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A Carcassonne Central expansion by Novelty

with original ideas by Jabberwocky

There are times when the hand of God is withheld from the people, and pests and drought plague
the land, causing hardship in the cities and in the farms.

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XTRA

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IECES

• 6 new tiles

ADDITIONAL RULES

Preparation

Shuffle the new tiles with the other tiles. Players may choose to set aside some of the tiles and not use these in the
game. It is suggested that there should be an equal or less number of tiles with drought than there are tiles with pig
farms. It is also suggested that the rat-infestation tile should only be used when playing with an expansion that
removes followers from play (e.g. The Tower).

1. Place a tile

The tiles are placed in accordance to the normal rules. The tiles depict the following new element:

Rat infestation

The tile has rats in the city and a skull-and-crossbones icon.

Drought

The tile has a dried and cracked piece of land and a crossed water-droplet icon.

2. Deploy a follower

Followers are deployed to the rat-infested city as a knight
per the usual rules. Followers may not be deployed
specifically to the drought area but may be deployed to
the farm surrounding the drought area as usual.

If a barn

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is played to a farm that has one or more drought

icons, or if a farm with a farmer is joined to a farm with a
barn and the resulting farm has a drought icon, farmers in
that farm score one point less per city prior to being
removed from play.

The blue barn is placed
after the tile with the
drought icon is played.
Yellow scores 4 points
(only 2 points for each of
the 2 completed cities)
and returns the farmer to
his or her supply.

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From the Abbey and Mayors expansion.

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3. Score a completed city

When a rat-infested city (i.e. one of the tiles that makes up the city has the rat-infestation icon) is completed

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scored as usual. However, the followers and the builder are not returned to a player’s supply after the city is scored

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The followers and the builder are quarantined in the city

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and remain in play

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until the end of the game

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. A wagon in

a rat-infested city may not move to an adjacent incomplete feature after the city has been scored.

In the example to the left, both Blue and Red have a knight in a completed city. Both Blue and
Red score 10 points for the city as usual but do not return the follower to his or her supply. The
knights stay in the city until the end of the game.

Final Scoring

At the end of the game, farms that have one or more drought icons score one point less per city

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Followers and the builder may be exchanged or removed (e.g. by using The Catapult expansion, escaping a

Cathar/besieged city via an adjacent cloister, or the fan-made Stocks expansion) from the rat-infested city prior to its
completion. After the city is completed, followers and the builder may not be exchanged and can only be removed by the
dragon and/or the tower (See footnote 5 below).

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If the rat-infested city also has a Jousting Tournament, the scoring of the city is carried out as if the followers of the

champion/winner are removed according to the rules of the Jousting Tournament.

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The fairy and the dragon may freely move into and out of the completed rat-infested city. Any fan-made piece that does

not specifically belongs to any player may also move into and out of the completed rat-infested city, unless stated otherwise in
the relevant fan-made expansion rules. Any fan-made piece that belongs to any player may not move out of the completed
rat-infested city, unless stated otherwise in the relevant fan-made expansion rules.

5

However, followers and the builder may be removed from a completed rat infested city by the dragon (from The Princess

and The Dragon expansion), or a tower piece (from The Tower expansion), or any other fan-made expansion as usual,
according to the rules from those expansions. The usual builder rule will still apply – if all of a playerÊs followers have been
removed from the completed rat-infested city, then the builder is automatically removed.

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The knights do not score for the city again during the end of the game.

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This applies equally to farmers and barns.

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Revision History

1.0

Public Downloads version (Novelty)

0.5

Added clarifications for non-follower pieces in a quarantined city – Thanks Chris! (Novelty)

0.4

Corrected more typos and grammars – Thanks Marie! (Novelty)

0.3

Corrected typos and grammars – Thanks Chris! (Novelty)

0.2

Clarified footnotes and added scoring examples (Novelty)

0.1

Draft Carcassonne Central version of the rules (Novelty)

Acknowledgements

Novelty

would like to thank the following people:

• Gantry Rogue (Gantry) for creating the Carcassonne Central.

• Matthew Harper (mjharper) for the Completely Annotated Rules (CAR) for Carcassonne.

• Jabberwocky of Oklahoma for the original concept of these tiles.

• Players on Carcassonne Central, especially Chris Korfmann (CKorfmann) and Marie Toth (metoth) who have

contributed to the development of this fan-made expansion. This is the collaborative fan-made expansion for
May 2009.

www.carcassonnecentral.com