The River is a small but lovely setup expansion. It replaces the single starting tile with a winding stream that opens the board up so no one's stuck building on top of each other in turn one.
Setup
- Place the spring (the tile with the source of the river) in the middle of the table.
- Shuffle the rest of the river tiles, but keep the lake (the river's end) aside for last.
- Players take turns drawing and placing river tiles to extend the stream, then place the lake on top.
- Once the river is finished, shuffle the regular tiles and start the game as normal from any open edge.
Placement rules
- The river can't double back on itself or make a U-turn.
- You can place folks on river tiles (on a road, city, cloister, or field) just like any other tile.
Scoring
No scoring change. The river is purely a setup variant. Nothing to log in the app while the river is being placed.