CAR for the Catan Series

[Joff]

Joff, I am not a huge fan of the Settlers or Seafarers Viking pieces, but I like the Cities & Knights ones. Do you know if (a) the City Wall ring fits around the original wood city and (b) the metropolis cap fits on the top of the original city? If you confirm both of those, I am ordering a set for sure. Oh, and do you like the little flags for the knights? Or do they become a pain? They kind of look strange, but I like the non-circular knight pieces and Merchant. I assume the set includes all six colours, this may not work. I play green...always.

Well I do not have Cities and Knights, neither have I ever played it! I do like the Viking pieces and prefer them to the standard pieces. I would assume that the Cities and Knights Viking pieces fit the standard pieces judging by pictures...

[Scott]

Page 1, Paragraph 3: "great real of Catan"?

Footnote 5: the footnote should not span multiple pages

Footnote 6: the word "neuter" should be "neutral"

Page 8, first paragraph under "City Walls": the word "tow" should be "two"
Page 8, Point 3 under "City Walls": the word "a" should not be here

Page 9, under "Promoting a Knight": The non-word "yoj" should be "you"

Page 11, third paragraph under "City improvements": the word "marker" should be "market"
Page 11, second paragraph after the first example: the closing quotation mark is missing.

Page 14, first bullet point: the second "not" should probably be "nor"
Page 14, second bullet point: "face up down" is contradictory

Page 16, description for Deserter: there is a instance of "knight" which should be pluralized
Page 16, description for Intrigue: there is a missing letter "b" in front of the lone "e"

Page 19, second paragraph after the first example:
- should begin with an uppercase letter
- "babarian" should be "barbarian"
- Attack of the Barbarians is missing the closing doublequote

Page 24: "Now you'll have face" is missing the word "to"

Various pages: references to "even die" should be "event die"?

[Whaleyland]

Thank you Scott. As always, your edits are appreciated. For some reason, I really just wanted "even" dies, those events were too much for me. Oh, and "Attack of the Barbarians seems to like escaping without a closed quote. It's because it is a naughty concept and merits a naughty response. (") Thanks! All suggestions fixed (except for the overlong footnote. Still trying to work with that).

I will get a new draft up in the next few days, once I can Photoshop some of the images into it. There are a lot of images in these rules. This PDF will be uber-compressed (hopefully not too much!). Anyone else who wants to help edit, please do!!!

[Scott]

I really just wanted "even" dies

Mr. Monk prefers them that way.

[Whaleyland]

New release candidate: Catan Settlers CARA 0.9f (Final pre-release edition) (3.0 MB PDF Download)

Please review this final release candidate before I propose it at BGG. The only significant change has been the addition of "Catan for Two" rules in the very back of the document. This was originally released in Traders & Barbarians but I decided that it was better suited for these rules. If you can only edit a little, please edit this. Thank you! I will publish on BGG shortly.

[Scott]

Page 23, first bullet point under Replenishing Trade Tokens: the word "mighty" doesn't make sense here.

Very exciting to see this so close to release.

[Whaleyland]

Thanks again, Scott. I have just uploaded this to BGG with a few more revisions and footnotes. It undoubtedly still has problems, but perhaps some wider review will offer corrections. Right now, I just hope it gets approved since it has so many copied images from the printed rules in it.

I am working slowly on Cities & Knights. All the major text is in, as well as some footnotes. The images for the Progress cards are really annoying, though. I took a break from Photoshopping them to add the "Cities & Knights for Two" rules that were posted on Catan.com last autumn. They require a lot of editing for consistency and ease of readability, though, so it is taking more time than expected. I will try to have a final (preview) draft up by the end of next week, before I leave for Spring Break, but there is no guarantee. As with Matthew's CAR, these things take a lot of time to pick at, and I have many other things to do, too. At least I have more confidence that Traders & Barbarians will go easily. I am still worried about Seafarers, though, because it is more chart-based and has a lot of large images, which my editing program doesn't like.

[Gantry]

Right now, I just hope it gets approved since it has so many copied images from the printed rules in it.

That isn't an issue with RGG at least, I have word from Jay that as long as the images aren't used for profit, anyone can use them for purposes such as these.

[Whaleyland]

Version 1.0 is now available on BGG. Check it out at http://www.boardgamegeek.com/filepage/40528!

[Scott]

Congrats!

[Whaleyland]

Hey everyone. Just a quick note that I am leaving for a month tomorrow. Unfortunately, I have not had the time to finish the C&K CARA before I left, but hopefully I will get it done while I am away (it is on my list). The Settlers CARA is up at BGG under Settlers of Catan. If you download it there, please give me a thumbs up. I am almost a default view on the first page of the files database, which would make my CARA much more visible. I will try to get the other two documents, Seafarers and T&B, transcribed for image editing while I am gone too. I have some flights, so should be able to find some time if my new (old) GBA doesn't distract me too much. Either way, I am shooting for a mid-summer release of the entire Catan CARAS, but that may be optimistic. I am still trying to fix some format problems with the Settlers CARA and would like any suggestions for additional footnotes. In all likelihood, they will force a better layout for the document. Right now, there just aren't enough footnotes to make for a good layout.

Anyway, hope everyone has a good Easter. I'll be back on April 20th officially (though I may check still from time to time). Cheers!

[Novelty]

Oh wow, a new avatar!  Enjoy your holiday Whaley, I'm sure the CARA will wait until you get back (and yes, I'm still awaiting the final combined product eagerly)

[Gantry]

see you when you return

[Whaleyland]

Hello everyone. I am happy and proud to announce the beta release of...

The Cities & Knights of Catan Completely Annotated Rules & Almanac – Release Candidate 0.9 (2.8 MB PDF Download)

I released an earlier version of this before, but it lacked the majority of the images and was not entirely formatted or edited. This edition is my pre-release version and I want to get it up at BoardGameGeek as soon as possible. I probably won't get a chance to work on Seafarers or Traders & Barbarians for some time, so this will be it for right now. Regardless, can a few of you read through this and provide edits. If you have any suggestions for footnotes, those are also much appreciated. Thank you very much. This project is taking more time than I thought, but I am sure Matt knows that since his Carcassonne CAR sometimes goes months before release (as in the case right now). Cheers. I look forward to any suggestions or edits.

[Scott]

Page 2, under Game Contents: the info in brackets behind "24 knights" is separated with a period, which is inconsistent with the line before where the info was separated with a comma.

Page 8, under Turn Overview: is the "All players produce..." point supposed to appear twice?

Page 17, under Crane: try to get rid of the space between the last two lines.

Page 18, under Mining: try to get rid of the space between the two example lines.

Page 21, under Saboteur: try to get rid of the space between the last two lines.

Page 22, under Merchant: "receives the trade advantage" doesn't fully make sense here - "receives" should be changed to the singular form "receive".