You play as a hero. Your hero defines your starting stats and grants a unique ability.

Three of the 20 Strong dice are gray stat dice. They track your stats’ values as they increase and decrease throughout play.

• Health tracks how much damage you can take before you lose.

• Strategy indicates…

» how many items you can have in your inventory.

» how many times you can go through the Strategy phase each round.

• Recovery indicates how many exhausted dice you can get back each round.

Each hero has a non-lucid side and a lucid side. Some effects let you to flip your hero to its lucid side. Because of the ever-changing yet persistent nature of Etherfields, a flipped hero remains that way for future games. On the map, your hero is represented by the Health die.

Your hero card is your Dreamworld protagonist.

1. Name

2. Ability

3. Starting Health

4. Starting Strategy

5. Starting Recovery