Pagan: Fate of Roanoke

To set up Pagan: Fate of Roanoke, place the enchantment board at one end of the play area and arrange the three villager boards in a row. Populate the villager boards with blue, green, and red villager cards according to their numbered backs (1, 2, 3). Shuffle the suspect cards and place them next to the board. Each player chooses a role: Witch or Hunter. The Witch takes their main board, action board, secret and favor tokens, shuffles their deck, draws three cards, sets their influence dial to two, and takes three action tokens. The Hunter does the same with their corresponding components. The Witch secretly draws one suspect card to determine their identity, keeping it hidden from the Hunter. Player aid cards are available for reference. The Witch takes the first turn.

The Witch's primary objective is to successfully perform a ritual on the villager card that matches their secret identity. This requires placing three favor tokens on that specific villager. Alternatively, the Witch can win if the Hunter mistakenly eliminates three innocent villagers. The Hunter's goal is to either eliminate the villager who is secretly the Witch or to exonerate all innocent villagers by revealing all suspect cards from the deck, thereby identifying the Witch by process of elimination. The game ends as soon as either player meets their win condition.

On a player's turn, they first enter an upkeep phase (which was not fully detailed for the Witch but involves retrieving action pawns and resolving any upkeep costs for allies for the Hunter). Then, players use their action pawns to perform various actions. The Witch starts with two action pawns on their first turn, then three on subsequent turns. Key Witch actions include 'Visit a Villager' (placing an action pawn on a ready villager, potentially converting three secrets into one favor, distributing secrets to villagers based on the villager card's color and number, and using the villager's skill), 'Consume Brew' (using a brew card once enough secrets are on it), 'Gain 2, Draw 1, Play 1' (gaining influence, drawing a card, or playing a card), and 'Ready a Villager' (moving an opponent's action pawn from a villager to make it ready again). The Witch can also play Charm, Enchantment, and Familiar cards from their hand, paying their influence cost and resolving their effects. Enchantments are placed on the enchantment board, with increasing costs for later slots. Familiars are placed in designated slots on the Witch's board, and Brews are placed in the brew location.

Pagan: Fate of Roanoke does not involve a traditional scoring system. Instead, it is a game with immediate win conditions for both players. The game concludes as soon as one player successfully achieves their specific objective, and that player is declared the winner. There are no points to accumulate or compare at the end of the game.

The game concludes immediately when one of the following conditions is met: the Witch successfully performs their ritual on their secret identity, the Hunter successfully eliminates the villager who is the Witch, the Hunter eliminates three innocent villagers (resulting in a Witch victory), or the Hunter successfully exonerates all innocent villagers (resulting in a Hunter victory). The player who achieves their win condition first is the winner.