Bristol 1350 is a big hit in the Sweeten household! We always play a few games during family get togethers. During the holiday season of 2023, I forgot to bring a copy of the game š¤¦ This repo is the result of spending my freetime over the holidays to make a digital copy.
If you're unfamiliar with how to play, you can view the official rules here. Gameplay consists of a command line interpreter, which announces game updates and allows users to enter input commands, as well as a GUI showing the cart progress and dice rolling, rendered using tkinter. Values that are kept secret from other players, such as symptoms and remedy cards, are sent via text message to all registered players mobile devices. This is done using Twilio.
git clone https://github.com/alexsweeten/bristol1350.git
cd bristol1350
python -m pip install .
In order to send text messages to users, you must have a functioning Twilio account. As of December 2023, Twilio gives all new users $15 in free credits, enough for a bunch of free games.
Once registered for a Twilio account, you will need to add your Twilio account SID and authorization token into registration.yml:
twilio_info:
account_sid: <YOUR_SID_HERE>
auth_token: <YOUR_TOKEN_HERE>
Finally, you will need to add each players name and phone number into registration.yml
registered_users:
Player1: '5555555555'
Player2: '6666666666'
To Play a game of Bristol, launch with bristol -p/--players, followed by the name of each player participating (1-9 players supported)
bristol -p Player1 Player2 Player3 ...
To Play a test game that sends mingle and symptom information to the CLI instead of SMS messages, append -t/--test (users will still need to be in registration.yml
bristol -p Player1 Player2 Player3 -t
You can adjust the length of the goal (ie. the number of spaces a cart has to move in order to exit the city) with the -f/--finish flag. Default is 17.
bristol -p Player1 Player2 Player3 -f 10
Finally, special characters can be assigned to each player in-game with the -c/--character flag.
bristol -p Player1 Player2 Player3 -c
In Bristol 1350, you are a peasant trying to escape the city during the height of the Black Plague. At the start of the game, you are randomly assigned into 1 of 3 carts and given 2 status conditions. Your objective is to escape in your cart from Bristol plague-free. If at any point your two status conditions total 6 or higher, you have the plague!
During each turn, 6 dice will be rolled. Your cart will move a total number of spaces equal to the number of dice rolled matching your carts color. If you are in a cart where two of the matching dice are rats, that means your cart will mingle at the end of the turn. You want to keep mingling to a minimum, as it will increase your chances of developing the plague!
There are some differences between this implementation, and the official rules here:
- Remedy cards only contain 1 remedy, instead of a choice of 2.
- Leeches and Pomander are not included in the game (to include in a future update).
- Turkey is a new remedy: It allows the user to reroll 4 dice instead of the standard 2.
- There are 9 possible characters in the game:
- Sheriff: You can view 1 symptom of a player on a different cart.
- Friar: You can change 1 die to be exactly what you want.
- Mason: You can reroll 1 die, then lock one die.
- Chandler: You can draw a random symptom and choose to replace it with one of your own.
- Countess: You can draw 2 remedies and keep 1 of them.
- Knight: You can move any player up to the front of their current cart.
- Outlaw (different effect!): You have a 1/3 chance of gaining a free remedy card.(happens automatically at the start of your turn and is in addition to your main action).
- Drunkard (new!): You can turn 1 die into a rat of your current cart color. You are also immune from mingling whenever you use this.
- Rat King (new!): You can replace up to two apple dice with a rat of the same cart color.
- (R) Reroll Dice: You can reroll up to 2 dice.
- (A) Ability: Use your special character ability (only available with characters unlocked)
- (M) Movement: Take a movement action
- (P) Push: Push the last person in your cart off.
- (E) Elbow: Elbow your way to the front of your cart.
- (J) Jump: Jump to the back of the next available cart.
- (D) Draw a remedy card. You start the game with 1, and can hold a maximum of 3 throughout the game:
- Arsenic: Select two dice to lock. Use during the action phase.
- Chicken: When rerolling dice, choose to reroll them up to 3 more times. Use during the action phase when rerolling two dice.
- Crushed Emeralds: Take an extra movent action: Elbow (E), Push (P) or Jump (D). Use during the action phase.
- Whip: Prevent someone from jumping into your cart, elbowing past you, or pushing you off your cart. Use reactively.
- Turkey: Reroll 4 dice instead of the usual 2.
- (U) Use a Remedy Card
- (A) Use Arsenic
- (C) Use Crushed Emerald
- (T) Use Turkey
- (V) View current dice & character ability.
- (S) Skip your turn
- Carts can currently hold >3 people.
- Jumping to a full cart doesn't swap first of second cart with last of first cart.
- In carts that die from the plague once reaching the end, one person ends up surviving.
- When elbowing people, people who are behind you can respond with a whip.
- Lock doesn't work against turkey (and probably other dice rolling effects)
- If outlaw backs out of an action, they get another chance for a free remedy.
- Hitting 'n' sometimes doesn't backtrack