Capek Golems is a card game for two players who take on the roles of
competing engineer-alchemists trying to create Capek Golems, creatures
who are an amalgam of steampunk technology and biological raw materials.
Players will be using cards to buy scientific inquiry and field
research resources racing to activate their golems before the tide of
public outrage turns against them. A Public Outrage Track is used for
this. If this track reaches (25) both players will lose, so they must
work cooperatively to keep the public at ease about their experiments
while still competing against each other.
Requirements:
For this game you’ll need the deck of 54 cards consisting of:
• 12 Capek Golem body part cards, 6 per player
• 39 game cards showing areas of scientific inquiry, gold coins and field research journal entries
• 3 cards which make up the Auction House and Public Outrage Track
• 40 markers for the Capek Golem cards (eurocubes work well)
[Alternately you can use 6d6 per player, placing one die on each Golem
card and rotating the die up each time a resource is gained towards the
specified total.] and one additional marker for the Public Outrage Track
To win a player must activate all six parts of their Capek Golem.
Activating a single card includes having all Field Research resources as
well as playing one set of Scientific Inquiry cards matching the number
total on one of the two colored circular icons. If the Public Outrage
Track ever reaches (25) both players lose the game.
Play:
A player may do any of the following actions but may do each action only once during that turn:
1. Buy cards from the Auction Area and play them immediately or place it in your hand.
Purchase a single card at its Auction value by discarding cards with an
equal or greater number of gold coins. Then discard it immediately and
take Field Research resources as indicated, and move the token up or
down the Public Outrage Track, or place the card in your hand and use it
later on for its gold value or to complete a Scientific Inquiry set.
Repeat buying a card as desired.
2. Discard a set of Scientific Inquiry cards and mark gained resources on your Capek Golem Cards.
Discarding a completed set, matching both a color and number as
indicated on a Capek Golem card, allows you to place a marker in that
resource area, helping to activate that card. You can choose either of
the two color types to collect for a set, but you cannot make a set with
a mix of both colors. There are 3 special wild cards in the game which
may be used in any set and can take the place of one or two cards (as
marked). If you use one of these cards in a Scientific Inquiry set, you
must move the token on the Public Outrage Track as indicated.
3. Discard one card to draw two new cards from the Draw Pile.
A player may discard any one card from his hand to draw two new cards from the Draw Pile.
Additional Rules of Play:
If at the start of a player’s turn the player has fewer than two cards
in hand, they should draw two cards from the Draw Pile before completing
any of the three actions.
If the Draw Pile is ever exhausted, shuffle the Discard Pile and create a new Draw Pile.
If at any time the marker is moved to the (25) space on the Public
Outrage Track the game ends immediately and both players lose.
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