbs it crosses bands that switch on global effects — the difficulty dial at the center of every quest.

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Darkness dial track + marker

Stamina, Status & Gold Tokens

Each hero spends up to 3 stamina per turn playing cards. Status tokens track Mark, Block, Might, Weakened, Sunder, and Poison on heroes and enemies. Gold tokens are the currency you carry between quests.

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Stamina, status, and gold tokens

Damage Tokens

Placed on heroes and enemies. When damage equals or exceeds HP, the character is defeated — or Falls, for heroes. If all heroes Fall, the party Retreats (Darkness +2) and retries the fight.

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Damage token

Rolling for Intent

Rylio uses one ordinary six-sided die — and only for the enemies.

At the start of each round you roll a d6 per enemy and read the matching row on its card — that's what it will do this round. The roll stands through your turn and the enemy turn, then you reroll next round. Your own attacks never roll: an attack deals its printed number, plus your Might and any Sunder on the target, minus the target's Block. The die builds the enemy's plan; your cards answer it.

Quality and Production

We are building Rylio for the table. That means:

Card stock330gsm linen-textured stock with blue core (tournament-grade durability)
Token materialCardboard punch-out (Starter, Standard) or acrylic (Deluxe)
DiceStandard engraved six-sided dice (Standard, Deluxe)
BoxMagnetic-close hard box for Standard and Deluxe
Print qualityMatte finish on all cards (better photography for sharing, kinder on hands)

Final production specifications will be confirmed during Gamefound manufacturing.

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