Brew

To set up Brew, place the village board in the center of the table. Each player chooses a character and takes the matching character dice plus two white element dice. Shuffle the forest cards matching your player count, place one more face-up card than the number of players, and put remaining cards in a face-down deck. Shuffle the potion deck and lay out four face-up potions. Sort the creatures into four face-up seasonal piles, and place resource tokens within reach of all players. The player who most recently brewed a beverage goes first.

The main objective in Brew is to score the highest number of points by the end of a four-round game. Players compete to control forests, gather resources, train creatures, and brew powerful potions that grant various abilities and victory points.

During a turn, players must place one die onto a matching space on either the forest cards or the village board. In addition to placing a die, players may optionally brew a potion by paying required resources and use potions in their hand. Element dice provide special abilities: water dice double resources, wind dice replace placed dice, and fire dice cancel underlying dice during scoring. Village board spaces offer various actions such as gathering ingredients, trading creatures, or removing dice.

Scoring happens after the fourth round. Players add up points from trained creatures matched with winning forests (each worth 3 points), forest control, brewed and used potions, and accumulated point tokens. The player with the highest overall score wins the game.

The game concludes automatically at the end of the fourth round after all forests are evaluated, dice are returned, and the final scoring phase is completed.