Ruse & Bruise is a game that is easy to learn, but is always changing. Players employ witches, alchemists, assassins, kings, traders, and others to earn good reputations in their fields of endeavor; but the players must protect them from certain attacks of the other players.

Take those attacks from the others in stride; you can and will return each in kind and wipe the smiles from their faces... until their next attacks.