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Gamehelpfederation

2024-01-30T06:22:52Z

KeeganM4: /* Overview */

===Overview===

Have the most prestige points (PP) after 5 rounds

===Setup===

In reverse turn order, choose a starting bonus

===Rounds===

Each round is split into two phases

Ambassador's Phase (Played 4 times per round)

Executive Phase (Played once after all Ambassador phases)

===Ambassador's Phase===

Place one of your tokens either Voting side or Funding side on one of the available spaces

After which, you may send one spaceship to your persona board and carry out a mission (Optional)

Your Voting side tokens have numbers from 1-3, whilst the Funding side has no crystals, a green crystal, or a pink crystal

The Funding side lets you access special missions and Major Projects

The Voting side lets you gain majorities and pass laws

You may have alteration tokens which you can use to change the value of voting side

When playing a side, take any crystals depicted

If you place a voting side, you can add your assistance die to increase its power

After placing the token, you can send a spaceship to a special mission as long as you have access to it, you have a free spaceship, you meet the requirements

You may gain a Medal of Honour if you receive high enough accreditation than anyone else, or further than others, you can only gain one copy of each medal

===Executive Phase===

Everyone does the following at the same time

Receive income from your production structures

Pay your level of accreditation or drop levels until you can pay

Move Major Projects onwards for each Funding token on it

Score points based on voting power in each floor and associated accreditation

Pass the law with the most votes

===End of Round===

Bring in all tokens

Discard used Alteration tokens

Replace both Law tiles

===End of Game===
Score points based on the lowest uncovered Medal value on your player board

Score points for remaining resources: (1PP per 2 Crystals, 1PP per Diamond, 1PP per Spaceship in your hanger, 1PP per Alteration Token)

Score points based on player ranking for each funded Major Project (4 Players: 12/8/4/0, 3 Players: 14/6/0, 2 Players: 10/(4 or 0))

Gamehelpfederation

2024-01-30T06:22:23Z

KeeganM4: Added end game scoring

===Overview===

Have the most prestige after 5 rounds

===Setup===

In reverse turn order, choose a starting bonus

===Rounds===

Each round is split into two phases

Ambassador's Phase (Played 4 times per round)

Executive Phase (Played once after all Ambassador phases)

===Ambassador's Phase===

Place one of your tokens either Voting side or Funding side on one of the available spaces

After which, you may send one spaceship to your persona board and carry out a mission (Optional)

Your Voting side tokens have numbers from 1-3, whilst the Funding side has no crystals, a green crystal, or a pink crystal

The Funding side lets you access special missions and Major Projects

The Voting side lets you gain majorities and pass laws

You may have alteration tokens which you can use to change the value of voting side

When playing a side, take any crystals depicted

If you place a voting side, you can add your assistance die to increase its power

After placing the token, you can send a spaceship to a special mission as long as you have access to it, you have a free spaceship, you meet the requirements

You may gain a Medal of Honour if you receive high enough accreditation than anyone else, or further than others, you can only gain one copy of each medal

===Executive Phase===

Everyone does the following at the same time

Receive income from your production structures

Pay your level of accreditation or drop levels until you can pay

Move Major Projects onwards for each Funding token on it

Score points based on voting power in each floor and associated accreditation

Pass the law with the most votes

===End of Round===

Bring in all tokens

Discard used Alteration tokens

Replace both Law tiles

===End of Game===
Score points based on the lowest uncovered Medal value on your player board

Score points for remaining resources: (1PP per 2 Crystals, 1PP per Diamond, 1PP per Spaceship in your hanger, 1PP per Alteration Token)

Score points based on player ranking for each funded Major Project (4 Players: 12/8/4/0, 3 Players: 14/6/0, 2 Players: 10/(4 or 0))

Gamehelpcastlesofcaleira

2022-02-21T22:49:10Z

KeeganM4:

==Goal==

Eliminate your opponent or be the player with the best castle.

==Setup==

Shuffle all the cards and deal 2 to each player. Put the remaining cards face down forming the deck.

==How to play==

Choose a starting player. Then players alternate to play their turn until one is eliminated or all cards have been played. A player turn consists in 3 steps:
* Draw a card (if possible)
* Play a card
* Resolve effects

===Draw a card===

Player draws a card from the deck adding it to their hand, which is kept hidden. If deck has been depleted, skip this step.

===Play a card===

Player must play a card from hand on their castle. That card becomes a Castle Piece and can be played face-up or face-down. Cards played face-up have effects resolved immediately in the next step. Cards played face-down don't resolve it's effect until they are revealed by another card effect.

===Resolve effects===

Once a card is played face-up or becomes face up (is revealed by any effect) its effect is activated and resolved by the card owner. Resolving a card effect is mandatory (unless there are no effective targets), but you may target any Castle Piece, even yours and those in which the effect will be useless.
Revealed cards effects are resolved after all pending effects have been resolved.

==The cards==

The deck contains only 18 cards:

* Barracks (x1): ''3 points'' - Turn a Castle Piece face-down
* Battlements (x3): ''0 points'' - Cannot be destroyed. If a player has all three Battlements in play faced-up at the end of the game, they are worth 3 points each
* Marketplace (x2): ''2 points'' - Exchange a card from your hand with another player
* Observatory (x1): ''3 points'' - Look at a face-down castle piece, you may turn it face-up
* Princess Spire (x1): ''6 points'' - Cannot be played face-up. If this castle piece is destroyed, you lose the game
* Throne Room (x2): ''2 points'' - Turn a castle piece face-up. That card has no effect this turn (its effect is not triggered)
* Trebuchet (x4): ''0 points'' - Choose and destroy a castle piece. If that card was face-down, turn it face-up (destroyed card's effect is triggered from the discard pile)
* Watchtower (x3): ''2 points'' - Turn up to two castle pieces face-up
* Wizard Tower (x1): ''3 points'' - Look at the top three cards of the deck and re-arrange them in any order

==End of the game==

The game can end in two manners:

* Destroying your opponent's Princess Spire: you win automatically
* No player has any cards left in hand: to determine their score, players count up their faced-up castle pieces points. Then add 1 point for each faced-down castle piece. The player with the highest score wins. In case of a tie, the player with more faced-down castle pieces wins. If there is still a tie, the player with less castle pieces wins.

''Note: Original rules states that, in case of a tie, 'the player who lives in the largest house wins', but it's obviously a joke. The game designer developed later the tie-breakers referenced here.''

Gamehelpthermopyles

2020-09-14T03:44:37Z

KeeganM4: Original rules link no longer works. Provided a new link

The rules for Thermopyles are located here: https://tesera.ru/images/items/317421/Rules%20ENG%20Thermopyles.pdf