Thurn und Taxis: Stand and Deliver variant
Niclas Stenberg has come up with one of the first variants for Spiel des Jahres 2006 Thurn und Taxis. His variant is called Stand and Deliver.
To use this variant you need a playing piece representing the band of Highwaymen controlling the roads surrounding a city.
Additional rules
Before play starts reveal and discard the top card of the drawing deck. Place the Highwaymen figure on that city on the board.
No routes may be built into a city controlled by the Highwaymen, i.e. no player may play that city card down in front of them while the Highwaymen control it (you may still claim the route if you already have the card in front of you and place an office in the city).
Instead of taking support by an "official official" a player may, before he picks a card, talk the leader of the Highwaymen into taking their business elsewhere (this Leader of the Highwaymen is an "inofficial official"). The player must then place the Highwaymen figure on another city. He may discard and replace one card on the board picturing that city.
The original forum post at BGG can be found here.