Paladins of the West Kingdom
143 questions players ask about Paladins of the West Kingdom. Pick one for the answer. See also the full rulebook.
Updated 2026-11-03.
Setup and Round Structure
- What happens to a Paladin card after you use it for the round?
- Do a Paladin's attribute boosts move my Faith, Strength or Influence markers?
- In what order do players reveal Paladins and choose Tavern cards?
- Are Tavern cards revealed before or after players pick their Paladin?
- How many Workers do I have at the start of a round?
- How many Workers can I carry into the next round, and do Workers gained after I pass count?
- Can I discard a Tavern card as soon as I take it instead of rotating it?
- When are the Townsfolk and Outsider rows refilled?
- Do Townsfolk and Outsider discards get reshuffled, and does adding promo cards matter?
- Are King's Orders revealed before players pick their starting Townsfolk?
- Do I get a Townsfolk's rewards when I take my starting Townsfolk, and which side is used?
- Are Silver, Provisions, Workers or Debt cards limited?
- Which Paladins come back around in later rounds?
- What are the black Workers in the base game?
Taking Actions and Workers
- Are an action's rewards and penalties mandatory?
- Can a reward from an action, such as Silver, pay for that same action?
- In what order do multiple rewards, Townsfolk triggers and Inquisitions resolve?
- Can I place fewer Workers than an action needs and finish it later?
- Which Workers can go on transparent and coloured action spaces?
- Is there a limit on how many times I can take each action?
- What happens if I gain Faith, Strength or Influence at the top of the track?
- Can I Commission or Garrison when there is no open space on the main board?
- Can I Attack or Convert when no Outsider is available?
- Can I use the Worker I gain from a Workshop to pay for the same Develop?
- Can I have several Townsfolk with the same name?
Player Board Actions
- Where do Workers removed by Pray go?
- Can Pray remove Workers from a King's Favour card?
- Can Pray clear any of my player-board actions, even the one I am resolving or the Pray space itself?
- Do I pay 2 Silver when I get a Pray from Absolve, Commission, Garrison or a King's Favour?
- Can the Pray I gain from an action clear the Workers I just used for it?
- Where can I put a Workshop when I Develop?
- Can I Develop onto an action space that already holds a Worker?
- How many Workers does a developed action need?
- Does a Develop from a King's Favour cost Silver, and do I gain the Worker underneath?
- What is the difference between Recruiting with one Worker and two?
- Do I still pay the Townsfolk's Silver cost when I only dismiss it?
- Does a free Recruit reward let me dismiss a Townsfolk, and can I take a Debt for it?
- Where do recruited Townsfolk go, and do I pay the board's cost twice?
- Is there a limit on how many Townsfolk I can recruit?
- Do Criminals from a Tavern card count as taking Conspire?
- How do Hunt and Trade work with one or two Workers?
- What do the numbers on the Absolve Jars mean?
Commission, Garrison, Absolve, Attack and Convert
- Is removing a Suspicion card when I Absolve mandatory or optional?
- Can I take Absolve if I have no Suspicion cards to remove?
- Does Absolve always remove a Suspicion, even when the Jar space also removes one?
- Does raising Faith remove Suspicion?
- Can I Commission or Garrison onto a space whose reward I cannot use, like Pay a Debt with no Debt?
- How do Faith and Strength limit where I can place Monks and Outposts?
- When I Commission or Garrison onto a Recruit icon, do I keep the Townsfolk?
- Can I Attack with 0 Strength?
- Can the Silver I earn from attacking pay for that same Attack's silver boost?
- Is there a limit on Attacks, and where do Attacked Outsiders go?
- How many Outsiders can I Convert?
- On the Faith, Strength and Influence tracks, do I score every step or only my highest position?
Tax, Suspicion and the Inquisition
- Who gains a Debt and who discards Suspicion during an Inquisition?
- If I have just one Suspicion card at an Inquisition, do I discard it?
- Which Suspicion cards do I discard, and can I choose?
- Is Suspicion public information?
- What if a Suspicion card or reward pays more Silver than is left in the Tax supply?
- Does Silver I pay go to the Tax supply?
- Do I gain Suspicion for a Criminal from any source?
- If an action triggers an Inquisition, do I finish the action first?
- In what order do Conspirator, Peddler and Squire resolve during an Inquisition?
- Can an Inquisition trigger another Inquisition?
- What if the Debt cards run out?
- How do Debts score, and does destroying a paid Debt cost points?
