Tiny Towns: Fortune
Tiny Towns: Fortune Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Contents
- 1 rulebook
- 6 Chest boards
- 30 coins
- 10 wooden Resource cubes
- 12 Building cards
- 10 Monument cards
- 1 scorepad
Setup
- Place the coins on the table in a general supply where all players can reach them.
- Give each player a Chest board, which will be placed next to each player's town.
- Separate the new Fortune Building and Monument cards by the symbols on the back and shuffle them into the setup piles of cards from the base game. For the best experience, play with a maximum of 4 Fortune buildings—although you can play with more. You can also play Tiny Towns: Fortune™ without using any of the Fortune buildings or monuments, simply using the rules for gaining, storing, and using coins.
- Follow the normal Tiny Towns™ setup rules.
Overview
In Tiny Towns: Fortune™, players can gain and use coins in various ways.
Gaining
The primary way players gain coins is by constructing 2 or more buildings in a single round. Certain Building and Monument cards also allow players to gain coins.
At the end of a round in which a player constructs 2 or more buildings by removing resources (as opposed to constructing via monument abilities), that player gains exactly 1 coin.
Consequently, players will be more likely to choose not to construct a building immediately upon placing resources in the correct shape, waiting until a future round in which they can construct multiple buildings.
Constructing more than 2 buildings in a single round does not gain players additional coins.
Note: Coins, like resource cubes and buildings, are unlimited. If you run out, substitute some other marker.
Storing
Players may store up to a maximum of 4 coins at once.
Players should place any coins they gain into 1 of the 4 spaces on their Chest board.
If players already have 4 coins in their Chest and gain another coin, too bad—they do not gain that coin unless a constructed Monument card gives them an extra space to hold 1 coin.
Some Monument cards have an extra space to hold 1 coin, which becomes available once the monument is constructed.
Using
Each coin is worth 1 VP at game end.
Players can also spend 1 coin to the general supply to place a different resource in their town than the resource named by another player as Master Builder. This does not affect what any other player places, and any number of players may do this per round (except the Master Builder).
Round Overview
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The Master Builder names a type of resource.
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All players MUST take a cube of this resource and place it in an empty square in their town grid OR spend 1 coin to the general supply to place a different resource.
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Players may construct any buildings for which they have the matching resources in the correct shape.
IMPORTANT: A player who is constructing multiple buildings must construct those buildings one at a time, resolving each building's costs/effects separately. The player chooses the order in which those buildings are constructed.
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AFTER all buildings are constructed and their costs and effects are resolved, players gain exactly 1 coin if they constructed 2 or more buildings this round.
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A new round begins. The Master Builder token passes to the player on the left.
Special Note
Whenever a building is placed by any means (such as with the monuments Architect's Guild, Grove University, and Opaleye's Watch from the base game), players still must spend coins for that building's construction cost, if there is any. Players also receive the benefits of constructing that building, such as coins for Mine and Statue, or a Shed being able to be placed on any empty square.
Feeding Your Buildings
Remember! Just as in the base game, feeding Cottage buildings is resolved at the end of the game. This means that any coins required for feeding Cottage buildings must be spent at game end. Players cannot hold on to coins if they still have unfed Cottage buildings they can spend coins to feed.
Game End
The game ends and is scored per normal Tiny Towns™ rules, with the addition of 1 VP for each leftover coin a player has.
Town Hall
When playing Town Hall with Tiny Towns: Fortune™, do not use Oddity Shop.
Players may spend 1 coin to place a different resource than the one drawn from the Resource deck.
Solo Variant
When playing the Solo variant with Tiny Towns: Fortune™, do not use Oddity Shop, Schoolhouse, or Southern Semaphore. With Jeweler, you must be able to spend 1 coin or you may not construct this building.
You may spend 1 coin to place a different resource than shown on the Resource card you select. Place the card face-down on the bottom of the draw pile as normal.
Building Clarifications
Root Cellar — At game end, you choose which rows or columns you would like to spend coins to feed. However, you cannot hold on to coins if you still have any unfed Cottage buildings you can spend to feed. You must spend your coins to feed Cottage buildings if you can.
