Laekenois

Turn 1

TTG plays The Fools' Guild on PIKES, who pays him $5 to get rid of it.  TTG then places a minion in Dragon's Landing.

BBBB plays C.M.O.T. Dibbler (dr = 4, no effect), then plays Rincewind.  Event is Subsidence, no effect as no players have any buildings.  BBBB then moves a minion from Dolly Sisters to Dragons Landing, removing the Trouble in Dolly Sisters and adding it to Dragon's Landing, then plays Mr. Bent, taking a $10 loan from the bank, and finally plays Mr. Gryle, removing the yellow minion and Trouble from Dragon's Landing.

PIKES plays Mr. Boggis, taking $2 from each player then placing a minion in The Hippo.

TFF plays Gimlet's Dwarf Delicatessan, gaining $3 and placing a minion in Isle of Gods.

Turn 2

TTG plays Dr. Cruces, removing a blue minion and the Trouble marker from The Shades and gaining $3.

BBBB plays Mrs. Cake, looking at 2 unused Personality cards, gains $2, then spends $12 to build a building in Dragon's Landing.

PIKES plays Hex, drawing 3 cards and spending $6 to build a building in The Shades.

TFF plays the Sonky Shop, paying $6 to build a building in the Dolly Sisters.

Turn 3

TTG plays The Fire Brigade on BBBB.  BBBB pays $5 to TTG to avoid losing a building.  TTG the plays Indigo Skinner, gaining $2 and removing a red minion and the Trouble marker from The Scours.

BBBB gains $2 from Dragon's Landing then plays Rosie Palm on TTG, giving him a card and taking $2 and placing a minion in Dimwell.

PIKES uses The Shades to place a Trouble marker in Dimwell, then plays The Pink PussyCat Club, gaining $3, then plays Nobby Nobbs, taking $3 from TTG, then plays Foul Ole Ron, moving a blue minion from The Scours to Isle of Gods, adding a Trouble marker to Isle of Gods, and finally plays The Mended Drum, spending $6 for a building in The Scours and gaining $2.

TFF plays Dr. Whiteface on PIKES, who accepts it.  TFF then plays a minion in The Hippo, along with a Trouble marker.

Turn 4

TTG plays The Thieves' Guild, taking $2 from each other player, then places a minion in Seven Sleepers.

BBBB gains $2 from Dragon's Landing and plays Harga's House of Ribs, gaining $3 and placing a minion in Longwall.

PIKES uses The Scours to discard a card to gain $2 then plays The Librarian, gaining 4 cards.

TFF plays Captain Carrot, placing a minion in Isle of Gods, removing the Trouble marker in Isle of Gods, and gaining $1.

Turn 5

TTG plays The Opera House, spending $18 to build a building in Seven Sleepers, then gaining $3 for the 3 minions in Isle of Gods.

BBBB gains $2 from Dragon's Landing then plays The Seamstresses' Guild, giving a card to PIKES, gaining $2, and placing minion and Trouble marker in Longwall.

PIKES plays Here'n'Now, rolling a 4 to no effect, then plays Queen Molly on BBBB, gaining 2 cards of BBBB's choice and placing a minion in Dimwell.

TFF plays Harry King, placing a minion in Unreal Estate, then discarding 2 cards and gaining $4.

Turn 6

TTG gains $3 from Seven Sleepers then plays the Agony Aunts, removing a blue minion and Trouble marker from Longwall, gaining $2, and placing a minion and Trouble marker in Unreal Estate.

BBBB collects $2 from Dragon's Landing and plays Leonard of Quirm, drawing 4 cards.

PIKES uses The Shades to place a Trouble marker in The Scours, then plays The Ankh Morpork Sunshing Dragon Sanctuary.  TTG gives PIKES a card.  BBBB gives PIKES $1.  TFF gives PIKES $1.  Finally, PIKES plays Sacharissa Crisplock, gaining $4 and placing a minion and Trouble marker in Longwall.

TFF plays Otto Chriek, gaining $5 but declining to build a building, then spends $3 to use Dolly Sisters to place a minion in Unreal Estate.

Turn 7

TTG gains $3 from Seven Sleepers, then plays Adora Belle Dearheart, moving a minion from The Shades to Nap Hill, placing a minion in Small Gods, then spending $12 to build a building in Nap Hill.

BBBB gains $2 from Dragon's Landing, then plays Moist von Lipwig, placing a minion and Trouble in Nap Hill, gaining $3 and 2 cards, then plays The Clacks, gaining $2, 2 cards, and finally plays Reacher Gilt, paying $12 to TTG to buy the building in Nap Hill from him.

PIKES uses The Scours to discard a card and gain $2, then plays The Beggars' Guild, placing a minion and Trouble marker in Isle of Gods and forcing BBBB to give him 2 cards.

