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Carcassonne: Princess and The Dragon

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Princess & Dragon adds an element of random disaster to Carcassonne. The primary addition to game play is a dragon that "eats" pieces, removing them from play. Secondary aspects include, a fairy to protect players from the dragon's attack, magic portals that allow players to teleport to other available map features, and princess tiles to help opportunists capture an opponent's incomplete city.

The Dragon element can be fun and does make for some tense situations as you wait to see if a dragon tile is coming out of the bag, but I find it only really adds to game play of four or more players.

The secondary aspects offer limited enjoyment and really don't add much to game play aside from complicating strategy and making the game last longer.

Overall, I consider it to be one of the lesser Carcassonne expansions and don't play with if very often. It is best suited for a more experienced player looking to add something new to the game. For newer players, I recommend purchasing Inns & Cathedrals, Traders & Builders, and Abbey & Mayor before picking up Princess & Dragon.

Me and my wife to be love Carcassonne. We've been playing for over a year and have an even record over 50 games later. So after a lot of games, I began buying some expansions. We like all of them. But the one that has added the most amount of fun to the game is Princess and the Dragon.

The pieces for this game are hight quality and quite a bit of fun. They are a fairy and a dragon. The fairy gives you a point if she is on your follower at the begining of your turn and gives you a 3 point bonus if you finish a road or building and she is on it. She also protects you from being eaten.

The dragon appears when a volcano tile is placed and moved when a piece with a dragon on it appears. The dragon must move 6 spaces, with each player taking turns with it's movement. This part is the most fun! Trying to set up the movements so you trap a person into eating his own followers is great strategy but quite a bit unpredictable.

With just the right ammount of luck and strategy, this is our favorite expansion yet. Carcassonne is a great game that just gets better.

This is a nice expansion to the Carcassone game - especially for 2 players, as it adds the possibility of having pieces removed from the board before they can score. That also means the opportunity to steal points from your opponent.

However, the rules to this one are a bit overly complex. There is a lot of "do this instead of what you would normally do" making a lot of things to think about and a lot more decisions to make every turn. That makes the game last longer, as each turn takes longer. The rules are also somewhat ambiguous on a few points, especially when mixing with some of the other Carcassone expansion.

I don't recommend combining this with the Tower expansion, in the same game. Our last one took over 2 hours for 3 players! Both expansions are fun on their own, though. I think I'll alternate a few games.

Princess & Dragon adds an element of random disaster to Carcassonne. The primary addition to game play is a dragon that "eats" pieces, removing them from play. Secondary aspects include, a fairy to protect players from the dragon's attack, magic portals that allow players to teleport to other available map features, and princess tiles to help opportunists capture an opponent's incomplete city.

The Dragon element can be fun and does make for some tense situations as you wait to see if a dragon tile is coming out of the bag, but I find it only really adds to game play of four or more players.

The secondary aspects offer limited enjoyment and really don't add much to game play aside from complicating strategy and making the game last longer.

Overall, I consider it to be one of the lesser Carcassonne expansions and don't play with if very often. It is best suited for a more experienced player looking to add something new to the game. For newer players, I recommend purchasing Inns & Cathedrals, Traders & Builders, and Abbey & Mayor before picking up Princess & Dragon.

This is by far my favorite expansion for Carcassonne. It puts a fun little twist on the game and makes it a tad more challenging. Your meeples can be kicked off the board by the Dragon, thus taking away any rights you had to any field, or castle or road. You can block the dragon with the princess, but you can only move her certain times. Great, fun expansion.

On the whole this is the least successful of the various expansions I have tried, and really does not work when there are only two playing (which is the normal circumstance with me). We adapted it by adding the extra tiles into the bag (minus volcanoes) but only paying attention to the magic portal tiles, i.e. all the other tiles were just extras for the fun of having more, and weirder shaped, tiles in the game. The builders and traders expansion adds much more to the game.

I love Carcassonne, and this expansion has a lot of great strategic options. It balances out some of the infighting that is brought in with the big meeples in Inns and Cathedrals. However the size of the expansion and the breaks moving the dragon slow down the game considerably, and we find that we often don't include this expansion when we play. (We also own Inns and Cathedrals and Traders and Builders.) So it's fun, but really only if you have more time to invest in it.

I love to play carcassonne. Each expansion typically adds about fifteen minutes of game play to the game. This expansion is probably one of the most well rounded expansion that carcassonne has. It comes with lots of extra peices to increase game time. The expansion also offers a whole new level of game play to the game. The base game of carcassonne is very passive this expansion makes the game aggressive. From stealing castles to rampaging farm lands the games becomes more exciting and adds a bit of action.

I've enjoyed Carcassonne for a while now. Expansions like this one are what keep me coming back. With the dragon now allowing pieces to be removed and the spells allowing for faster movement, things can change quicker and more radically than before.

Better for larger numbers of players where things can be spread out move evenly, but still a fun expansion.

In the line of expansions for Carcassonne this is another good one. Based on the time of the draw, you can do some real damage to your opponents. During a critical point in the game, you can draw the volcano and set the dragon off on a rampage destroying what your opponents have worked so hard for. Be careful though, because they get to move the dragon around as well on their turn after it's in play.