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Large Rule Book 1st Edition

The King is dead! Long live the…who??? A midst the power vacuum
left by the King’s untimely demise, the Royal courtesan are all
salivating over the claim to the high seat of the regency throne. Secret
coalitions are banded, Schemes are plotted, and good ol’ daggers are
stabbed in the back. Play your hand of Royals in a game of Dominance
assertion, all the while screwing your competitor. The crown is within
your grasp; you just need to step over others to get it!

Objective

Royal is a competitive card game. The goal is to be the player with

most Dominance at the end of the game. Dominance points are scored
by playing cards as Consorts, while Schemes could be plotted to thwart
your opponents.

Components

The game contains 34 Cards and can be played by 2 to 4 players.

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Card Layout

Title

Royal Picture

Dominance Points

Windfall

Schemes

Supporter Needed

The cards also come in 2 factions, the Royalist and Imperialist. The factions are
mainly used on certain Windfalls.

Royalist Imperialist
(who have a Red (who have a Blue
background) background)

Set Up

Make sure you have some room in front of you to put down cards.

Shuffle the deck, and deal out 5 cards to each player. Pick a starting
player (by age, who won the last game, or who knows the rules best), and
start playing!

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Player’s Turn

On a player’s turn, they must play 1 card from their hand (unless you
don’t have any more card). You can play a card in two ways: as a Consort
or as Schemer.

Playing a card as a Consort

Playing a card as a Consort is the primary way to score Dominance in the
game. Announce that you are playing a card as a Consort, and place it face
up in front of you. As a Consort, its Windfall may be
used at the end of the game to add additional bonus
Dominance points.

Some cards also have a Supporter value at bottom.

Those are the number of supporters you need in
order to play this card as a Consort. You simply place
the number of cards needed (can be any card from
your hand, regardless of its Faction, Dominance, or
Supporter value) underneath the card it is supporting. In order to play the Princess
card as a Consort, she needs
Supporters are played together with the Consort card. 2 Supporter cards

Note: Should a in-play Consort card be removed by any means,

all of its Supporters will returned back to its owner’s hand.

Playing a card as a Schemer

You may also play a card as Schemer. You don’t get its
Dominance or Windfall score at the end, but you get
to use its Schemes. Announce the card you are playing
as a Schemer, and place the card side-way (group apart
from the Consorts) in front of you. Schemers do not Put the card side-way to
indicate that this card
need to have Supporters to play. Follow the action as played as a Schemer
described in its Schemes box.
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Grouping

It is important to know how the cards are grouped, as many of the Schemes
and Windfall will only effect cards from a certain group. Here is an example.

In-play Cards
(All of the cards on table are consider In-Play Cards.
Here, we show just Your In-Play Cards)

Consorts Schemers

Supporters

Progressing

After a player plays a card, the next clockwise player takes their turn to
play their card. If a player does not have any more cards in their hand
(and only then), they will simply pass. This continues until all players have
played all the cards from their hand. Once that happen, the game moves
on to the scoring phase.

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Scoring

Each player adds up the Dominance points of their Consort cards. Then
add up any Windfalls that applied. Schemers and Supporters usually do
not contribute any Dominance, nor count its Windfalls, but certain cards
have exceptions. And they could still
be tallied as part of a card’s Windfall. Note: Dominance points
are usually represented by
this icon in the Windfall.

Example

Let say these is your ending Consorts that you played. You have a General
(who require 1 supporter), a Banker, and a Nobleman. If you count just the
Dominance points on the cards, you’ll see that you only get a measly score
of 5 (3+2). But now to add on the Windfalls. For your General, since he
gains +1 point for each Consorts that is an Imperialist (blue), and you have
two (counting himself), you get 2 more points. For the Banker, you gain +1
point for each Consort you have, thus you get 3 more points. However, the
Nobleman’s Windfall does not count, as its condition was not fulfilled. So
your final score would be that of a 10!

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WINNGING!

Declare the number of Dominance points you have. The player with the
most points is named the Winner! Everyone should bow to their new King/
Queen! Should there be a tie, settle it with another game

Variation

Longer Game, Bigger Hand:

For a slightly longer and higher point scoring game, deal out 6, 7, or even 8
cards to each players at the game start.

Draft Mode:
Instead of dealing out cards, start the game by placing all the cards (5
x number of player) face up on the table. In rotation, each player takes
one card and adds it to their hand. Continue until no more cards are left.
Proceed with the game in usual fashion.

Visit game page @ www.thegamecrafter.com/games/royals for more info

Special Thanks: Mike A, Gary Bill, Mr. Joe, Nick, Jason, and all the good folks at
The Game Crafter

Royals ©2013 Level 32 Studio. All rights reserved.

Game design and artwork by : Jackson Lin
Font: Old Newspaper Types by Manfred Klein
Cloister Black by Dieter Steffmann
Royals ©2013 Level 32 Studio. All rights reserved.
Game design and artwork by : Jackson Lin