\n<\/em>Charles Beaudelaire, Le Spleen de Paris<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
Quatre ans apr\u00e8s le jeu de base est parue une extension, la Cit\u00e9 Sombre, introduisant dix nouveaux personnages issus pour la plupart d\u2019un concours organis\u00e9 par Hans im Gl\u00fcck, et une quinzaine de nouveaux quartiers. Plus tard, les cartes de la Cit\u00e9 Sombre ont \u00e9t\u00e9 int\u00e9gr\u00e9es aux diff\u00e9rentes \u00e9ditions de Citadelles. En 2012, l\u2019\u00e9diteur allemand a \u00e9galement publi\u00e9 une version comprenant une dizaine de cartes action sur le th\u00e8me du cirque, qui selon moi n\u2019apportent pas grand-chose au jeu.<\/p>\n Deux ou trois fois par an, je suis contact\u00e9 par des fans de Citadelles qui ont imagin\u00e9 leur propre extension. Malheureusement, la quasi-totalit\u00e9 de ces propositions vont dans la m\u00eame direction, une direction que je ne souhaite pas suivre, celle d\u2019un jeu sensiblement plus complexe et plus strat\u00e9gique, et laissant une moindre part au hasard et au bluff. On y trouve souvent des quartiers aux interactions sophistiqu\u00e9es, et chaque joueur y contr\u00f4le parfois deux ou trois personnages. J\u2019ai toujours regard\u00e9 ces propositions avec attention, mais je ne les avais jusqu\u2019ici jamais transmises \u00e0 mes \u00e9diteurs car je tiens \u00e0 ce que Citadelles reste un jeu simple, direct, et plus m\u00e9chant que strat\u00e9gique, plus psychologique que tactique.<\/p>\n Quitte \u00e0 m\u2019int\u00e9resser \u00e0 Citadelles, j\u2019ai trouv\u00e9 plus int\u00e9ressant d\u2019en r\u00e9exporter le syst\u00e8me de personnages dans des jeux enti\u00e8rement diff\u00e9rents, Mission : Plan\u00e8te Rouge<\/a>,\u00a0 un jeu de majorit\u00e9 sur Mars d\u00e9velopp\u00e9 avec Bruno Cathala, et Lost Temple<\/a>, un jeu de parcours \u00e0 la recherche d\u2019un temple perdu, plus l\u00e9ger et plus familial que Citadelles. J\u2019ai aussi tent\u00e9 de recr\u00e9er des sensations similaires en utilisant de tout autres m\u00e9canismes, dans Aux Pierres du Dragon,<\/a> con\u00e7u avec Michael Schacht, puis dans Mascarade<\/a>, qui a lui aussi remport\u00e9 un tr\u00e8s grand succ\u00e8s.<\/p>\n En ao\u00fbt 2013, j\u2019ai re\u00e7u encore une proposition de neuf nouveaux personnages imagin\u00e9s par un jeune joueur, Robin Corr\u00e8ze, mais ceux-ci m\u2019ont sembl\u00e9 plus frais, moins tarabiscot\u00e9s que ce que j\u2019avais l\u2019habitude de voir. Je les ai fait tourner un peu dans ma t\u00eate, puis dans quelques vraies parties. J\u2019en ai aussi gliss\u00e9 un mot aux gens de Fantasy Flight Games, l\u2019\u00e9diteur am\u00e9ricain de Citadelles. Quinze ans apr\u00e8s la sortie du jeu, ils ont estim\u00e9 qu\u2019il \u00e9tait peut-\u00eatre temps de prendre quelques risques et de tout remettre \u00e0 plat. Deux ans de travail, de tests et de d\u00e9veloppement plus tard, voici donc les deux nouvelles\u00a0 de Citadelles, qui seront sans doute rapidement adapt\u00e9es dans la plupart des\u00a0 langues dans lesquelles le jeu est disponible.<\/p>\n L\u2019\u00e9dition \u00ab\u00a0classique\u00a0\u00bb de Citadelles, bon march\u00e9, dans une petite boite carr\u00e9e, reprend d\u00e9sormais pour l\u2019essentiel le jeu d\u2019origine, tels qu\u2019il a \u00e9t\u00e9 publi\u00e9 en 2000, avec ses huit personnages embl\u00e9matiques – Assassin, Voleur, Magicien, \u00c9v\u00eaque, Roi, Marchand, Architecte et Condottiere – dessin\u00e9s par Jean-Louis Mourier. Seuls deux ou trois quartiers violets, parmi les plus int\u00e9ressants de la Cit\u00e9 Sombre, ont \u00e9t\u00e9 ajout\u00e9s. C\u2019est donc le Citadelles de base, simple et efficace mais sans possibilit\u00e9 de \u00ab\u00a0customisation\u00a0\u00bb. Puisque c\u2019est un retour aux sources, les illustrations ne pouvaient qu\u2019\u00eatre celles du jeu d\u2019origine, par Florence Magnin, Julien Delval et Didier Graffet, qui ont largement contribu\u00e9 au succ\u00e8s du jeu.