The CAR helps a lot. But even this document doesn’t have all the answers.[...]Over the years we have edited the “rule-book” every time we introduced a new expansion and when we discovered that some issue wasn’t addressed. We have also included our house rules for those rare instances when the CAR doesn’t provide an answer.
Quote from: Darwin on November 27, 2014, 08:17:28 PMThe CAR helps a lot. But even this document doesn’t have all the answers.[...]Over the years we have edited the “rule-book” every time we introduced a new expansion and when we discovered that some issue wasn’t addressed. We have also included our house rules for those rare instances when the CAR doesn’t provide an answer.I am curious, what are these issues and rare instances? Any example?
If all of those references were sorted in to one page for the Barn, that would be very quick and powerful. When it's used during game play it would be very expedient and incredible useful.
Monasteries and the Phantom - Can you both place a follower as an Abbot and a Phantom as a Monk on a Monastery?No. Quote from CAR:QuoteThe player may deploy the phantom to it as a second follower (on a second feature).And footnote 382:QuoteJust like a normal follower, the Phantom can only be deployed to an unoccupied feature.So, the feature is the same and occupied.Towers and the Phantom - Can you place the Phantom after a placement of a Tower piece?Clear answer in footnote Nr. 384 - YES.QuoteThe phantom may also be placed as a second piece in addition to the builder, pig, or any other “move the wood” piece such as movement of the fairy or placement of a tower piece.Portal and a field with the Barn - Can you portal to a field with a Barn and score as a connected farmer?No. Explicitly the answer to this question is given in footnote 147:QuoteThe magic portal only allows followers to be deployed to tiles that can be legally occupied according to the usual rules, as if the player had just placed the tile in question.Messages and scoring of Monasteries - Can you score a Monastery with the Message: “Score a follower and remove it from the board”? This would be interesting in a big game when you are short of followers.It is still a follower after all. So the answer should be, definitely, yes.Messages and scoring of a farm - Can you score a farm with the Message: “Score a follower and remove it from the board”? This would be interesting in the last stages of the game if you do not have the majority on a farm.Actually you DO need to have the majority on a farm to be able to use this message. If you do, then you can use this message to your farmer.
The player may deploy the phantom to it as a second follower (on a second feature).
Just like a normal follower, the Phantom can only be deployed to an unoccupied feature.
The phantom may also be placed as a second piece in addition to the builder, pig, or any other “move the wood” piece such as movement of the fairy or placement of a tower piece.
The magic portal only allows followers to be deployed to tiles that can be legally occupied according to the usual rules, as if the player had just placed the tile in question.
Quote from: Darwin on November 28, 2014, 07:10:19 AMMonasteries and the Phantom - Can you both place a follower as an Abbot and a Phantom as a Monk on a Monastery?No. Quote from CAR:QuoteThe player may deploy the phantom to it as a second follower (on a second feature).And footnote 382:QuoteJust like a normal follower, the Phantom can only be deployed to an unoccupied feature.So, the feature is the same and occupied.Towers and the Phantom - Can you place the Phantom after a placement of a Tower piece?Clear answer in footnote Nr. 384 - YES.QuoteThe phantom may also be placed as a second piece in addition to the builder, pig, or any other “move the wood” piece such as movement of the fairy or placement of a tower piece.Portal and a field with the Barn - Can you portal to a field with a Barn and score as a connected farmer?No. Explicitly the answer to this question is given in footnote 147:QuoteThe magic portal only allows followers to be deployed to tiles that can be legally occupied according to the usual rules, as if the player had just placed the tile in question.Messages and scoring of Monasteries - Can you score a Monastery with the Message: “Score a follower and remove it from the board”? This would be interesting in a big game when you are short of followers.It is still a follower after all. So the answer should be, definitely, yes.Messages and scoring of a farm - Can you score a farm with the Message: “Score a follower and remove it from the board”? This would be interesting in the last stages of the game if you do not have the majority on a farm.Actually you DO need to have the majority on a farm to be able to use this message. If you do, then you can use this message to your farmer.
My answer's main point also wasn't to criticize your suggestion! I also think that it is good idea: to sort CAR by elements and if someone sometimes will do that, I will definitely use it!My point was that in CAR we can find the answers almost at any question. We already had some discussion in different thread - how clear and deep clarification should be. If we include into CAR every obvious question, CAR could grow to 1000 pages and more
I agree that having an "Element" CAR would sometimes be more useful. I think that's possible with the existing CAR though through a very simple expansion of the table of contents to include the specific playable elements within that table. Or, perhaps better, an element index on the last page of the document that has a hotlinked alphabetical listing of all the elements so players can just tap on it and go straight there. It may not be a perfect solution, but I think it would fix both issues.
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