Visit a Noble and Sponsor an Event

Lisboa’s Royal Court actions: visiting a Noble and paying Influence, following a visit with a Royal Favor, the three Noble actions — build a store, take a Decree, open a Public Building — and sponsoring an event.

Cards played into the Royal Court (the spaces above the three Nobles’ portraits) give the big actions: a Noble card visits that Noble, a Treasury card sponsors an event.

Action 3: Visit a Noble

To visit a Noble:

1. Play a Noble card of that Noble from your hand into the Royal Court.
2. Put your Courtier on it, so everyone knows whose turn it is if they follow.
3. Spend Influence for the visit (cost below).
4. You may take one of this Noble’s two State actions, without paying a good.
5. You must then take the Noble’s Noble action.

If you can’t carry out the whole Noble action, you can’t visit that Noble. After the visit, the other players may follow; then take your Courtier back and discard the Noble card.

Noble	State actions (one, free)	Noble action
Manuel da Maia, the Builder	Officials · Plan	Build a Store
Marquis de Pombal, the Minister	Ship · Production	Take a Decree
D. José I, the King	Cardinal · Royal Favor	Open a Public Building

Spending Influence to visit

The cost of a Visit or a Follow is:

• the Influence modifier left of the Treasury marker (+1, 0 or −1), plus
• 1 per Official of other players (neutral ones included) in that Noble’s office — not its plaza.

A total below 0 counts as 0. If, and only if, you lack the Influence, pay the rest in wigs, 1 wig per Influence. A board aid beside the offices repeats this formula.

Follow a Visit

After your visit, each other player who has the Royal Favor of that Noble may follow it, in clockwise order:

1. Return the Royal Favor tile to its Noble’s stack.
2. Spend Influence for the visit, as above.
3. Take one of the three actions of that Noble: one State action (no good) or the Noble action.

Followers act inside your turn: the displays are not refilled and goods on the State actions still block them. Sponsored events can’t be followed.

The Noble actions

Each Noble has one big action, done when you visit him, follow him, or through some events.

Take a Decree

[Queen] With the Queen Variant, from brown card 57 on the Queen takes the Marquis’ place and nobody can take Decrees any more.

The Marquis’ action. Take one Decree from the display and put it face up beside your board. Decrees score at the end, only for you, and there is no limit to how many you own (Decree cards).

Extra Decree: if a Rubble Set marker of yours sits on the Marquis, you may discard it to take a second Decree — at most one marker each time you take Decrees. The display is not refilled between the two picks.

Action 4: Sponsor an Event

Play a Treasury card into the Royal Court, pay réis equal to the Treasury value, and take the action or reward in the middle of the card. Nobody can follow an event.

When the event is a Noble action you still pay its own costs: a sponsored store pays the Treasury value twice, once for the event and once in the land price.

Refills during a turn