<\/p>\n L\u2019\u00e9dition compl\u00e8te, dans une boite carr\u00e9e plus grande, est la vraie nouveaut\u00e9, avec pas moins de 27 personnages en format tarot – trois pour chaque num\u00e9ro d\u2019ordre, de 1 \u00e0 9 – et une trentaine de merveilles. Elle a \u00e9t\u00e9 concoct\u00e9e avec l\u2019\u00e9quipe de Steven Kimball, d\u00e9sormais responsable de Windrider Games, et avec qui j\u2019avais d\u00e9j\u00e0 travaill\u00e9 sur la nouvelle version de Mission: Plan\u00e8te Rouge. Ce fut encore une fois encore tr\u00e8s agr\u00e9able. Steven a plein d\u2019id\u00e9es, est toujours ouvert \u00e0 la discussion, et est parvenu \u00e0 apporter \u00e9norm\u00e9ment \u00e0 ce nouveau Citadelles sans que je m\u2019en sente pour autant jamais d\u00e9poss\u00e9d\u00e9.<\/p>\n Je n\u2019avais jamais \u00e9t\u00e9 compl\u00e8tement satisfait des nouveaux personnages de la Cit\u00e9 Sombre. Plus complexes que ceux du jeu d\u2019origine, ils n\u2019\u00e9taient pas toujours aussi amusants \u00e0 jouer, et certains faisaient entrer trop d\u2019or dans la partie. Beaucoup ont \u00e9t\u00e9 un peu modifi\u00e9s, et le Bailli ne ressemble m\u00eame plus gu\u00e8re \u00e0 celui d\u2019origine. S\u2019y ajoutent neuf personnages enti\u00e8rement nouveaux, issus pour moiti\u00e9 environ des propositions de Robin Corr\u00e8ze, l\u2019\u00c9chevin, la Ma\u00eetre-Chanteuse, l\u2019Espion, la Voyante, le Patricien, le Cardinal, le Bourgeois, l\u2019Archiviste, le Capitaine. Les quartiers violets, les Merveilles, ont aussi \u00e9t\u00e9 tous \u00e9tudi\u00e9es avec soin. Quelques uns ont vu leurs effets modifi\u00e9s, les moins utilis\u00e9s ont disparu, et d\u2019autres comme la N\u00e9cropole, la Statue ou la Crypte font leur entr\u00e9e dans la Cit\u00e9. Attention au Th\u00e9\u00e2tre – quand il est sur la table, on joue en m\u00eame temps \u00e0 Citadelles et \u00e0 Mascarade.<\/p>\n Citadelles est un jeu d\u2019il y a bient\u00f4t vingt ans. Les go\u00fbts et les habitudes ont chang\u00e9, et les jeux actuels sont plus rapides. Une partie de Citadelles se jouera donc d\u00e9sormais en sept quartiers et non huit. Certains des nouveaux effets permettent en outre de poser plusieurs quartiers \u00e0 son tour de jeu, contribuant aussi \u00e0 acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer les parties.<\/p>\n Les magnifiques illustrations d\u2019origine ont certainement beaucoup fait pour le succ\u00e8s de Citadelles, mais nous ne pouvions pas les utiliser dans cette nouvelle \u00e9dition. En effet, le travail de maquettage date d\u2019il y a bien longtemps, et nous ne sommes pas parvenus \u00e0 retrouver les fichiers images d\u2019origine. Quant aux originaux, j\u2019en ai deux de Julien Delval chez moi, je sais o\u00f9 se trouve le dessin de couverture de Florence Magnin, mais tout les autres ont disparu.<\/p>\n Pour la version \u00ab\u00a0de luxe\u00a0\u00bb de Citadelles, il fallait donc de nouvelles illustrations. Les quartiers ont \u00e9t\u00e9 command\u00e9s \u00e0 une quinzaine d\u2019artistes, qui ont \u00e9t\u00e9 laiss\u00e9s assez libres de repr\u00e9senter comme ils l\u2019imaginaient l\u2019univers du jeu. Simon Eckert a dessin\u00e9 la couverture, dans une Renaissance imaginaire plus lumineuse que celle de Florence Magnin pour l\u2019\u00e9dition originale. Les personnages, dessin\u00e9s par Andrew Bosley, sont eux-aussi plus engageants.\u00a0 J\u2019aimais bien le c\u00f4t\u00e9 sombre, un peu inqui\u00e9tant, du jeu original mais je pense que je me ferai vite au ton plus joyeux de la nouvelle \u00e9dition – et le jeu, lui, reste tout aussi m\u00e9chant.<\/p>\n Citadelles<\/strong><\/span> What is the City, but the People ?<\/em><\/span> Wickedness is always wickedness, In Discworld, Lord Vetinari\u2019s motto is “Si non confectus, non reficiat\u201d (If it ain\u2019t broke, don\u2019t fix it). This is also why Citadels, by far my best-selling game and a game whose chaotic action could have taken place in Ankh-Morpork, has not changed much since its first edition in 2000. As long as it kept selling well, publishers were not pushing for changes, neither with the rules nor with the art. Another reason is that the publishing rights are divided among three different publishers: Edge for French and Spanish versions, Hans im Gl\u00fcck for German, Dutch and Czech, and Fantasy Flight Games, now Asmod\u00e9e North America, for the rest of the world. This makes working on this game a bit complex.