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How does the Governor work, and on whose turn?

The designer answered this directly on BoardGameGeek.

  • Port Royal rulebook · Rulebook · The Characters and Their Skills
  • AlexP · Designer · 2015-12-05
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  • Mavis101 · Community · 2018-06-30
  • daoud826 · Community · 2025-05-17

The Governor lets you take one additional card in Trade and Hire, on your own turn or another player's. Each Governor gives its own extra card, and on another player's turn each card costs you one coin for the active player. The extra card may be a ship or a person.

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