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I designed this board as a side hobby one night after playing a couple-hour round with my friends. Having recently been given access to a laser cutting machine, I thought it would be cool to re-design the board based off of a vector-style, nature themed look and feel.

 

***To see even more description of each individual piece, see here.***

I went on to recreate the Cities & Knights Expansion pieces. In keeping with my natural theme, I changed the merchant to a rainbow piece. One end is cloud, and the other is gold (which is pointed at the settlement/city that it applies to.)

I decided to do away with the filpbooks for each individual player, and instead decided to go with a universal chart, showing the position of each player using crown icons to signify each player's upgrade progress. Since the game requires everyone to be forthright with their position anyway, I thought this would be a cool way to show positions in a way that would be easier for new players to grasp.

I then designed some of the fan-made parts and pieces that can be found online and in various places. These include the volcano, jungle, and iceberg. I didn't like the idea of having to keep numbers on each side of the hexes, so I found a way around that. Typically when playing, volcano and iceberg numbers that are rolled force the player adjacent to lose their ship/settlement when that nearby number appears. Instead, with my parts, when a number is rolled from the volcano or iceberg, you roll the die after calling out a number - if that number is rolled, the same actions occur. This change was made purely out of design preference :)

I decided to make up my own small expansion version of the game to give my gigantic seafarers version of the game another dimension. With the 'disaster expansion', players receive 'hurricane tokens' every time they receive resources from a hexagon tile that I named the 'hurricane shrine'. Based obviously off of Stonehenge, these hexes and tokens allow player to collect tokens in order to move the hurricane across the board. 3 hurricane tokens buys one move of the hurricane. Storing up multiple tokens moves the hurricane multiple spaces at once. When the hurricane is adjacent to a city, it downgrades it to a settlement. When it touches a settlement, it either destroys it, or takes away that player's next turn - depending on which version players prefer :) When we play, nothing can be built on an area adjacent to where the hurricane is, and no resources can be collected from it.