Episode 300 : CELEBRATION!

In La Pâtisserie Rococo, you run your own pastry shop in 18th-century France, baking dishes to present at a grand party at Versailles.

La Pâtisserie Rococo plays out over several rounds. Each round, you’ll have a hand of staff cards (5 unless you hire more during the round) which are (Assistants and Chefs) and some main actions can be executed by both staff and some are specific to their unique roles for example, assistants are the only ones that can collect goods and chefs are the only ones that can decorate baked pastries. Some recipes can also only be baked by Chefs so you have to choose which 5 cards you will be playing in that round wisely. On your turn, you’ll choose one staff member and use them to take a main action like: gain ingredients, collect goods, claim recipes, hire staff, bake, decorate, deliver, fire staff and attract nobles or hire servers. After you do a main action you will then activate the bonus ability on the card that you played, these bonuses vary from gaining more ingredients to claiming prestige. What’s cool about the staff cards is that over the course of the game the staff cards become more powerful so hiring new staff improves your deck and expands your action options, so there’s a strong hand-management element.

Ingredients in La Patisserie Rococo are essential because you can’t bake without them. You’ll collect things like egg, honey, and nuts, then use recipes to turn those ingredients into pastries.Once baked, you have a choice: you can sell your pastries for money — which helps you hire better staff — or you can deliver them to a table at the party. Presenting them earns you prestige and helps you compete for majority control at the festival tables, which can score big points at the end of the game.

At the end of the La Patisserie Rococo, players score prestige from delivered pastries, table majorities, bonuses, and certain staff effects. The nobles and servers that have been claimed have an interesting multiplier that gains prestige points for players. The player with the most prestige wins and becomes the most celebrated pâtissier at the festival.