Star Wars: Destiny

To set up Star Wars: Destiny, each player prepares a customized deck of 30 cards, along with their chosen hero or villain characters and their corresponding dice. Players also select one battlefield card each. At the start, each player receives two resource tokens and places their character cards face-up with their respective dice on them. Players then draw a hand of five cards, with one opportunity to mulligan any number of cards back into their deck and redraw. Finally, both players roll their character dice; the player with the higher result chooses which of the two battlefield cards will be in play. If the player chooses their own battlefield, they go first. The other player goes second and receives two shield tokens to place on their characters as they wish.

The primary objective in Star Wars: Destiny is to eliminate all of your opponent's characters. This is achieved by dealing damage to them, accumulating damage tokens on their character cards until the total damage equals or exceeds their printed health level. Once a character's health is depleted, they are defeated and removed from the game along with their dice. The game concludes when one player has no characters remaining.

During a player's turn, they may perform a single action before passing the turn to their opponent. Available actions include: playing a card from hand by paying its resource cost (events are one-time use, upgrades attach to characters, supports remain in play), activating a character or support card by exhausting it and rolling its dice into the active dice pool, resolving dice from the active dice pool (choosing dice with the same symbol to activate their effects), discarding a card from hand to reroll any number of dice in the active dice pool, using a specific action printed on a card in play, or claiming the battlefield. Claiming the battlefield allows the player to use its ability and guarantees they go first in the next round, but they cannot take any more actions in the current round.

Scoring in Star Wars: Destiny is directly tied to character elimination. Players do not accumulate points in a traditional sense. Instead, damage tokens are placed on opponent characters to reduce their health. Shield tokens can be used to block incoming damage, with each token blocking one point of damage before being discarded. The game's progression is measured by the number of characters each player has remaining, with the ultimate goal being the complete defeat of the opponent's character lineup.

A game of Star Wars: Destiny ends immediately if one player's characters are all defeated, in which case that player loses. Additionally, if a player ever finds themselves with no cards left in their hand and no cards left in their deck, they automatically lose the game. If both players pass consecutively without taking any actions, the current round ends. When a round ends, all exhausted cards are rotated back to their active state, any dice still in the active dice pool are reset, players gain two new resources, and they can discard unwanted cards before drawing back up to a hand of five.