Belfort: The Expansion Expansion — Rules Manual

BELFORT
THE EXPANSION
EXPANSION

TMG 2013
2"
106"

OFFICIAL HANDBOOK:
DELEGATION & RENOVATION
MADE SIMPLE

EXPANSION
EDITION

PROPERTY OF THE BELFORT
RULES LAWYERS' GUILD

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
COMPONENTS 1
CHANGES TO BASIC SETUP 2
EXPANSION & ASSISTANT SETUP 3
CHOOSING ASSISTANTS 4
USING ASSISTANTS 4
EXPANDING A PROPERTY 7
SCORING EXPANSIONS 10
ENDING THE ROUND 10
APPENDIX: ASSISTANTS 11
APPENDIX: EXPANSIONS 17
APPENDIX: GUILDS 20

Please find enclosed the floor plans for the betterment of each of the different building types in the City of Belfort. These additions to the normal buildings will make your work stand out from that of your competition... which you will need, because the King has cut a month from the project deadline! To help you with this new tighter schedule, we’ve licensed an assortment of Assistants to help you out. They’re a strange bunch, but each of them has skills that should come in handy; although they’re a little inexperienced now, rest assured that they will get better at their jobs as the project progresses.
Good luck, Master Architect!
Loofer J. Grumbleen
Secretary of Memoranda
Belfort Expansion Commission

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COMPONENTS
10 Assistant Tiles
20 Expansion Permits
Name
Base Property to be expanded
Expansion Name
Worker Plank
Red Board
Bonus Scoring
Details
File Photo Token Nest
Phase Clearance
Specialty Name
Specialty Text
Seasonal Values
Describes when this Assistant’s
Specialty is useful.
Some Assistants get a token
(or tokens) here.
Describes how the Assistant’s
Specialty varies according to the
current season.
Explains the Assistant’s Specialty.
2 each of the 10 different Permits.
Displays the cost of
finalizing the Expansion.
A worker must be placed
here (plank costs paid
upon placement) to
initiate the Expansion.
The reason you expand
these things at all.

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Set up the game according to the usual instructions for Belfort. There are only three very simple changes to the main setup:
1. Place the Calendar marker on the first month of the Calendar, instead of “next to” it. (This means of course that the game will have six rounds instead of seven.)
2. Place all Scoring Markers on the 6th space of the Score Track, instead of “near the start”. (This means that players will start feeling the effects of taxes much sooner than in the base game.)
3. Include the new Guilds when determining which will be included in the game. Check the Guilds Appendix to learn all about the new Guilds.
COMPONENTS
CHANGES TO BASIC SETUP
5 new Guild tiles
8 Assistant tokens
Some Assistants come with tokens.
See the Guilds Appendix for details.
Guild
Action
Cost to Build
Guild name

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In a 2 player or 3 player game, play with only one of each Expansion Permit (so ten total). Return all ten duplicate Permits to the box.
Stack the Permits on the top area of the Calendar board. (On the “clip” of the clipboard.) Players are permitted to examine the Permits deck at any time.
Shuffle the Assistant tiles and lay out a display of random Assistants; one more than the number of players. Place the rest back in the box. Optionally, players may agree (using whatever method they like) to select certain Assistants for their game.
Find the Assistant tokens for any Assistant that needs them (if any) and stack the tokens in the token nest of the matching Assistant tile. Leftover tokens are returned to the box.
In a 4 player or 5 player game, play with all twenty Expansion Permits.
EXPANSION SETUP
ASSISTANT SETUP
Example: In this 2-player game we set out three random Assistants. The Giant gets its 3 tokens, and the Goon gets 1. We place them in their nests and return all unused Assistants and tokens to the box.

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Every round, during the Calendar Phase, each player in reverse turn order will choose an Assistant, placing the tile (and any tokens it may come with) face up in front of themselves. There will always be one leftover Assistant each round. Place 1 Gold coin on top of the Assistant that was not chosen. If a Player chooses an Assistant that has Gold on top of it, he collects the Gold as well. Players can use their Assistant in one of two different ways:
1. Use its Specialty
2. Get a new Expansion Permit

CHOOSING ASSISTANTS
Example: Blue is last in turn order so he chooses first. He chooses the Goon, collecting its tile and token.
Next it’s Red’s turn. She chooses the Gargoyle, which means that the Giant is left over. The Giant gets 1 Gold from the supply placed on it.
That’s it for this round, but next round if someone picks the Giant they’ll get to take his Gold as well. If nobody picks him again, he’ll get a second Gold. If somebody does pick him, it’ll be one of the other Assistants that gets the Gold.

