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Notre Dame (German Import)

€36.51 EUR
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Description
Designer Stefan Feld
Publisher alea
Players 2-5
Playtime 60 mins
Suggested Age 10 and up
Honors


Note: This game is in German.  BoardGameGeek suggested that game itself is language independent.  English rules can be found here.

Rio Grande Games Description:

The players take on the roles of the heads of influential families in Paris at the end of the 14th century. In the shadow of the Notre Dame cathedral, the players compete for prosperity and reputation. Each family controls one of the 3 - 5 boroughs that surround the site of Notre Dame. As head of his family, each player tries, through clever use of his action cards, to advance the power and prestige of his family, but penalties are assessed on those who do not take care of the health of the people who live in their borough. The player with the most prestige at the end is the winner.

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Players play as well-off Parisians in the 15th century who wish to improve the importance and appearance of the city quarter around the famous Notre Dame cathedral. The primary game concept is original, but simple, card play players use to permanently improve their influence in the quarter. However, turn after turn, round after round, players must make choices that can have major implications. If one does one thing, then the other can't be done. Concentrating on one aspect means automatically ignoring another, which, above all others, is particularly dangerous in the case of the gradually approaching plague....

After 9 exciting rounds and about 75 action-filled minutes, Notre Dame is over. The 'maitre' who has made the most of his cards and has garnered the most prestige points is the winner.

Description from Alea.

This game is #11 in the Alea big box series.

Customer Reviews

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Josh Tolpa
Elegant Tactics & Strategy

Card drafting, engine building, combo-firing goodness from Feld that really should be in perpetual print in all territories.

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Dana Raciborski
A classic Feld's game.

German version, moot point, 100 percent Icon driven, no card text, download the English PDF.Because of the way the three decks are used it helps keep the randomness of the cards under control, you have a good idea on what cards are coming up. This is a game of having to manage, watch 3 decks of cards, a sudo card counting, plus a board. It is basically a 3 card draft game. It is simply, sweet, elegant, a simply use of role cards to help you get influence in the districts around and in Notre Dame itself. There is a sub game of using a carriage to move about the board and collecting; there is a negative rat issue. Your problem is trying to build influence; collecting gold that has no value at the end of the game, is used to hire, well it's really a bribe, one helper per round or to try to buy influence at Notre Dame itself, for victory points. The problem is you must control the rat population in your district or you lose influence, points. That rat problem is the issue that will keep you focused on keeping track of what cards are still available in those decks. Only negative with the game, there is one of those Big Box expansions that has a card expansion for the game, it allows you to substitute out cards in the original game. The expansion is long OOP, or unavailable in the US, pricey for what it is if you are only interested in the one expansion. The game is a gem without it, but the expansion adds great value to the game.
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