Age of Renaissance: Online Files

Welcome! For those of you who found your way here unbidden, Age of Renaissance (AoR) is a strategy board game, created by Avalon Hill and now owned by Hasbro. This page is intended as a resource for a group of my friends who are implementing a system to play Age of Renaissance online. Help yourself, and enjoy!

CyberBoard Designer 1.10 (661K zipped/ 1.34M)

© 1994-2000 by Dale L. Larson. This neat application is required to view the virtual AoR board which we are using. Follow the instructions at Dale's site. Then, to mess with the AoR board, you need to run CBDesign.exe and open it from there.

AoR Board (177K)

The virtual board itself. The original, bare-bones version of this was created by Bjørn Asle Taranger, for play-by-email AoR. It has since been extensively augmented by Brian Erskine. This is his latest version as of 6/7/2000.

AoR Player Sheet (78K)

A quite-improved version of the original Player Sheet, used to keep track of bids, advances, etc., by Brian Erskine. This one has everything you would ever want to track. You'll want to print this out; to do that, you either need Microsoft Excel, or you need to download the Excel viewer below.

Microsoft Excel 2000 Viewer (3813 K)

This links to Microsoft's download page for their free Excel Viewer, which lets you view and print the Player Sheet (and other Excel documents, I guess).

Yahoo! Messenger

We will use this instant messaging program to communicate privately with the gamemaster (GM) online, and to receive updated files from him.

Income / Sequence of Play / Expansion Reference

Modified version of the placemat used in face-to-face play. You won't need to stack any tokens, but you might want to print out these useful reminders of the sequence of play and the rules for expansion.

AoR Cardfile

A reference library of the text of each AoR card, so you don't have to flip through your deck while playing online... or worse yet, if you've misplaced your deck.

AoR Advice

This is an extremely concise summary of crucial AoR advice for the time-challenged reader. People who read this sheet before playing generally report that they don't find themselves falling behind early--a perennial novice complaint.

Opening Play Advice

Not sure what to do at the very beginning? Check this document out, designed to give you some ideas for opening play, starting with choosing your capital. Partially taken from the rulebook advice page, but the original material is well worth reading if you're new at this.

AoR Errata

Updates and clarifications to the rules. Originally released by Avalon Hill in 1998, this document is a mirror of one maintained by Web-Grognards.

Return to where the heart is

Kevin Martin
kbmartin@post.harvard.edu
Updated 6/11/2000