Marrying Mr. Darcy – The Pride & Prejudice Card Game

Marrying Mr. Darcy is a role-playing game where players are one of the femalecharacters from Jane Austens novel Pride and Prejudice. Players work toimprove themselves and become more desirable as potential wives for theavailable Suitors. The ladies do this by attending Events and improving theirCharacters, but advantage can be gained by the use of Cunning. All of theirefforts are in hopes of securing the husband that will make them the mostsatisfied character at the end of the game.

Game play is divided into two stages: the initial Courtship Stage and theconcluding Proposal Stage.

The Courtship Stage is when players try to improve their Heroines chancesof happiness by earning points playing Character Cards, and acquiring or playingCunning Cards. Character Points help you to attract Suitors, and also counttoward your total number of Character points at the end of the game.CunningPoints do not count towards your building your Character. However, the Heroinewho has acquired the most Cunning will be the first player to enter the ProposalStage later in the game, putting her at a significant advantage.

The Proposal Stage begins when Event Cards have been played. In this stage,players will roll to see which Suitor proposes to them, decide if they willmarry them, and calculate their final score.