BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

I like the concept, but there’s nothing that stops the robber from moving multiple times before the next production of resources. In addition, because of the way you have it worded, once the robber is on somebody it can be moved to anybody by anybody else, meaning that it really doesn’t do much as written here.

Dang, you beat me to the idea of a robber!

That said, I have an alternate version that fits into the existing Visitors framework and works a little differently. I’ll post it tomorrow, and people can compare yours to mine and see which they like best, if they like either idea at all.

If I’m not missing something, once the robber is on somebody they can’t move it until the very next Production of Resources, since the second way of moving it requires it to be on somebody during the most recent Production of Resources? This also means that the robber should only be able to move at most once per turn, since when someone moves the robber off themselves the new target can’t move it until the next Production of Resources at the very least.

Also, the first way of moving it can only be done when the robber has no target, so once the robber has a target no one can perform the first way of moving it (unless it gets set to be pillaging no one again).

the robber is the worst thing about Catan. At least make it a visitor that does something interesting rather than reproducing the thing that everyone hates

Maybe people don’t like the robber, but I am of the opinion that it is a necessary evil for the designs of game balance. I do have to consider that this does maybe feel a bit bad, but this is BN so nothing is set in stone.

I do agree that I would like to see some design space explored that isn’t inspired directly from Catan, I did intend it to be a loose inspiration.

because I have an alternative Proposal that involves removing items from Stockpiles, but in a different way.