Cartographers: Skills Mini Expansion
Cartographers: Skills Mini Expansion Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Components
- 1 Rules card
- 8 Skill cards
Setup
Shuffle the eight skill cards. Choose three at random and place them face up in a column in the center of the play area. Return the remaining skill cards to the game box.
How to Play
Once per season, each player may activate the ability of one of the three available skill cards. To do so, the player must spend coins to pay its cost.
The cost to activate a skill card's ability is the number in the card's top-right corner.
To spend a coin, draw a line over a coin symbol that is already filled in on your coin counter. At the end of each season, spent coins do not count toward star scoring.
Unspent coin: a coin symbol that has no line through it. Spent coin: a coin symbol with a line drawn over it.
Skill Cards
Each skill card shows its name, its ability text, and its cost (the number in the top-right corner). The abilities below are translated from the Hungarian printing. The card text is the only source for these abilities.
Costs: Knowledge 0, Focus 3, Negotiation 1, Stealth 0, Healing 1, Research 0, Acrobatics 2, Diplomacy 1.
Knowledge (cost 0)
During the drawing phase, fill the chosen shape with village terrain instead of the available terrain types!
Focus (cost 3)
During the drawing phase, if an Ambush card is not revealed, draw the chosen shape on your map once more, and fill it with the same terrain type!
Negotiation (cost 1)
During the drawing phase, draw a 2x2 shape instead of the available shapes!
Stealth (cost 0)
During the drawing phase, draw the chosen shape so that it hangs off the edge of the map! Do not draw the part that hangs off.
Healing (cost 1)
During the drawing phase, draw one additional 2x1 shape adjacent to a [word partly illegible in the photograph, read as "monster"]! Fill it with a currently available terrain type!
Research (cost 0)
During the drawing phase, adjacent to the shape you just drew, draw one additional single-square space of the same terrain type!
Acrobatics (cost 2)
During the drawing phase, if an Ambush card is revealed, instead of the shape shown on it, you must draw a 2x1 shape on your map.
Diplomacy (cost 1)
At any time during the game, draw farm and village terrain into an empty space!
Translation Notes
- The source is a translated printing: the rules text comes from the Spanish rules card, and the skill abilities are translated from the Hungarian skill-card photograph. The English wording of the base game's terms (for example "Ambush", "monster", "season") is used as the nearest match and was not checked against an English printing.
- "Ambush card" is a literal translation of the Hungarian "rajtaütéskártya".
- The Hungarian rules card in the same photograph was not transcribed separately, since its text matches the Spanish rules card.
- The partly illegible word on the Healing card is marked in place.