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Castaway

Designed by @Tailsteak, Castaway is a game from the online comic "Leftover Soup." Castaway is a cooperate game for 3-6 players that pits these players against the harsh environment of a deserted island.

Castaway for Tapletop Simulator was created by @Navarr with permission from @Tailsteak. All copyrights reserved and belonging to @Tailsteak

CASTAWAY: A game of co-operation and survival

Check the PDF for a printable set:
http://www.leftoversoup.com/bwcastaway.pdf

Supplies (Provided):
* 3-6 players, a piece for each player
* 2x 20-sided dice
* 2x 6-sided dice
* Island Board
* Deck (Standard deck is 65 cards)
* Tokens (14 included)

How to play:
Shuffle the deck and position all the player pieces along the beach at the bottom of the board. Roll the two 20-sided dice, and use those numbers as X and Y co-ordinates to place a token on the board. If you roll a location that is already taken up by a player or another token, reroll. Continue until all tokens are placed.

Pick someone to go first, turn order proceeds clockwise.

At the start of your turn, roll both six-sided dice and move up to that many squares. You may pass through a space that another player is occupying, but not stop there. If you move onto a token, your move ends, you draw a card from the deck, and reroll the 20-sided dice to reposition the token to a new spot on the board.

Cards will either feature an item or an event items may be held by the player, events take effect – immediately. (It's easy to see which is which events have an exclamation point!) Some items feature one – or more hand icons at the bottom of the card as you have two hands, you may only carry two hands' worth – of items, unless you have a backpack, which increases your carrying capacity by three (effectively, as if you had five hands total). The H, E, L and P cards are considered two-hand items.

The object of the game is to spell out “HELP” on the beach and light the smoke signal as quickly and efficiently as possible without anyone dying. You are at the mercy of the deck - if the cards you need are on the bottom, you will have no recourse but to draw and deal with the cards above them first. Squares with an X are brush you may not move into that square unless you have a machete card. Squares – with a squiggle are water you may not move into that square unless you have a floatation device card. If – you are in one of these squares and, for whatever reason, discard the item that allows you to be there, you are immediately shunted to the closest available navigable square.

You may pass an item card in your hand to another player, but only if your piece is adjacent to theirs. This may occur in the middle of a move you can, on your turn, take two steps to stand beside someone, trade – cards with them, then take five more steps and pick up a token.

In some cases, you need to place a card on the board the cards are exactly two inches by three, so they – fit nicely over six squares. You must be either on or adjacent to one of the squares where you are placing the card.

VARIATIONS:
Because the flow of the game is necessarily decided by the cards in the deck and the order in which they present themselves, it is easy to alter the difficulty of the game simply remove items to make the game – harder, or remove events to make the game easier.

Suggested Easy mode: remove 1 Hunger!, 2 Thirst!s, Snakebite!, Pitfall!, Brush Fire!, and both Animal – Attack!s.

Suggested Hard mode: remove 1 Branches, 1 Food, 2 Waters, 1 Fire, 1 Machete, 1 Floatation Device, 1 – Backpack, and 1 Rope.

RULES CALLS / FAQ
For the most part you can ignore these, but they're here in case things get dicey.

Can I move diagonally?
Yes, a diagonal step is one square of movement so yes, you can squeeze through that one gap in the – brush. Additionally, standing diagonally across from a space counts as being adjacent for item trading purposes and for placing cards on the board.

If item cards don't have hands on them, can I carry as many as I like?
Yes. Items with no hands on them (not counting the letters, which are two-hand items) are assumed to be light or flexible enough that they can simply be tucked into your clothing or wrapped around your body, though they would still be discarded in the case of an Animal Attack!.

Can I willingly discard an item, and, if so, can another player pick it up?
Yes, you can discard an item (for example, if you have a machete and no backpack, and you come across the H, you would have to discard your machete to grab it and, if you are on a brush square, you would – immediately be moved to the closest non-brush square). Once discarded, the item is lost. It cannot be found again unless the entire deck is used, at which point the discard pile is shuffled and becomes the new deck.

If I have both Hunger! and Thirst!, am I dead?
No. Your character doesn't die until you have either two Hunger!s or two Thirst!s.

Can I wear more than one backpack?
Yes. Multiple backpacks would increase your carrying capacity from two hands to five, then eight, then eleven.

If a Food or Water card requires Fire, do I need to hold the Fire while I use it?
No. If you're holding both the Food/Water and a Fire card, you can simply declare that the card is now “cooked”, then pass it off to another character to be consumed as needed.

If I have a one-time-use Fire card, can I use it to cook two Food or Water cards as long as I do it simultaneously?
No. One use means you can only cook one thing with it.

How do I designate whether or not the smoke signal is lit?
You can lay down a Branches card or the Hollow Log face up to indicate that it's in place, then flip it face down to indicate that it's been lit.

Once the smoke signal is lit, can I use it to cook Food or Water?
If you come adjacent to it, yes. You cannot do the same with the Brush Fire!.

The Storm! puts out the smoke signal, does it also put out the Brush Fire!?
No.

Can I pass the Gum to another player even if I've already used it?
Yes.

Can I grab a token if it's on the Brush Fire!, the smoke signal, or one of the letters?
You can walk on the letters as normal, but you can't step on the Brush Fire! or the smoke signal if it's lit – to retrieve a token that's spawned there, you'll need a Rope.

Does the Dog! prevent Animal Attack!?
If he comes adjacent to you in time, yes.

This Animal Attack!/Snakebite!/Pitfall!/Sick! card shows a scene on land, but I was in the water when I picked it up. Does it still affect me?
Yes. The only event card that can be nullified in this way is the Brush Fire!, and even then, only if you're not adjacent to any dry land squares.

When can I use the Energy Drink card? If I draw the Sick! card, can I immediately use the Energy Drink and declare that that's the turn I miss?
You use the Energy Drink at the end of your turn to take another turn immediately. Yes, that means you can use it to cancel out Sick!.

CREDITS:

Background image of Sandnes Beach, Flakstadoya, Lofoten, Norway - taken by Andreas Neumann.

Game Design and Art by Tailsteak (@Tailsteak) of Leftoversoup.com

All of it put together by yours truly - Navarr Barnier (@Navarr)