Scenarios

Portal Games' scenario sheets for the 3rd edition: Fashion Week in Essen with Evergreen Designs, Modern Times with the Quality Control location, Hype Train and High Stakes Rewards.

Short tag: [Scenario]

Portal Games published scenario sheets that change a few rules. Play one (or Hype Train and High Stakes Rewards together); everything not mentioned follows the normal rules.

Fashion week in Essen

The Essen 2019 promo sheet (BoardGameGeek page).

• Dropping Quality — location 7 (Warehouse) gives no tokens.
• Craving for Uniqueness — whenever players tie in any category, none of them gains Prestige.
• Evergreen Designs — in the Collection Sale of rounds III, VI and IX, after taking your Cash you may keep 1 Design of your Collection (its Materials are still discarded) as your Evergreen Design: mark it with a grey round token as the sheet shows and put 2 on it. At the next Exhibition, keeping the current Evergreen Design instead of choosing a new one adds 2 more Prestige to it. In the Show phase of rounds VI, IX and XII, if your Collection is in the Evergreen Design’s Style you gain its Prestige; otherwise those tokens go back to the supply.

Modern times

• Bank — once per Working round each player may resolve location 1 without a pawn (a banking app).
• Home office — you may hire Employees without a free desk; they work from home and can’t be trained, and can move to an empty Building later.
• Winning shows — after Exhibitions 1–3, the player who won the most Prestige that round puts 2 on their colour’s space of the sheet; these count in the final Exhibition’s PR category.
• Quality Control — a new location 10 on the sheet: a pawn there puts 1 on your space of the sheet. These Quality tokens are permanent and count at every later Award phase.

Hype train

At the end of Working rounds IV, VII and X, in turn order, each player may announce, with a Material piece on the sheet:

• the Style of their next Collection (at most one), and/or
• the categories they expect to win (any number).

At the end of each Exhibition round, for each announcement you fulfilled take 2 or 1 (for the next Exhibition); for each one you failed lose 2 / 3 / 4 VP with 2 / 3 / 4 players. Then clear the sheet.

High stakes rewards

• New brand to be reckoned with — in the Prestige effect of Exhibition 1 (round III), gain 1 extra Cash for each Prestige gained.
• Claiming inspired young talents — in the Award phase of round VI, take 1 Employee from the discard pile for each category you won (in turn order; you still need a desk for each).
• Securing the fame of your brand — in the Award phase of round IX, gain 1 extra Prestige for each category you won.