Destiny Unfolds

Frequently Asked Questions

Power Cards

• If you gain a Major Power by non-standard means or from a place other than the Major Power deck, do you have to Forget a card? How about the "gifting" of Entwined Power's threshold or "taking" a Major Power?
  "Gifting" is a transfer and does not require Forgetting, and "taking" explicitly doesn't require Forgetting. But for any Gain of a Major Power, you must Forget unless the effect specifically exempts you.

  As usual, you may Forget the Major Power you just gained, if you'd prefer that to losing any of your other Power Cards.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Gaining Power Cards, Forgetting, Taking Power Cards, Transferring Power Cards, 7 more...

Scenarios

• When the Mentor Aspect plays in the Destiny Unfolds scenario, do they gain two cards from its Destiny when they gain a Power Card?
  Yes, if there are at least two cards left. In the unlikely case that there's exactly one card left, they just gain that one.

  They are free to mix and match between Majors and Minors, though gaining two Majors at once has the benefit that they need to Forget a Power Card fewer times over the course of the game.
  Tags: Gaining Power Cards, Forgetting, Mentor Aspect (Shifting Memory of Ages), Destiny Unfolds, 0 more...
• When Fractured Days Splits the Sky plays Destiny Unfolds and gains a card from their Destiny, do they also put a card in Days that Never Were?
  Yes, and they can usually put any card they could have picked from their Destiny into Days that Never Were; they don't have to pick a Power Card of the same type as the one they gained unless the gain effect had a restriction.
  Tags: Gaining Power Cards, Days that Never Were (Fractured Days Split the Sky), Fractured Days Split the Sky, Destiny Unfolds, 0 more...
• How does Entwined Power work in Destiny Unfolds?
  If Target Spirit still has cards in their Destiny, they gain one of them and you gain another one if any remain. (If there was only one card in their Destiny, you won't get a card.)

  If their Destiny was already empty before resolving Entwined Power, resolve it like normal.

  You don't gain a card from your own Destiny, since “the Power Cards they did not keep” is their Destiny and not one of the decks.
  Tags: Gaining Power Cards, Entwined Power, Destiny Unfolds
• In Destiny Unfolds, if you only have Major Powers in your Destiny, can you gain Minor Powers normally from the deck? (Or vice versa)
  Generally no. Rather than choosing a deck to gain from, you choose a single Power in your Destiny to gain. If your Destiny only has Major Powers, you must gain a Major Power.

  However, if the source of the Power Card forces you to gain a Minor Power (e.g., "Gift of Power") and you have none in your Destiny, gain one normally from the Minor Power Deck (and similarly for an effect that specifically gains Major Powers).
  Tags: Gaining Power Cards, Call on Midnight's Dreams (Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares), Boon of Ancient Memories (Shifting Memory of Ages), Unlock the Gates of Deepest Power, 12 more...

Setup

• Can one person play more than one Spirit?
  Practically speaking, sure. Because the game doesn’t usually have secret information that only one player knows, one person can play as many Spirits as they’d like. However, that one person is taking on the roles of multiple Players, e.g., simultaneously being the Red Player, the Blue Player, and the Yellow Player. The game mechanics scale with the number of Players, not the number of people who are participating.

  Two scenarios involve secrets and thus get easier if a person plays multi-handed:

  • A Diversity of Spirits introduces communication barriers between the people playing the game. When playing multiple Spirits, only gain the Strength in Diversity benefits when a Spirit you are playing adds Presence to the land of a Spirit being played by a different person. If you are the only person playing, don’t play this Scenario — it will have no effect on the game.
  • Destiny Unfolds adds extra setup steps where no communication is allowed. Playing multi-handed considerably reduces the Difficulty of this Scenario and changes the dynamics of the extra setup. If some of the participants are each playing multiple Spirits, it is strongly recommended that there be at least three people participating, e.g., by each playing 2 Spirits using the 6-Player rules.
    Tags: Player count, A Diversity of Spirits, Destiny Unfolds