Betrayal at House on the Hill

Sequence of Play

Exploration Phase

Do any of the following in any order (turn ends when ready or out of actions):

Move #spaces = Speed

- Can interrupt movement to do other actions
- Move ends when Speed is used up or new room is discovered

Discover a new room

1. Draw and place room tile.
- If tile has a symbol, draw corresponding card(s).
---- While tile region != explorer region:
-------- Bury tile (put on bottom of stack) and draw again

2. Read and resolve text on tile

3. Draw cards matching symbols on tile
- Event: Bury it after resolving
- Item: Explorer now possesses it
- Omen: Make haunt roll. Explorer now possesses it

Trade Items and Omens with explorer on your tile

Use Items and Omens to perform special actions

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Haunt Phase

Setup:

1. A Survivor reads aloud the intro to the haunt from survival guide
2. Survivors perform setup steps
3. Traitor reads aloud the intro from Traitor's Tome
4. Traitor performs setup steps
5. Survivors and traitor players separate to discuss strategy

Play using same actions as Exploration phase plus haunt-specific abilities

When passing through a space with a foe, treat them as an obstacle (2 movement points to leave space)

General Information

Traits

• Heal a trait = restore that trait to its starting value
• Physical damage = Might and/or Speed
• Mental damage = Knowledge and/or Sanity
• General damage = any trait
• Critical trait = clip is pointing to red (lowest) number
• Character death = any trait reduced to skull symbol (can only happen during haunt)

Dice

• Trait roll: roll #dice = trait's current value
• Attack roll: attacker and defender roll for same trait; lower takes dmg = high-low
  NOTE: Weapons are NOT used in defense rolls
• Haunt roll: roll dice = #omens discovered; if result > 5, haunt begins