The Red Cathedral

The base game supports 1–4. Use a player-count building plan to arrange bases, middle sections, and domes, with randomized Workshop tiles, resources, and influence cards. Each team has six banners and four ornaments, starts at scoring-track space 2, and receives 3, 4, 4, or 5 rubles in multiplayer order.

Take turns clockwise, performing one basic action: claim a section, deliver to build/decorate, or acquire market resources. Recognition moves ordinary track spaces; prestige moves to the next prestige space, so they are not a fixed one-to-one currency. Optional actions exchange prestige for rubles or reroll all dice in one space once per turn.

Claim an unclaimed base or a section immediately above any banner, without requiring the lower section to be finished. Move a banner there and take its Workshop tile into an empty slot. Pay that slot’s cost to install face up, receiving its benefit now and later through the matching moved die; unpaid face-down tiles cannot activate.

A Build action delivers at most three materials total, distributed among your claimed sections and/or ornaments. Section requirements may be delivered over several turns. On completion, return materials, gain the printed recognition and rubles, and flip the section while retaining its banner.

Completing an upper section penalizes owners of unfinished sections below it. For each unfinished card, lose recognition equal to completed sections above it belonging to other players, excluding your own completed sections. Upper construction is possible before lower work is finished.

Each completed section holds one ornament, regardless of who built it: lumber for a base door, stone for a middle arch, gold for a dome cross. Add zero to two jewels: one prestige each, or three total for two different colors. Deliver the whole ornament cost in one turn within the three-material allowance.

Move any market die exactly its face value along the arrows. Only white or your own color may move extra spaces at one ruble each; payment cannot shorten movement. A destination already holding three dice is illegal. Perform resource, influence, and Workshop actions once each in any order, then reroll every die at the destination.

Normal market resources multiply by dice at the destination. A Workshop showing another die grants that die’s resource tile only once, without a multiplier. Activate at most one of two white Workshop tiles. Materials require inventory space, initially six open slots; existing materials cannot be discarded to admit new ones. Claiming banners can expand storage.

The first to finish six sections gains three prestige; everyone else gets one final turn. Round down to your current or closest lower prestige space, then gain one prestige per five remaining materials and rubles combined. Towers are worth two per completed section plus one per ornament; rank banner/ornament presence on completed sections for full value, half rounded down, then half again. Tied ranks pool their awards and divide rounded down.

With two players, a present runner-up receives one-third of a tower rather than half; tied presence gives neither player points. No presence scores nothing. Final ties compare completed sections, then ornaments, then share victory. Official solo alternates player-first turns against Ivan; either sixth completion grants the other a final turn without the three-prestige trigger bonus. Use its procedures and two-player scoring.