TFF plays Drumknott, then plays Sergent Detritus, removing the Trouble markers from Isle of Gods and Unreal Estate, then plays Stanley, drawing 2 cards from PIKES and keeping 1, then placing a minion in The Hippo, and finally uses Dolly Sisters to spend $3 to place a minion in Nap Hill.

Turn 8

TTG gains $3 from Seven Sleepers, then plays Edward d'Eath, removing the Green minion and Trouble marker from The Scours, gaining $3, and spending $18 to build a building in Small Gods.

BBBB gains $2 from Dragon's Landing and $1 from Nap Hill, then plays The Audirors.  PIKES removes a minion in The Shades.  TFF removes a minion and Trouble marker from Nap Hill.  TTG removes a minion in Dolly Sisters and plays Fresh Start Club to place it in Longwall.

PIKES uses The Shades to place a Trouble marker in The Shades, uses The Scours to discard a card and gain $2, then plays The Dysk, spending $12 to place a building in Isle of Gods and gaining $4.

TFF plays The Senior Wrangler, drawing Trolls, which end up in Dragon's Landing (Trouble added), The Shades, and Seven Sleepers (Trouble added), places a minion and Trouble marker in Dolly Sisters, then plays History Monks, drawing 4 cards from the discard pile and placing a minion and Trouble marker in Isle of Gods.

Turn 9

TTG gains $3 from Seven Sleepers, plays Errol, rolling a 3 to no effect, then plays Mr. Pin and Mr. Tulip, removing the Troll and the Trouble marker from Seven Sleepers and gaining $1.

BBBB takes $2 from Dragon's Landing and $1 from Nap Hill, then plays Carcer, removing a green minion (and Trouble) from Dimwell and a red minion from Unreal Estate, then plays Pondor Stibbons, drawing the Fire event.  Roll is 8, Dimwell, which does not have a building, so the fire ends.  BBBB then plays Sergent Cheery Littlebottom, drawing 2 cards and removing the Trouble in Longwall and Wee Mad Arthur, allowing him to pay $6 for a building in Longwall.

PIKES uses The Scours to discard a card for $2 then plays Canting Crew, moving a red minion (and Trouble marker) from The Hippo to Small Gods.

TFF plays Rincewind, drawing the Explosion event.  Die roll is 2 -- Unreal Estate, which has no building, so no effect.  TFF then moves a minion from The Shades to Dimwell, with Trouble followingm then plays Drumknott, allowing the play of two more cards, the first of which is Mr. Boggis, taking $2 from each other player and placing a minion in Dimwell, and finally Mr. Slant, choosing Isle of Gods and receiving $10 for the 5 minions there, and spending $12 to build a building in The Hippo.

Turn 10

TTG gains $3 from Seven Sleepers, plays The Smoking Gnu, placing a minion in Dimwell, then plays Doctor Hix, drawing the random event The Dragon, which lands in and removes all pieces from Isle of Gods and Seven Sleepers, then placing a Trouble marker in Nap Hill, and finally plays Mr. Shine, placing a minion in Seven Sleepers.

BBBB gains $2 from Dragon's Landing then plays The Post Office, gaining $8 and placing a minion in Isle of Gods.

PIKES plays the Professor of Recent Runes, drawing the Demons from the Dungeon Dimensions event.  Demons (and Trouble) end up in The Hippo, The Shades, Isle of Gods, and Seven Sleepers.  PIKES then draws 2 cards and then plays William de Worde, placing a minion and Trouble marker in Unreal Estate and collecing $10 for 10 Trouble markers on the board.

TFF plays Dorfl, moving a minion from Dolly Sisters to Unreal Estate.  Trouble removed from Dolly Sisters.  TFF then plays The Fools' Guild on PIKES, who does accepts it, and places a minion in Isle of Gods.

Turn 11

TTG plays The Chair of Indefinite Studies, drawing the Earthquake event.  Rolls are Longwall (blue building destroyed) and Unreal Estate (no building).  TTG then exchanges hands with PIKES and plays Lord Downey, removing a blue minion and Trouble marker from Nap Hill, gaining $3, and spending $12 for a building in Longwall.

BBBB gains $2 from Dragon's Landing and $1 from Nap Hill, then plays Burleigh and Stronginthearm, paying $2 to TFF and removing the red minion and Trouble in Dimwell, then spends $6 to build a building in Dimwell.

PIKES uses The Scours to discard a card for $2 then plays Dwarves but immediately playing Dr. Mossy Lawn, ending his turn but retaining Dwarves.

TFF plays The Dean, drawing the event Bloody Stupid Johnson.  The area rolled was Unreal Estate, which has no building, so no effect.  TFF then removes a yellow minion, but is stopped by Gaspode, and plays Sybil Vimes, gaining $3 and paying $6 to BBBB to buy the building in Dimwell.  Finally, he uses Dolly Sisters to spend $3 to place a minion in Dragon's Landing.

Turn 12

TTG gains $1 from Longwall then plays The Royal Mint, declining to build and gaining $5.

BBBB gains $2 from Dragon's Landing and $1 from Nap Hill, then plays Sergent Colon, removing the Trouble from Dragon's Landing and placing a minion and Trouble in Nap Hill.

PIKES uses The Scours to discard a card for $2, then plays Dwarves, placing minions in Unreal Estate and Nap Hill.

TFF plays Sir Charles Lavatory, gaining $9, then spends $3 to used Dolly Sisters to place a minion in Unreal Estate, and $3 to use Dimwell to place a minion (and Trouble marker) in Longwall.

Turn 13

TTG gains $1 from Longwall, playd Deep Dwarves to place a minion in Dimwell, and plays Patrician's Palace, declining to build, gaining $4, and placing a minion in Isle of Gods.

And with that, the draw deck is exhausted.  Game ends.

The Players

TTG is the Texas Tenement Guild.  BBBB is Ben Bent's Blue Boys.  PIKES is P-Math Institute of Klatch, Ee Section.  TFF is The Friendly Faction.

Board Position

Dolly Sisters: Green and Red minions, Red building, Trouble

Unreal Estate: 3 Red, Yellow and 2 Green minions, Trouble.

Dragon's Landing:  Red and Blue minions, Blue building, Troll.

Small Gods: Yellow and Red minions, Yellow building, Trouble.

The Scours: Yellow minion, Green building

The Hippo: Green and Red minions, Red building, Demon, Trouble.

The Shades:  Green building, Troll, Demon, Trouble.

Dimwell: Red, 2 Yellow, and Blue minions, Red building.

Longwall: Yellow, Blue, Red, and Green minions, Yellow building, Trouble.

Isle of Gods: Blue, Yellow, and Red minions, Demon, Trouble.

Seven Sleepers: Yellow minion, Demon, Trouble.

Nap Hill: Yellow, Green, and Blue minions, Blue building, Trouble.

Final Result

The players' identiies were as follows:  TTG was Lord de Worde, BBBB was Vetinari, PIKES was Chrysoprase, and TFF was Lord Rust.  None of the players managed to achieve their victory criteria, so we tally points.  Each minion on the board is worth 5 points, each building is face value, and money on hand (minus loans due) is worth face value.  Note that anything in an area with a Demon does not count, so the minions and buildings in The Hippo, The Shades, Isle of Gods, and Seven Sleepers do not count.

Congratulations to Andy York on his victory!

End of Game Statements

Kevin Wilson (PIKES): Well, I certainly didn’t expect to win.  It seems almost impossible to get to $50 for the win with Chrysoparse.  I kept hoping for the card to let me change personalities but didn’t get the chance.  Nor did I have any idea who was who.  I was pretty focused on just getting cash and possibly building to avoid having my cash taken from me.  I tried to avoid letting 8 trouble markers hit the board or to see anyone getting close to 4 areas controlled but I couldn’t tell you who was who.  I again expected Vimes to back into a win but he wasn’t active so that was good.  I guess Vetinari came close once or twice but perhaps just fell short of the # needed.

Congrats to Andy. Any win in this game that isn’t Vimes seems well deserved.

Thanks to Chris for running the game.  Easy enough to run probably but lot’s of card images to pass along so easy to adjudicate, hard to administer.

A question for the group.  It’s clearly in the rules that any demon cancels the value of a building at the end of the game if being decided by points.  Would a demon also negate the value of the building for Chrysoparse?  The rules say $50 in cash or value of buildings on the board based on cost.  Since the rules specifically refer to any loans reducing the building values but doesn’t mention demons I interpreted the rule as demons not affecting building value for purposes of getting to $50 for building and cash.  Is that a correct interpretation?

Bill Scharf (TFF):  Congrats to Andy on his win, and thanks to Chris for running it. The game matches the flavor of Pratchetts books so well. Plays fast and a game with some heft to it but not too much....hits the sweet spot for a lighter game. I’ve seen everyone win but the lords have a tough go with four players...it’s easier when there’s only three. And the troll is a tough win too...although I have seen it happen....once.

Christopher Hunt (BBBB):  Thanks to Chris for game mastering the game and helping me keep track of the rules.  I like this game a lot.  It is just too short.  Did not know the end game victory condions probably should have read the rules.

Andy York (TTG):  Surprising end to the game, don't think I've ever seen one end with the back-up rules for determining a victor (to be honest, didn't even remember they existed until I saw the end-game report). I quite enjoy this, especially now that I've started reading the Discworld books. Thanks to Chris for running herd on us!