The Game

Kuttenberg, 1403. A city built on silver.

Welcome to Kuttenberg, the silver-rich city at the heart of medieval Bohemia. Its mines have brought wealth and royal favour. Its streets offer opportunity to anyone with ambition, a little money and a useful acquaintance or two.

As rival burghers, build a thriving network of shops, smithies and taverns, expand your influence across the city’s districts, and help raise the magnificent St. Barbara’s. Turn your earnings into victory points as you race to outbuild and outmanoeuvre your opponents.

Along the way, rub shoulders with historical figures including Jan Žižka, Jan Hus, King Wenceslaus and Sigismund. These powerful Companions can advance your ambitions or bring a rival’s plans crashing down. But their identities remain hidden—and you needn’t actually have someone’s support to claim it. A convincing bluff can be every bit as useful as the right card. Will you accept an opponent’s claim, or risk a challenge?

Pursue an Honourable reputation or embrace a Notorious one. Gamble in the taverns, play your cards carefully, and decide when a little sabotage might be worth more than another honest day’s work. Powerful friends are useful. Your opponents will undoubtedly claim to have several.

Combining strategic building, hidden identities and tongue-in-cheek medieval humour, Pizzle brings a historic city to life around your table. No knowledge of history is needed—though a willingness to interfere in your friends’ plans will serve you well.

Every building reveals your ambitions. Every claim could be a well-timed bluff. Are they telling the truth, or are they just yanking your pizzle?