- If a Townsfolk's Silver empties the Tax supply, can the resulting Debt be cleared by that same action?
- What happens when the Suspicion deck is empty?
- How does the promo Suspicion card showing 2 Provisions work?
King's Orders and King's Favours
- Can more than one player use the same King's Favour in a round?
- Do King's Favour actions cost the usual Silver or Provisions?
- Do I have to take a Debt for the King's Favour that gives a red, blue and green Worker?
- Does a King's Favour Recruit let me choose between hiring and dismissing?
- How do King's Orders score?
- When are King's Orders and Favours revealed?
Townsfolk and Paladins
- When does a Townsfolk's ability trigger relative to its action?
- Do Townsfolk abilities trigger when I gain the action as a bonus or during an Inquisition?
- If several Townsfolk reward the same action do I get all of them?
- Do the bottom icons of a Townsfolk apply when I dismiss it?
- Can I discard one of my own recruited Townsfolk?
- How do Traitors, Mercenaries and Champions score?
- How do Peddler, Squire and Conspirator work at an Inquisition?
- Does the Architect trigger when I gain a Workshop from a King's Favour?
- Does the Patron promo trigger on every Pray, including free ones?
Outsiders and End-Game Scoring
- Do Silver and Provisions combine when scoring 1 VP per 3?
- How are ties broken?
- Which sets must I complete to score at the end?
- Do attacked Outsiders score or count for converted Outsiders' bonuses?
- Can I convert the same Outsider twice to score it twice?
- Can an Outsider's Silver reward come from the Tax supply and trigger an Inquisition?
Solo Play
- What does the solo AI do when it cannot carry out the action on its Scheme card?
- How many cards does the AI check on its resource track before falling back?
- When does the solo AI shuffle its Scheme deck?
- What does the solo AI's Pray clear, and where do the Workers go?
- Does the solo AI hire Townsfolk or dismiss them?
- Does the solo AI take a Townsfolk during setup?
- Does the solo AI use Paladins or Tavern Workers?
- Does the solo AI care about Worker colour?
- Does the solo AI pay Silver or Provisions?
- How far does the AI's Resource Marker move when it gains resources?
- When does the AI take Silver from the Tax supply?
- What does the AI do when it must remove Suspicion or a Debt but has none?
- How does the solo AI choose among King's Orders?
- How does the AI pick a King's Favour and which option does it take?
- When a King's Favour lets the AI raise an Attribute, which one?
- Where do the solo King's Favour Scheme cards go, and when do they enter play?
- How does the AI choose where to place a Commission or Garrison?
- Can the AI Attack or Convert with low attributes, and does it pay Silver for Attacks?
- How many Workshops does the solo AI have and does it score them?
- How does the solo AI score converted Outsiders and its Walls?
- Can the promo King's Order that needs you to pay Debts be used in solo?
- What extra step does solo need in round 3?
- Can two humans play against the solo AI?
- How does the AI's round work: who goes first, how often does it draw, and what is cleared?
- Does the solo AI take part in an Inquisition?
Paladins of the West Kingdom: City of CrownsExpansion
- Can I place several Workers on a Muster card like on a King's Favour?
- How does Muster work with the Diplomat?
- What are the secret King's Orders in City of Crowns?
- How does Negotiate/Enlist set scoring work?
- Does Entrust cost the usual action costs, and does the boost add to my Paladin?
- Where does the extra starting Workshop go?
- Can a built Workshop be moved?
- Is a Worker an Ally gives when I pass counted before the 3-Worker limit?
- How does the draw-4 Paladin rule work with promos and all 20 Paladins?
- Is City of Crowns compatible with Tomesaga?
- How does the solo AI use Muster cards?
- What does the AI gain when a Townsfolk's Move Workshop option has no alternative?
- If a Criminal on a Muster card returns to me, do I gain Suspicion again, and can I resolve in my chosen order?
Paladins of the West Kingdom: 2019 PromosExpansion
Paladins of the West Kingdom: The Vassals Mini-ExpansionExpansion
The West Kingdom TomesagaExpansion
- In what order are the Tomesaga campaign games played?
- How many Provisions does the Paladins tome give for the unchosen Tavern card?
- Do temporary Paladin boosts count toward a Tome's attribute requirement?
- When are tomes gained, and who gets a Tome when two players qualify together?
- Do face-up tome abilities carry to the next game?
- How much must I win by for a Major Victory?
- In Paladins co-op can I give my partner an action's rewards?
- Do bonus actions remove Overlord Workers from threat cards?