Lords of Waterdeep Setup Guide

Setup Steps

1. Place Board: Unfold and place the game board in the center of the play area within easy reach of all players.
2. Supply Setup: Sort the Adventurer cubes by color (white Clerics, orange Fighters, black Rogues, purple Wizards) and place them in the supply near the board. Also place Gold tokens in the supply.
3. VP Tokens on Track: Place 3 Victory Point tokens on each space of the rounds track.
4. Building Stack Setup: Shuffle the Building tiles and draw 3. Place them face-up in the 3 spaces of Builder's Hall. The remaining tiles form a face-down stack placed on the labeled space near Builder's Hall.
5. Quest Deck: Shuffle the Quest cards and place them face-down as the Quest deck on the labeled space near Cliffwatch Inn.
6. Intrigue Deck: Shuffle the Intrigue cards and place them face-down as the Intrigue deck on the labeled space near Waterdeep Harbor.
7. Player Components: Each player chooses a color and takes: a player mat, all Agents of that color, the score marker, and Building control markers of that color.
8. Score Markers: Place each player's score marker on space 0 of the scoring track.
9. Deal Lord Cards: Shuffle the Lord cards and deal 1 face-down to each player. Look at your Lord secretly and keep it hidden. Return the remaining Lord cards to the box face-down.
10. Starting Quests: Deal 2 Quest cards face-up to each player. These form each player's active Quests. Then place 1 face-up Quest card in each of the 4 spaces of Cliffwatch Inn.
11. Starting Intrigue: Deal 2 Intrigue cards face-down to each player. Keep these hidden from opponents.
12. First Player: The player who has most recently been to another city goes first. Give that player the First Player marker.

Player-count adjustments and additional steps available in the interactive app.