Biblios Board Game: Quill And Parchment

Biblios: Quill & Parchment is a "roll and write" version of the popular Biblios. The life of a monastic scribe is not easy. Every day you spend long hours in the monastery copying books, praying, and performing tasks. Through hard work and prayer, earn the abbot's trust and display your dedication to the pious life.

The object of the game is to score the most piety points. The game consists of 8 days (i.e., rounds). In the first 4 days, players simultaneously roll their own dice (that show various book types, abbot influence and travel points) and may do so up to 3 times. After each roll, the players have 3 options: (1) to keep the dice as shown, (2) to reroll exactly one die or (3) to roll all the dice. Most of the dice are resource dice showing books monks are copying, but there are also abbot influence dice, and a travel die. In the last 4 rounds, players use their abbot influence to bid for a priority of tasks. After 8 days, the game ends and the players calculate scores. As in the original Biblios, the relative value of books changes during the game, so players are unsure of which books will be most valuable until the end of the game. This is a rare (if not unique) "roll + write" game that includes auctions and, unlike many roll + write game; it is highly interactive.