Taverna

About this board game

Taverna is an interactive, card-driven worker placement game for 2–5 players, with sessions lasting around 90 minutes. Set during Saint-Averna’s Day, the holiest celebration in the kingdom of Averna, it casts players as innkeepers competing for profit, renown, and popularity.

Citizens gather in the capital to party, drink, and sing as they move from tavern to tavern. Each turn, players choose one customer from four available cards and place that customer in one of the five taverns. Tavern owners receive gold, while the innkeeper is rewarded for fulfilling patrons’ expectations.

Success depends on more than simply welcoming customers. Players must get along with the kingdom’s four peoples while also handling the demands of the Royal Court. During a turn, an innkeeper may play one of four dignitaries, cast spells, use royal favours, and benefit from privileges.

• Choose customers from four available cards.
• Place customers in one of five taverns.
• Earn gold for property owners and rewards for meeting patrons’ expectations.
• Use dignitaries, spells, royal favours, and privileges.
• Build popularity with the kingdom’s four peoples.

At the end of the sixth turn, players score one of the five members of the Royal Court, with each scoring available only once. Your popularity with the four peoples determines the order of royal scoring and the final bonuses, making relationships an important part of your path to victory.

Will you play fairly, or rely on trickery, magic, and influence with the most famous dignitaries? In Taverna, careful customer placement and clever use of your available advantages can turn the kingdom’s grand celebration into your rise to fame. Power and glory await the most popular innkeeper.