Offerings Offerings - a rule of game for Stonehenge. First step in
Offerings
Presentation Topic: Building your own dolmen to escape the authority of the High Druid.
The new High Druid Brunofaiduttix is a stickler on dogma. Tyrannical and uncompromising, he spends his time praying to compel his followers or to work for him. Acolytes (or 'Initiated by Prime Circle': apprentice druids) dream only of one thing: from to dolmen their own away from the authority of the High Druid. For this, they must gather the resources needed to build a new dolmen ... monolith by monolith ... Fortunately, there is a monolith of black market, and every insider went there this weekend, unless Brunofaiduttix remembers.
Every day, the High Druid load an insider clean the offerings of previous ceremonies. Insiders recover some of their benefit offerings for sacrifice at the altar of their future worship. The gods who receive the gifts, thanked the priest giving it the resources necessary to purchase its dolmen. With these resources they will buy monoliths.
When acting day, insiders will enjoy moments of inattention to recover Brunofaiduttix offerings, but at night they fly to other offerings Initiates the First Circle. Extremely jealous of them, they mutually s'espionnent and denounce their colleague at the slightest suspicion.
Nevertheless, Brunofaiduttix distrusts his henchmen and holds the eye. Some days, he chose one that will accompany all day-impossible for the young druid to do anything. It may even happen the day off of the insider, so he can not go to market. Other times it will require them to make their own offerings. Therefore, insiders hide and avoid ending up on the same box as the High Druid.
Presentation
Stonehenge is a game concept! In fact it's more box sets of the XXI century. The material is quite exotic: 5 dolmens each into three pieces, 50 pieces in 5 colors rounds, 50 sticks in 5 colors Druid 6 figures, a set of 65 cards and a special game board but no rule ... Finally, 5 by 5 written rules recognized game creators who were asked to establish their rule imposed on this material.
Oulipo is the game.
Among these artists, there
Richard Borg ('BattleLore'), Richard Garfield
('Magic') and Bruno
Faidutti (the only French team creator of two dozen games, including ' Citadel ',' The Valley of the mammoths', 'Democrazy', etc..). The other two are less known French :
Mike Selinker (a version of 'Risk' and 'Key Largo' with B. Faidutti Randles and Paul) and James Ernest
('Kill Doctor Lucky ").
For more details, I invite you to read the newspaper
creation of Stonehenge VO by Mike Selinker!
Contest
During the summer of 2008, I launched a competition to create a rule for the game box
Stonehenge. The contest was organized by the Toy Library
Issy-les-Moulineaux because the city at that time organized the first exhibition Bruno on
Faidutti museum in French Playing Card .
For those who do not know,
Faidutti Bruno is one of the great creators of
games French. The list of his publications
is proof.
There were about thirty people who have requested a description of gaming equipment
organizers. Participants were given until September 15, 2008 to make their copies. The team then tested the toy library rules to select three finalists. These three rules were given to Mr. Faidutti will establish a final ranking.
I was fortunate to be selected among three finalists. When I learned, I invited all testers for a lively evening ;-) Thurs. I thank them again for their participation in the design of this game that night, we played at Time's Up
and
Democrazy. Throughout the week that followed I thought Bruno Faidutti playing with offerings.
Results
October 4, 2008 at the Toy Library of Issy-les-Moulineaux, Bruno Faidutti gave its final ranking:
- The Five Suitors by Cedric Blaise
- Offerings
- Marathon Stonehenge by Theo Senate (then a young man minor)
I heard a
photo of the moment! The evening
During the evening, we presented Bruno Faidutti
Gambit 7 he provided translation / adaptation into French for
Days of Wonder . Then we played and met Ludopathiques charming all evening: facilitators and users of the toy library! It gives me great memories! An article
was written by Limp
's website
Jedisjeux where we see a picture of the winner Cedric Blaise none other than Limp ;-). There are also some very nice photos of the expo and Faidutti
French Museum of Playing Cards .
Other games Stonehenge
Many players have invented and made available to them (s) rule (s). There are several sites that collect it but you can find the French versions on the site
ludigaume translated by Limp (yes him again,-D).
web page I made this section so that everyone can Offerings enjoy. Hence, the rule is a free download. Have fun playing Offerings much as I enjoyed creating this rule.
I thank Python for his careful reading.
OFFERINGS
of The Elves
theme: negotiation, management and card combination
duration: 1:30
for 3-5 players
