2016-09-20T13:27:59Z

Nandblock: Trying to condense the basic turn rules to something manageable - I find the rulebook's version rather opaque

== PHASE A: SETUP AND GUILD CHOICE ==

The four character tiles are randomly distributed among the five buildings (one remains empty each turn, as indicated by the building number). 3 pirate dice are rolled and placed in the City Watch. 3 guild dice per player are rolled and placed in rows on the Guild Board.

Each player in turn places their marker on a row and selects the corresponding dice and one request. If the guild symbol matches any of their guild favours they flip them face up.

== PHASE B: CHARACTER ACTIONS ==

Following the new turn order established in Phase A, players either select a character action or pass.

A character action is selected by placing on it either a guild die or (at the cost of a worker in the City Watch) a pirate die. If a guild die is used, the player also places an action marker on the building space (to be resolved in Phase C).

You may activate a character with a die whose value is equal to or greater than the number of that character’s region (1, 2 or 3). You may also use a lower-numbered die by paying the difference in bread.

A character may have a maximum of 1 pirate die on it, and a maximum number of dice equal to the number of players.

A player may choose one of two possible character actions:
- Trigger the action specific to the character.
- Harvest: all fields in that region will yield one unit per worker: either wood (if they have not yet been cleared) or a crop (wheat, sugar or wine).

One building each round contains no character card, so it only offers the harvest action, plus a bonus: one field is harvested twice.

=== Passing ===

To pass, a player chooses a free spot in the passing column: they may either choose to gain reals, or take the action depicted. The new turn order will be observed for the rest of the round and the beginning of the next.

== PHASE C: BUILDING ACTIONS ==

In numerical order, building costs are resolved and additional building actions are taken.

For any building with action markers on it, all its dice are rolled. The cost is (in a four-player game) 10 reals minus the sum of the guild dice. (In three or two player games, the base value is respectively 9 or 8.) If the result is negative the cost is zero. If a player has two or more markers they still pay only once.

Players have two options:
- Pay the cost, and take the building action (described below)
- Take pirates (1 + the number on the pirate die, if there is one)

== PHASE D: MAINTENANCE ==

Honor (City Watch): The player with the majority of workers in the City Watch may send one home to earn 4 PP. Ties do not count.

Income (Colonies): One good of the appropriate type is gained for each worker in the colonies.

Upkeep (Ships): Discard 1 wood (or earn 1 pirate) per ship on the board.

Feeding Workers: All workers on the board must be fed. The Windmill indicates how many are automatically fed; if this is insufficient, pay 1 bread or earn 1 pirate per worker.

== PHASE E: CROWN’S REQUESTS ==

In rounds 1, 3 and 5 players score their requests. In round 1, they may score one of their two requests; in round 3, two out of three; in round 5, all three. Scored requests, and any goods or reals used to score them, are discarded.

In round 2, convertible wheat fields cleared of wood become sugar fields. In round 4, convertible sugar fields cleared of wood become wine fields.

== GAME END ==

The game ends after 5 rounds.

All goods, wood and bread are converted to reals at 1-for-1. Players then earn 1 PP per 5 reals.

Players with pirates lose points as follows: the one with most pirates loses 16 PP; 2nd most, 8 pp; 3rd most, 4 pp; 4th most, 2 PP. In addition, players lose 1 PP for each pirate over 20.

Highest score wins. Ties for number of pirates or for final score go to the player earliest in the turn order.

==Reference Sheet==

===Crown’s Requests===

During Phase E, each player must choose 1 of his Crown’s Requests in the 1st round, 2 in the 3rd round, and 3 in the 5th round. He earns PP for them, and discards them.

NOTE: If a player chooses more than 1 Crown’s Request of the same kind in the same round, he must assign different items to them (see below Urbanization for an example).

The player must discard all the chosen Crown’s Requests, even if he earns 0 Prestige Points for one or more of them.

===Guild Favors===

A player can use 1 of his face-up Guild Favors at the beginning of each of his turns:
* in Phase B - Character Actions (see page 9) (i.e. before he places a die or passes) and
* in Phase C - Building Actions (see page 12) (i.e. before he pays the cost or receives the Pirates).
He cannot use a Guild Favor if he has no Action Markers on the Building currently being resolved, because it is not his turn.

To use a Guild Favor, the player flips it face-down and immediately applies its effect (see below).

No Guild Favors can be used during Phases A - Round Setup, D - Maintenance, or E - The Crown’s Requests.

Reminder: A player can flip face-up:
* in Phase A - Round Setup, all of his Guild Favors of the same Guild as the one he chooses (see page 8).
* 1 or 2 of his Guild Favors (same or different Guilds), performing the “Casa da Coroa” Building Action (see page 13).
* 1 of his Guild Favors, performing the “Guild” King’s Reward, if it is in play, (see below).

===Passing===

* The player gets 2 Reals
*The player gets 3 Reals
** OR earns 1 PP, and may move 1 of his Workers to any empty City spot
* The player gets 4 Reals
** OR moves 1 of his Workers into the City Watch
* The player gets 5 Reals
** OR moves 1 of his Ships following the usual rules

===King’s Rewards===
Various Rewards available
* The player moves 1 of his Workers to any field following the usual rules
* The player flips 1 of his Guild Favors face-up.
* The player discards up to 3 Pirates or gets 2 Bread from the general supply.
* The player moves his disc up one step in the Windmill. He does not discard the 2 Wheat.
* The player earns 3 PP. The player gets 5 Reals.
* The player earns 1 PP, and may move 1 of his Workers to any empty City spot.
* The player moves 1 of his Workers into the City Watch

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2016-09-02T00:04:26Z

Nandblock: /* Terminology */

== HIGH FORM RULES ==

High form is currently only implemented as a two-player game on BGA.

