That looks better. Good job Joff.
Thanks to you
I have always liked the idea that the Jester should not be allowed into the capture area of the Minstrel, but I am unsure how to overcome it regarding the vanilla Carc starting tile. If you say that the Jester must be at least 2 tiles away from the Minstrel except at the beginning, this becomes confusing simply because they are allowed to start on the same tile. It would be better to place them differently right from the outset (like the River tile startup and the Count startup positions). However, one thing that my proposal does is give an opportunity to have them moved to a new starting position when they overlap each others attention capturing area (like playing a Volcano tile in P&D), but this seems clumsy and again confusing. For example, what happens when the Jester and Minstrel are both capturing the attention of, say, a Blue Knight, but only the Minstrel is capturing a Yellow Monk? In the draft rules the player who initiated the moving of the pieces by laying a fair tile can move the Jester an Minstrel to a position of his choice, which seems unfair on the Yellow player. Perhaps it would be better if they just cancelled each other out in an overlapping instance? ... or indeed force the Jester and Minstrel to be at least 2 tiles away from each other, so the problem can't occur?
As usual the rules will be updated to take into account your questions:
Can the dragon remove either of them? Does the tower capture them?
Absolutely not. They are neutral figures and cannot be captured.
Do their bonus/penalty apply to wagons on a road or in a cloister/shrine and barns?
Yes, their bonus/penalty does apply to wagons on a road, in a city or in a cloister/shrine.
Barns are effectively a type of farmer, so do not have any penalties or bonuses incurred upon them.
Does the pig get a bonus or penalty from them?
Well, the pig is not a follower (neither is a barn, come to that!) an so is exempt from being caught by the Jester or Minstrel. Also, a pig (once again) is a type of farmer.
The other thing that I don't see explained is: Do you still use the rules from the Catapult when playing with this?
Interesting. I do not yet own The Catapult, so i'm not sure how it actually plays. But, I suppose one can please themselves whether to play the catapult also together with Jester and Minstrel, as long as the Jester/Minstrel cannot be seduced, removed from play etc.
How do they interact with other fan made expansions? Does this carry over into the Jousting majority of a city? The stocks? Woodsmen? Fishermen? Gold Miner?
This is where I might need some help. I would say yes, the penalty/bonus is imposed on all followers that are caught in the attention capturing area. However, the penalty/bonus is only imposed at the time of completing any feature. This might need thinking about. In fact, the Jousting Tournament is especially important to clarify on if the bonus/penalty is only imposed at time of scoring.