Schoolhouse — If you and the player on your right both have 0 coins at game end, you do score the additional 2 VP. A Schoolhouse not adjacent to a fed Cottage is worth 0 VP and cannot score the additional 2 VP for coins at game end.
Tithe Barn — A single Cottage building still costs 1 coin to feed. If you have 3 Cottage buildings, it costs 2 coins to feed them all. If you do not have enough coins to feed all your Cottage buildings, you can choose which ones remain unfed. However, you cannot hold on to coins if you still have any unfed Cottage buildings you can spend to feed. You must spend your coins to feed Cottage buildings if you can.
Jeweler — You must spend 1 coin if you have it. If you don't, all other players gain 1 coin at the end of the round, including players whose towns are already complete.
Statue — The Statue being constructed counts toward the number of Statues you have. Therefore, if it is the third Statue you built, you gain 1 coin.
Cathedral — A Cathedral adjacent to another Cathedral is worth 0 VP. If, because you don't have 3 coins or choose not to spend it, you remove the Cathedral and construct a Statue, you get the benefit of the Statue (for example, coins for Mine or Statue). If you construct a Shed this way, you may move it to any open space on your board.
Teahouse — Teahouse does not count itself as a unique building type. If there is another Teahouse in the same row or column, then that does count as a unique building type. The most coins you can gain from constructing a Teahouse is 3 coins. If you are counting the unique building types in the same row as Teahouse, then the buildings in the column are not counted, and vice versa.
Parsonage — A Parsonage not adjacent to a fed Cottage is worth 0 VP. You only need to have 1 coin for each Cottage in your town—you don't spend the coin. If you have no coins, you may construct a Parsonage regardless of how many Cottages you have. If you have more than the number of Cottages you still lose all of your coins.
Gamblers' Den — You do not spend the 1 coin.
Museum — No matter how many Museums you have constructed, you may only return 1 resource to the general supply for 1 coin per round. The resources on each Museum may be the same or different.
Oddity Shop — When another player names a resource, you may place the resource on Oddity Shop instead of placing it on your board. At the start of a player's turn as Master Builder, that player may take 1 resource from 1 other player's Oddity Shop, place it on their board, and gain 1 coin from the general supply before naming a resource as Master Builder. You cannot construct buildings immediately after placing a resource from another player's Oddity Shop. If a resource from Oddity Shop fills your board, your town is complete. Resources taken from Oddity Shop cannot be changed by spending coins. Oddity Shop's T-shaped icon denotes that this building can't be used in Town Hall.
Monument Clarifications
Caterina's Grotto — Coins can share a square with a resource cube. If there is already a building on one of the center squares (including Caterina's Grotto itself), you immediately gain the coin that would be placed there. If any coins are left in your town at game end, remove them—they do not count for VP.
The Petal Promenade — You may pay 1 coin to the general supply to place a different resource than the one named by another player, as normal. That new resource still must be placed on a square with a coin and you gain that coin. You may not place resources you name as Master Builder on squares containing coins. If you are the last player whose town is not complete or if it is your turn as Master Builder and you can't place the resource you named on an empty square without a coin, you may place it on a square with a coin, gaining that coin.
Eraflage Vineyard — If there are buildings of the same type in both the same row and column as Eraflage Vineyard, that building type only counts once for -2 VP. Eraflage Vineyard does not count itself when counting building types in the same row and column.
The Prism Forge — For resource cubes that are part of overlapping layouts of buildings that are ready for construction, The Prism Forge allows you to use those cubes twice in the same round to construct 2 unique building types. Resolve the costs and effects of each building separately, as normal.
Estival Festival — If you cannot spend 2 coins, you cannot construct Estival Festival. Leftover coins at game end are worth 2 VP instead of 1 VP.
Southern Semaphore — The additional resource from Southern Semaphore must be placed on an empty square in your town and cannot be placed on or swapped with resources on Factory buildings. This additional resource cannot be changed into another type of resource by any method. With Factory, it is possible to place a different type of resource for the initial resource, but the additional resource must be of the type the Master Builder named.
Hollow Hill — The coin placed on the Hollow Hill card is only for keeping track of negative VP. You may not spend this coin.
Masons' Guild — You must spend the entire amount of coins first. Then construct the buildings one at a time, resolving separately each building's costs and/or benefits.