USING ASSISTANTS

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To use an Assistant’s Specialty, the player follows the instructions in the Assistant’s Specialty text, then flips the Assistant tile face down to indicate that it’s exhausted for the round.
Assistant Specialties improve as the seasons progress. When the Calendar marker is in a Spring month, apply the Spring value for its specialty. When it’s in Summer apply the Summer value, and when it’s in Autumn, apply the Autumn value.
Example: It’s a Spring month according to the Calendar, and Red wants to use her Gargoyle’s Specialty. The instruction text says to gain X cards, and the Spring value for X is 1... so Red gains 1 card, then flips the Assistant tile face down to indicate that it’s exhausted. In later seasons, that X value grows higher and higher.
1. Use its Specialty
Changing Seasons
Different Assistants’ Specialties are used at different times. Each Assistant tile tells you its Phase Clearance, which is a reminder of when its Specialty is used. Check the Assistants Appendix for precise details.
A time and a place for everything

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To get a new Expansion Permit, the player flips the Assistant over (indicating that it’s exhausted for the round), and then takes any Expansion Permit of their choice that remains in the deck.
The new Permit is tucked under the relevant Property card so that the name and illustration of the completed Expansion is covered.
A player may only do this during their own turn during the Actions Phase.
A player may only choose a Permit if the relevant Property card is already built and in play on the table in front of them.
• Example: During Blue’s turn, he decides to grab a new Expansion Permit. He flips his Assistant face down. Blue has a Pub and a Keep built on the table; he could choose a Permit for either of those, assuming that their Permits remain in the Permits deck. He finds and selects the Pub’s Permit, and slides it up under his Pub card as shown. Blue’s Pub is now ready to be Expanded with a Lodge!
2. Get a new Expansion Permit flipped assistant

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Now that the Property has an Expansion Permit in place, it can be expanded by the owning player. Expanding a Property is a 2-step process. During the Placement Phase, the player may place a Worker onto a plank of the Permit during the normal routine of placing Workers.
• Some planks show a fee. The fee is paid immediately upon placement.
EXPANDING A PROPERTY
Example: Blue places a Dwarf onto the plank of his Pub’s Permit when it’s his turn to place in the Placement Phase. The plank shows a fee of 1 Stone so Blue pays it to the supply.
Step one of Expanding
Gold, Wood, Stone, and Metal fees are paid back into the supply. Property card fees are paid into the discard pile. Buy one get one fee

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During their own turn in the Actions Phase, the player pays the cost shown on the Red Board to reclaim the Worker on the Permit’s plank and expand the Property.
Then, the player slides the Property card down and left so that the Expansion name and illustration are showing. This Property is now fully expanded and its Bonus Scoring becomes active.
Some of the Permits have two planks. If only one of such a Permit’s planks has a Worker on it, the property can not be expanded and the Worker is reclaimed with no effect.
If the cost on the Red Board can not be paid by the player (by choice or for lack of resources), the property can not be expanded and the Worker is reclaimed with no effect.
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Step two of Expanding
Red Board costs of Wood/Stone/Metal/Gold go back to the supply. See the Expansions Appendix for what to do with Red Board costs of other types.
Put it on the pile, I suppose

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Example: During his own turn in the Actions Phase, Blue pays the two stone shown on his Permit’s Red Board back to the supply and reclaims his Dwarf.
Example continued: Blue slides the Pub card down so that the Lodge name and illustration are showing. His Pub is now a Pub+Lodge, and its Bonus Scoring will be in effect in future Scoring Phases!
Bonus Scoring Now Active
Property card slides down to this position

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Scoring is the whole point of adding Expansions to Properties. During every Scoring Phase, each player checks their own fully-expanded Properties and earns bonus points as applicable. At the end of the Round, before the next Calendar Phase, all players return their Assistant tiles (and tokens) face up to the display.

SCORING EXPANSIONS
ENDING THE ROUND

Example: The Bonus Scoring for Blue’s Pub+Lodge says that Blue earns 1 point for every 5 Stone in the combined Build Costs of his built Property cards. Blue has a Pub and a Keep built, which together total 6 Stone. Blue earns 1 bonus point for his Pub+Lodge; the 1 extra Stone is ignored. Hopefully that bonus will be worth more in later Scoring Phases as Blue continues to build Properties featuring Stone!

Check the Expansions Appendix to learn all of the details about every Expansion.

Get the point(s)?

