Robin n the Hood

4-6 players Playing time 10-20 minutes

One night around the campfire, Robin's band of merry men gets a-arguing; who's the best bandit of them all? A challenge is set; He who steals the most gold from the rich to give to the poor will be heralded as the winner.

Components:

• A board map of Sherwood Forest with 2 paths snaking through it:
  
• A 4 sided die
• 6 color coded merry men tokens
• 60 gold coins
• A carriage token

Objective: Steal as many gold coins from Prince John's carriage as you can.

The game map:

• Sherwood Forest has 2 paths snaking through it and crossing each other.
• The tiles at the paths' end are numbered 1 to 4.
• The intersection at the center of the map is Prince John's way station.

Setup:

• The players decide who goes first by die roll. Players make moves clock-wise.
• Each player chooses a merry man token and places him on the board on a path tile of his choice.
  • The 1-4 numbered path-end tiles and the center intersection tile may not be chosen.
  • Up to 2 merry men may occupy the same tile.
• If playing with less than 6 players, any merry men tokens not selected are set aside and do not take part in the game
• The carriage is loaded with 10 gold coins.
• The 4 sided die is rolled and the carriage is placed on the corresponding path-end tile.

Gameplay:

• Play is made up of turns in which both carriage and merry men move around on the game board.
• Turn:
  • Each player may choose to move his merry man 1 path tile in any direction.
    • Movement is not mandatory.
    • If crossing the center intersection, that tile is skipped and the merry man crosses over to one of the tiles adjacent to the intersection.
  • The carriage advances 2 tiles across the forest path. If it comes to a stop on a tile occupied by a merry man, he has the choice of stealing either 1 or 2 gold coins.
  • If 2 coins are stolen, on the next turn, the carriage will move 3 path tiles, instead of the normal 2. If 1 coin is stolen, the carriage will move 2 tiles as usual.
  • If 2 merry men occupy the same tile that the carriage comes to a stop at, they fight it out to decide who gets the gold:
    • Each player announces how many gold coins he plans to steal: 1 or 2.
    • The 4 sided die is rolled once (Both players decide which of them will roll it):
• If the roll matches the sum of announced intentions, each player gets the coins he set out to steal. Example: both players announced "Two" and a 4 is rolled. Each player gets 2 gold.
• If the roll is below the announced intentions, the players get no coins. Example: Player 1 announced "One" and player 2 announced "Two". A 2 is rolled. The players get nothing.
• If the roll is above the announced intentions, the player(s) with the lower announcement gets his gold. Example: Player 1 announces "One" and player 2 announces "Two". A 4 is rolled. Player 1 gets 1 gold. Player 2 gets nothing.
• Crossroads (Mid turn):
  • When the carriage arrives at the crossroads, which is halfway across its journey, it decides how to proceed:
    • If less than 5 coins have been stolen so far, it continues straight on its path.
    • If exactly 5 coins have been stolen, it turns left.
    • If more than 5 coins have been stolen, it turns right.
• Turn end:
  • When the carriage reaches the end of its path, it is loaded with 6 additional gold coins. Any coins which went unstolen remain on board as well.
  • The carriage turns around and heads back into the forest, along the path, and the bandits lying in wait. A new turn begins.
• Game end:
  • When all 60 coins have been stolen the game ends.
  • The players count their loot. The player who has stolen the most coins to give to the poor wins the game.

Strategy:

• Robin n the Hood is a fast playing game of strategy and cunning, with just an element of luck.
• Preventing others a chance to loot, is as important as looting yourself.
• Selecting if and how much to loot can "guide" the carriage along its path and minimize others enjoying its loot.
• Joining 2 merry men on 1 tile does not only reap benefits for your man, but can hurt the other player's chances of gaining gold.

SHERWOOD – THE FINAL SHOWDOWN!!

2 players

Contents:

Gameboard (see illustration)
3d6
2 battle decks of 20 cards (see illustration)
6 “band” boards/tokens
2 sets of 20 tokens
4 RECRUIT markers
4 TAX markers
30 Gold markers

Gameboard:

Battle Cards:

Object:

Eliminate all of opponents’ tokens or score 100pts in gold.

Players:

Law (Nottingham Lawmen acting on the Sheriff’s behalf) and Merry Men (MM) (acting on Robin Hood’s behalf).

2 tokens are placed on each “band” card and 1 token on 3 home spaces for each player. Law gets the purple spaces (Nottingham), and MM gets the tan spaces (Robin’s Hideout in Sherwood Forest). Law tokens cannot enter the Hideout, and MM tokens cannot enter Nottingham.

