Dice and Carcassonne

[Novelty]

I'm just wondering how people will feel if a variant uses the rolling of dice as a mechanic.  I saw a couple of these on BGG yesterday.  Comments?

[Scott]

Dice feels out of place to me, but I'm not opposed to the idea.

[Novelty]

It is out of place.  Maybe there should be some way to mimic the effects of dice without using dice, like count the number of tiles around a particular tile... or something.

[Scott]

That might remove some of the randomness, because players have control over tile placement.

[Novelty]

That's what I thought as well.  How about naming road or castle picking x random tiles from the supply to get a random number, where x = a fixed number of tiles (say 6)?