Open Season
In Open Season, you play as a monster — a little cruel, but wishing to do things right — who has decided to take revenge on the groups of adventurers who come to disturb their peace. After getting rid of them, you still have to decorate your living room properly, so you try to assemble a nice collection of heads on the wall.
The game takes place over nine rounds, then players score. Players take turns clockwise, doing the following on their turn:
1. Fill the market to five face up cards.
2. Take a card from the market, and place it on a free space on their board.
3. Trigger any bonus actions; these three actions are associated with the top three slots of your player board, and you trigger one when you place a card in your reserve matching a person associated with one of the three actions. If by activating a bonus action, a new card is placed in your reserve, it can trigger another bonus action.
On your player board
- All slots in the top row must contain different peoples and/or face down cards.
- The two cards on either side of the "Different" symbol must be of different peoples and/or face down cards.
- All slots in the bottom row must contain different peoples and/or face down cards.
After nine rounds, the game ends, then players count their points.
Number of players: 2 - 4
Game duration: 22 mn
Complexity: 3 / 5
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Rules summary
Overview
The game lasts 11 rounds
(Note that the Frieze and Scoring descriptions here apply to the Horn side of the player board, not the Shield side.)
Turn
The turn comprises of 7 steps
First, refill the inn to 5 cards
Second, move all cards from Stock into Accolades
Third, take two cards from the Inn display into your hand
Fourth, place a single card following placement rules
Fifth, place the other hand card into your Stock
Sixth, potentially trigger actions
Seventh, if you have any you may add a trophy to a card
Placement Rules
For step 4, you will be placing a single card on your Wall to an empty location
If you can't follow ANY placement rules, pick a card to place facedown somewhere instead
The Wall is divided up into Friezes
If a Frieze has a cross through '=' then all the cards in that Frieze must be unique (or hidden)
If a Frieze has a round number on it, its effects trigger if a card is played to it in that round
The Frieze with the cup, if played to in the first 4 rounds, lets you upgrade your Cartouche with the new banner (from 4 to 7)
The Frieze with the four tokens can be completed by round 6, if 3 cards are played there by then, which gains you the four tokens and a penalty token
The Frieze with multiple round options (1-2, 3-4, 5-6) gains you a reward based on the round you played to it, which gains you either a number of Trophies or a wild token
Action Triggering
Once you have cards played on the top row, you have the chance to trigger extra actions
Each space shows you what action will happen if you are able to trigger it
To trigger it, the card you put to your stock in step 6 must match a card in the top row
Trophies
For step 7, you can place a single Trophy if you have any
A Trophy can only be placed on cards in the 1st or 3rd row, and a card can be given multiple Trophies on different turns
If you place it on the 1st row, you get to trigger one of the actions as long as you did not already trigger that same action in step 6
If you place it on the 3rd row, it will count as an extra card of the same type in your accolades
Game End
The game ends at the end of the 11th round, at which point all Walls will be complete
If anyone is holding a card, this is moved to their Accolades
Reveal all your Accolades and sort them by beings
If you hold a Wild Token, place it on either a card on your Wall or a card in your Accolades and declare the attribute it will represent
Red Trophies are negative points, each card that matches this in your Accolades loses you this many points
Each Accolade card matching a Wall card next to a gold Trophy gains that many points, as well as any Trophies added to it
The wall card next to the plus symbol gives 10 points if you have the most accolades of that type
Facedown Wall cards lose you 5 points
2 points per chosen attribute, regardless of being
4 or 7 points for each set of 5 unique attributes, regardless of being
Three of a kind in the allocated Frieze, score 5 points
Lose 1 point for each copy of an attribute you have the least of, this could be 0
The player with the most points, wins!
If tied, the player with fewer cards in their Accolades wins!
