Angler and Fish Farms

[Novelty]

I wanted to take a quick break from Mountains, so here's a new expansion that has been in the plan for a while.

The Angler, of course, is the Robber Baron for Rivers.
Fish Farms are basically two tiles with a lake in between and 4 rivers leading out of the lake, with the tournament stakes in the middle of the lake.

The expansion will have 3 tiles, but one of the river tile will be a duplicate of the other.

Here's the Angler tile with image lifted from the box of T&B and G,K&K, and slightly modified:

[meepleater]

Wow... looks quite nice. I want to find a way to make rivers even more now...

[Novelty]

I'll work on this expansion next.  I only need to make the Tournament/Fish farm tile and write up the rules.  Hopefully, it'll be ready by this weekend as well.

[Whaleyland]

Novelty, I think you should make the background of the Angler tile a bit less opaque, because the Angler is slightly faded while the background is very crisp, which is the opposite of what should happen. It may held the Angler blend a bit better with the background too. Otherwise, I like the idea, although I never was good at using the King and Robber Baron (or any related expansion).

[Novelty]

Thanks Whaley.  I didn't notice that.  I've changed it and have included it below.

Here's the tiles and the draft version of the rules.  And once this is completed, my original plan for the Fishermen series will have been completed.  Of course, more expansions can still be made if the need arises!

[CKorfmann]

This looks good, I like it.

[Whaleyland]

Novelty, could you email me or upload the .psd file for the Angler tile? I want to try something. I am still not perfectly happy with the blend. It's nothing personal, but I am picky about these things. If not, that's okay. Thanks!

[meepleater]

In the rules, you mention a player can choose not to take their follower back from a completed river, why would anyone do that? And also, just a minor point, in your angler tile, you have one colour and one black and white side. The *official* king and robber baron have colour on both sides. A minor point, but, like Whaleyland, I'm very picky...

[Novelty]

In the rules, you mention a player can choose not to take their follower back from a completed river, why would anyone do that?

To ensure they retain the fish farm.  There are 4 rivers connected to the fish farm, when one is scored and fishermen are removed, it might affect the fish farm.

As to the black and white, I guess it's just to remind people that the tile has a different back than normal tiles.  To make 2 coloured sides, just print it again if you're picky when you're making the tiles.

Whaley, sent.

[meepleater]

In the rules, you mention a player can choose not to take their follower back from a completed river, why would anyone do that?

To ensure they retain the fish farm.  There are 4 rivers connected to the fish farm, when one is scored and fishermen are removed, it might affect the fish farm.

Ah, good point. I never thought of that.... I like this expansion. There are now tournaments for cities, farms, forests and rivers...

[Whaleyland]

Okay, I tried to mess with the picture a bit but to no avail. I think the image looks pretty good as is. I mostly just didn't entirely like the blending, since the image qualities are slightly different. But after tweaking the various blending modes, filters, and whatnot, I couldn't make it look any better blended. Sorry. I hadn't realized before that you made the fishing rod for the image. I like it!

[Novelty]

I hadn't realized before that you made the fishing rod for the image. I like it!

Thanks.  Well, I had to remove the scroll and draw the fish in as well.  I also had to fill back in part of the cape that was originally obstructed by the scroll bag, and draw in that guy's right arm (which was obstructed by the scroll).  It wasn't as easy as it seems I'm afraid, and I'm sorry you couldn't make it look any better.  I suspect it's because I got two lousy scans from BGG instead of getting proper scans myself.  One of these days I've gotta reinstate my scanner!

Edit: Thanks to Whaleyland who suggested that I scan my BB2 instructions, I got a better background for the tile.  The new tiles are available from the Public Downloads.  Have fun downloading.