Riverfolk rules
ExpansionRoot
Riverfolk is an expansion for Root. Riverfolk Company, Lizard Cult.
How Riverfolk changes play
Riverfolk Expansion
Adds two factions and lets a second Vagabond join the game.
- Setup: Lizard Cult: 25 warriors in supply. In the corner opposite the Keep or the Eyrie's roost, 4 warriors and a matching garden, plus 1 warrior in each adjacent clearing. Choose the Outcast suit and fill the Gardens tracks with your other 14 gardens.
- Setup: Riverfolk Company: 15 warriors in supply, 4 warriors in clearings on the river, the 9 trade posts on their tracks, 3 warriors in Payments, and a service marker on each Services track.
- Setup: with two Vagabonds, put two R items under each ruin and randomly choose which Vagabond sets up first.
- New factions: the Riverfolk Company (reach 5), which sells services, and the Lizard Cult (reach 2).
Root rules it changes
- Hand Limit The Riverfolk Company keeps its hand face up and discards down to 5 in Evening like everyone else.
- Reach & Player Count Riverfolk Company has reach 5, Lizard Cult has reach 2, and a second Vagabond has reach 2.
All Riverfolk rules (10)
- Riverfolk Expansion The Riverfolk Expansion adds the Riverfolk Company and the Lizard Cult, and lets you play with a second Vagabond.
- Riverfolk Company The Riverfolk Company has reach 5. It treats rivers as paths when moving and ignores rule along the river.
- Riverfolk Funds & Turn Birdsong: if the Payments box is empty put 2 warriors in it, score 1 point per 2 funds if any trade posts are on the map, then move all…
- Riverfolk Trade Posts To establish a trade post, choose a clearing with none and spend two funds that belong to the clearing's ruler.
- Riverfolk Services Other players buy services at the start of their own Birdsong by putting their own warriors in the Riverfolk Payments box equal to the…
- Riverfolk Fine Points Hand Card may be bought more than once in a turn.
- Lizard Cult The Lizard Cult has reach 2 and builds gardens.
- Outcast & Conspiracies In Birdsong the suit with the most cards in Lost Souls (ignoring birds) becomes the Outcast; if it was already the Outcast, flip the…
- Lizard Cult Fine Points If no suit has the most cards in Lost Souls, the Outcast stays where it is and becomes Hated.
- Lizard Cult Rituals In Daylight you reveal cards from hand to perform rituals.