A generous donation has left you with a vast forest to convert into a public park. It contains many beautiful sites to explore and it is your job to blaze trails by marking them for everyone to enjoy. Use your keen sense of direction and clever skills to forge the most paths and you’ll become the ultimate trail blazer.

Trail Blazing was designed for the Small Box Challenge.

How to Play

	Each round starts with all of the players drafting a Route card. You'll want to consider the source and destination of this route as it relates to your unique forest. Completed routes grant new abilities and sometimes points.

				The players will then draw a number of marker tokens randomly from the bag as indicated by the number granted by any special ability, their base allowance, and tucked cards. Flip them so that all of them have the solid color face up.

				Multiple markers are allowed between Forest cards as long as they are different colors. However, if a trail you marked is not quite heading in the direction you want, you can always remove a marker for free.
				Place one of your markers down between where your meeple is standing and an adjacent Forest card. This well help you travel easier as well as set you up to complete a route.
				Spend like color marker tokens to travel across an already placed marker in the same direction as it is pointing.

				You complete your Route cards by having a continuous path of markers from the source to the destination in your forest. The markers must all be the same color and facing the correct direciton. After completing a route, flip the markers to the striped side.

After completing a route, you must claim ONE reward using one or more markers from the route.
				Abilities always cost a single completed route marker. Spend the marker to tuck the Route card under your player board to grant yourself an ability for the rest of the game. You may only have as many abilities as you have available ability slots from Draw upgrades.
				Increase the number of markers you draw each round by tucking under the Draw section of your player board. Each Draw upgrade also frees up two additional Blaze ability slots. This reward costs more completed route markers with each tucked card.
				Your last option is to simply discard the completed Route card and one completed route marker to draw 2 new random markers.
Regardless of which reward you choose, any remaining completed route markers are placed on your player board for game end points.
				Place the extra tokens, stripe side up, onto your player board. The longer the route, the more points it scores!
Take advantage of any gained Blaze abilities right away!
				Blaze abilities can only be used once per round and cost markers. Place the spent marker on the used ability as a reminder.

				Either play a Basic mode where all players are the same or Skill mode where each player will have a special power to help them with their task.

				Score points for marker tokens on your board, from Blaze abilities, and your private objective. Highest score wins!

Designed by Corey Andalora

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Trail Blazing is available to play on Tabletop Simulator here!