<\/em><\/p>\n Four years after the basic game was published, The Dark City expansion was released, with characters mostly taken from a design contest held by Hans im Gl\u00fcck, and a dozen new districts of my own design. in 2012, the German publisher also designed in-house a dozen new cards with a circus setting, which I think don\u2019t add much to the game.<\/em><\/p>\n Two or three times a year, I get an email from a Citadels fan who has designed his own expansion. Unfortunately, almost all of these submissions try to force the game in a different direction by making it more complex, more strategic, more convoluted, and reducing the luck and bluffing elements. There are often districts that interact with each other, or with some characters, and sometimes players end up playing two or even three characters every round. I always take a close look at these variants, but so far I never forwarded one to my publishers because I\u2019ve always wanted to keep Citadels simple, direct, more nasty than strategic, more psychological than tactical.<\/em><\/p>\n This doesn\u2019t mean I never thought about the Citadels system, but I found it more fun and challenging to repurpose the character-selection system, or parts of it, in entirely different games. The results were Mission: Red Planet<\/a>, a majority game on the planet Mars I designed with Bruno Cathala, and\u00a0 Lost Temple<\/a>, a light racing game which might be the family fare version of Citadels. I\u2019ve also tried to create similar sensations using completely different systems, and the results were Fist of Dragonstones<\/a>, designed with Michael Schacht, and Mascarade<\/a>, which seems to become also a lasting hit.<\/em><\/p>\n In August 2013, I received an email by a young gamer, Robin Corr\u00e8ze, with yet another Citadels expansion. It was mostly made up of nine characters who felt fresh and not convoluted like most of the suggestions I usually received. I thought about them a bit, and eventually I printed them and played a few games. Then I informed the guys at Fantasy Flight Games, the main publisher. Fifteen years after the game was originally published, they decided to seize the opportunity to revamp the game. After two years of intense testing and development, here come the two new versions of Citadels, which will likely be adapted soon into most languages.<\/em><\/p>\n The \u201cclassic\u201d version of Citadels, in small square box, is mostly the game as it was first published in 2000. It has the original set of eight characters\u2014Assassin, Thief, Magician, Bishop, King, Merchant, Architect and Warlord\u2014all of whom were illustrated by the famous French cartoonist Jean-Louis Mourier. We kept all of the original purple districts and added a couple of the simpler and more interesting ones from The Dark City. Since this is intended as a kind of return to the roots of the game, it needed to use the same art as the original game, by Florence Magnin, Julien Delval, and Didier Graffet, which has had a significant impact on the game\u2019s success so far.<\/em><\/p>\n The real new stuff appears in the new version of Citadels, in a larger square box. It has 27 different tarot-sized character cards, three for each rank number, and thirty unique purple districts. It was slowly cooked with Steven Kimball and his team, now in charge of the Windrider Games brand. This was just after I had finished working with Steven on Mission: Red Planet, and once more it was a great experience. Steven has lots of clever ideas, is always open to discussion, and managed to bring lots of stuff into this design without making me feeling dispossessed of anything.