Basilica: Festum Fatuorum
Basilica: Festum Fatuorum Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preparation
Remove from the game 4 promotion tokens of Master Mason / Strongman (two for each player) and replace them with new promotion tokens of Jester / Strongman.
Mix all new cathedral tiles with those from the base game. Before you start the game, you may discard 6 random tiles from previously shuffled stack and put them back in the box without looking at them.
Order: Altar
The player takes two altar tokens and puts them on two different vault tiles of his choice in the cathedral plan (1 altar per tile). Each stained glass token on the tile with an altar is worth twice more points (during scoring, each stained glass with an altar adds 4 points to the area's value).
Each vault tile with an altar is protected from the effects of a Disaster order.
Each builder on a vault tile with an altar is protected from the effects of the Confuse order (thus the opponent cannot move such a builder).
Altar tokens cannot be put on the scaffolding tiles.
Rank: Jester
During scoring, a vault tile with a builder promoted to a Jester becomes a wild tile with one color more. Thus, the Jester can change a single-color tile into a wild one, and a wild tile into three-color one.
A vault tile with a Jester may be adjacent to wild tiles.
The color of a Jester is chosen by the player who owns him. The color is set just before scoring points phase.
If each player promoted one of his builders to a Jester then the color of each Jester is chosen in secret without telling the other player about it. For example, players can discreetly take a discarded cathedral tile of desired color and then reveal it at the same time.
Note! If the choice of Jester's color leads to forming an area of only one wild tile then it is not scored any points because a single wild tile doesn't create a one-tile area.