Villages

[Carcking]

Final base tiles.

[CKorfmann]

Good job.  I think these look pretty good.

[loganmann1]

I think I like these toned down ones better.  Great job.

[Carcking]

Villages
The quite lanes and back alleys of the local Villages are the favorite haunt of the Thief of Carcassonne! The villagers are careful to be in before curfew and the local farmers must be wary at all times. The Thief is cunning and the Farmer who loses but a day’s wage to him will count himself lucky. Not even the influence of the Church can turn the Thief from his dark ways but the local Monk is thankful to have a thriving congregation of villagers to fill the pews.

Overview
Players make strategic placements of Village tiles in order to “rob” from local Farmers with the Thief. The Village tile also provides a bonus to Roads and Cloisters.

Here's the folder for the Rules and Tiles:
http://www.mediafire.com/?rfsh5y45i2eii

Let me know what you think.

[CKorfmann]

I think it looks great.  Be sure to alter the header at the top of the page(s).  One note, I don't think you should say that it is based on original ideas from you.  There were a lot of ideas from several people that went into this expansion.  I think it might be more appropriate to say, at least, that it was a collaborative effort from those on the site.  It is also appropriate to list those who contributed on the forum thread by name (or user name) all in one section in the acknowledgements.  That way, everyone's contributions are made known.  Check out some of the more recent documents from our download page if you'd like an example.

Good job on the rest though, I think.  I like that you offer both the aggressive and "normal" versions of the tiles.

[Carcking]

Great comments CKorfmann! I will point out though that it does say "collaborative expansion" and it didn't say "based" on me, or "by" me...only "with" me. What do the authors usually do then, scan through the comments on the board and pick out all the names? This is new stuff for me and I am open and willing to pick up the pace.
Thanks for the tip on the header, totally missed it.

[CKorfmann]

So it does say collaborative.  I guess all those C's ran together for me.  :  Sorry about that.  Now to get nitpicky, which we are prone to do with a CC document.  It looks great. 

• I like the description write-up.  It's clever.  I'm not sure if you meant for it to be formatted the way it is on the page though.  Did you?
• When you say that there are "six landscape tiles for expansions", you should probably say "fan-made expansions."  We usually make that distiction.
• Under "Preperation" you should probably include the Fisherman expansion in the list with Mountains and Forests.  That expansions is designed to mix the river tiles in with the rest as well.  I like the idea of using the river tiles with the River expansions though.  Hadn't thought of that before.
• Example B: You say the road is 5 tiles long, but have the farmers losing 7 points.
• I think it would look better to center the pictures of the tiles on the page.  I really like to see them included.
• My preference is to keep subheadings with at least a little bit of text, etc.  So, I would move the #1 and "Tile Layout" subheadings to the next page.
• The CC logo at the end should be moved to the bottom of the page.  Novelty suggested that to me and I never got why til I started doing it.  It just looks better, IMO.
• You lost the blue border on the second page.  I did that on a few also, but I can't remember how I did it.  I think it has to do with highlighting and removing a bunch of text at one time.  The delete key always messes up stuff for me, but I'm winging it most of the time with formatting anyway.
• Really like the inclusion of KJW, HiG, and RGG at the end.  Not sure if that is your addition, but I think it's a keeper.
• Some people prefer to put Revision History and Acknowledgements on a seperate page, but that just seems like a waste of paper to me.

As for the acknowledgement part, there are several different methods that you can use I think.  Here are a few examples of the different ways they've been done.  From the downloads page, check out the rules sheets for Drought & Pestilence, Natural Disasters, Reservoirs & Graneries, Gold Mines, and The King's Gate.  We all do it a little differently, but it gets the job done, I think.

Again, great job.  Thanks for taking the initiative on this. 

[Carcking]

Ok, this is great stuff. I'll get to work on it.
Thanks.

[Carcking]

So it does say collaborative.  I guess all those C's ran together for me.  :  Sorry about that.  Now to get nitpicky, which we are prone to do with a CC document.  It looks great. 

• I like the description write-up.  It's clever.  I'm not sure if you meant for it to be formatted the way it is on the page though.  Did you?

Chris, you might be seeing a different format than I am. A couple of the comments you made below lead me to believe that also. That's likely one of the problems with the Word document. I don't have a PDF creator.

• When you say that there are "six landscape tiles for expansions", you should probably say "fan-made expansions."  We usually make that distiction.

Got it.

• Under "Preperation" you should probably include the Fisherman expansion in the list with Mountains and Forests.  That expansions is designed to mix the river tiles in with the rest as well.  I like the idea of using the river tiles with the River expansions though.  Hadn't thought of that before.

Got it. I didn't know about the Fishermen expansion, now I do.

• Example B: You say the road is 5 tiles long, but have the farmers losing 7 points.

Got it.

• I think it would look better to center the pictures of the tiles on the page.  I really like to see them included.

Got it.

• My preference is to keep subheadings with at least a little bit of text, etc.  So, I would move the #1 and "Tile Layout" subheadings to the next page.

Formatting?

• The CC logo at the end should be moved to the bottom of the page.  Novelty suggested that to me and I never got why til I started doing it.  It just looks better, IMO.

Formatting?

• You lost the blue border on the second page.  I did that on a few also, but I can't remember how I did it.  I think it has to do with highlighting and removing a bunch of text at one time.  The delete key always messes up stuff for me, but I'm winging it most of the time with formatting anyway.

Formatting?

• Really like the inclusion of KJW, HiG, and RGG at the end.  Not sure if that is your addition, but I think it's a keeper.

Yes, this is mine.

• Some people prefer to put Revision History and Acknowledgements on a seperate page, but that just seems like a waste of paper to me.

Let's stay green.

As for the acknowledgement part, there are several different methods that you can use I think.  Here are a few examples of the different ways they've been done.  From the downloads page, check out the rules sheets for Drought & Pestilence, Natural Disasters, Reservoirs & Graneries, Gold Mines, and The King's Gate.  We all do it a little differently, but it gets the job done, I think.

I think I got this covered now. Thanks.

Again, great job.  Thanks for taking the initiative on this. 

Thanks for the praise. My pleasure.

[Scott]

What do the authors usually do then, scan through the comments on the board and pick out all the names? This is new stuff for me and I am open and willing to pick up the pace.

That's what I do. It's usually not a large number of people.

[Carcking]

I put up the revised rules - Version 0.2.
Can anyone tell me if the link is working correctly? When it uploaded it said "failure", so I tried again - still got "failure". However, I can see it in the folder...just wondering if everyone else can.

Chuck

[Carcking]

This is what the format should look like.

[CKorfmann]

I definitely do not see it like that.  I don't know why.  I see all the corrections, but I still see the formatting errors.  I don't know why it would do that.  Scott might know.  There is a free PDF creator called PDF redirect.  You could try that.

[Carcking]

I just downloaded the PDF Redirect and converted the file. That is awesome! It also reduced the size of the file to less than a tenth of what it was.

Thanks for the tip CKorfmann. Take a look at it now.

[CKorfmann]

Sorry, it looks the same to me.  It took the same amount of time to download too.  Is it possible it didn't save correctly?