Merchants of the Dark Road is a strategy game for 1-4 players. Discover the capital city of Lumi where most of your actions will take place. Collect and produce items to add to your caravan, or sell these items to local heroes and hire them to travel with you.

Manipulate the market price of items, visit the back alley sellers, or delve a nearby dungeon for magical items to gain the potential for even more coin and notoriety.

Gather lanterns to ease your passage along the dark roads as you guide your caravan to distant villages. Deliver goods and heroes to the best destinations and gain fame for your bravery! Balance the money you earn with the height of your fame because your final score after a number of game rounds will reflect the lowest of these two values.

After all, what good is a purse full of the coin if the people don’t sing songs about you, and what good is a song with an empty mug of ale?

Contents

1 Kingdom Board
1 Market Wheel
5 Building Tiles
2 District Markers
16 Lantern Tokens
24 Quartz Tokens
12 Horseshoe Tokens
60 Coin Tokens
4 Wagon Boards
4 Player Screens
4 Prestige Markers
4 Wagon Pawns
48 Hero Cards
22 Companion Cards
26 Event Cards
7 Steed Cards
19 Deed Cards
30 Commission Tiles
6 Wagon Upgrade Tiles
81 Goods Tiles
28 Night Dice
8 Illuminated Dice
5 Market Dice
5 Travel Dice
1 Oracle Die
1 Ruins Die
1 Private Concern Wagon Pawn
1 Private Concern Prestige Marker
1 Private Concern Goods Marker
10 Private Concern Action Cards
6 Guild Notice Cards
3 Sarcophagus Cards
6 Delivery Tiles
1 Rulebook
1 Solo Rulebook/Adventure book