I was wondering if there any reason that New City could be played by 3 players with the following minor adjustment to layout: Instead of 4 city areas there...
Hi, Rob I was wondering why you decided to give players a gold bonus (from the nice king) after the first 2 rounds rather than just have the players start with...
This would be interesting to try, but the main reason I didn't go for this was that I wanted all the tiles used by the end of the game. A slight variation on...
It turned out to be mostly a flavour thing, but really stems from an early version of the rules in which a few tiles produced no gold, so that it was possible...
Thanks for the answers, Rob. One more thing - is a bid of 0 gold allowed? I was wondering what happens if all players are out of gold before the last district...
Hey Phillip, For the first question, from the rules, "The player lowest on the pawn ladder must select one of the revealed face-up tiles. This will be the...
Ah, thanks, Rob, I somehow missed that 1 gold minimum bid part of the rules. And, since for the first 2 turns the king pays you a bit extra, I think it is...
OK... I have put together a wiki. this is for the community.. and it is just a start of said site.. but the advantage of a wiki is the ANYONE can ADD or EDIT...
... Looks good, Jonathan. This ought to spur me to get InterWiki working for the Seattle Cosmic Wiki so it will be easy for the Piecepack Wiki to link to all...
... but ... we ... etc. ... That's great. It's the perfect addition to this open-source community. Funnily enough I was encouraging Karol just yesterday to put...
Reminder: History Repeats Itself contest closes July 11, 2003, that is 1 month away. Folks wishing to enter should read over the contest rules and get the...
... Are any of the contest entries (sans identifiers) going to be posted, either before or after the deadline? I, for one, would be interested in seeing what...
Piecepack games [contest and otherwise] will be posted at www.piecepack.org. See contest rules for details or stay tuned for announcement. We hope that only...
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Hi The board is fairly quiet at the moment, (possibly due to lots of work on games for the contest?), so i thought I would update my work in progress,...
Hi all, Just a quick announcement that I won't be ready the weekend of the 12-13th to begin judging, so instead I thought I'd give everyone a little extra time...
On the Piecepack links page there is a broken link to: Issue number 1 of Grampa Barmo's Discount Game Magazine includes an article by James Kyle explaining in...
If I can "pipe up" here. As my name is attached to the pp+ design, I thought I might be able to make some comments; more in explanation than defense! First...
I don't usually get into politics, but in the effort of bringing peace back to the piecepack group, I thought I'd climb up on my soapbox anyway. Rant ahead -...
I recently read "The Oxford History of Board Games". It is an excellent book and was written by David Parlett, the designer of Hare and Tortoise. Everyone who...
I am very new to this group, having just discovered it a couple days ago, and I hope that I don't appear too forward, but I would like to add my two cents...
I have uploaded a pdf file to the Rulesets in Progress section containing the rules to a game I've completed called Piecepack Clear. Piecepack Clear is a...
From the "Nobody asked me, but here it comes" Department for the Criminally Insane, my own feedback concerning pp+ and this debate: * Let's begin with one area...
Just to clear things up - we do not "reject" any submission to www.piecepack.org as long as they are freely distributable and maintain a family friendly...
boardgamesbook <mailto:boardgamesbook@...> wrote: I agree with what Derek has to say. I think the Piecepack can be extended, so long as extensions are...
... that will ... later) and I ... on the ... Believe it or not, one of the reasons I was attracted to the piecepack was because the tile system seemed like a...
Hi, I'm new to this forum (2 days) but a piece pack fan for much more long time. I went into the same process of gathering all information on dice and cards to...
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