(9781932514049) Vatican Board Game

Features of the Game
A fold out game board where the life and career of the aspiring cardinal is played out.
A total of 286 cards including:
Career Events cards describe events that impact a cardinal's career.
Take a Stand cards require players to choose positions on critical issues facing today’s church and address the issues from a historical perspective.
Electoral Run Up cards present the opportunities and perils cardinals face in the critical days before a papal election.
Conclave cards detail important events that determine actual voting in the conclave.
Six cardinal game pieces; choose the one that best reflects your personality.
Number of players 2-6.
Ages 15 and up.

Contents
Game board, 8 sets of cards, 4 dice, 6 playing pieces, scoring sheets, simple instructions, and instructional poster.
Playing Time: 1-1-1/2 hours.
The papal election board game.
Unlock the secrets of how men become pope.

In VATICAN, you and your friends take this long journey to become pope. You make decisions throughtout your career, you struggle through the difficult period following the death of the reigning pope and you enter the Sistine Chapel to vote in the secret conclave. Learn how luck, skill, ambition and the flow of issues and events can make or break a candidate for pope. When you play Vatican, YOU may be the next pope!

VATICAN, the papal election board game that makes the electoral process clear. VATICAN is a 2 to 6 player board game with each player taking the role of a cardinal prominent enough to be considered a serious contender for the papacy. The process ends with an election. Like all elections, it brings together considerations of experience, popularity, and even chance. The events of the game help players achieve a greater understanding of how a pope is chosen. Even though every effort has been made to depict the actual process as closely as possible, Vatican is a game played in an evening and can only "simulate," not "re-create," the election of a pope.

VATICAN is a game that simulates the process by which men become pope. The game designer and publisher have taken great care that the facts are accurate and that the processes simulated are distillations from the recent history of papal elections. The game does not set out purposely to reflect the events of any particular election too closely.

The Objective of the Game
Each player pursues an ultimate goal of 100 (or more) Cardinal votes and with them, his election as pope. VATICAN assumes there are 150 voting cardinals with two-thirds (100 votes) required to win.

ISBN 13: 9781932514049