Carcassonne: The Princess & the Dragon
2005 / Tile placement board game expansion / 2-6 players
Now you're just being silly. But after permanently incorporating the first two consensus favourite expansions and other selective odds and sods into the megagame, the wilder, fantastical third expansion became appealing for some occasional variety (what else am I going to do, try out a whole new game?)
I figured my daughter would enjoy the thematic additions, but the emphasis on meanness (even the princess is a dick) spoiled the mood of what's mainly a cooperative landscaping mosaic. The portals are handy though, and even if we switch the rest off, this is 30 more tiles to stretch an already excessive exercise to new horizons of completist tedium. Which one next?
Our kingdom:
