Splendor: Cities of Splendor Expansion

Cities of Splendor is a quartet of expansions for use with the Splendor base game. Each expansion is added to the basic game and they should be played separately.The Cities replaces the noble tiles with 3 different city tiles, randomly taken from a pool of 14. The city tiles are objectives (in prestige points and/or development cards) and players must fulfill one of them in order to win.The Trading Posts are special bonuses players earn by acquiring an array of development cards: more prestige points from the 1st noble tile received, an extra token when choosing the “Take 2 gem tokens of the same color” action, and so on.The Orient adds three decks of cards, one for each level of development cards. They’re added on the right side of the regular cards, and two of them are placed face-up on the table for each level. These new cards add special powers to the game.The Strongholds give each player three strongholds. When players acquire a new card, they must put a stronghold on a face-up card on the table, which mean that is now the only player able to purchase or reserve it. Players may also move one of their strongholds from one card to another one or remove another player’s stronghold. When one player has three strongholds on the same card, he can buy it after his regular action, allowing him to make two acquisitions in the same turn or buying that card after taking his tokens!