Power Grid: Fabled Expansion
Power Grid: Fabled Expansion Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
General Information
For playing this expansion, the players need one of the two base games Power Grid or Power Grid deluxe.
The two Fabled Decks each belong to certain maps. Depending on the chosen map, the players use the matching Fabled Deck.
Contents
- 30 Fabled Cards (15 cards each in 2 decks)
- 6 Rules Cards
Game Preparation
Germany or Europe
The players use the Fabled Cards with a purple border.
Place the Fabled Cards FACE DOWN as shown below, using the numbers on their backs to place them. This way, the players can easily check the conditions to reveal the cards when they are met during the game.
Layout (diagram in the printed rulebook, described here as text): upper left, a stack of 11, 9, 6 and 1 (1 at the bottom of the stack); 15 alone at upper right; in the middle, 10 and 8 stacked above 3 and 5, with 12 and 4 stacked together and 14 alone to the right; along the bottom, 2, 7 and 13.
USA or North America
The players use the Fabled Cards with a white border.
Place the Fabled Cards FACE DOWN as shown below, using the numbers on their backs to place them. This way, the players can easily check the conditions to reveal the cards when they are met during the game.
Layout (diagram in the printed rulebook, described here as text): across the top, 2, 6, 11, 12 and 9, with 8, 10 and 4 overlapping below and to the right; 1 alone on the left; in the middle, 7, 5 and 3 stacked; 14 and 13 at right, with 15 below 14 at the lower right.
For all maps
Depending on the chosen map, the players prepare the game as explained in the rules of the base games.
How to Play
Both Fabled Decks offer rules for campaigns of 3 consecutive games.
During these 3 games, the players reveal Fabled Cards as their conditions are met and add their actions and rules to the gameplay.
Depending on the playing style of the players, the order of revealed Fabled Cards will be different in their games. It is possible that certain Fabled Cards remain face down until the end of the third game if the players do not trigger their conditions.
After the players reveal a Fabled Card, it remains in play until it is removed, as some of the Fabled Cards force players to remove other Fabled Cards from the game.
The players play according to all rules of the base games, except as Fabled Cards modify these rules. In that case the Fabled Cards always take priority.
If you want to play the next game at another time, place the revealed cards on top of the Fabled Deck and place them back into the box.
During the 3 games of a campaign, the players can switch the number of players and can continue to play 4 more games with the revealed cards. If the players want to start a new campaign in the middle of an ongoing campaign, they only need to note the revealed cards to continue at another time.
Conditions for Revealing Fabled Cards
The Fabled Cards name conditions describing when the players need to reveal them during the 3 games.
"AND": If a Fabled Card has several conditions combined with an "and", all of these conditions must be fulfilled before the players reveal such a Fabled Card.
"OR": If a Fabled Card has several conditions separated by "or", the players reveal such Fabled Card when any one of these conditions is fulfilled (sometimes the players trigger several of them at the same time).
Using Neutral Tokens
Some of the Fabled Cards ask the players to use neutral tokens to mark different things.
When playing with 2-5 players, the players simply use the houses/generators of one of the unused player colors.
When playing with 6 players, players use pennies or some other suitable item as these tokens.
Games with 2 Players
In games with only 2 players, the players use the variant "Against the Trust".
These rules are included in the rules for Power Grid deluxe. If you do not own Power Grid deluxe, you can download this variant on the publisher's website at: www.2f-spiele.de/spiele/pdf/power_2er_variant_rules.pdf
We recommend using this variant for 2 players with or without playing this expansion!