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Dead of Winter, by Plaid Hat Games, is a post-apoclyptic cooperative survival game. The players each control a group of survivers that are part of the same colony. They work together to achieve a main objective but also have secret personal objectives which may hinder the completion of the main objective. There is also the possiblity of a betrayer in the group which also adds a whole new dynamic to the game.

Dead of Winter, by Plaid Hat Games, is a post-apoclyptic cooperative survival game. The players each control a group of survivers that are part of the same colony. They work together to achieve a main objective but also have secret personal objectives which may hinder the completion of the main objective. There is also the possiblity of a betrayer in the group which also adds a whole new dynamic to the game.

It also introduces the 'Crossroads' mechanic, which gives players a hard moral decision to make which will impact the current state of the game.

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Are there any restrictions to the number of weapons a survivor can equip?

In the game, Dead of Winter, one of the players had their survivor pretty much camp out at the police station and search for weapons. He then equipped pretty much every single weapon he found to the same survivor, including weapons that were…
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Is accepting new survivors mandatory?

In dead of winter Plaid Hat game, when I draw a card that add survivor(s), do I have a choice: to ignore the card? to make noise to find another type of card?
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Can I use a weapon that makes noise when there's no room for more noise tokens?

Is it possible to use a weapon making noise if there's no more room for noise tokens on a location? And is it possible to use a weapon making noise in the colony, knowing that you can't put noise token on the colony?
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What to do with starvation tokens?

The rules state that when the players cannot feed their colony, they should place a starvation token in the food supply and decrease morale for every starvation token in the supply. What to do after that is unclear to me. Do you lose morale after…
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Dead of Winter - Too easy with no betrayer/co-op?

Co-op variant (hardcore) or games where the betrayer is obviously absent seems easy after playing the game a couple of times. Even with the betrayer, we find we can keep the morale 7+ consistently. We usually start off getting weapons from the…
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Do I have to play a Dead of Winter event card as soon as I draw it, or can I choose to play it later?

When you draw an event card which says to add new people to your colony, does that go into effect right away or can you decide when to play it?
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When you don't have enough food on Christmas, what happens when you choose thumbs up?

In our game, we ran into the Christmas crossroads card while there was only 1 food in our supply: Thumbs up: Spend 5 food. Gain 1 morale. If Forest Plum is in play [snip: the survivors get an extra 4 items]. Thumbs down: Nothing happens. (We also…
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Dead of Winter exile PvP attack

In Dead of winter, the rules state that an exiled player can use food cards to increase an action die value by one. When attacking another survivor, you must have a dice value at equal or greater to your attack stat to initiate an attacl. You must…
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When referring to "every location" in Dead of Winter does this include the colony?

When a crossroad card says that something happens at every location does that include the colony? Does the colony by itself count as one location or do each of the numbered entrances count as a location? Specific case: A card offers to draw two…
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Exiled Players/Betrayer Dead of Winter TLN

If you have a player that is voted into exile, must that player immediately reveal to the rest of the group whether they are actually the betrayer?
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Dead of Winter Exiled Player

In Dead of Winter does an exiled player still draw a crossroads card? Does the player on his right draw a Crossroads card the the exiled player?
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Adding zombies, what order

It's stated in the rules that you add from 1 to 6 sequentially, but what I find unclear is if it is per turn or always. Example (reduced to 3 entrances for simplicity) z = zombie, - empty Round 1 looks like 1 z-- 2 z-- 3 --- adding 2 zombies the…
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Am I allowed to pass unequipped weapons (or items) to any survivor?

What is the rule regarding passing an unequipped weapon to a survivor that is not in your location? For example, if I pickup a gun at the police station and want to pass it to another player that has a survivor at the grocery store. Can I pass the…
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Does spreading a bite effect at the colony affect helpless survivors?

Does spreading the bite effect end at the colony if the last player survivor dies, or does it spread to helpless survivors?
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Can I choose that crossroad option?

Thumbs up option of the crossroad card ("Old divisions") says: Remove 1 helpless survivor There are no helpless survivors at the colony right now. Can we choose the thumbs up option in this case or do we have to choose the thumbs down option?
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