A Castle for All Seasons Fan Site

Amidst craggy mountains, the first silhouettes of a monumental castle arise. A line of traders twists its way to the gate; and the hustle and bustle attracts bricklayers, stonemasons and workers in the hope of getting wages and victuals.

The area is crammed with market booths; the magnificent castle is being enlarged around them.

Components

• 1 gameboard
• 4 summary cards
• 23 building tiles
• 28 helpers
• 4 victory markers
• 83 Resource Pieces:
• 4 card sets of 8 character cards
• 6 winter cards
• 1 starting player marker
• 65 Game Coins (taler)
• Rulebook

Object of the Game

You are builders who always need sufficient resources and money. To this end, you have character cards at your disposal whose way of use determines the order of play anew each round. …

1. The Messenger

The player who plays the messenger takes 8 talers from the bank.

2. The Trader

The player who plays the trader gets resources for himself and other players by placing one of his helpers next to one of the four carts or next to the rider.

Only after each cart has gotten a helper can the rider also get a helper.

Only one helper is allowed per cart or beside the rider. Each of these "trader's helpers" remains on the gameboard and "occupies" the respective kind of resource until he is displaced by another trader's helper (...or until the player needs his helper for a building). …

Erecting Buildings

(applies to bricklayers, stonemasons, and workers)

A player can erect buildings with the bricklayer, stonemason, or worker, but is compensated in different ways: the bricklayer gives the player talers, the stonemason gives victory points, and the worker gives half victory points.

Looking at the building tiles still on the gameboard, the player decides which building(s) he wants to erect.

For each of these buildings, he pays exactly the indicated value of the building in resources to the general stock and then takes the building tile from gameboard, placing it in his play area. The gameboard now shows the completed building. …