Saw a guy at PAX Unplugged teach Catan to 6 strangers with a house rule that ruined the game

Elliot Shah · 2026-09-22T05:30:02.802931+00:00

I was at PAX Unplugged in Philly two weekends ago and sat down at a pick-up table for Catan. The guy teaching had a laminated sheet of house rules, and one of them let everyone trade resources with the bank at a 1:1 rate. Tbh that breaks the whole trading part of the game because nobody needs to haggle with other players anymore. Within 20 minutes the two new players had built 4 cities each and the rest of us were just watching. I get wanting to make it easier for beginners, but ngl you are not teaching them Catan at that point. Has anyone else run into house rules at cons that change a game so much it stops being the same game?

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