Law places a band token on any town. MM then places a band token on any forest space with a circle on it. Alternate until all band tokens are placed. Law player begins.

Law tokens on road spaces (brown) may redo a single loss in battle, and Law bands carrying gold that start on Nottingham or road spaces get +1 to movement. These bonuses apply to MM tokens on Hideout or forest spaces (green).

To move:

move 2 band tokens, or divide the total of 2d6 across your single tokens any way you choose.

Band cards have 10 spaces, numbered X-X-5-3-3-2-2-2-1-1. When you add members (past the first 2) or gold to a band, you must add them so that they cover the highest uncovered space on the band card.

When you move a band token, it moves an amount of spaces equal to the highest UNCOVERED space on the band card (if there are 5 tokens and/or gold on a band card, it may move 2 spaces – the X, X, 5, 3 and 3 will be covered, leaving a “2” visible). You may choose to leave behind one member of the band in the space that it previously occupied when you move it, but there must be at least 2 tokens remaining on the band card (even if the remaining spaces are filled with gold). The more members or gold in a band, the slower it will move. When a token or gold is removed from a band card, shift the remaining ones so that the highest possible numbers on the band card are always covered.

If 2 of your tokens occupy the same space combine them into a band and place them on a band card if you have a free one – if not, they can’t occupy the same space. If 2 opposing tokens occupy the same space, battle.

Battle:

Players draw 3 cards from their battle decks (their hand), choose one card from it, place it face down and draw to replace it. Then, reveal them. The losing player removes a token from the board or their band card until one side is eliminated. On ties, nothing happens.

The order of the cards (Rock-Paper-Scissors) is: SWORD beats SPEAR beats HORSE beats SWORD. FIRE beats everything.

If the losing player held gold, the band or token that won takes it. Bands may hold as many gold markers as they have empty spaces. Single tokens may only hold one gold marker. If a band is reduced to 1 member, remove it and all gold from the band card and place it on the board. Any unclaimed gold markers remain on the space where they were dropped. Tokens may return to that space to pick it up on a later turn.

Towns:

In towns, Law may Tax, MM may score gold pts, and both players may recruit. Any gold Law gets in Tax must be brought back to Nottingham to score gold pts.

To recruit, roll 3d6 (separately), and add a token to the band if the die roll is more than the number of men CURRENTLY in the band (with more men, you’re less likely to recruit new men). If Law recruits in a town, place a RECRUIT marker there. Law may not tax there, MM may not recruit there.

To tax, Law rolls 1d6 for each band member, separately, and adds a gold to the band if the die roll is more than the number of gold CURRENTLY in the band (with more gold, you’re less likely to get gold). If Law taxes a town, place a TAX marker there. Law may not recruit there.

Gold:

There may not be more than 30 gold in play at any time.

When Law bands arrive at Nottingham with gold, discard it, roll 1d6 for each marker and score the total in gold points.

When MM bands with arrive in a town, discard the gold, roll 1d6 for each marker and score the total in gold points. If the town has a RECRUIT marker in it, roll 1d6 for each 2 gold markers.

The Sheriff's Men

A notorious bandit has been stealing from the good people of Nottingham. You have been hired by the Sheriff to capture the leader of this band of outlaws, the infamous Robin Hood.

Goal:

To make sure that a number of coins make it to the Treasury before King Richard returns to England and to have captured the most number of outlaws.

Components:

Game board with village and forest locations around Nottingham, a Camp with Robin's Men, a Jail with player-colored cells, the Treasury, the Tax Collector's chest, a turn track with 10 spaces, and a captured outlaw track.

• 24 dice, four each of six different colors.
• 2 pawns (Tax Collector, King Richard)
• 6 player markers.
• 15 outlaw markers.
• 40 coin markers.
• 1 start player marker.
• A deck of 14 event cards.

Setup:

1. Give each player three dice of his color, place the fourth in the Camp.
2. Place all the outlaws in the Camp.
3. Place two coins on indicated board locations (villages).
4. Place King Richard on the start space of the turn track, the Tax Collector in Nottingham.
5. Shuffle the event cards and place them near the board.
6. Place all the player markers on the 0 space of the captured outlaws track.
7. Determine first player by knife fight.

