Shelter

In games with the Dark Ages expansion, players replace their starting Estates with one of each of the three Shelter cards: Hovel, Necropolis, and Overgrown Estate.

When playing with shelters, the number of Estates in the supply remains unchanged. You still use 8 for a 2 player game and 12 for a 3 or more player game.

When playing with some cards from Dark Ages and some cards from another expansion, you use shelters a percentage of the time equal to the percentage of Dark Ages kingdom cards being used. A simple method to determine whether or not to use Shelters is to take the 10 kingdom randomizer cards and draw one at random. If it is a Dark Ages card, then play with shelters.