Rules of Play

Anstarra has 8 basic rules you must know. For easy memorization, each one coincides with a letter in the word A-N-S-T-A-R-R-A.

Click here for a one-page printable version (pdf).

1. Always play safe

• No combat indoors or on stairs. Call "timeout" if necessary.
  

2. Never stop playing (except for safety)

• Discuss rules or problems privately with game staff.  

3. Spells and special effects use cards

• Follow directions on cards handed to you.

4. Treasure is kept in pouches

• You don’t need to “search” bodies.

• Except head, neck, hands, feet and groin.

6. Receiving a limb wound disables that limb

• You may not use that limb until healed.

7. Receiving a torso wound knocks you out

• You die in about five minutes if not healed.

8. After dying, you become a spirit

• Spirits may not talk, and must go meet with Death.