{"id":11151,"date":"2019-09-11T16:32:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T16:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/?p=11151"},"modified":"2020-02-07T15:27:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T15:27:54","slug":"reigns-the-council-ou-the-kings-dilemma-reigns-the-council-or-the-kings-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/blog\/2019\/09\/11\/reigns-the-council-ou-the-kings-dilemma-reigns-the-council-or-the-kings-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"Reigns &#8211; The Council ou The King&#8217;s Dilemma ? <br><i>Reigns &#8211; The Council or The King&#8217;s Dilemma?<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Je connais bien Lorenzo Silva et l\u2019\u00e9quipe de Horrible Games. Ce sont des habitu\u00e9s de mes rencontres ludopathiques, et j\u2019ai un jeu qui devrait sortir chez eux l\u2019an prochain, <em>Vendetta<\/em>, un jeu de cartes dans l\u2019univers de Vampire &#8211; The Masquerade r\u00e9alis\u00e9 avec mon ami Charlie Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c0 l\u2019automne dernier, Herv\u00e9 Marly et moi avons \u00e9t\u00e9 recrut\u00e9s par l\u2019\u00e9quipe responsable de Reigns, petit jeu sur t\u00e9l\u00e9phone rapide et rigolo, pour en faire une adaptation en jeu de soci\u00e9t\u00e9.<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/?p=10922\">Reigns &#8211; The Council<\/a>,<\/em> actuellement <a href=\"http:\/\/kck.st\/2Zvi0Kt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">en souscription sur kickstarter<\/a>, est un jeu de cartes rapide et rigolo qui recr\u00e9e tr\u00e8s bien l\u2019ambiance un peu d\u00e9jant\u00e9e de <em>Reigns<\/em>. L\u2019un des joueurs est le roi, les autres ses conseillers. \u00c0 tour de r\u00f4le, les conseillers font leurs propositions au roi, tentant d\u2019atteindre leurs objectifs secrets, tandis que le monarque cherche seulement \u00e0 survivre le plus longtemps possible. C\u2019est un jeu d\u2019ambiance rapide et rigolo, dans lequel ce sont les joueurs eux m\u00eames qui inventent l\u2019histoire.<\/p>\n<p>Du coup, j\u2019ai \u00e9t\u00e9 un peu g\u00ean\u00e9 lorsque j\u2019ai entendu parler pour la premi\u00e8re fois de <em>The King\u2019s Dilemma<\/em>, jeu de Hjalmar Hachs et Lorenzo Silva, qui devrait para\u00eetre bient\u00f4t chez Horrible Games. De toute \u00e9vidence, <em>The King\u2019s Dilemma<\/em> s\u2019inspire aussi clairement de <em>Reigns<\/em>, et les jeux ont beaucoup en commun, ne serait-ce que les objectifs secrets des conseillers et les pistes rendant compte de l\u2019\u00e9tat du royaume, de ses finances, de son arm\u00e9e, de son \u00e9glise\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Reigns-box.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10926\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/blog\/2023\/11\/15\/reigns-the-council\/reigns-box\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Reigns-box.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Reigns box\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Reigns-box-584x584.jpg\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10926\" src=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Reigns-box-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Reigns-box-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Reigns-box-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Reigns-box-584x584.jpg 584w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Reigns-box.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kings-Dilemma.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11153\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/blog\/2019\/09\/11\/reigns-the-council-ou-the-kings-dilemma-reigns-the-council-or-the-kings-dilemma\/kings-dilemma\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kings-Dilemma.png\" data-orig-size=\"601,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"King&amp;#8217;s Dilemma\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kings-Dilemma-584x584.png\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11153\" src=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kings-Dilemma-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kings-Dilemma-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kings-Dilemma-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kings-Dilemma-584x584.png 584w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kings-Dilemma-301x300.png 301w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kings-Dilemma.png 601w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fort heureusement, si l\u2019inspiration est la m\u00eame, Herv\u00e9 et moi d\u2019un c\u00f4t\u00e9, Hjalmar et Lorenzo de l\u2019autre, sont partis des directions oppos\u00e9es, comme le laissent d\u00e9j\u00e0 deviner les deux images de couverture des boites de jeu, ci-dessus. Le m\u00eame roi y est repr\u00e9sent\u00e9 dans des styles bien diff\u00e9rents.<\/p>\n<p><em>The King\u2019s Dilemma<\/em> est un \u00ab Legacy Game \u00bb, con\u00e7u pour que les m\u00eames joueurs fassent une vingtaine de parties d\u2019affil\u00e9e. Le jeu est s\u00e9rieux, assez complexe, et l&#8217;on imagine que le roi n&#8217;est pas le seul \u00e0 s&#8217;y prendre la t\u00eate. Les \u00e9v\u00e9nements auxquels le royaume fait face ne sont pas issus de l\u2019imagination d\u00e9brid\u00e9e des joueurs, ils sont d\u00e9crits en d\u00e9tail sur les cartes. Aucun joueur ne joue le roi, ce sont les conseillers qui votent chacune des d\u00e9cisions du conseil, le monarque se rangeant sagement \u00e0 l\u2019avis de la majorit\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>D\u2019une certaine mani\u00e8re, <em>The King\u2019s Dilemma<\/em> est plus proche de la logique m\u00e9canique de <em>Reigns<\/em>, m\u00eame s\u2019il la complexifie un peu, tandis que <em>Reigns &#8211; The Council<\/em> est plus proche de son esprit d\u00e9cal\u00e9. Maintenant, c\u2019est \u00e0 vous de choisir &#8211; mais si <em>The King\u2019s Dilemma<\/em> sera dans les boutiques, <em>Reigns &#8211; The Council<\/em> n\u2019est, pour le moment, que sur <a href=\"http:\/\/kck.st\/2Zvi0Kt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kickstarter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PuYaxH6PPWs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>I know quite well Lorenzo Silva and the Horrible Games team. They are regulars at my yearly ludopathic gathering, and they even ought to publish one of my games in a few months, <\/em>Vendetta<em>, a card game in the Vampire &#8211; The Masquerade universe designed together with my friend Charlie Cleveland.