Game Turn:

1. Assign the Sheriff's Men
   All players roll their dice. The number of pips on a die is the number of guards. Starting with the first player, place one die on a location.
2. Reveal an event card.
   1. Advance the King Richard marker 0, 1, or 2 spaces according to the card.
   2. If there is a jailbreak icon and the number of outlaws in jail is greater than the number on the card, Robin attempts a jailbreak.
   3. Follow the instructions on the event card.
3. Robin's Turn
   
   1. If Robin attempts a jailbreak, roll all of Robin's dice and compare it to the player's dice at the Jail. (Dice not present have a value of 0.) The difference between the highest of Robin's dice and the color of the matching player's die is how many outlaws Robin frees. Start with the first player's cell and proceeding clockwise, move one outlaw to Camp.
   2. If the event is Treasury Raid, the first player rolls one of Robin's dice and one of their own. Robin removes as many coins from the treasury as rolled. The player captured one outlaw if his die is higher.
   3. If the event is Archery Contest, the first player rolls all of Robin's dice. Each player rolls one of their dice. Starting with the first player, if the player's die equals one of Robin's dice, remove Robin's die to the Camp and capture an outlaw. If Robin has any dice left over after each player has acted, Robin wins the contest, removing one coin from the treasury for each die he has left.
   4. ...or else Robin will rob from the rich. The location with the fewest number of guards will be chosen, unless the total number of guards at the tax collector's location minus the number of coins in the chest is lower. In that case, they will rob the tax collector.
      The first player rolls all of Robin's dice. If the largest die in Robin's roll is higher than the number on the same colored die at that location, Robin wins and removes all of the coins at that location. If Robin loses, each player with a die at the location may have captured an outlaw. If that die is greater than the value on Robin's same-colored die, that player captured one outlaw.
4. Hunting
   
   1. Dice in forest locations: the first player rolls one of Robin's dice that matches the color of the player's dice. If Robin's die is equal to or less than the player's die, the player has captured an outlaw.
5. Tax Collector
   
   1. Move the Tax Collector to the next location on his route.
      
      1. If in a village, add the coins at that location to the chest.
      2. If returned to Nottingham, place all the coins from the chest into the Royal Treasury.
6. Check for winning condition
   
   1. If the required number of coins has been met, whichever player has the most outlaws in jail wins the game. If there is a tie, the tied player that captured the most wins.
   2. If Richard has returned to England, Robin wins.
7. Upkeep
   
   1. Add one coin to villages without coins.
   2. Pass the first player marker to the left.

Capturing:

When capturing an outlaw, move one from the Camp to the player's colored Jail cell and increase that player's marker on the captured outlaws track.

Stealing:

When stealing coins, Robin's men remove coins from the game.

Nottingham

An Anti-Robin Hood Cooperative Game

Introduction

It's tough to rule a kingdom while the king is away. Doubly so when there's some uppity son of a lord who thinks he's Robin Hood. There are taxes to collect, barons to control and castles to build. The last thing that you need is a bunch of lawless riff-raff in the local forest intercepting your bribes. Luckily, you are not the only one who suffers at the hands of these 'merry' men. As the Prince, Merchant, Constable, Bishop, Baroness, Abbess and Sheriff of Nottingham, you all stand to loose your head if you cannot stop the banditry and deliver the fortune in gold you promised the Barons before the king returns. But, to do so, you will have to work together, keep Sherwood Forest clear of ‘merry’ men and uncover the one of you is secretly supporting this infamous Legend of Loxley.

Setup

At the beginning of the game, each player is dealt a character as well as a loyalty card face down. Based upon the loyalty card you are dealt, you are either an Usurper or working for Robin Hood’s men. Each player is then dealt two Sherwood cards and a number of cards from each of the Nottingham decks = the number listed on his character card.

Victory Conditions

The Usurpers win if they deliver 50 thousand pounds of gold to the barons before King Richard returns. Robin Hood wins if the king returns before enough bribes are delivered.

The Sherwood Deck

At the beginning of your turn, you must play a Sherwood card from your hand. These cards represent the forces of Robin Hood at work against your plans to usurp the throne. The Sherwood Deck is made up of ‘Merry Men’, ‘Robin Hood’, ‘Maid Marian’ and ‘King Richard’ cards.

King Richard Returns

King Richard returns whenever all five spaces on the Crusades track are full. In general, this is done by playing five of the twelve ‘King Richard’ cards in the Sherwood Deck, but some cards in the Nottingham deck may be played to delay the king.

The Nottingham Decks

There are three types of Nottingham cards: Soldiers, Clergy and Merchants. These card represent the forces of Nottingham who you can strong-arm into working for you. Each Nottingham card describes an action on it as well as a location. In order to perform the action on a card, your character must be located in its location. Each card also lists the tax value that it provides if it is revealed by a Collect Taxes action.

Bribe the Barons

Sherwood Forest stands between Nottingham and Northern England. Whenever you wish to send gold to the Barons, you must send it through Sherwood Forest and some (or all) of it may be stolen by Robin Hood’s men. Whenever a player plays a card to Bribe the Barons, reveal all the Sherwood cards in the Sherwood Forest pile. Subtract the total value of the cards from the number of coins in The Keep and add a number of coins to the Bribery track = the result. Then, remove the coins in The Keep, discard the Sherwood cards and place a new one on the first space from the deck in Sherwood Forest.