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Tokens:1
Active:
Specialty:
Gnome Transport
Immediately when you choose the Centaur, place
its token on one of your available Gnome Locks,
unlocking it for the turn. This does not count as
“Using its Specialty”.
At the end of the round when Assistants are
returned to the display, the Centaur token is
returned as well, re-locking that Gnome Lock.
Certain effects will need to be “undone” as follows:
The Centaur token does not count as a Gnome for
majority purposes.
Pub or Gardens: Flip one promoted Master
Dwarf or Master Elf (respectively) back to its
normal side.
Gatehouse: Remove any one of your Property
markers from any one Gatehouse on the board.
Activate during the
Actions Phase when you are
hiring a Gnome to get a discount of X on that
hire. This discount applies to the normal
once-per-round Gnome hire that usually costs 3
Gold; not to Gnomes you might get from other
sources such as
Tower Property cards or the
Clipboard Makers’ Guild.
Immediately and Actions Phase
Centaur
Appendix: Assistants

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A-La-Ka-Zamming!
Ative durante a Fase de Ações para:
a) Trocar X pontos por X Metal, OU
Você pode usar os valores de X e Y de uma temporada anterior, se desejar.
b) Trocar X pontos por Y Ouro/Madeira/Pedra
na combinação de sua escolha.
Fase de Ações
Djinn
Blueprint Drafting
Ative no final do seu turno na Fase de Ações
para pegar X cartas de Propriedade em sua mão
da pilha de descarte e/ou da Reserva de Compra,
em qualquer combinação. Quando terminar, reponha
a Reserva de Compra, se necessário.
Fase de Ações (Fim do Turno)
Gargoyle

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Tokens:3
Active:
Specialty:
Haulage
Activate when you pass during the Placement Phase, and stack X Giant tokens in one Resource Area. During Collection, each Giant token counts as (and functions exactly like) one normal Elf or Dwarf (your choice) in that area for collection and for majority towards winning the area’s bonus.
Placement Phase (Passing)
Giant
x3
Tokens:1
Active:
Specialty:
“Sharing”
Activate during the Placement Phase to pay X and immediately place your Goon token instead of placing a Worker. The Goon token must be placed on a Guild plank that is already occupied by an opponent’s Worker (or by a non-player’s Worker in a 2-player game.)
During the Actions Phase, both you and the other player occupying the plank will resolve the Guild as normal. If the Guild’s effect is one that can logically only be performed once per round (like the Assistants’ Guild), then only the earlier player in turn order will be able to resolve the Guild.
Placement Phase
Goon

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Tokens:1
Active:
Specialty:
Stony Gaze
Activate when you pass during the Placement Phase, and place the Gorgon token into a district of your choice.
During their turns in the Actions Phase, other players must pay X to the supply* for permission to build anything (Properties/Guilds/Walls) in that district.
If you build anything (Properties/Guilds/Walls) in that district during your turn of the Actions Phase, collect X from the supply*.
Once per player per turn only, even if building multiple items in the district during the turn.
* Placement Phase (Passing)
Gorgon
Tokens:none
Active:
Specialty:
Cooking the Books
Activate when you are supposed to Pay Your Taxes during the Collection Phase, and do X instead.
Collection Phase (Pay Taxes)
Halfling

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x2
Tokens: none
Active:
Specialty: Corner-cutting
Activate during the Actions Phase. X Properties that you build on this turn (using Property cards from your hand) get a discount of 2 Wood/Stone.
Actions Phase

Hobgoblin
Tokens: 2
Active:
Specialty: Breaking & Entering
Activate when it is your turn during the Placement Phase to immediately place X Imp tokens instead of placing a Worker.
Each Imp may only be placed on an unoccupied, unlocked plank on a built Property card belonging to any player.
If an Imp is placed on an opponent’s plank that has a fee, pay the fee to that player instead of to the supply; if on your own plank that has a fee, pay the fee as normal.
Once an Imp is on a plank, the plank is considered occupied; no other Workers can be placed there this round.
Placement Phase
Imps

