Chieftains of Catan Rules (Jan 18, 2013) Over the weekend I speculated a bit on how a game using the Chieftains of Catan rules I designed might play. For example, using the rules for knight movement to relocate a chief […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For Christmas I got a copy of the Cities & Knights expansion for The Settlers of Catan. I haven’t played it yet but I’m pretty well familiar with the new rules it adds to the game. It’s one of my […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was ridiculously busy and tired yesterday, so you’ll have to forgive me for not posting as much, and for the one entry that was a rambling post about numbers which were mostly wrong. This morning, as I reviewed everything, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While working on determining the number of small towns, villages and such in the area I was working on, I recalled some work I did on the very subject sometime in the last six months. I must have decided that […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s been about a month since the last time I touched on my Condition system, which is a substantial subsystem of The Catan Horror, serving as a bridge between Dungeons & Dragons and The Settlers of Catan. Today, while I […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Saturday, cookiemonger, her brother, and I assembled and ran a short crawl in Dungeons of the Catan Horror. It took a little time to set up, as the pieces I had were scattered about the study, though the Catan pieces […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had the opportunity to see the dice replacement variant in play a couple days ago, in a four-player game. There’s a weird feeling I have, associated with altering the rules of a game for a group of people who […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It occurred to me after a time, that this idea probably deserved its own entry. I’m sure there are plenty of dice-replacement variant rules out there for The Settlers of Catan, but I wanted to offer mine, which simply exchanges […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My previous entry was long enough, I figured it’d be best to divide it into two separate posts. I want to talk about some of my observations and the reason for some of the changes I made. First of all, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Clear back at the tail-end of November, I posted setup instructions for Dungeons of the Catan Horror. Now that I’ve had a couple months to playtest, and to reflect back on them, I want to offer some of my findings, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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