You can, but if I remember the resource noone had was bricks, that is very important... So the game pace slowed to a crawl... Also, the funky dice never rollin

You can, but if I remember the resource noone had was bricks, that is very important... So the game pace slowed to a crawl... Also, the funky dice never rolling bricks meant people would quickly rack up random resources, sometimes like 3 of each, so they ended with 9 cards, and would then lose to robber rolls (7). Then of course in one game where this happened there was an asshole cousin that thought it would be hilarious to hog resources and make the game worse, he would spend his whole turn making 'negotiations' with everyone, and them cancelling them, wasting like 5 minutes every time it was his turn, and sometimes if 7 was taking long enough have 20 cards on his hand... We don't play with that cousin anymore either. But yeah, not having a way to build roads make the game suuuuuper slow.