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Last fall, Herv\u00e9 Marly and I have been asked by the team behind <\/em>Reigns<em>, the fun best)-selling phone game, to adapt it as a boardgame. The result of this collaboration, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/?p=10922\">Reigns &#8211; The Council<\/a><em> is <a href=\"http:\/\/kck.st\/2Zvi0Kt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">now on kickstarter<\/a>. It\u2019s a fun and light card game which aims at recreating the zany feel of the video game. One of the players plays the king, the other ones are his counsellors. Each counsellor on turn makes a proposition to the king, who must accept it or not. Counsellors have different secret goals, while the king is only trying to keep his throne as long as possible. It\u2019s a fun and fast paced party game, in which the players themselves are telling the story.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I was obviosuly a bit concerned when I first heard of <\/em>The King\u2019s Dilemma<em>, a game by Hjalmar Hachs and Lorenzo Silva soon to be published by Horrible Games. <\/em>The King&#8217;s Dilemma<em> is also obviously inspired by <\/em>Reigns<em>, and it clearly has some elements in common with our, like the counsellors\u2019 secret goals, or the tracks used to show the state of the kingdom, its treasury, its army, its church\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Reigns-box.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10926\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/blog\/2023\/11\/15\/reigns-the-council\/reigns-box\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Reigns-box.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Reigns box\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Reigns-box-584x584.jpg\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10926\" src=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Reigns-box-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Reigns-box-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Reigns-box-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Reigns-box-584x584.jpg 584w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Reigns-box.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kings-Dilemma.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11153\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/blog\/2019\/09\/11\/reigns-the-council-ou-the-kings-dilemma-reigns-the-council-or-the-kings-dilemma\/kings-dilemma\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kings-Dilemma.png\" data-orig-size=\"601,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"King&amp;#8217;s Dilemma\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kings-Dilemma-584x584.png\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11153\" src=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kings-Dilemma-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kings-Dilemma-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kings-Dilemma-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kings-Dilemma-584x584.png 584w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kings-Dilemma-301x300.png 301w, https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kings-Dilemma.png 601w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The inspiration was the same but, luckily, Hjalmar and Lorenzo went in a direction opposite to the one Herv\u00e9 and I had chosen. Well, you probably guessed it with looking at the two cover pics above, which have very different styles, even when both show the King.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The King\u2019s Dilemma<em> is a \u00ab Legacy game \u00bb designed to be played in seasons of about twenty games, with the same players. The game is serious, involved, somewhat complex, and the king might not be the only to scractch his head. The events are not imagined by the players, they are carefully described on the game cards. There\u2019s no king player, the counsellors vote and the king is supposed to follow the majority.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In a way, <\/em>The King\u2019s Dilemma<em> is more true to the algorithmic logic of the Reigns video game, while <\/em>Reigns &#8211; The Council<em> is more true to its spirit. Now, it\u2019s your choice &#8211; but while <\/em>King\u2019s Dilemma<em> will be in the shops, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/?p=10922\">Reigns &#8211; The Council<\/a><em> is <a href=\"http:\/\/kck.st\/2Zvi0Kt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">only on Kickstarter so far.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LtXFlYb2W6A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Je connais bien Lorenzo Silva et l\u2019\u00e9quipe de Horrible Games. Ce sont des habitu\u00e9s de mes rencontres ludopathiques, et j\u2019ai un jeu qui devrait sortir chez eux l\u2019an prochain, Vendetta, un jeu de cartes dans l\u2019univers de Vampire &#8211; The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/blog\/2019\/09\/11\/reigns-the-council-ou-the-kings-dilemma-reigns-the-council-or-the-kings-dilemma\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[466],"tags":[273,401,465],"class_list":["post-11151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reigns-the-council","tag-herve-marly","tag-horrible-games","tag-reigns"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2HNOP-2TR","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11151"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11156,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11151\/revisions\/11156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}