Catan: Traders & Barbarians - Variant: Catan Event Cards

Variant: Catan Event Cards

Catan Event Cards is a variation, previously offered as part of the German-only Atlantis expansion as well as a multi-language "mini-expansion", which replaces the two main dice with a deck of cards.

Instead of rolling the dice, players at the start of their turn draw a card. Each card, in addition to the outcome, contains a series of "events" which must be performed. A special "New Year" card may also be drawn, which will prompt the deck to be reshuffled. The event cards also contain the outcome on the red die, for the purposes of Cities and Knights players and the drawing of Progress cards. The red die also allows the event cards to be used in the Pirate Island scenario in Seafarers. That scenario requires knowledge of which is the smaller number on the dice; the white/yellow (depending on which edition of Settlers is being used) die value can be easily obtained by subtracting the red die from the total.

Unlike the independently-offered event cards, the Traders version does not offer a small "scoring card" for players to keep track of score.