Collect Taxes

You raise money to bribe the barons by fleecing the peasants in Nottingham. Whenever a player plays a card to Collect Taxes, turn over all Nottingham cards located in the zone where the tax is collected. Add up the tax value of each card, then add a number of coins to The Keep = the total tax value collected minus the number of corruption tokens in all zones (the Cathedral, Castle or Joust Arena).

On Your Turn

When it is your turn, you must first play one of the Sherwood cards in your hand. You may either play the Sherwood card face up in front of you and resolve its effect immediately or place it face down in Sherwood Forest. Then draw a new card from the Sherwood deck to replace it. You may then perform any two of the following actions:

• Discard a Nottingham card to move to any other zone in Nottingham [You may not perform this action while in the Dungeon]
• Discard a Nottingham card to perform the action described on the card [You may only perform a card’s action while located in its zone]
• Pass

Once you perform your two actions, you may then place any number of cards in your hand face down onto either the Toll Bridge, Abbey or Village. Then, draw a number of cards from each of the three Nottingham decks = the number listed on your character’s card. Then your turn is over and it is the next player’s in clockwise order.

Sherwood Irregulars

An asymmetric game for 4 Players vs 1 Player

Premise:

Four Merry Men of Sherwood Forest steal treasure from the King's Coaches and deliver it to the inhabitants of Sherwood, while the Sheriff of Nottingham attempts to prevent them.

Pieces:

• 4 Merry Men
• 1 Sheriff
• 6 Coach tokens
• 30 Treasure tokens
• 12 Coach cards
• Two decks of playing cards
• The Board

Setup

Divide one deck into suits, and give each Merry Man the 2-7 of a suit (their "combat" cards). Set aside the 8-K of Diamonds from the same deck (the "victory" cards), and give the 3-8 of Clubs from the other deck to the Sheriff (his "combat" cards). These will be used for the Waylaying minigame. The rest of the second deck will be used for the Robbery minigame. Put each Merry Man on one of the stars; put the Sheriff on the castle gate.

Rounds

The game proceeds in a series of rounds, which have four phases:

New Coaches

New coaches arrive on every other round, starting with the third. When a new coach arrives, turn over the top Coach card. It will indicate which of the four coach routes this coach is taking, how many Guards are on board to protect the treasure, and how much treasure this coach holds. Put that many treasure counters on the Coach card, and put a new Coach piece at the start of that route.

Moving Coaches

Move each coach 7 spaces along its route. If a coach moves through a Merry Man, it stops on that space and all Merry Men there attempt to Rob it (see below).

Moving the Merry Men

The Merry Men each get 12 movement points per turn; they may spend two of these to move onto a space containing road, field, or a hut, or three to move onto a space containing forest. The Merry Men may intersperse their moves however they want and may moves simultaneously (i.e. to jointly attack the Sheriff or a Coach). They can move orthogonally or diagonally.

Moving The Sheriff

The Sheriff of Nottingham, being on a horse, moves much faster than the Merry Men, but can't enter the thick forests of Sherwood. He may move up to 14 spaces on his turn, but only on Road or Field squares, and only orthogonally.

Interactions

• If any Merry Men move onto the Sheriff, they play the Waylaying minigame. If they win, then the Sheriff may only move 7 spaces on his next phase and cannot capture Merry Men.
• If any Merry Man move onto a Coach, they play the Robbery minigame; if one of them wins, then they divide the Coach's treasure tokens among them.
• If a Merry Man with treasure enters a treasureless hut, he may put one of his treasure tokens on that hut.
• If the Sheriff moves into a square containing Merry Men, the Merry Men are captured and moved to the castle, losing any treasure they were carrying. At the beginning of their next movement phase, each Merry Man in the castle may escape to any forest square adjacent to the castle's moat.

Winning

The Merry Men win if every hut has a treasure token. The Sheriff wins if the last coach reaches the castle before the Merry Men have won.

Minigame 1: Waylaying the Sheriff

The attacking Merry Men play against the Sheriff, using their combat cards to try to win the victory cards. Shuffle the victory cards and turn one face up. Each player plays a card face down, then all players reveal them simultaneously. The player with the highest card showing takes the victory card; in case of ties, nobody wins the card. Repeat this process until all the combat cards have been played; whichever side's victory cards have the highest sum wins; the Sheriff wins on ties. Jacks, Queens and Kings count as 11, 12, and 13, respectively.

