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Cartographers - Rules of the board game

Cartographers

The rules of the game are available for download in the following languages:

  • English
  • Deutsch

Extra information

If you cannot legally draw one of the available shapes, then you must draw, anywhere on the map, a 1x1 square instead:

  • If if is a monster, you must draw a monster
  • in all other cases, you may choose any terrain type (except mountains)

Spaces that share a side with each other are adjacent.

Shapes can be rotated and flipped as needed.

Ruins don't apply to monsters.

2 different edicts are scored at the end of each season:

  • 8 Spring: A & B
  • 8 Summer: B & C
  • 7 Fall: C & D
  • 6 Winter: D & A

Click on the edicts to see how they score stars on the map.

There are 6 terrain types:

  • Water
  • Farm
  • Village
  • Forest
  • Monster
  • Mountain

Wasteland spaces are filled spaces.

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Credits

Special thanks to:

  • Thunderworks Games
  • Pegasus Spiele
  • Gen X games
  • Intrafin
  • Jordy Adan
  • Luis Francisco
  • Lucas Ribeiro
  • Keith Matejka
  • Ori Avtalion
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