Regency Chaos — Mind Your Manners. Ruin Your Rivals.

A most dangerous game.

Chapter the First

How the Game Is Played

Shuffle the 50-card deck and place it within reach of every player. Each player keeps their own score on paper while fortune, scandal, and disaster move around the table.

On your turn, draw one card and read it aloud. Collect points, lose points, give them away, confess, flatter, or accept whatever fate the card demands.

Keep playing until every card has been drawn. When the deck runs out, the player with the most points wins the Season.

A Sample from the Deck

Draw a card. Read it aloud. Resolve it at once.

Procure Your Copy

Standard Edition cards with mirror-lady artwork backs beside a plain powder-blue cardboard keepsake box

$29.99

Edition

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Everything required to ruin your rivals in the London Season of 1813. Manners not included.

(or 1 shilling, if your coachman is honest)

Inside the Box:

50 fortune & misfortune cards · The Rules of Ruin rulebook
Scarlet Fever: you are now dead. Forfeit the game.
Inherited £50,000: every rival hands you their points.
The Duel: Flatter one other player or be killed and forfeit the game.

In this society, a ruined reputation is worse than death.

Chapter the Second

A Glimpse Inside the Deck

Handle with gloves. These cards bite.

No. 8fortuneYou have inherited 50,000 pounds from your deceased cousin.All the other players must give you their points.

No. 4societyYou are challenged to a duel.Flatter one other player or be killed and forfeit the game.

No. 39fateYou have died while giving birth.Forfeit the game and your points to the other players.

A Voucher for the Season

Learn the Rules of Ruin

Five minutes to learn. A lifetime to scheme.Admit the Bearer

Oil portrait of the Duchess: dark silk gown, high lace collar, a single feather in her curls, a folded sealed letter in her gloved hand, and the faint smirk of someone who knows what you did. — Her Grace suggests you study them. Closely.

Finis