Resolve the rule. Keep playing.
Rodney is an in-game rules companion for the question holding up the table. Choose a supported board game, ask about the exact setup, turn, scoring or interaction problem in front of you, and get an answer grounded in its selected reviewed rulebook.
- Setup — how to prepare for a specific player count, variant, or expansion
- Turns — what happens at the start or end of a turn, and what triggers what
- Scoring — how points are counted and when they are calculated
- Card effects — what a specific card does, when it applies, and what it can override
- Timing — which effect resolves first when two things happen together
- Interactions — how two rules combine when neither one alone gives a clear answer
Your rules companion, not another rulebook
You do not need to translate your table's question into an index entry. Open the game list, choose the supported game you are playing, and describe what just happened. Rodney keeps one private conversation per game, so a follow-up can continue the same ruling instead of starting the search again.
How it works
Sign in using an available account method, then choose a game from the supported list. Ask your question the same way you'd ask the person who read the rulebook beforehand. Rodney generates an answer from that game's selected reviewed rulebook and saves the conversation privately.
Follow-up questions in the same session continue where you left off — useful when a ruling has knock-on effects that take a turn or two to work through.
Ask the smallest complete question
The useful question includes the rule type, the game state and the point of conflict.
- Setup — “In a three-player game, which pieces do we remove before the first turn?”
- Turn order — “Can I take these two actions in the same turn, and which happens first?”
- Card effect — “Does this card override the general restriction, or does the restriction still apply?”
- Timing — “These effects trigger together. Which one resolves first?”
- Follow-up — “Does that change if the earlier effect was optional?”
Rodney does not need a polished search phrase. It does need enough of the situation to identify the rule you mean. Keep private information out of the question; rules questions and answers remain in your private per-game conversation.
Read the answer, then check the evidence
When the selected source supports physical-page citations, Rodney shows the reviewed document, version, page and nearby section behind the answer. That makes it easier to verify the ruling without searching the whole booklet. Not every source or answer has a page citation.
If the answer conflicts with the current official rulebook, FAQ, errata or a publisher ruling, the official source controls. Rodney is built to shorten an interruption, not to turn a generated answer into tournament law.
Game coverage and accuracy
Rodney covers an expanding set of games whose exact rulebooks have completed a structured review process. Not every game is supported yet; the corpus grows as more rulebooks finish review.
- Answers can be wrong. Use Rodney as a fast mid-session reference, not a final ruling.
- The publisher's current ruling controls. Official FAQs, errata and tournament rulings always take precedence over any generated answer.
- Coverage is honest. If a game is not yet in the supported corpus, Rodney will say so rather than attempt an answer without a reviewed source.
- Conversations are private. Questions, answers and game choices are not visible to other users or used as public content.