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« on: January 08, 2009, 03:06:52 pm » |
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As there are more than six meeple colours available, can more than six players play the same game if there is a reasonable amount of tiles in play?
Yesterday I played with seven players total with almost two hundred tiles. Is it legal or should it be considered house rules?
*It was very funny to see seven meeple markers on the one hundred points scoreboard*
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« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2009, 03:11:31 pm » |
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Yes, we have 10 colors and often play that many -- house rule. It requires most/all of the expansions or at least multiple (base) sets. I picked up my extra meeples at meeplepeople.com. Their sets include 10 basic meeples, 1 super, 1 trader, and 1 pig. They do not have the mayor expansion's meeples yet (edit: or the tower pieces). It's nice for replacement parts or just extra colors - I added purple, orange, brown and nude (tan). (edit2: I see know that the actually have sets with 10, in the past you had to buy them individually and when I bought 8 they'd send me 10...weird but awesome) |
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koolkat
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« Reply #2 on: January 08, 2009, 03:16:18 pm » |
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On eBay I got ALL meeples in whte and orange, including A&M's.
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« Reply #3 on: January 08, 2009, 03:48:58 pm » |
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Did you search "meeple"? I can't seem to find anything on ebay - I'd love to get my hands on the missing mayor/barn/wagon pieces.
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« Reply #5 on: January 08, 2009, 06:16:27 pm » |
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Better go buy them soon. He's closing his ebay shop this year, or so people have been telling me.
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« Reply #6 on: January 08, 2009, 07:12:52 pm » |
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Adding more players is doable, but you'll need to decide a few minor things, like whether to increase the number of times the dragon moves each turn, how many towers pieces each player gets, etc.
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« Reply #7 on: January 08, 2009, 11:57:32 pm » |
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Adding more players is doable, but you'll need to decide a few minor things, like whether to increase the number of times the dragon moves each turn, how many towers pieces each player gets, etc.
That won't be an issue if one is not playing with The Tower or Princess and Dragon! I would suggest Joff's fan-made Dual Dragon expansion and Black Tower expansion if playing with the Tower & Princess & Dragon. It would mean getting a second copy of both, but I think it is worth it  |
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« Reply #8 on: January 10, 2009, 06:23:18 pm » |
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Yes, Novelty, you're right but what Scott meant (I think) is that we should adapt some rules or parameters to the bigger number of players. He just mentioned an example. I think this could be an interesting subject of discussion...
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« Reply #9 on: January 11, 2009, 06:40:53 am » |
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I'm not sure what else needs to be done besides tower pieces and dragon moves. And if one is not playing with the tower or P&D then that's not an issue.
One suggestion would be more meeples, but, the thing about Carc is that it's a game of meeple management. I think the current number is a good number. A&M adds 3 pieces which sort of dilutes the meeple management part. I mean, previous, before A&M, we were always running out of meeples in our games. Then A&M came along and thanks to the Abbey & the 3 new pieces, running out of meeples were not a problem. Increasing the total number of meeples for more players doesn't seem to make sense. Reducing it though, might not make some people happy, so the best solution there is to stick with the rules for the number of meeples.
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« Reply #10 on: January 11, 2009, 09:22:33 am » |
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Meeple number is ok no matter the number of players.
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« Reply #11 on: January 11, 2009, 09:32:12 am » |
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I think this is beginning to sound like a variant of some sort. Perhaps it could be moved to the appropriate forum?
So besides meeple number, what else is there if one is playing with more than 6 meeples? As stated by Scott, only Tower and maybe P&D would have some trouble for more than 6 players from all the existing official expansions. I think all the fan-made expansions I've been involved with can be scaled up to more than 6 players rather easily.
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« Reply #12 on: January 11, 2009, 09:58:50 am » |
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Well I can't figure out anything for the moment. I'll have to "practise" on 7+ players play... But that sounds a good idea. If you want to move this thread to Variants, please do. Just don't forget to mention me... |
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« Reply #13 on: January 11, 2009, 10:17:24 pm » |
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I can't move a thread, that's up to the Moderators.
I'm not sure if there's anything else that needs to be scaled up for 7+ players besides the Tower and maybe P&D.
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« Reply #14 on: January 12, 2009, 02:00:14 am » |
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Actually, the "meeple-seller" in germany is closing his shop already in february.
I just ordered the white and orange full sets, and I was promised a "surprise" in the package.
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