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Tempest: Patronize

Patronage in Tempest

The Saga of Tempest continues, as do the power struggles in Tempest. Now some of the powers that be want to transform Tempest into a center of culture and achieve immortality for their family names by supporting protégés who excel in arts and science to acquire fame.

A round of the game comprises striving for fame, determine the winner, reward the participants of the round and finally reward those who passed.

You turn up a fame card, it determines the rule for the round. For striving for fame action you play a character and can - once in the game - protect it with your protection cube or you pass. If you played a character you win the trick depending on influence values of characters and trump markers on the fame card and become the new starting player, furthermore you win the fame card and an achievement cube in the character's color. Then all other players s who did play a character, take an achievement cube according to the character they played and one according to the character played by the next neighbor in clockwise order. If you protected your character you take him for a protégé; then all others who passed take one of the unprotected characters that were played, or an achievement cube. After 5 to 7 such rounds you score victory points for fame cards, protégés and special abilities as well as special abilities and achievements; for each card in hand you must deduct 10 points.

A total of only 24 cards provide again, in this new edition, a fantastic game with lots of in-game depth, challenging interaction and the permanent dilemma of deciding between passing and playing or protecting or not.

Players: 3-5

Age: 14+

Time: 20+

Designer: Hisashi Hayashi

Artist: Edward Bolme, Kalissa Fitzgerald und Team

Price: ca. 22 Euro

Publisher: Alderac Entertainment 2014

Web: www.alderac.com

Genre: Trick-taking

Users: With friends

Version: en

Rules: de en fr jp

In-game text: yes

Comments:

New edition, first edition Okazu Brand 2013

Knowledge of cards an advantage

Kartenkenntnis von Vorteil

Compares to:

Patronize, Okazu Brand, Love Letter for number of cards and game depth versus expenditure

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0