Use this alternate rule to make character death more challenging.

If you lose all your lives, you are defeated! Drop all objects, magic objects, followers and gold in your possession on the space you occupy. Return all your fate tokens and strength and craft counters to the stockpile next to the board. Discard all trophies and spell cards to the appropriate discard piles. Remove your character figure from the board and place it in the box along with your character card. Your turn is over.

At the start of your next turn, you may randomly draw a character card from the cards not in play. Follow the steps to SET UP YOUR CHARACTER.

Note that players may select new characters after being defeated only if no character has reached the Crown of Command during the game. If you’re defeated after a character has reached the Crown of Command, you’re out of the game.