Roll for the Galaxy

Setup: two to five players receive a random faction and home world, together three tile squares, and two construction tiles, one development-side and one world-side up. Begin with three white dice in the cup, two in Citizenry and additional starting-world dice/effects. Credits normally start at one, subject to starting effects; pool twelve VP per player.

Each simultaneous round rolls, assigns, reveals, resolves I Explore, II Develop, III Settle, IV Produce and V Ship, then manages empires. Use every assigned worker that can perform a task, one at a time. Only phases selected by someone occur. In two-player play, a spare white die rolled at Reveal may also select an otherwise unselected phase.

Assign dice by their rolled faces, with wilds freely assigned. Select exactly one phase by placing a die on the phase strip: it ignores its old face and is also a worker for that phase. Do not wait until Reveal to place wild workers after seeing others’ choices.

Reassign after selecting a phase. Built-in Dictate once per round puts one worker in its area to reassign another to a different column; the dictated die returns to the cup at Reveal. Each other Reassign power is usable at most once per round. Workers in unselected phases return to the cup rather than Citizenry.

Explore one worker at a time: Stock gains two credits; Scout may abandon any number of construction tiles, draw one more than abandoned and place chosen development/world sides under the respective stacks. Construction stacks may be empty during play; their one-of-each requirement applies only at setup.

Develop/Settle places workers one by one on the top construction tile until its cost is met. Move a completed tile into the tableau and used workers to Citizenry, then continue the next tile with remaining workers. Unfinished workers stay; excess after all available tiles are completed returns to the cup. Discounts cannot reduce required workers below one; worlds grant their immediate effects once.

Produce puts a worker on one of your non-gray worlds as a good, regardless of die color. Normally each world holds one good, with explicit development exceptions. Excess workers return to the cup; a good stays on its world rather than also entering Citizenry.

Ship each good with one shipper, choosing Trade or Consume for each pair; both dice enter Citizenry. Trade earns three/four/five/six credits by world color, not good color. Consume earns one VP plus one each for matching good and shipper colors; purple matches colors for Consume only. Credits cap at ten, with excess lost.

Manage: recruit as many Citizenry dice as affordable at one credit each, choosing colors when funds are short. After recruiting, reset zero credits to one. Freely recall construction workers and goods to the cup; if it is empty after recruiting, recall at least one. Reset phase tiles and check game end.

End after the complete round if the initial VP pool empties or a tableau reaches twelve tile squares; the large faction counts as two and twelve is not a maximum. Score VP chips, completed tiles’ printed costs and extra six-cost-development bonuses, rounding the relevant formulas up. Construction tiles do not score. Break ties by cup dice plus remaining credits, then share victory.