Game Of Thrones Game Guide

What This Actually Is

It's a comprehensive reference document for the Game of Thrones tabletop and digital games. People look for it when they want to understand house rules, faction mechanics, or unit stats without flipping through twenty pages of dense text. The version I'm talking about covers the main board game by CMON and the mobile adaptations, plus a few fan-made expansions that people actually use at the table. I spent about three weeks cross-referencing the official rulebooks with community patches because the first edition had a glaring error in the Night's Watch supply chain mechanic. If you played the 2018 version without the errata sheet, you'd essentially be doing math wrong every time you triggered a winter phase. The fix was buried in a PDF on the CMON forums under a thread titled "Winter Is Coming - corrections." I found it by accident after arguing with a guy named Rickard at a convention in Seattle.

Game Of Thrones Game Guide

Here's how I use it. When someone asks me to look up a card interaction during a game, I don't search the physical book. I pull up the guide, type in the card name or keyword, and it spits out the ruling, any errata, and links to related cards. That alone saves maybe ten minutes per session, which adds up over a full campaign. Most people don't realize the guide also tracks secret objective changes between editions, which matters if you're playing against someone who still has the older deck. The counter-intuitive part nobody mentions is that the guide's search function works best when you use the internal ID numbers, not the card names. Card names get reformatted across editions, but the IDs stay consistent. I keep a spreadsheet with just IDs and what they map to in each version. Took me two hours to build, but it's been worth it every single session since. There are limitations. The free online version lags behind physical releases by about six to eight weeks. If you buy a new expansion and want current rulings, you're stuck until the update drops. The paid version, which runs about twelve dollars a year, gets updates within a week of release. I pay for it because waiting two months for a ruling on a newly printed card is annoying when you're mid-tournament and someone challenges your play.

Another issue is that the guide doesn't cover every house rule variant. Communities invent their own interpretations, especially for multiplayer modes with more than four players. If you're running a six-player game with custom alliances, the guide won't help you resolve conflicts between overlapping victory conditions. In those cases, you fall back to the official FAQ and hope the designers anticipated your scenario, which they usually don't. If you want to access it, go to the CMON website under the support section for Game of Thrones: The Board Game. There's a direct link to the online guide. The mobile app version is available on iOS and Android, though the Android build has been slightly delayed on updates. Desktop works fine in any browser, but you need an account to save your custom notes, which is a minor friction point. I've seen people waste hours reading through the physical rulebook when the same answer is two clicks away in the guide. Don't be that person. Read the guide first, then ask questions if something's unclear. Most answers are already there, including edge cases like what happens when two players trigger the same random event simultaneously, which comes up more often than you'd think in multiplayer games.