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Designed By	Jens Drögemüller
Art By	Andrea Boekhoff
Published By	Lookout Games Z-Man Games
Year Published	2004
# of Players:	2 − 6
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 4 players Recommended with 2, 3, 4, 5 players (33 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	90 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	10 and up
User Suggested Ages	10 and up (1 voter) [poll]
Language Dependence	Moderate in-game text - needs crib sheet or paste ups (6 voters) [poll]
Category	Economic Fantasy
Mechanic	Auction/Bidding Variable Player Powers
Primary Name	The Scepter of Zavandor
Alternate Names	Das Zepter von Zavandor
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	Description Edit \| History

The Scepter of Zavandor is about magic and power. Players represent young magicians who have gained possession of old magic knowledge, and with it they attempt to achieve the powerful position of archmage, symbolized by the Scepter of Zavandor.

To increase their power and influence, the young magicians enchant jewels and seek out knowledge. An auction mechanism also allows them to acquire artifacts and sentinels. Victory points are earned through active gems, artifacts, sentinels, and knowledge.

The game's rulebook includes a note thanking James Hlavaty for permission to copy the game mechanics from Outpost.

	More Information Edit \| History

Awards

2007 Games 100 Advanced Strategy Nominee.
2005 Deutscher Spiele Preis 9th Place.

Scepter of Zavandor is a retheming of Outpost by TimJim Games, with some additional mechanics (notably the technology track and player asymmetry on it).

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8	General What keeps this game out of the top ten?	2009-10-23	NateStraight	13
1	Sessions It came from.... behind.... (3p)	2009-10-01	Osirus	8
0	Rules What do you do if you are drawing 5 ruby cards?	2009-09-14	dcorban	2
4	Sessions Magic Mirror Makes the Difference!	2009-09-07	Osirus	0
3	Sessions The Advantage of Going First	2009-08-31	doubtofbu...	6
0	Rules Hand Limit Q	2009-08-11	Preacher	2
3	Strategy Gem bank	2009-08-01	David Gra...	0
6	Strategy Ruby rush revisited	2009-07-13	JazzFish	4
4	Sessions Witchy Diamonds	2009-07-09	doubtofbu...	5
6	Sessions The Scepter of Zavandor (Coolstuff Games 07/02/09)	2009-07-02	doubtofbu...	0

	Recommendations

Standard Recommendations
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Falsche Fuffziger	Leonardo da Vinci	Primordial Soup	The Mob
Age of Steam	Canaletto	Das Regeln Wir Schon	La Città
Kaivai	Keythedral

Very Weak Recommendations
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Genoa	Ys	Amun-Re	Oltre Mare
Reef Encounter	Goa	Maharaja: Palace Building in India

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Scepter of Zavandor English Rule Rewrite

Basically the same as 2.0; re-generated the PDF file to correct some formatting irregularities.

SalladDazed

2008-11-06

Single tuckbox for ZMAN version

The Z-man cards are a bit thicker than the original German ones. This tuckbox puts everything in one box -- it's really not too difficult to separate the cards!

snoozefest

2007-12-23

Tabellone in Italiano completo - Main board in Italian. v.1.0

Tabellone in Italiano completo di tutte le informazioni. Mainboard in Italian with all informations

luca

2007-11-17

Alternative Turn Order Cards sepecially for less than 6 Players.

See forum posting:- Use cards containing the number of players at the top of the cards.

kenjohns

2007-10-12

Card_tuckboxes.pdf

Tuckboxes for gem cards and artifacts

ndru

2007-04-09

scepter old book player adie.jpg

old book player aide

James_Sanheim

2006-12-04

2006Overlays.jpg

2006 English Edition Enhancements: Gems and Artifacts recreated like Jonathan Degann's English translation, as well as Moviebuffs corrected Player II tile (so you can print them all at once, but tip him as well).

Solamar

2006-08-16

PlayerCheatSheets_V1_2.doc

One page (front & back) cheat sheet reference for player complete with all Zepter facts (English), Version 1.2 (Added Balance variant first line, Lines between artifact tiers, added symbol for artifacts), Send tips to mlanza, original author.

Solamar

2006-08-16

PlayerCheatSheets_V1_2.pdf

Solamar

2006-08-16

PlayerII.jpg

Scanned & corrected JPEG of the "Player II" Tile .... 300dpi

Moviebuffs

2006-07-24

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752	Plays best with 2? 3? 4? 173? You tell me! Ultimate Optimum # of Players List (BGG Top 288)	2007-02-09
616	Top 150 Availability (updated 5th December '07)	2007-01-30
580	The Geeks guide to creating/finding player aides and other custom game components.	2005-11-07
558	2008 Edition of Look what my Secret Santa sent me...	2008-10-29
410	2007 Edition of: My Secret Santa Sent Me... (only received gifts)	2007-11-20
282	Things BGGeeks just can't seem to grasp	2008-09-03
243	Game Designers Who Are BGG'ers	2007-01-26
187	Painted Into a Corner >> The Game Moves You Hate to Make	2007-02-08
183	Language levels of the top 250 (or can I buy this cheap foreign edition?!)	2007-09-13
181	Proposed yucata.de games	2007-07-07

	Statistics

Board Game Rank:	189
Num Ratings:	1364
Average Rating:	7.25
Standard Deviation:	1.48
Num Views:	86247
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Avg. Game Weight:	3.5
Fans:	12

Personal Comments:	627
Users Owning:	1417
Users Wanting:	122
Users Trading:	83
Has Parts For Trade:	0
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Total Plays:	2479
Plays This Month:	30

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Official Rules (English) (pdf)	http://www.zmangames.com/boardgames/files/zavandor...	2009-02-25
Review by Pevans (Flagship, November 2005)	http://www.pevans.co.uk/Reviews/Zepter.html	2008-08-30
German review on Media-Mania.de	http://www.media-mania.de/index.php?action=rezi&p=...	2008-07-20
Eine deutsche Spielrezension zu Das Zepter von Zavandor gibt es auf brettspiele-report.de	http://www.brettspiele-report.de/das-zepter-von-za...	2008-04-22
Westpark Gamers' in depth analysis of the game (in German)	http://www.westpark-gamers.de/Artikel/Zepter-Sessi...	2005-08-02
Review in Italian at Giochidatavolo.net	http://www.giochidatavolo.net/gdt/modules.php?name...	2005-06-16
Traduction française des règles	http://www.daries.be/divers/jeux/zavandor/regles-f...	2004-10-25
Official German Website with discussion board	http://www.zavandor.de	2004-10-15

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