User's Manual

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Welcome to Golem Arcana!

The Great Khan is dead and the world of Eretsu is at war. While the Khan’s heirs vie for control of

the Gudanna Dominion he forged, the Durani Empire, unchanged and unchallenged for almost a

thousand years before The Khan conquered its southern provinces, moves with surprising speed to

recapture its former lands.

From the Tel Najar to the Great Gardens, the ground quakes beneath the feet of monstrous

Golems marching off to battle. Arcane titans crafted from bone, branch, stone, and blood, the

fearsome Golems stand in the forefront of the rival armies.

With Eretsu descending into chaos, now it’s your turn to choose sides and take command of a

Golem army.

The Best of Both Worlds

There is a certain magic that happens when people gather around a table to play a game. Golem

Arcana harnesses that magic and combines it with the depth and accessibility of electronic games

to create something new—a digitally-enhanced miniatures boardgame.

Golem Arcana seamlessly connects your smartphone or tablet to the game’s figures, board, and

cards via the Bluetooth-powered Tabletop Digital Interface (TDI) Stylus. You can tap any of the

game pieces with the stylus at any time to send information to the Golem Arcana App running on

your mobile device. The App adjudicates the game, helps you understand the rules, manages

record keeping, and provides the kind of dynamically evolving gameplay previously found only in

online games.

What’s in the Box

● Six Golem figures with TDI bases

● Six Golem TDI cards matching the figures

● Six 3 x 3 double-sided TDI map tiles

● Two Control Cards

● Four two-sided Mana Well Tokens

● One sheet of banner stickers

● Six flagpoles

● Two 10-sided dice

● The TDI Stylus

Summary of content (6 pages)

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Welcome to Golem Arcana! The Great Khan is dead and the world of Eretsu is at war. While the Khan’s heirs vie for control of the Gudanna Dominion he forged, the Durani Empire, unchanged and unchallenged for almost a thousand years before The Khan conquered its southern provinces, moves with surprising speed to recapture its former lands. From the Tel Najar to the Great Gardens, the ground quakes beneath the feet of monstrous Golems marching off to battle.
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The Combatants (SIDEBAR) As the vast Gudanna Dominion and the ancient Durani Empire maneuver to war, dozens of Zikia Tribes and Urugal Clans within their borders answer their liege lords’ call to arms. Some fight for their host nations with pride; some are coerced, and some avoid the fray altogether, hoping that the coming conflagration will provide them an opportunity to claim their independence.
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Before you get started, you’ll need to create an HBS Account so you’ll have access to your army designs and digital playing pieces even when you’re using a friend’s smartphone or tablet. The Golem Arcana App will guide you through this process. Once you create your account and sign in, you’ll be able to access the tutorials and start a game. Prepare the TDI Stylus Your next step is power up the TDI Stylus and connect it to your smartphone or tablet. Follow these simple instructions 1.
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● The Tutorial Scenarios included with the Golem Arcana App will walk you through how to use the stylus to scan and activate the various playing pieces and their individual capabilities. If your stylus stops working: ● ● ● First, try replacing the batteries and reconnecting. If that doesn’t work, you can reboot the stylus by simultaneously holding all three buttons for a few seconds.
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Playing the Game To begin a game of Golem Arcana, choose “New Game” from the App’s Main Menu and then choose first of the Tutorial Scenarios. The scenario will show you how to lay out the map tiles on the tabletop. Each tile has a number in its upper right hand corner and features an “a” side and a “b” side. (Tile 1b is on the flipside of Tile 1a, etc.
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Each Golem Arcana scenario specifies the conditions under which the game ends and how the players accumulate Victory Points (often by destroying enemy Golems). When the game ends, the player with the most Victory Points is the winner. This is Just the Start One of the most exciting elements of Golem Arcana’s TDI system is that it allows the game to evolve and expand on an ongoing basis.