Designed these for my group after teaching Catan to the same three friends four times. The pip-style indicator on each token shows how likely the number is to roll, so newer players can actually evaluate a starting spot without the veterans coaching them. Comes with a little travel case because loose tokens are how tokens die.
I went fourth as orange ... then black chose that spot after me.
Very strange game
My friends and I decided to switch up some of the rules of the game and tried to create a “no mercy” version. Here are the rules we added in:
• unplayed development cards can be stolen by the robber (we had the player choosing close their eyes)
• if you roll doubles you get to go again (only one extra turn if doubles are rolled again)
• when a settlement is placed the player can gain one of the resources it’s touching (excluding starting settlements)
• when a city is placed the player gains all resources it’s touching
Does anyone have any ideas for rules we can try out?? This is all we could come up with but I feel like it needs more!
This is a follow up to my post from yesterday, where I showed off the board for it
I have been working on this off and on for the better part of 2 years, and I am very proud of it
The idea was to combine every expansion (including Legend of the Sea Robbers, Legend of the Conquerors, and Treasures Dragons, and Adventures) and add both a Colony mechanic and a Research mechanic.
I have linked both the rulebook as well as the drive that has all of my custom cards, parts, and playmats that you see in the images.
If you decide to play this, a) you are crazy (like me) and b) you will need a LOT of extra parts.
to make the board alone, I used 2 Catan base sets, 2 explorers and pirates set, and then 1 of every other box (including the 5-6 player expansions for everything except C&K as I couldn't find one for 5th edition.)
For the Pieces, I had to 3d print about 1000 extra pieces, including (but not limited to), settlements, roads, Knights, Conquerors, Camels, etc. I have put anything I made myself in the drive.
The only thing that I have left to do is set the number of Victory Points needed to win. All of my attempts in the past either had the game end with too many victory points, or to little victory points, so what I'm doing is I am going to play the game for a set amount of time, with me and my friends trying to get the most points, and then I'm going to see how many victory points everyone has and set one off of that.
I hope you enjoy reading the rulebook for this insane project, and please feel free to leave suggestions or point out places where you think the rules might be entirely broken. :D
Rulebook Link: Rulebook
Drive Link: Drive
My wife made this for her etsy shop Hoshi Umi Games, and I think its too darn cool not to share. Happy Birthday America! Happy Independence Day Americans!
was this road settle really that unreasonable as to make the entire lobby despise me and gift blue the free win?
My friends kindly bought me CATAN 5th edition and I think the game is amazing! Enjoyed every minute so far…
I’m looking to buy the 5-6 player extension, but specifically the 5th edition version so that it is compatible. I’ve seen some on eBay and messaged sellers to confirm if it is 5th edition but no one replies and I don’t want to risk it being 6th edition 🥲
Any ideas where I can specifically get the 5th edition extension for a reasonable price please?
Hey guys just wondering, do know where I should build to make sure I win?
(This is a joke)
This is the board for my Mega-game, where I have combined all expansions into 1 game
Yes, it's massive
Yes, it takes forever to play
Yes, I had to change a lot of rules to make it work
Actual post coming soonish
What do you guys think of the board? :D
Hi, first time posting here.
I’m creating my own version of Catan, inspired by the many people I’ve seen making their own card and tile designs; it’s a project I’ve wanted to tackle ever since I got a 3D printer a while back. (In my case, I’m going with Outer Wilds planets aesthetic.)
I’ve started by designing the cards, but no matter how much I research online, I can’t seem to find how the backs of the "Longest Road," "Largest Army," and "Building Costs" cards look like.
I don’t even know if they have a design on the back or if they’re just blank. If they are blank, should I design a back for them anyway? It would feel a bit weird to me to just leave the backs blank, haha.
I had bought Catan and the 5-6 both off Amazon. I didn’t find out till months later when I went to go use the 5-6 that it was the wrong edition and the border pieces don’t fit into the 6th edition base game.
The boxes are long gone as I use a case for it.
What to do with it? It’s now a mashup of both editions.
I took the purple pieces and the hexagons.
Hello! I ONLY have access to two Catan expansions. Not 100% sure which, but they’re both 5-6 player expansions. Can I somehow, someway play Catan? Can I draw out all the pieces? Is there legit anything I can do 😭 any help would be VERY appreciated! I would genuinely spend all night creating pieces if I had to 🙏
Probably unnecessary context:
I have never played Catan before, but it’s my partners favourite game. They forgot to pack it for a trip (we’ve gone to a campsite about 1 hour away with their parents), and they got really upset. They are INSISTING to drive back and grab it. I assume that something else has irked them, but hey, I’d be that upset if I forgot something I wanted.
No amount of asking them to not bother driving 2 hours there and back could convince them. And they do a lot for me, sooo… I want to give back no matter what :)
Genuinely curious how often this happens in a given match. For clarification, that’s all 3 metropolises obtained by any number of players whether it be a 3-4 or a 5-6 player game, and including any rules from any expansions or other gameplay variations
my main plan is to fuse all the dlc together but ı realy want to add combat to is there any fan made catan combat mods
