Vagabond (Adventurer)

The Vagabond is unlike any other faction on the board. You have no territory, no buildings, and no warriors — just a single wandering figure picking through the forest for useful items and forging quiet alliances with whoever is willing. Where others fight over clearings, you slip between the battles and collect the spoils.

The Adventurer is the quest-dedicated variant of this wandering life. Where others might raid or craft, the Adventurer throws herself into the woodland's side-tasks — the posted quests that other factions ignore entirely. Your signature ability, Improvise, removes the usual restriction on what items a quest demands: once per turn while completing a quest, you can damage any unexhausted item and have it count as whichever item the quest actually requires. That starting Hammer is no accident — it's there to repair the items you burn on the way.

You begin with a Torch, a Boot, and a Hammer — a lean kit that prioritizes mobility, ruin exploration, and self-repair over early aggression.

You score points through several independent channels, and the Adventurer is particularly strong at one of them:

• Complete quests by reaching a matching clearing and exhausting the required items — or Improvising with whatever you have on hand. Each completed quest scores VP or draws extra cards, and finishing multiple quests of the same type scores progressively more each time.
• Aid other factions by giving them a card that matches a clearing you share; this advances your relationship with them, and hitting higher relationship tiers scores VP directly.
• Remove enemy buildings and tokens in battle — you score VP for this, rewarding you for picking opportunistic fights.

The Adventurer's path to 30 leans on quests more heavily than any other Vagabond. Improvise means you are almost never blocked from completing a quest by the wrong item combination — the item economy is the obstacle, and your Hammer is the solution. Keep your item tray healthy, keep moving, and keep clearing quests.

Your turn runs on item exhaustion. Moving between clearings costs a Boot; most actions — Aid, Quest, Battle, Craft with Hammers — exhaust the relevant item. After you act, exhausted items sit face-down until your Refresh step, and any hits you take in battle damage items instead of removing your figure.

The Adventurer's rhythm is travel-then-quest. You arrive in a clearing that matches an active quest's suit, check the required items, and if you have them ready you exhaust and collect your reward. If you're one item short, Improvise lets you damage any unexhausted item in its place — but that item is now out of service until you repair it, so use the ability deliberately rather than reflexively.

Building your item pool is critical. Explore ruins early with your Torch to uncover hidden items; every new item is an additional action available each turn. The Hammer you start with is a rare resource in the early game — it lets you bring damaged items back into service in Daylight rather than waiting to stumble into a forest for a full Rest.

Relationships slide between Hostile and Allied as you aid or battle factions. A Hostile faction can attack you freely and costs extra movement to navigate around — watch each track carefully and give Aid proactively to avoid being locked out of the map.