These questions were asked by Susan & Martha.
> We just purchased this game and are having a difficult time
> understanding exactly how the game is played. If one begins in the God
> realm or the Hell realm, how does one get cards? If you tell the story
> of one's personal heaven/hell and then move one space, it automatically
> lands on the flame and die immediately. So how does someone in these
> realms get to tell more than one story?
If you die without any cards in your Karma stack, at your next turn you
have to throw the dice to decide your next rebirth. Sometimes this
will be the Hell or God realm and you will only get one move, but
sometimes it will be one of the other realms - and you will then start
to accumulate cards, so you will get more moves next time.
> When the game is begun, is the playing piece placed at the edge of the
> spiral moving towards the death head or is it placed on the death head
> moving outward into the Spiritual or Subtle realm?
At the start of the game, put your piece on whichever Birth square
corresponds to your first dice throw. Then move along the spiral track
towards the Death icon. If you follow the instruction booklet, you
should find that you go through many of these short lives in most or
all of the six central realms. You only go to the outer tracks
(Spiritual Path & Subtle Path) if a card tells you to do so.
Steve & Emily
