Obsession: Characters Expansion

Usually, yes: before choosing your passing benefit, you may send an ordinary footman to invite one character. If you invite the Eccentric Dowager, taking one Exile guest replaces your normal passing benefit; you can invite only one character per pass (pp. 6, 9).

Yes. At the start of your next turn, you must resolve the visiting character’s favours, then return the character during Clear Board and put the inviting footman in Expended Service. While a character is visiting you, you can’t pass (pp. 6, 9).

A casual guest is unsavoury if their card has at least one red frame; casual guests without red frames are respectable. Exiles are always respectable, and American Heiresses are unaffected by Bucket’s favours (pp. 5, 7, 9).

Using one on an activity costs 2 reputation if any prestige guest attends, or 1 if there are no prestige guests but at least one respectable guest; otherwise there’s no penalty. Using one on a guest card is judged by that guest alone: 2 for prestige, 1 for respectable, and none for unsavoury (pp. 10, 12).

No. Hiring is a separate action: expend your butler or underbutler, then take one or two servants from Higbee’s or recruit one from another player; they go to your Servants’ Quarters and become available next turn. They can’t complete objectives and are worth 0 VP (pp. 10–11).

Their modifiers add together: Socialites increase the number of gentry required, while Antisocialites reduce it, but the total can’t drop below one. Neither type can stay in suites (pp. 17–18).