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I remember somewhere, might have been the Catan Android app, had an option to use cards instead of dice. The cards had all the combinations so no number could c
by hiccuphippo 1y ago
I remember somewhere, might have been the Catan Android app, had an option to use cards instead of dice. The cards had all the combinations so no number could come up more often than it should. Never got to play it that way but it looks like an interesting solution to people complaining certain numbers come up too often.
- cde-v 1y agoThat option existed for the physical game as well, just as a separate purchase. I do not see it for sale anymore anywhere which is weird.
- bell-cot 1y agoWith a deck or few of regular playing cards, not using the 7's through kings, it'd be easily enough to get the same effect.
- cde-v 1y agoGood point, hadn't thought about that. Probably why they don't sell it anymore.
- hiccuphippo 1y agoThe one I was talking about would be cards from 2 to 12 representing both dice, one card for 2 and 12, two cards for 3 and 11, and so on. So you would need six cards to represent 7, but your point still prevails.
- mechanicum 1y agoThey bundled it into the Traders & Barbarians expansion.
- vunderba 1y agoInteresting - kind of reminds me of "bag randomization" that some versions of Tetris use. Bag is filled with an equal distribution of all possible pieces and dealt randomly until empty at which point the pieces are placed back in the bag and the process is started all over again.
- asciimov 1y agoThe cards are interesting, they include a card to force shuffle the deck in order to make sure there is some randomness in the outcomes. Even with the forced shuffle cards, the outcomes fall too much in the bell curve and make the game feel sterile. Because if you get a flood of 5’s and 6’s you know a drought is soon upon you.
- rini17 1y agoWell, get creative and find some middle ground. Maybe add a rule that player that has no cards on hand and gets no resources in this turn can reshuffle.
- asciimov 1y agoI include a bag of assorted dice in my Catan set My two house rules are: 1. 2 dice are pulled from the bag at random. If dice are too similar for the Cities and Knights expansion, pull another die. 2. First 7 is re-rolled until not a 7. I have found this can speed up the early phase of the game.