Gloomhaven: Buttons & Bugs

Each round you pick an ability card during the start-of-round step and use its initiative number; all initiatives (players and monsters) are compared and lower numbers go first, with ties resolved per the monster/figure ordering rules (see page 12).

A short rest lets you return one random discarded card to your hand but you must permanently lose one card from your hand (page 30); a long rest returns all discarded cards, heals, and causes you to choose and lose one card from your deck as described in the long rest steps (page 31).

Elements are infused when an effect states it generates an element (they enter the shared infusion pool) and become available to be consumed on later abilities that list that element; consuming removes them from the pool according to the infusion/consumption rules (pages 16–17).

You resolve attack bonuses and then draw and apply a separate attack modifier card for each target in turn, applying damage/effects to each target individually using the modifier results (pages 19–21).

Melee uses the actor's hex (gray) for adjacency and ranged uses target hexes per the ability; AOE shapes are oriented based on the attacker and rotated so the gray hex is the actor, with red hexes showing targets and +1 rules for adjacent targets as applicable (pages 14–15 and 18).

If you must lose a card while you have none left to lose you become exhausted and are removed from the scenario (page 32); damage can be negated by discarding or losing cards as specified by abilities or items, following the damage-negation and exhaustion rules (pages 31–32).