Minigame 2: Robbery

The attacking Merry Men play against the Guards (the Sheriff plays their side) when they raid a Coach. Shuffle the Robbery deck and deal 4 cards to each Merry Man, 6 to the Sheriff. Deal one card face up in the middle of the table for each Guard on the coach, then turn over the top card of the deck to start the play pile. The players take turns in clockwise order. The player to the Sheriff's left goes first. Each player on his turn either plays a card of the same number or suit as the top card of the deck, or draws a card from the deck. If a player other than the Sheriff plays a card with the same number as one of the Guard cards, that player must pick up the corresponding Guard card. The first player to empty his or her hand wins the Robbery.

Sherwood

2-4 players

Object

You are competing to join Robin Hood’s band of rogues. Robin prepares a contest: be the first to steal 8 shillings worth of loot and return it to the Outlaw Camp, and he’ll accept you into his band.

Components:

• Game Board - contains normal spaces (white circles), Sherriff’s Guard spaces (red circles), and special spaces (Outlaw Camp, Chapel, Castle, Village, Archery Range)
• 8 Merry Man Tokens per player
• 16 Movement Tiles in 4 denominations
• 1 Movement Base circle
• 4 Movement Tile Markers per player
• 5 Gambling Tokens per player
• 2 Cart Markers per player
• 15 Loot Tokens in 3 denominations
• 15 Arrow Tokens

Setup

Place the Loot tokens as follows:
Chapel: 2 x 1 shilling, 3 x 2 shilling
Castle: 5 x 3 shilling
Village: 3 x 1 shilling, 2 x 2 shilling
Each player starts with 3 Merry Men and 1 Cart in the Outlaw Camp. Place the other resources in reserve off the board. Each player also gets 3 arrow tokens.
Set up the Movement Minigame to one side. Build a pyramid of four movement tiles numbered 1-4, with the 1-space tile touching the Movement Base Circle as shown in the Movement Minigame image below. Make one pyramid for each player playing.

Turn Order

The game plays as follows:
1. Gambling Minigame – each player has five gambling tokens with five different characters on them as shown:
Each player chooses one character in secret. All players reveal their choices. If your character is not beaten by any other, you get the prize indicated. New carts and men are placed on the Outlaw Camp. Movement Tiles are chosen from the Movement Minigame.
The Gambling Minigame also determines move order, with the lowest numbered token going first. If there are ties, the player with the least treasure goes first. If there are still ties, the player who moved later in the previous turn goes first. On the very first turn, the player with the longest criminal record goes first.

1. Movement Minigame – on his or her turn, a player claims one movement tile by playing a movement tile marker on an unclaimed movement tiles. The player may only claim a tile if it is touching the Movement Base Circle OR if it is touching a tile he or she has already claimed. For example, on his first turn, a player can claim a #1 movement tile that touches the Base Circle. On his second turn, he can claim the #2 tile touching the #1 tile, or he could claim a second #1 tile.

2. Movement – Once all players have made their moves in the Movement Minigame, they may collect movement tiles and make moves. If a player elects to collect his claimed movement tiles, he takes all the movement tiles he has marked. If this leaves any unclaimed movement tiles unconnected to any other tiles, the player to the left of the current player MUST shift these movement tiles so that they either (1) touch the Movement Base Circle or (2) touch two other movement tiles in the Movement Minigame. The tiles can have any orientation provided they obey the placement rules.

Players spend movement tiles to move pieces. A player may play one movement tile per turn. When a player plays a movement tile, he may move each of his men up to the number of spaces shown on the movement tile. Multiple men may be stacked on the same space.

Sherriff’s Guard

A player must play an arrow token or discard a man token to enter a red guard space. Similarly, if a player wishes to move a man onto a space with another player’s man, he must play an arrow token or sacrifice a man token.

Cart Movement

Carts can only move with a man. They move one space less than the move tile played (so they cannot move at all on a 1-space tile).

When a player plays a movement tile, the player to his left returns the tile to the Movement Minigame in any legal position as above (i.e. touching the Base Circle or touching two other movement tiles).

When all players have moved, start over with the gambling minigame.

Treasures

A man entering a space containing loot may collect one loot counter. A man can carry loot worth 1 shilling. He needs a cart to carry loot worth 2 or 3 shillings. Players score loot by bringing it back to the Outlaw Camp. Men and carts cannot carry multiple treasures at once.

Archery Range

When a man enters the Archery Range, the player collects two arrow tokens. A given man cannot collect more arrows until he visits the Outlaw Camp again.

Winning

The first player to return a total value of 8 shillings of loot to the outlaw camp wins.