Full Game: Leaders

Lorenzo il Magnifico's advanced rules: drafting the advanced Personal Bonus Tiles, the Leader draft, requirements, playing, discarding and activating Leaders, and all 20 base-game Leaders.

The advanced rules

The basic game is for learning. From your second game add two things:

1. Advanced Personal Bonus Tiles. Lay the tiles out advanced side up. In reverse turn order, each player picks one. Each tile has its own mix of Harvest and Production bonuses.
2. Leader cards. Shuffle the 20 Leaders and deal 4 to each player. Keep one, pass the rest to the player on your right, and repeat until everyone holds 4.

[HoR] With Houses of Renaissance the Family tile auction comes between these two steps (setup changes).

Leader cards

Each Leader shows requirements at the top and an ability at the bottom.

• Requirements are not costs. You only need to have them when you play the card — cards of a type, resources, or points on a track. Losing them later changes nothing.
• A “MAXIMUM” requirement is met by any amount up to it, including 0.
• The ability is either once per round (marked “1x”) or permanent.

Leader actions

During the Actions phase, on your turn, you may take any number of Leader actions without placing a Family Member, before or after your placement:

Action	How
Discard a Leader	Discard a Leader from your hand for 1 Council Privilege. It leaves the game.
Play a Leader	If you meet its requirements, put it face up next to your Personal Board.
Use a once-per-round ability	Turn the played Leader face down and resolve the ability.

Permanent abilities simply apply whenever they fit — and you must use them. At the end of the round turn every face-down Leader face up again.

The 20 Leaders

Picture	Leader, requirements and ability
Francesco Sforza	5 Ventures; 1x: Harvest at value 1; only servants can raise it. FAQ
—	Ludovico Ariosto — 5 Characters. Permanent: place Family Members on occupied action spaces.
—	Filippo Brunelleschi — 5 Buildings. Permanent: never pay the 3 coins for an occupied tower.
—	Sigismondo Malatesta — 7 , 3 . Permanent: your uncoloured Family Member gets +3.
—	Girolamo Savonarola — 18 . 1x: gain 1 .
—	Michelangelo Buonarroti — 10 . 1x: receive 3 .
—	Giovanni dalle Bande Nere — 12 . 1x: receive 1 , 1 , 1 .
—	Leonardo da Vinci — 4 Characters, 2 Territories. 1x: Production at value 0; only servants can raise it.
Sandro Botticelli	10 ; 1x: gain 2 and 1 .
—	Ludovico il Moro — 2 cards of each type. Permanent: coloured Family Members are worth 5 whatever the dice.
—	Lucrezia Borgia — 6 cards of one type. Permanent: coloured Family Members get +2.
—	Federico da Montefeltro — 5 Territories. 1x: one coloured Family Member is worth 6 this round.
—	Lorenzo de’ Medici — 35 . Permanent: copy the ability of a Leader another player has played; the choice is final.
—	Sisto IV — 6 , 6 , 6 , 6 . Permanent: +5 whenever you support the Church.
—	Cesare Borgia — 3 Buildings, 12 , 2 . Permanent: ignore the Military requirement for Territories.
—	Santa Rita — 8 . Permanent: wood, stone, coins and servants from a card’s immediate effect come twice.
—	Cosimo de’ Medici — 2 Characters, 4 Buildings. 1x: receive 3 and 1 .
—	Bartolomeo Colleoni — 2 Ventures, 4 Territories. 1x: gain 4 .
—	Ludovico III Gonzaga — 15 . 1x: receive 1 .
—	Pico della Mirandola — 4 Ventures, 2 Buildings. Permanent: 3 coins off any card with a coin cost (not off the 3-coin tower fee).

Leader rulings

• Ludovico il Moro is compulsory: a rolled 6 becomes 5.
• Lucrezia Borgia’s and Sigismondo Malatesta’s bonuses add to servants and Character bonuses.
• Brunelleschi also waives the 3 coins when a card effect takes a card from an occupied tower.
• Pico della Mirandola works on every card you take, any number of times a turn.
• Santa Rita doubles only immediate effects of Development cards, not action spaces.

[HoR] Houses of Renaissance adds 20 more Leaders, some with an action ability — a private action space (new Leaders). [Pazzi] The Pazzi Conspiracy adds 4 (its Leaders).