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Unlike in the base game of Belfort, the Expansion includes ways that you can lose Dwarves/Elves during the game; specifically due to the Inn+Pool Expansion and the Non-Human Resources Guild. It’s possible that you will lose Master Dwarves/Elves, so a clarification is necessary.
The Rule: You are permitted at any time to assess your unlocked Pubs/Gardens to determine how many Master Dwarves/Elves you are entitled to, then to adjust your Worker tokens to the correct amount of Masters. (For clarity, you are entitled to 1 Master Dwarf/Elf per unlocked Pub/Garden.)
It is possible that you might find yourself with more unlocked Pubs/Gardens than you have Dwarf/Elf tokens. In that situation—following the rule above—once you gain a new Dwarf/Elf, you could immediately assess your Pubs/Gardens and promote the new Worker to a Master if appropriate.
Tokens: none
Active:
Specialty: Adding Value
Activate during your turn in the Actions Phase to immediately choose one district and score it.
The chosen district is scored following all the normal rules used during a Scoring Phase, including all rules for ties. The only difference is that the Pixie’s seasonal scoring values are used instead of the normal scoring values.
Actions Phase
Pixie
Losing Masters

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Planks:1, with a fee of 1 Gold
Red Board:1 Wood + 1 Stone
Bonus Scoring: Earn 1 point for every 3 Gold in your possession, up to a maximum of 4 points per Scoring Phase. Ignore remainders.
(Example: 7 Gold would earn you 2 points.)
(Example: With two Keeps and a Blacksmith built, their combined Build Costs would contain 5 Metal; you would earn 1 point.)
(Example: With a Gardens and two Banks built, their combined Build Costs would contain 11 Wood; you would earn 2 points.)
Bank+Treasury
Planks:1, with a fee of 1 Wood
Red Board:2 Wood
Bonus Scoring: Earn 1 point for every 5 Wood found in the combined Build Costs of your built Property cards on the table in front of you. Ignore remainders.
Gardens+Pavilion
Planks:1, with a fee of 1 Metal
Red Board:1 Metal
Bonus Scoring: Earn 1 point for every 3 Metal found in the combined Build Costs of your built Property cards on the table in front of you. Ignore remainders.
Blacksmith+Foundry
Appendix: Expansions

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(Example: 4 Walls would earn you 4 points.)
(Example: Property markers in 3 different districts would earn you 3 points.)
(Example: 3 cards would earn you 2 points.)
(Example: 3 Dwarves, 4 Elves, and 5 Gnomes, would earn you 3 Points.)
Planks:1, with a fee of 1 Gold
Red Board:1 Wood + 1 Stone
Bonus Scoring: Earn 1 point for every Wall that you’ve built.
Gatehouse+Barracks
Planks:2, with no fees
Red Board:1 Dwarf* or 1 Elf*
Bonus Scoring: Earn 1 point for every complete set of Workers (Dwarf + Elf + Gnome) you have.
Inn+Pool
*This Worker goes back into the supply.
Planks:1, with a fee of 1 Gold
Red Board:2 Gold
Bonus Scoring: Earn 1 point for each district in which you have at least one Property marker.
Keep+Chapel
*These cards go into the discard pile.
Planks:1, with a fee of 2 Property cards*
Red Board:No cost
Bonus Scoring: Earn 1 point for every 2 Property cards in your hand, rounding up.
Library+Archives
See the Losing Masters note on page 16

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(Example: 2 Guilds would earn you 2 points.)
(Example: With a Pub, a Tower, and a Keep
built, their combined Build Costs would
contain 9 Stone; you would earn 1 point.)
(Example: With three Expansion Permits in
your possession, you’d earn 3 points.)
Planks:2, with no fees
Red Board:2 Wood/Stone
Bonus Scoring: Earn 1 point for every
Guild that you have built.
Market+Plaza
Planks:1, with a fee of 1 Stone
Red Board:2 Stone
Bonus Scoring: Earn 1 point for every 5
Stone found in the combined Build Costs
of your built Property cards on the table
in front of you. Ignore remainders.
Pub+Lodge
Planks:1, with no fee
Red Board:1 Gnome*
Bonus Scoring: Earn 1 point for every
Expansion Permit (expanded or not) that
you own.
*When a Gnome is discarded (back to
the supply) from a Gnome Lock, certain
effects will need to be “undone”. Pub or
Gardens: Flip one promoted Master
Dwarf or Master Elf (respectively) back
to its normal side. Gatehouse: Remove
any one of your Property markers from
any one Gatehouse on the board.
Tower+Scriptorium

