SEASONS

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OBJECTIVE OF SEASONS: The objective of Seasons is to get more crystals than other players using season dice and power cards.

NUMBER OF PLAYERS: 2 to 6

MATERIALS:

• 1 game board, called the wheel of seasons
• 1 scoreboard, called the crystal track
• 4 personal boards (1 per player)
• 4 types of energy tokens: water, earth, fire and air.
• 20 season dice, 5 per season
• 16 coloured wizard cubes (4 per player)
• 2 black cubes (marker of seasons and years)
• 50 power cards
• 8 Library tokens (2 per player, for years II and III)

TYPE OF GAME: cards-with-dice management game

AUDIENCE: teen, adult

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OVERVIEW OF SEASONS

In Seasons, each player plays the role of a wizard in a major tournament spread over three years. During each season, the wizards will have to make the most of the elements to summon powerful magical objects or familiars that will help them to obtain the most crystals, in order to become the most famous wizard.

With each season, the available dice change, forcing players to adapt and plan their strategy in advance, choosing the right time to play or activate their power cards.

SETUP

Place the game board in the centre of the table, then place the year marker cube on the Year 1 square in the centre of the board, and the season marker cube on the Year 1 square of the season wheel.

Place next to the board :

• as many dice of each colour as players +1
• the crystal track
• the energy stock

Each player takes an individual board, 2 library tokens and 4 sorcerer’s cubes of their colour, and places the cubes as follows:

• one on the zero square of the crystal track
• one on the zero square of the hundreds, at the top of the crystal track.
• one on the zero square of his bonus track, on his board
• one on the zero square of its summoning gauge

Deal out 9 face-down cards per player, and place the remaining cards near the board to make up the draw pile.

Example of a two player game setup

GAMEPLAY

Draft and strategy building

Choice of 9 power cards

• Each player consults the 9 power cards that have been dealt to him, then chooses one and places it face down in front of him.
• Each player places the remaining 8 cards face down in front of their left hand neighbour.
• Each player then chooses a new card from the 8 cards passed by his neighbour, and passes the others to his neighbour, and so on until each player has chosen 9 cards.
• From the 9 power cards chosen, each player makes up 3 packs of 3 cards. He then takes the first deck in hand, and places the second and third decks of cards under the Library II and III tokens, face down. These cards will be recovered by the player at the beginning of years 2 and 3.

The youngest player is the first player.

Start of the round

The first player takes the dice of the seasons corresponding to the current season, indicated by the season marker, and throws them. Starting with the first player, then taking turns clockwise, each player then chooses a dice and places it in front of him. The remaining dice is kept, it will indicate at the end of the round the number of squares to move the season marker.

The players’ turn

The first player performs his actions during his turn:

• Carry out the actions of his season dice.
• summon one or more of his power cards.
• Activate one or more of his power cards.
• Use one or more bonuses from his individual board.

Then each players plays his entire turn, in clockwise order.

End of the round

When all players have chosen their dice and resolved their actions, the season marker is advanced by a number of squares equal to the points on the remaining die (the one not chosen by any player).

If the season marker goes beyond square 12 (late autumn), the year marker is moved one square forward on the year scale. Players then take the power cards they had placed at the beginning of the game under the library token corresponding to the current year.

The left-hand neighbour of the first player becomes the first player, and a new round begins. He rolls the dice for the season indicated by the season marker on the season wheel.

The dice of the seasons

• Energy symbol (air, water, earth, fire): receive for each symbol an energy of the indicated type and place it in your reserve, if it’s not full.
• Number: Receive as many crystals as the number indicated, thus moving your wizard cube on the crystal track.
• Four-point circle: you can crystallize during the turn.
• Star: Increase your summoning gauge by 1 (move the wizard cube on your board).
• Card: Draw a power card from the deck.
• Points: At the end of the round, the season marker will advance as many squares as there are points on the remaining die.

The actions “receive energies” and “receive crystals” from the season dice must be performed before doing any other action. The other actions on the season dice may or may not be performed at any time during the player’s turn.

The energies

There are four types of energy:

• water: blue drop symbol, associated with winter
• earth: green leaf symbol, associated with spring
• fire: yellow flame symbol, associated with summer
• air: red feather symbol, associated with autumn

Crystallizing energies

During his turn, a player can, if he has a die that allows him to do so, crystallise energies from his reserve to transform them into crystals. The number of crystals obtained per crystallised energy depends on the rarity of the energy at the time it is crystallised.

Table of energy scarcity according to season

	common	unusual	rare
Winter	water/air	fire	earth
Spring	earth/air	air	fire
Summer	earth/fire	earth	air
Autumn	fire/air	water	water
Crystals obtained	1	2	3

Note: other effects, such as one of the bonuses, or certain cards, also allow you to crystallize energies, sometimes at a different conversion rate.

Power cards

In addition to earning victory points at the end of the game (shown at the top left of the card), power cards have many effects on the course of the game. In order to be able to use their effects, they must be summoned, i.e. be put into play. In order to summon a power card, you must: 카지노사이트

• pay its summoning cost, by discarding the type and number of energies and/or crystals indicated just below its image (some cards have a varying cost depending on the number of players)
• have a sufficient summoning gauge to summon them: the value of the summoning gauge corresponds to the total number of power cards a player may have in play (if a player has a 3 gauge and 1 power card in play, he may still summon 2 more power cards)

Once all these criteria have been met, the power card is placed in front of the player and considered to be in play. It is recommended to read the effect(s) of the card to the opponents. These effects are indicated at the bottom of the card, under its summoning cost.

The visible background colour on the power cards represents their type: purple for magical objects, orange for familiars.

The different types of effect of the power cards, visible at the bottom left of each card, are as follows:

– Arrival effects in the game: represented by a downward pointing arrow, this effect is triggered only once, only when the