Rosetta Support
Welcome authors & experts!
This is the FAQ for Rosetta: The Lost Language and Rosetta: Second Edition. If you have a question about play, see below for more information if we have answered it before. Otherwise try to reach out to us via our contact page, social media, or post on BoardGameGeek. We can then update that information below.
Included is also a list of all original and second edition abilities.
General FAQ
What orientation does the inscription card go in?
The Author chooses the orientation and points it out to the Experts.
Can I use arrows? Numbers? Drawings?
Explicitly, no. Drawings that are recognizably either pictures (like a drawing of a horse), or can be interpreted as a 'existing symbols' (think arrows, stick figures, etc.) are not allowed. However, you can try and find a middle-ground where you make a marking that resembles both a horse and the style of the inscription, if that would help you.
Do I really have to come up with new symbols?
Likely, yes! Any time you use a part of the Inscription in one of your translations, it si a way of saying the Experts are 'warmer' to the meaning, while including things that you invent or make up suggests 'colder'. IF you consistently use a made up symbol in any guess involving people, for example, you can teach players that 'people' is not part of the meaning. This is a critical piece of the magic of Rosetta and what it is trying to do: Make sure you are being consistent for your own rules you make up, and you'll be surprised what people can come to understand.