Village

Each player begins with 4 number-1 family members and 1 coin; other relatives remain in the supply. The oldest player starts. Each round, use the player-count setup card to mix influence and plague cubes in the green bag, then randomly seed the action spaces.

Take 1 cube from an action space: keep colored influence at your farmyard, or return black plague immediately and advance 2 time. You may perform that location’s action or decline it, except a market day must occur. Alternatively, pay 3 same-color influence cubes for any action without taking a cube, while at least 1 cube remains on the board.

Time costs advance your lifetime marker clockwise. Crossing the bridge usually lets you finish the action before a visible, lowest-numbered relative dies at turn end; choose among equal numbers. During a market day, resolve death immediately. Relatives in the black bag or not yet born cannot die. Enter the matching career’s chronicle space if available, otherwise an anonymous grave.

Harvest requires at least one relative at home and gives 2 grain; a horse and plow give 3, or an ox and plow 4. Goods are not spent, and storage is capped at 5 grain. The family action takes the lowest-numbered available relative from the supply or recalls a living employed relative home.

A craft action produces one good. You may spend time training a relative from home in its workshop, then pay production time; later production skips training while that relative remains there. Alternatively, pay the building’s influence or grain cost without employing anyone. The mill holds no relatives and converts 2 time plus 2 grain into 2 coins.

All players may join a market day. Its initiator sells first by paying only a customer’s required goods or grain. Other sales, including the initiator’s later sales, additionally cost 1 green influence and 1 time. Serve only blue-bordered customers; rotate until everyone passes or they are served. Passing prevents re-entry that day. Keep customer tiles for final scoring.

Travel sends a relative from home to a city neighboring the village or moves an existing traveler along a path to an adjacent city. Pay the path’s time, wagon and influence costs. Each family marks and receives the reward from each city only once. Existing markers remain for final city-count scoring.

The council action spends 1 scroll or 2 green influence plus the relevant time to enter or advance. Alternatively, stay put and freely use one privilege at your current or a lower stage. The four privileges are next-round starting player, 2 influence cubes, 1 good, and spending 1 coin for 3 prestige.

The church action spends 1 brown influence or 3 time to put a relative from home into the black bag. After the last cube of a normal round is taken and its action resolved, hold mass: select 4 pieces total, first allowing players to pay 1 coin per chosen relative, then drawing the rest randomly. Return black monks, place relatives in the rightmost window, allow grain-paid advancement leftward, and award 2 prestige for church majority, breaking ties by the leftmost relative.

Filling the final chronicle space or anonymous grave triggers the end. Normally the triggering player gets no further action and everyone else gets one clockwise, followed by final mass. Add travel, council, church, chronicle and customer points plus 1 per coin. Highest prestige wins; ties break by customers served, then living relatives.