Altered Glossary
3.1.2 Shared or private
3.1.2.a Some zones are shared: there is only one instance of each shared zone in the game.
Remark. Expedition zone, Adventure and Limbo are shared zones.
3.1.2.b Some zones are private: each player has one instance of each private zone.
Remark. Deck, Hand, Hero zone, Landmark zone, Mana zone, Reserve and Discard pile are private zones.
3.1.2.c If a card or an object would go to a private zone that does not belong to its owner, it goes to the corresponding zone of its owner instead.
1.2.3 Zones
1.2.3.a Zones are the game board of Altered. They are sets of cards or objects.
1.2.3.b There are ten kind of zones (Adventure, Deck, Discard pile, Expedition zone, Hand, Hero zone, Landmark zone, Limbo, Mana zone, Reserve)
1.2.3.c Three zones are shared: Adventure, Expedition zone, Limbo. There is only one of each in a game of Altered.
1.2.3.d The seven other zones are private. Each player has their own Deck, Discard pile, Hand, Hero zone, Landmark zone, Mana zone, and Reserve.
1.2.3.e Seven zones are visible: Adventure, Discard pile, Expedition zone, Hero zone, Landmark zone, Limbo and Reserve. They contain objects; players can know the number and characteristics of all objects in these zones at all times.
1.2.3.f Three zones are hidden: Deck, Hand, and Mana zone. They contain cards; players can know the number of cards in each of these zones at all times.
3.2.1 Adventure
3.2.1.a The Adventure is a shared, visible zone.
Remark. The Adventure is a visible zone which contains face-down cards. Players may not look at the face of face-down cards in the Adventure.
3.2.1.b During regular play, the Adventure contains eight regions in a row: the hero region on one side, six regions represented by three Tumult cards, and the companion region on the other side.
3.2.1.c During tiebreakers, all regions are replaced by a single region called the Arena.
Remark. At the beginning of the game, the three Tumult cards are face-down. The six objects they represent have the type Region due to Rule 2.2.1.e and no other characteristics.
3.2.4 Expedition zone
3.2.4.a The Expedition zone is a shared, visible zone.
3.2.4.b The Expedition zone is divided in sub-zones called expeditions: each player has a hero expedition and a companion expedition.
3.2.4.c Expeditions always exist, even if they are empty.
3.2.4.d An object that moves from one expedition to another does not change zones.
3.2.4.e Each player knows in which expedition every object in the Expedition zone is at all time.