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The remnants (spades) table shows club values. So do good magic, bad magic, adventurers, and information.

Unit Costs for prisoners and club and spade units are "XX". This looks like a placeholder, perhaps "varies" would be better.

The Manor room says that it causes spaces near it to become hovels, and nearby hovels don't count as lairs. Why not just say a manor takes up 3 tiles? Or is there a typo here.

The Rattery room says "20 rats regardless of size" is this the size of the rattery, or the rats? Rat size is affected by some things, I later see, but it would be useful to say "1 or more" in the unit strength.

The option to imprison enemies should also appear under combat, not just under prisons.

The portals section doesn't refer to where a portal comes from. Presumably a discovery?

Sadly, I have another long list of typos and problems I'm having trying to play  RISE:

 - Legendary Find (Q)  says 5 cultsits is 25 STR, but cultists have 2 STR. Are these special cultists, the wrong STR, or meant to be a different unit?
 - The Underworld Layer is not fun. Happiness dropping 3 every turn feels like a lot, so I have to spend a lot of resources just keeping up ... for an average of 50 turns. And since the only reliable ways to get happiness is to build rooms, you end up with twenty extra taverns or casinos, which is silly both mechanically and thematically.
    - Related, there are so many ways to lose happiness, but only five controllable ways to gain it, all of them built around room construction. It feels like this resource isn't balanced right. I dunno. Perhaps an option opposite "Sacrifice" called "Bribe" which costs <> per unit but raises morale? It would counterbalance the income from thirty casinos to get through the Underworld.
 - It would be really useful to have a list of the rooms the same way there was a list of the units. ideally on the same page.
 - There aren't very many ways to trigger magic. You can sacrifice a minion (which costs happiness), there are two clubs, and one information result. I've gone seven floors without a single spell.
 - Related: Portals are WAY too rare. They feel core to the experience, but if you can only get it by repeated sacrifices and eventually drawing an ace.
 - When raiding, I might send one troop of 10 units, and it says I need to check for units that get defeated. Presumably that means the individuals, but in combat it says units/troops. Could use a clarification.
 - Given that you will be drawing 10-30 cards at a time for Raids, why are there no rules for drawing jokers? Cause if you draw 30 cards out of a deck even once the odds of getting at least one joker are nearly 50%.
 - The Thieves' gallery feels like it's intended to be critical, but is actually only bad. Like sure, realms drawing less cards is good, and razing them is fun and thematic, but collecting items means you can't raid any more and that's really bad, and that's all that happens. But if you only build a few galleries, you never raze the realm, and can just get huge amounts of resources very fast.

So, I've played with raids a bit now and... they lose engagement really quickly. Once you have a few good units (i.e. Ferals), you can raid almost anywhere, and once you capture and convert one good realm unit, it's a snowball of victory. A single Inmate or Monstrosity is 10 cards on its own. Add nine ferals and you're drawing 20+ cards every turn, and amassing huge amounts of treasure.

Also, for all the things like adventurers, heroes, legendary finds, good and bad magic... you don't actually find them. Like, there are three ways to get good magic, one way to get an adventuring party, two to get bad magic.

All in all, it's got a lot more flavor, but a lot less depth than DELVE.