=== Terminology ===
Pieces are ranked in order: '''common, heroic, legendary.''' '''Upgrade''' and '''downgrade''' mean changing the rank of a piece by one step. A higher ranked piece may count (for summoning or tasks) as if it were of lower rank.

A '''move''' is one square in any direction (including diagonals). A '''leap''' is from any square to any other.
A '''standard move/leap''' is permitted onto any empty square or one occupied by a piece of a lesser rank.
A '''combat move/leap''' is permitted onto any empty square or one occupied by a piece of ''the same'' or lesser rank.

Any piece previously occupying the destination square of a move/leap is destroyed. You may destroy your own pieces.

=== Setup ===
Each player receives 3 cards from their personal deck, plus 2 Legendary Beings and one flare from the common decks. Four cards are drawn for the task queue. The first three are immediately available; the fourth is not yet available. Three tasks of the same type may not be active at once (BGA automatically enforces this rule).

=== Turns ===

The starting player takes a single action. In subsequent turns, each player takes two actions. These may be any of the following:
* - Place a common piece on any empty square
* - Summon a being
* - Discard a card and (optionally) return other cards to their decks. ''(Only permitted once per turn.)''
In addition, before or after any action, a flare may be played, if one or both of its conditions are met.

Once a turn is over:
* - You may claim one task card and earn its victory points (VPs) if you meet its conditions.
* - If necessary, replenish your hand from the appropriate decks and update the task queue. (Automated on BGA.)

=== Playing a Flare ===
Each flare lists two numbers: X/Y. The top effect may be activated if a player has X fewer upgraded pieces on the board than their opponent; the bottom effect if they have Y fewer pieces in total on the board. Effects activate in top-to-bottom order.

=== Summoning ===
If your pieces are in the formation on a Being’s card (in any orientation or mirror image), you may summon the piece in the top left corner, via a combat leap onto the white square in the pattern. For most beings, the white square is empty, but some require a piece of your own to be present in the square. Once the Being is summoned, the effects listed on its card are activated.

Patterns for Legendary Beings require one or more heroic pieces. Each legendary piece on the board earns 1 VP. Each player can place a maximum of 3 legendary pieces on the board. If one is destroyed, 1 VP is lost.

=== Discarding ===
Once per turn a player may discard a card. They may also return as many other cards as they like (regular cards, legends, flares) to the bottom of the appropriate decks. Once the turn is over, they replenish their hand as usual.

=== Running Out of Pieces ===
If a player needs to place a piece and has no more in stock, they must pick up one from the board before placing the new piece. (Heroic and common pieces come from the same pool--in the original boardgame, they are reverse sides of the same piece--but there are only three legendary pieces for each colour.)

=== Game End and Scoring ===
When one player scores 9 VPs or draws the last card from their own deck, game end is triggered. Everyone plays one more turn, including the player who triggered endgame. Even if their score decreases below 9 due to destruction of a legendary piece, the game still ends.

High score wins. Tiebreakers are, in order, (1) number of upgraded pieces; (2) total number of pieces.

== DEATHMATCH RULES: TWO PLAYERS (DUEL) ==

No tasks are used. Opening positions are marked on the game board. The first player to score 18 VPs triggers the endgame.

Destroying pieces scores VPs as follows:
* - 1 VP for every 2 common pieces, rounded down
* - 1 VP for a heroic piece
* - 2 VPs for a legendary piece

Summoning a legend scores 1 VP. This VP is not lost if the piece is later destroyed.

If you play a flare your opponent gains 1 VP.

== DEATHMATCH RULES: THREE OR FOUR PLAYERS ==

Setup: In three-player Deathmatch, the third player places one common piece adjacent to each diamond symbol. In four-player Deathmatch, the fourth player places one common piece adjacent to each diamond symbol for the first, third and fourth players. As usual, the first player only gets one action. (Sounds complicated? Don't worry, BGA automates the setup.)

Scores are tracked separately in each colour. Your final score is the lowest of these scores. (The second and, in 4-player games, third lowest scores are used as tiebreakers.)

When you score common pieces, first all common colour pairs are scored; then, if two common pieces of different colours remain, you may choose which colour to score against.

When you summon a legend, you may choose which opponent to score 1 VP against.

You may meet one or both criteria for a flare against multiple opponents, in which case you may choose whom to trigger it against (and give them 1 VP).

Endgame is triggered by a player scoring 12 (for three-player) or 10 (for four-player) VPs in a single colour.

=== Improvised Summoning ===

Once per game, and once for each opponent's colour, a player may use an opponent's piece as their own when summoning a Being. (Thus in a 3-player game, a player may perform two improvised summonings; in a 4-player game, three--one for each opponent's colour.) Only one piece may be used per improvised summoning: you may not use two different opponents' pieces simultaneously.

== EVERFROST EXPANSION ==
Several Beings in the Everfrost deck have "frozen effects". These effects do not have to take place immediately upon summoning; they can be activated later ("thawed"), like a flare. Only one such frozen effect may be stored at a time; if you summon a Being with a frozen effect and already have one in storage, you must discard one or the other frozen effect.