Set a Watch: Swords of the Coin Cooperative Board Game

About this product

Hold the line, spend your coin wisely, and survive the final watch.

Standalone cooperative fantasy adventure • 1–4 players • Ages 14+ • 60–90 minutes

Work together as a band of mercenaries, defend the camp from relentless creatures and use hard-earned coin to equip your party for the battles ahead.

Product Description

The Kingdom is in danger once again. With the Unhallowed threat spreading and few champions left to answer the call, the crown turns to the Swords of the Coin, a mercenary guild willing to fight, for the right price.

Set a Watch: Swords of the Coin is a standalone cooperative adventure game for 1–4 players that combines tactical dice combat, character abilities and careful resource management with a new focus on collecting coin and buying powerful Items from the Merchant.

Every round, your four-Adventurer party must decide who will rest at Camp and who will stand Watch. The Adventurer at Camp maintains the fire, scouts ahead, heals exhausted abilities and prepares the party, while the others face a growing Line of Creatures using their dice, unique abilities and equipped Items.

Coin earned during your journey can be spent during the new Merchant Phase, where weapons, equipment and other useful Items can strengthen individual Adventurers before the next battle. But every choice matters, resources are limited, abilities can become exhausted and any Creatures you fail to defeat may return as part of the dangerous Horde waiting in the final round.

Six distinctive Adventurers bring very different approaches to the fight, from the trophy-hunting Bounty Hunter and rage-driven Barbarian to the Witch and her Familiar, the evolving Monk, the dark-magic Heretic and the charge-powered Artificer.

Survive nine rounds, prepare for the final Watch and defeat everything the darkness throws at your party before the Unhallowed overwhelm the realm.

Standalone and ready to play on its own, Swords of the Coin is also fully compatible with the original Set a Watch.

The rulebook confirms the nine-round structure, with Camp, Merchant and Watch phases forming the core journey before the final battle.

Rulebook: View the Set a Watch: Swords of the Coin Rules (PDF)

Why You’ll Love It

• Fully cooperative adventure: Work together to manage the camp, defeat creatures and survive the final Watch.
• A new Merchant system: Collect coin and purchase Items that give your Adventurers useful new abilities.
• Six distinctive Adventurers: Each character has their own dice, abilities and gameplay style, giving the party different ways to approach the challenge.
• Tactical dice combat: Combine dice, direct attacks, character abilities and Items to deal with an ever-changing Line of Creatures.
• Meaningful camp decisions: One Adventurer rests while the others fight, making preparation and timing just as important as combat.
• Adjustable difficulty: Choose Easy, Normal, Hard or Insane by changing the number of Summon cards in play.
• Plenty of replayability: Random Locations and Creatures, different Adventurer combinations and deck customisation give you new challenges to build and overcome.
• Standalone but expandable: Play Swords of the Coin entirely on its own or mix its Adventurers, Creatures and Locations with the original Set a Watch.

The four published difficulty levels are created by using one to four Summon cards, from Easy through Insane.

Quick Details

• Players: 1–4
• Recommended Age: 14+
• Playing Time: 60–90 minutes
• Game Type: Cooperative fantasy adventure game
• Play Style: Fully cooperative
• Key Gameplay: Dice combat, character abilities, resource management, Items and tactical planning
• Difficulty Options: Easy, Normal, Hard and Insane
• Solo Play: Yes
• Designers: Todd Walsh and Mike Gnade
• Publisher: Rock Manor Games
• Standalone Game: Yes
• Original Set a Watch Required: No

Good to Know

• Set a Watch: Swords of the Coin does not require the original Set a Watch to play.
• The game always uses four Adventurers, regardless of player count. In solo play, one player controls all four.
• One Adventurer rests at Camp while the remaining Adventurers stand Watch and fight the approaching Creatures.
• Each Adventurer must visit Camp exactly twice during the first eight rounds; all four Adventurers fight during the final round.
• The Merchant Phase lets the resting Adventurer spend the group's collected coin on Items.
• Each Adventurer can normally have up to two equipped Items.
• Creatures that survive can become part of the Horde, making the final round increasingly dangerous.
• After becoming familiar with the game, players can customise Creature and Location decks to create new challenges.
• Already own Set a Watch? Creatures, Locations and Adventurers from Swords of the Coin can be mixed and matched with the original game, no link needed on our site for now.

The final Watch adds the accumulated Horde to the Creature Line, and victory requires clearing that Line while at least one Adventurer still has an unexhausted Ability card.

Continue your Set a Watch adventure: Explore Set a Watch: Forsaken Isles as another fully standalone cooperative adventure with new Adventurers, nautical threats and the Doom mechanic. Already own the complete Set a Watch series? Set a Watch: Doomed Run brings it all together in an epic seven-Realm campaign.

Components

• 6 Adventurer Boards
• 30 Ability Cards
• 1 Familiar Card
• 1 Artificer Dial
• 17 Unhallowed Cards
• 38 Creature Cards
• 6 Summon Cards
• 32 Location Cards
• 1 Merchant Board
• 28 Item Cards
• 16 Coin Tokens
• 3 d4 Dice
• 3 d6 Dice
• 5 d8 Dice
• 2 d10 Dice
• 3 d12 Dice
• 4 Rest Tokens
• 1 Fire Token
• 1 Camp Board
• 1 Rulebook