PocketManor: A Time Killer!

This week I got inspired by the non-combat tabletop Discord group, and wanted to make a cozy little game with my 15mm peasants and knights. But…then I accidentally made a little game with no minis (all you need is grid paper, a six-sided die, and a pencil), and also something reminiscent of combat (land-grabbing and Vikings). It’s a diversion that is barely worthy of the term “game”, but it could be the skeleton of something worth more, one day.

 PocketManor

1. Place Manorhouse, roll 1d6 each for starting stores and gold 

2. Roll for 9 squares around Manor

1	Overgrown, Wilds
2-6	Arable land

3. For arable land, roll for tenant

1-4	Villein/Serf (V)
5-6	Freemen (F)

*V lands produce 1d6 crops per harvest, F lands produce 1d6 gold

4. Turns divided into 4 seasons

Spring	Roll for land arability; only roll V/F for new squares
Summer	Pick an adjacent hex and attempt to annex it*
Fall	Harvest, build towers**.
Winter	Subtract 1 crop from Store for each square owned and 1d6 for manor house. Crops may be purchased on a 1:1 basis for gold. Any squares not fed will be unusable for 5 turns. Dane invasion***.

*contested roll against other manor lord: if higher, claim adjacent square, if lower: lose square from which attack came. Cross it off until you are able to reclaim it. Annexing costs 1 gold per attempt, and the land does not produce harvest in the following fall, but you must still provide crops to feed its inhabitants. The manor house cannot be lost, but its inhabitants will starve if they don’t have food for winter.

**During Fall, you may build a tower on a square for 10 gold. Squares with towers gain +1 to their rolls against Dane invasions.

***Every winter roll 1d6, on a 1, Danes will attempt to conquer lands. Roll contested rolls for each exterior square. If lower, square is lost, roll for next interior square. Roll with +2 advantage for Manor House square. 

If the Manor ever starves or is captured, the game has been lost.