Lorenzo il Magnifico

Setup: cover unavailable areas for player count, prepare four development-card types across three periods, and choose one excommunication tile per period. Start with 2 wood, 2 stone and 3 servants, plus 5–8 coins by turn order. Full base play also selects advanced bonus tiles in reverse order and drafts four leaders each; introductory play may omit that advanced section as instructed.

Six rounds: each of three periods has two rounds. Refill the four towers and roll three shared dice. In turn order, place one family member and resolve its action; colored members use matching die values and the neutral starts at zero. Normally each servant adds one value. Rounds 2, 4 and 6 include a Vatican Report, followed by council-based turn order and member recovery.

Towers: floor requirements are 1, 3, 5 and 7, with no bottom-first placement order. If any member is already in the tower, pay 3 extra coins before entry; that floor’s new coin bonus cannot pay this surcharge. Then receive the floor bonus and pay the card cost, for which the bonus may be used. You cannot place solely for a bonus or blocking if you cannot legally take and pay for the card.

Family and card limits: two of your colored members cannot share a tower, while your neutral can provide an exception. You may have at most six cards of each type. Territories normally cost no resources, but later territory slots require sufficient military strength when acquired without spending it. Some ventures instead require actual military-point payment and a printed threshold.

Harvest and production: activate each corresponding territory or building whose threshold does not exceed action value, plus the personal bonus tile. The shared large space subtracts 3 and is unavailable with two players. Two of your colored members cannot occupy the same area, while a neutral can accompany one. All exchange inputs must exist before the activation begins; newly generated resources cannot fund another exchange in that production.

Market and council: market spaces provide their rewards and hold one member each. The Council Palace holds multiple members; placement gives 1 coin and a council privilege, and entry order affects next round’s turn order. Multiple privileges received together must choose different rewards from the prescribed wood/stone, servant, coin, military or faith options.

Vatican Reports: the periods require 3, 4 and 5 faith. Falling short or choosing not to support the Church adds that period’s excommunication and normally retains faith. Supporting converts all faith into the track’s VP and resets it. At the sixth-round report, players below the requirement still score their current faith after excommunication as instructed; apply individual card and penalty text.

Leaders: during your turn, before or after placing a member, you may play, discard or activate leaders. Requirements are thresholds, not payments, and losing them later does not remove a played leader. Discarding one grants a council privilege. Flip a once-per-round ability after use; permanent abilities follow their triggers. Ready leaders at round end.

Final scoring: after round six, score territories, characters, ventures, military ranking and resources. For 3/4/5/6 territories score 1/4/10/20 VP; for 1–6 characters score 1/3/6/10/15/21, taking the corresponding value rather than adding lower brackets. Military first place gives 5 and second 2; tied first players each get 5 with no second place. Every five total leftover resources give 1 VP. Apply excommunications; tied totals favor earlier final turn order.