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These five new Guilds can be included in your selection of Guilds when setting up your game. (Although to use the Assistants’ and Planners‘ Guilds you must be playing with the full Expansion Expansion.) Note the new type of resolution timing: “On Placement”, as seen on the Assistants’ and Non-Human Resources Guilds.
Appendix: Guilds
BASIC GUILDS
Cost:
Action: Immediately when you place your Worker here during the Placement Phase, take the remaining Assistant tile from the display (plus its tokens if it has any and any Gold that is on it). You may use this Assistant this round (in addition to using your original Assistant), following all of its normal rules of use.
ASSISTANTS’ GUILD
Cost:
Action: Draw 1 Property card from the deck.
Second Action: You get one additional Trading Post visit during this Actions Phase.
Third Action: You may hire a Gnome for 1 Gold. This hire does not count towards the normal 1-per-round Gnome hiring limit.
CLIPBOARD MAKERS’ GUILD

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Cost:
Action: Choose 2 of your own Property
markers on the board and “decorate” them by
placing a Gold coin from the supply under each
one. During the Scoring Phase, any “decorated”
marker is counted as 1.5 Property markers
when calculating majority for its district.
For example if you have 3 markers in a
district and one of them is decorated, that
counts as 3.5 Property markers towards
winning the district’s majority.
For example you could take 2 Elves and a
Dwarf upon placement, then return 3 Elves at
the end of your turn in the Action Phase.
DECORATORS’ GUILD
Cost:
Action: Immediately when you place your
Worker here during the Placement Phase, take
any combination of 3 Elves/Dwarves from the
supply. At the end of your turn in the
Action
Phase, return any combination of 3
Elves/Dwarves to the supply.
NON-HUMAN RESOURCES GUILD
Cost:
Action: Take up to 2 Expansion Permits for
Property cards that you have built on the table in front of you; treat them exactly as if you’d obtained them through the normal method.
PLANNERS’ GUILD
See the
Losing
Masters note
on page 16

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Jay and Sen would like to thank the following people for their invaluable playtesting:
Daryl Andrews, Logan Beck, Erik Bensen, Michael Black, Elly Boersma, Eric Bonny, Todd
Bradshaw, Beau Brennen, Michelle Breukelman, Richard Bright, Abby Broadbent, Clint
Broadbent, Steve Carlson, Jacob Catterson, Matt Condomitti, Xavier Cousin, Alfred Darlington,
Rod Davidson, Rob Davidson, Christina DeWoehrel, Thomas Donnelly, Ryan Driskel, Joe
Drozdik, Richard Drozdik, Steven Duff, Rich Durham, Cristina Evangelista, Raul Evangelista,
Quinton Foroozani, Renee Freeby, Lee Freeby, Nori Gilo, Debbie Godley, Daniel Grant, Bridget
Gray, Shayne Gray, Patrick “The Panda” Grogan, Stacey Haan, Peter Hansell, Chandler
Hassing, Forrest Hatch, Norma Jean Heart, John Heder, Corey Herberg, Ben Hillyard, Whitney
Hillyard, Ursula Hoever, Alex Holmes, James Irish, Mike Issac, Brent Kamenka, Lindsay Keazer,
D. K. Kemler, Matthew Klure, Michaella Kolb, Andrew Kotewa, R.J. LaMore, Becky Lane, Gary
Lane, Jake Lindberg, Ray Long, Kyla Lupo, Vince Lupo, Alex Martins, Beth Marunczak, Andrew
Mayes, Mark Mayes, Pamela Mayes, Matthew Mayes, Neil McMenamin, Marie McMenamin,
Kerry Melfi, Matt Musselman, Jordan Neo42, Rocket Nova, Joel Oroczo, Dennis Palmero, Ben
Penner, Dmitry Portnoy, Mandy Proctor, Emily Rahn, Steven Riola, Shawn Roberts, Matthew
Robinson, Mary Beth Schuler, Jamie Seebald, Paul Seebald, Paul Seetachitt, Wayne Shepherdson,
David Short, Greg Slaa, Ellie Slowiak, Zack Stackurski, Jasmine Tan, Ethan Teller, Jeff Temple,
Jeff Thornsen, Brian Thorpe, Nathan Tong, Rachelle Toupence, Kirby Van Vliet, Andrew Walsh,
Karen Walsh, Mike Walsh, Phil “I Hate This Game” Wiecek, Cody Wiersema, Brandon Wilson,
Mary Wilson, Brent Wilson, Kathy Wilson, Darryl A. Wolfe, Amanda Harrison Wong, James
Wong, Kenneth “The Wynner” Wynne, and Ron Zelman.
Copyright and Trademark 2013
Tasty Minstrel Games, L.L.C.
www.playtmg.com
Game Design
Jay Cormier
& Sen-Foong Lim
Graphic Design
and rules editing
Joshua Cappel
Game Development
Seth Jaffee

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