The Well & The Donkey - Unofficial Carcassonne expansion
Jeremy Chambers is one of the most productive designers of inofficial Carcassonne expansions. In addition to Storehouses and Paths and The Horse, he has also created The Well and the Donkey.
This expansion is related to the legend of the devil and the well:
The Legend of the Devil and the Well (Carcassonne, France):
One night, a long time ago, seven archers were singing and making noise in the streets, swearing against the apostles and Saint Gimer. These non-believers met a donkey which was covered with a very rich cloth. They seized it, and one after the other rose on the back of the donkey. The animal lengthened as they took place on it, so that they all could sit down on its back! Suddenly the beautiful cloth changed into a funeral pall, and the donkey began to run in the streets. It stopped first at the cemetery, where graves opened, leaving passage to the died, who intoned a funeral lament. Then the donkey, which was in reality Satan, went to the Big Well and dived into the depth with the seven archers. They still belong to him.
This unofficial expansion contains:
2 Donkey tiles
3 Wheat Field tiles
5 Vineyard Field tiles
Donkey Tile
When the Donkey Tile is played every player that has a meeple in the city loses one of their meeples. If someone has more than one meeple they only loose one meeple. Lost meeples are removed from the game. (The tile pictures the donkey and “The Big Well” from the medieval Cité in Carcassonne.)
Wheat Field Tile
If a player has a farmer in a field that contains a Wheat Field Tile and touches a city that contains a wheat token, when the city is complete the majority farm owner takes the wheat token even if they were not the one to complete the city. The farm does not have to be complete for this effect.
Vineyard Field Tile
The Vineyard Field Tile works the same way as the Wheat Filed Tile. The Vineyard Field Tile works with the barrel tokens.
Carcassonne: The Well and The Donkey requires Carcassonne to play and also highly recommends Carcassonne: Traders and Builders for optimal enjoyment. If you don’t have Carcassonne: Traders and Builders just use the Wheat and Vineyard Field tiles as normal field tiles.
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