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« on: January 25, 2022, 09:25:21 AM »
And I always play  ... What do I do? 
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« on: January 22, 2022, 01:20:59 AM »
A 10-sided die. Normal dice are d6. 
Thanks, Meepledrone. All those abbreviations can be overwhelming sometimes for people for whom English is not the maternal language...
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« on: January 22, 2022, 01:16:58 AM »
What is D10?
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« on: January 21, 2022, 07:24:40 AM »
Also this is on the side of the v3 box which helps to classify how HiG sees it:
Thats really interesting 
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« on: January 20, 2022, 09:50:58 AM »
haha, this is evolving all the time... I think she was not knowing what she was selling and now she slowly understands and adapts the offer accordingly every 5 min... (before, there was only VB, now there is VB 100 EUR) I wrote to her (just in case kothmann was interested ) and when the offer was deleted she replied that she had had so many replies that she is putting it back on bid base...
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« on: January 20, 2022, 09:15:52 AM »
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« on: January 19, 2022, 08:29:57 AM »
I hope you will keep all the polls open still much longer, Meepledrone, I would like to participate but I need to find time to read the rules first  (Advent Quizz is a loooooong time ago so I forgot everything...)
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« on: January 18, 2022, 11:40:59 PM »
Results: C2: Halflings, Cathedrals in Germany, Spiel Promo 2020 tile, USA East Map, USA West Map, The Peasant Revolts, Taiwan Map, Spiel Promo 2021 tile. C3: 20th Anniversary Edition, The Gifts, The Signposts, Big Box 7, C3 Base game set (normal).
Thanks for this analysis, great job! Everything makes sense, but for me, the ONLY thing that matters are "Clipped buildings at city edges" so for me Peasant Revolts is C3 Sorry for arguing and provoking a discussion ...
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« on: January 18, 2022, 11:32:24 PM »
Congratulations Dan, Tom and Hector! You three will handle the forum and website well and a triumvirate should mean that the site management never completely collapse again as it has at least twice before.
As somebody who has been a member of this forum since 2008, when Gantry and Matt Harper were still active daily, I must say that this is a promising new development. I joined this forum about a year after buying my first Carcassonne product: the original Big Box, as well as the Games Quarterly Expansion. I immediately became addicted and this game quickly came to replace my earlier addiction to The Settlers of Catan (which I haven't played in many years). This community has certainly led me to spending hundreds of dollars over the years, but in many ways it saved me money since I also had early or day one knowledge of almost every Carcassonne product released. This meant that I was able to get every C1 expansion shortly after it came out and I have more or less continued to do so with new C2/3 content, after an initial hesitation.
I have seen at least three waves of management come and go, with Gantry and Matt gradually replaced in everyday moderation by Scott, kettlefish, and Novelty Nostalgia. Following the combination of a massive forum crash several years ago, the forum's migration to a new server, and the resignation/departure of many of our Hans im Gluck contacts not long after C2 released, the forum simmered for many years. Danisthirty was instrumental in keeping the group alive at this time, with me providing semi-regular weekly polls to encourage discussion and engagement. However the drift toward online tournaments, which I had no interest in, and my own personal life led me away, although I always checked in regularly (mostly to see if any new product has been announced).
I suspect I am now the seniormost active member of the group, if the fortnightly comment or post can be counted as "active." That's kind of a cool distinction and I truly wish I had more time for the hobby. My original interest in the forum came directly from Matt, who told me about his combined rules soon after they were uploaded onto BoardGameGeek (which I also joined as a result of the CAR). I volunteered to make the covers for them in those early days because his covers were not visually appealing and I had some experience from Catan rules booklets I had done. I stopped making covers after he did a major refresh for, I think, the 7th edition of the CAR. In those years, I also made a few fan expansions (most of which I never actually played myself) and published two Carcassonne campaigns (which I have played, although I've never done all 50 scenarios in the second edition). During the 2020 lockdown, I planned to work on and release a third edition campaign using the C2 expansions as a template, but I quickly ran out of time as my work role was reassigned. I haven't really had any time to work on it since and, as many of you may have noticed, I still don't engage heavily on the site despite checking in daily.
With all that being said, I am unbelievably happy that the torch has finally been passed. Gantry was a very active member for the first few years that the forum operated and then he became more of a behind-the-scenes tech support for when something went wrong, as well as the site's financial backer. It was never fair to him that he was saddled with the site once he lost interest and/or ran out of time to run it. But that is the nature of the internet: so many good websites are gone now because the person who paid the bills no longer wanted to. I am very glad such is now the case here. So I raise a glass of mead to you three to a long reign and an amicable power-sharing agreement. May your meeple towers never fall and may your tile towers runneth over. Salud!
Edit: Just for nostalgia's sake, here is the list of original admins, moderators, and staff from the old forum. Lots of old-timers I haven't heard from in many years...
Its nice to read all these old stories, thanks for that @Whaleyland. For all those people like me who did not live this history it is surely adding an additional layer of depth to all these names! It is only by acknowledging the past and the people who have contributed to it, that you have the solid foundation to turn to the future 
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« on: January 18, 2022, 06:34:19 AM »
Its so nice that with this new ownership some of the former important people coming back!  Its nice to see you here present at this moment, @kettlefish. Your name, too, is all over the place here and in CarcF. Thanks a lot and Cheers!
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« on: January 17, 2022, 12:01:25 PM »
We would very much like to have children so that we can pass on our love of Carcassonne and other board games to the next generation. There are some challenges in accomplishing this which may or may not be surmountable. Time will tell.
I wish you all the best of luck and support with that! Hope it will work out! "Keep your best wishes close to your heart and watch what happens" Tony DeLiso
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« on: January 17, 2022, 10:04:02 AM »
Hi Scott, I am fairly new here so for me, seeing a "live" message of THE "Scott" is like wow, what is happening ... I am active in both Forums CCentral and CarcF and am just developing my first own fan expansion. So when the German mods explained that I had to use a specific template for the rules, I discovered, that in the Acknowledgements of the CarcF template I had to thank "Scott" for something he had done a long time ago.... In combination with the picture of your Avatar ... guess what, I thought, you were so old that you had one foot in the grave already ...  So its nice to finally get to know one of the persons to whom we owe so much here. (+1 merit from me) Thanks a lot for that and for coming back, even if it is not full time.... And congratulations for your marriage, now its time to think of children ... ? (just saying ... ) (I mean, really, we NEED the next generation of Carcassonne payers...)
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« on: January 17, 2022, 05:46:44 AM »
Thank you, @Challa007. Our pleasure...
Hope my picture solved the issues caused by my automatic translations on CarcF.
Haha, well, we did sort that out earlier ... but wait..... am I seeing a ponytail there or is that just my imagination...
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« on: January 17, 2022, 05:30:24 AM »
This is HUGE!! Thank you Dan, Tom and Hector for doing this for the community, its awesome +1 merit for all of you I mean, being admin or mod is one thing, but being the owner is a whole different responsibility. Thank you for accepting it. And I love to finally have a picture of you! Really nice  Unfortunately, I have never been in touch with Gantry, Scott or Matt Harper or other early leaders, but I am sending my "Thank you" also out to all of you. Your names are written all over the place here, nobody will ever forget what you did (or are still doing) for the community!!
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« on: January 15, 2022, 11:45:41 PM »
wow, what a great job! Impressive and very very interesting! This is really helpful to the community, +1 merit from me
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