Use items to help you drop off your dragon riders faster and to fend off your opponents. Using most items counts as an action on your turn, but some items can be used in combat outside of your turn.
There are eight hoard items shown on your hoard card. You can carry up to one of each of these items at a time. Purchase hoard items by stopping at one of the three villages on the board. You can buy up to three items each time you visit a village.
When you buy an item, place one of the coins you spent onto the item's symbol on your hoard tracker to indicate that you have one.
When you land on a village space, you can purchase up to one of each item that village has available, as shown by the Stock Card on that space. The items that a village has in stock change between rounds.
Remember that you can only carry one of each item on your Hoard Tracker, so you can't buy another of the same item you already have. You can, however, buy as many Treasure chests as you want if the village's current stock includes them. Treasures might be the same items as those on your Hoard Tracker, and this allows you to carry multiple of the same item.
You can also gain items from Treasure cards. You can draw the top card of the treasure deck by stopping on a treasure chest, or by purchasing a treasure from a village when one is available. A treasure card might contain another hoard item, a gemstone you can sell back to the village for extra coins, or an exceedingly rare and powerful item!
Some treasure items function as Equipment. During your turn, you can use an action to Equip one of these items from your hand and place it face-up in front of you.
Equipment items give passive effects during combat and aren't discarded after combat. You can only have one item equipped at a time. When you equip another item, return your current equipment to your hand.