Tournament at Camelot

Setting up Tournament at Camelot involves selecting a protagonist and paired companion card for each player, distributing health tracker cards (Stable, Feeble, Robust, or Crippled) along with tokens, and dealing initial hands of weapon cards from randomized decks. Players also organize Godsend cards and keep special alchemist and sorcerer cards available for gameplay.

The main goal is to survive a series of tournament rounds by managing health, winning or avoiding specific tricks, and utilizing special Arthurian character powers to outlast your opponents.

Each round progresses through distinct phases: the Dawn phase for drawing cards and activating special effects, the Combat phase where players engage in trick-taking using weapon cards and special abilities, and the Dusk phase for resolving damage and allocating Godsend cards to injured players.

Scoring revolves around tracking damage; losing a trick forces players to accept weapon hit values onto their health tracker cards, progressively worsening their physical condition from Robust down to Crippled.

The game concludes when a player's health marker reaches zero. The remaining player with the highest health wins the tournament.