​Room setup (refresher) -

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1. A Duckventurer enters the first space in a Room, then FREEZES!

2. Roll 2D6 on the Room Table (see example, right), modifying the score as above. A DuckDuckGoose must be added or subtracted in entirety, and the result cannot go beyond 12 or be less than 1. Duh-ck.

3. Find and place appropriate Beastie and Snare miniatures, following these rules -

   1. Beasties with a S(hooty) attack will always be furthest away but with clear LOS, and should be placed first. 

   2. Beasties with a C(hoppy) attack will be closer if there is no space to place them otherwise, but they should always start as diametrically opposed to, and as far away from, the first Duckventurer as possible. 

   3. Z(appy) Beasties follow the S or C placement rules dependent on what type of Z they have: obviously a Frost Bolt Zappy would act like an S attack. 

   4. Weaker Beasties should be closer to the Duckventurers than tougher Beasties, this is known as the ‘Send in the Chaff’ rule.

   5. NBOIDs always act last. This is known as ‘The Cheese Stands Alone’ rule. 

4. Turn 1 Snares trigger. 

5. The first Duckventurer finishes their movement. Then it is up to the Duckventurers to allocate DuckDice and perform their actions. 

6. Once all Duckventurers have done their thing, the Beasties go. First Shooty, then Choppy, who will run headlong into combat as fast as they can, which is generally 6 spaces. Some Beasties will attack different classes of Duckventurer, and their targets are given on their cards, and in the Beastie-ary. 

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Note that the parensed numbers (x) below relate to the Room Sequence above. It seems complex but once you’ve done a couple of Rooms, you will be laughing … or screaming and throwing the game in the river. And yelling “WHAT THE DUCK?”

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Having decided what is where and how it all works, (1) the first Duckventurer, Plumpy Ducksword, rolls his DuckWalk die, gets a 4, enters the Room on the stairs for 1 space, and FREEZES! Remember how much movement the Duckventurer has left, this is important as he might need it after Snares and such go off: leave the DuckDice rolled so you can keep track (dice management is important). Needless to say, sending an unarmoured, wounded Duckwiz who left all his equipment at home into a Room first is kind dumb … but then, they are ducks!

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We then roll on the Room Table (2), assuming a DuckDuckGoose die is in play, which is probably a good idea for the Entry Room; the Duckventurer party remember to slide ol’ Duckthulhu along one space and boost him up. Ai! Ai! They roll a 2D6 result of 11, which is pretty intense for first rank Duckventurers. They roll the DuckDuckGoose die and get a result of 4, which means they can either send the contents of the Room put to 12 (11 + 1, can’t go over 12) or down to 7 (11 - 4). How’s the math so far? Strenuous? 

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They discuss amongst themselves. A result of 11 will give them a Boss, the Rat King, and the potential for some serious Loot: they are at full power, have plenty of heals available, they are all feathered up and ready to go! On the down-side, they have lost an initial die in their first turn because of the DuckDuckGoose, and the room is full of some fairly serious shooty Beasties with the chance of another wave because of the Rat King. Which would not bode well for Plumpy and anyone else caught in the crossfire. Plus, the shooters are going to array themselves on the barrels in an elevated position, so the Duckventurers can’t expect any cover. 

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Better go with the 7 … This gives the Duckventurers -

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• 4 Wild Torment Rats (C)

• 3 Semi-Cursed Pests (S)

• 1 Pesky Rat-Head (Z)

• 1 Wobbly Bobbly Glob (C)

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Should be interesting. Based on the guidelines, we lay out the miniatures (3) like so (right)-

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Note that the Pests and Rat-Head will take beneficial elevated positions where possible, to Shooty McShoot with deadly rat-foot rayguns and Zappy ray-wands. The chaff, the Rats, will charge forward, with the Glob following up behind, using its automatic Feats. The key word here is beneficial, Beasties aren’t necessarily stoopid, they have instincts, wiles and cunning, especially if they are rodents! So when laying them out, keep this in mind. The optimal layout for the Duckventurers is up to the players, the same should apply to the Beasties, who, remember, are under the control of the cosmic genius and dark old god of doom-doom-doom, Duckthulhu.

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Once all the Beasties are laid out, Turn 1 Snares trigger (4). Poor old sacrificial duck Plumpy gets shot at with a Shooty Arrow, which rolls to hit on a 3 (it has Q4 versus Plumpy’s F4), Plumpy’s armour soaks up some damage (-1), leaving Plumpy with -2F. The next Snare triggers on Turn 3, although there will probably be more targets in the Room at that point. 

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Plumpy brushes off the giant arrow sticking out of his plumage, and finishes his movement (5), which still had 3 spaces left (remember the saved DuckWalk die?). Another 4 DuckDice are allocated, 6 minus Plumpy’s DuckWalk and the DuckDuckGoose. This party of Duckventurers don’t have any Funkards to modify the DuckDice pool ...yet. 

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And we’re done! The Duckventurers go, the Beasties go, we move on to Turn 2. Keep track of the Turns because on Turns 3 and 6 Snares trigger. Full details of nasty duck Snares are in their own section.