Sequence of Play:

1. First Player Designation Phase
2. Office Phase
3. Political Problems Phase
4. Crown Events Phase
5. Player Turns Phase

1. Draw a loyalty counter, opportunity counter and event card.
2. Perform two activities.
3. Counsel the monarch.

1. May modify all political problem die rolls by 1.
2. May modify all counseling rolls by 1.
3. Cannot have cards intrigued from his hand.

1. Collect as many FARCs and Friendly Allied Characters (FACs) as you can, which means collect as many Prestige Points (PPs) as you can.
2. Raise the status of your Player Character (PC) and FACs as much as possible.
3. Marry your PC off.
4. Control as many offices as possible.
5. Try to prevent political problems from being solves, unless you happen to own the corresponding responsible minister, in which case, delay the solution as long as possible.
6. Collect as many support cards as possible.

1. Spouses of the PC do not count against the PP total.
2. Nobles may go into hiding before a Hearing (and thus avoid it), but not after a Hearing, or an Interrogation or an Extradition.
3. Unused loyalty counters are returned to the cup.
4. When a wedding his held, each player may consult the Socializing Table at no cost.
5. Henchmen may not hold office or act as Monarch Counselors.
6. Henchmen can be used to counsel the monarch if the eligible officer does not wish to do so.
7. Characters may not resign office except to enter a new office.
8. A roll of "6" on Wrongdoing is automatically a Hearing, regardless of Status.
9. The judge hearing a trial may add or subtract 5.
10. A PC (not FAC) who must fight a duel may avoid it by paying 3 IP.
11. Definition of Any Activity: Pardon, Amnesty, Assassination, Expose Scandal, Escape, Extradite, Intrigue a Card, Recruit by Treachery, Seduce.
12. Definition of Intrigue Card: Intrigue chit, Assassination card, Treachery Card, Informer Card, Escape Card, Alibi Card.
13. Counselors can affect Counseling Rolls instead of Problem Rolls (optional rule).

1. Gaining Foreign Support: 1:5-6; 2:4-6; 3:3-6; 4:2-6
2. Gaining Fandonian Support: need a "6"
   Peasants - Sheriff, Archbishop
   Townsmen - Magistrate, High Minister
   Clergy - Archbishop
   Army - General, Minister of Army
   Navy - Admiral, Minister of Navy
   Merchant - High Minister, Minister of Trade
   Trade Guild - High Minister, Minister of Treasury
3. Emissaries: need 3-6
4. Effects of Unresolved Political Problems (not solved in 3+ turns)
   Banking -> no IP spending
   Economic -> each player loses 1 IP
   Agricultural -> famine (crown event)
   Natural Disaster -> plague (crown event)
   International -> 1 problem (crown event -- must be foreign war)
   Foreign War -> automatically at war with all
   Townsmen -> 1 problem (crown event -- Peasant Unrest)
5. Abdication
6. Blackmail
7. Funerals (2-5 bad, 6-7 no effect, 8-12 favorable)
8. Clemency
9. Counselors affect Counseling Rolls instead of Problem Rolls
10. Political Parties

1. Travel prevents Plague, Seduction, Treachery.
2. Travel lessens chance of Duel and Assassination.
3. The following characters may not travel: Royal Characters (RCs), Judges, Sheriff Magistrate, Archbishop, Officers with problems to solve.