1) Place the Adventure board on the table. Use the Spring side for your first game, and for future games, use either side.

The Autumn side includes costs for some routes and offers additional variety.

2) Place the Adventure Board tokens on the highlighted spots as follows:

Place the Gold Chest token on the indicated Iron Chest space.

Place the two “+5” tokens on the indicated “+3” spaces.

Place the three Nest tokens on the indicated “Draw 1” spaces.

Place a pair of matching Enchantment tokens on one of the indicated Enchantment spaces.

Place a second matching pair on the other indicated Enchantment space.

3) Each player takes one of the remaining two Enchantment tokens.

4) Choose a Theme deck (the Academy deck is recommended for your first play) and combine it with the Core deck.

Shuffle both decks together to form the Main deck and place it between the two players. From this point on, the Main deck will just be referred to as “the deck”.

Leave space next to it for the Trash pile (a face-up pile of cards that will be Trashed during the game).

5) Place the Coin/Supply tokens nearby to form a Reserve.

6) Each player takes 5 Coins.

7) Each player takes a set of three Starter cards: one Nest (Crow), one Lilypad (Frog), and one Warren (Rabbit).

Place the Starter cards in front of you with their basic ability sides face up.

Leave room for two more rows of cards above this row.

8) Each player draws 5 cards from the deck and adds them to their hand.

9) Display the three Initiate Villager cards in a row near the deck.

10) Randomly determine a starting player. Beginning with the non-starting player, each player chooses an Initiate Villager card from the display, taking the card and the Adventurer of the matching Species (Crow, Frog, or Rabbit).

Place the Initiate Villager card that was not chosen face-up next to the deck in the Trash pile.

11) Each player places their Initiate Villager card above their Starter cards, creating their Villager row.

They each take 2 Supplies from the Reserve and place them on their Initiate Villager card (as indicated by the card’s Supply Value shown in the top right of the card).

12) Each player places their Adventurer on the Home space of the Adventure board.

13) Each player takes a double-sided Player aid card and a Score card. Place your Score card face down to the left of your Starter cards.