{"id":268,"date":"2020-03-28T02:14:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz.\/~blog\/?p=268"},"modified":"2022-03-08T19:31:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T19:31:50","slug":"catan-house-rule-suggestions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/2020\/03\/catan-house-rule-suggestions","title":{"rendered":"Catan House Rule suggestions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Settlers of Catan<\/em> <strong>house rules<\/strong> you might consider implementing:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Players <strong>are permitted<\/strong> to display their cards to opponents, beyond the contents of <u>already-agreed-upon<\/u> trades [\u00ac<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catan.com\/faq\/4620-resource-cards-do-i-always-have-keep-my-resource-cards-face-down\">4620<\/a>, \u00ac<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catan.com\/faq\/4648-seven-and-robber-may-i-show-my-hand-cards-player-who-moving-robber-let-him-know-placing\">4648<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Building a settlement on an opponent\u2019s road <strong>does not interrupt it<\/strong> (w\/r\/t Longest Road) [\u00ac<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catan.com\/faq\/4608-longest-road-how-can-i-interrupt-opponents-longest-road\">4608<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Players may trade cards without revealing them publicly <em>(if they\u2019re clever enough\u2026)<\/em> [\u00ac<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catan.com\/faq\/4639-trade-may-i-secretly-trade-opponent-so-other-players-wont-know-what-we-traded\">4639<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Players <strong>may lose by negligence<\/strong>, if they fail to notice their victory condition during their turn <em>and<\/em> another player achieves victory in the interim [\u00ac<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catan.com\/faq\/4616-victory-conditions-what-if-someone-has-reached-required-number-victory-points-for-win\">4616<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Players may win <strong>on an opponent\u2019s turn<\/strong> if they have the victory points (<em>sorta<\/em> conflicts with #4\u2014not irreconcilably so, however!)<\/li>\n<li>Development Cards purchased during the Special Build Phase <strong>immediately before the Player\u2019s turn<\/strong> cannot be played until the Player\u2019s <u>next<\/u> turn [\u00ac<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catan.com\/faq\/4587-development-cards-general-if-i-have-bought-development-card-during-special-building-phase\">4587<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Victory Point cards <strong>are not exempt<\/strong> from the Development Card \u201csame turn\u201d restriction [\u00ac<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catan.com\/faq\/4596-development-cards-victory-point-does-restriction-only-1-development-card-may-be-revealed\">4596<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps you didn't realize <em>just how many<\/em> house rules you were already using\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[41,159,19],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writeups","tag-board-games","tag-catan","tag-kvetching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}