Depends on your group
- Our take
- BGG average 8.39 from 559 ratings. Designer calls the sideboard circumstantial "emergency room" help, and owners split: some find the second-chance servants fiddly, others like the modules and cooperative mode.
- What you need first
- Just the base game
- What it adds
- Constable, Reverend and Dowager Marchioness characters, second-chance servants, distinguished family members, a 52-card universal objective deck, 28 new gentry, 14 solo opponents, cooperative play and a 20-page variant catalogue.
- What it fixes
- Gives an escape route from bad guest or objective draws: remove unsavoury guests, swap objectives, or recruit prestige guests.