<\/em><\/p>\n I had never been completely satisfied with all the new characters from The Dark City expansion. They were more complex than the original set, not always as fun to play, and some of them brought a little too much gold into the game. This is why some of them have been slightly modified, and the Tax Collector even changed its rank number. We have also added nine brand new characters, half of them being derived from Robin Corr\u00e8ze\u2019s suggestions. These are the Magistrate, Blackmailer, Spy, Seer, Patrician, Cardinal, Trader, Scholar, and Marshal. The unique purple districts also have been carefully reconsidered. the least popular ones are gone, a few have had their effects modified, and a dozen new ones, like the Necropolis, the Statue, and the Basilica enter the city. Be careful when the Theater is in play, as you will be playing both Citadels and Mascarade at the same time.<\/em><\/p>\n Citadels is now almost twenty years old. The tastes of gamers have changed over the years, and most games are now shorter and more fast-paced. This is why a game of Citadels is now played until someone has seven districts and not eight, and it\u2019s also why several of the new card effects allow players to build more than one district per turn. Without changing any of the core rules, we\u2019ve made the Citadels game experience more fun and more dynamic\u2014but just as ruthless as ever.<\/em><\/p>\n The gorgeous art in the original game has probably been decisive in Citadels\u2019 success, but is was not possible to use this art in the new edition. This game dates back so many year that the original source files have been lost. And, since the original had all been scattered to the four winds, there was no way to obtain clean scans of the original pieces. As for the originals, I own two by Julien Delval, I know where Florence Magnin\u2019s cover art is, and that\u2019s all.<\/em><\/p>\n This means that, for this new version of Citadels, we needed new art. The districts art has been made by a handful of different artists, which were left free to picture the game\u2019s world as they imagined it. Simon Eckert drew the cover art, in an imaginary Renaissance much lighter than Florence Magnin\u2019s one. The characters, all drawn by Andrew Bosley, also look a bit friendlier and saner than the ones in the original set. This lighter tone certainly has a broader appeal and potential to have Citadels reach audiences who weren\u2019t possible to reach before.<\/em><\/p>\n Citadels<\/strong><\/span> Quelles bizarreries ne trouve-t-on pas dans une grande ville, quand on sait se promener et regarder? La vie fourmille de monstres innocents. Charles Beaudelaire, Le Spleen de Paris \u00ab\u00a0Si non confectus, non reficiat\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0 (si \u00e7a marche, n’y touchez pas) est, … Continue reading ![\"citadels](\"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/citadels-etourvy-1.jpg\")
<\/a>\u00ab\u00a0Si non confectus, non reficiat\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0 (si \u00e7a marche, n’y touchez pas) est, dans le disque monde, la devise de Lord Vetinari. Elle explique que Citadelles, de loin celui de mes jeux qui se vend le mieux, et dont l\u2019action passablement chaotique pourrait tr\u00e8s bien se situer \u00e0 Ankh-Morpork, n\u2019ait gu\u00e8re \u00e9volu\u00e9 depuis sa premi\u00e8re \u00e9dition en 2000. Tant que les boites se vendaient bien, les \u00e9diteurs ne souhaitaient gu\u00e8re toucher ni aux r\u00e8gles, ni aux illustrations. Une autre raison est que les droits sont partag\u00e9s entre trois \u00e9diteurs, Edge pour les \u00e9ditions en fran\u00e7ais et espagnol, Hans im Gluck pour l\u2019allemand, le tch\u00e8que et le hollandais, et Fantasy Flight Games, donc maintenant Asmod\u00e9e, pour le reste du monde, ce qui rend tout travail sur ce jeu un peu compliqu\u00e9.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nLa premi\u00e8re \u00e9dition fran\u00e7aise de Citadelles (2000)
\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nLa nouvelle \u00e9dition “classique” de Citadelles, avec une belle couverture de Florence Magnin.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00ad\u00ad
\nLa nouvelle \u00e9dition compl\u00e8te de Citadelles<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n
\n Un jeu de Bruno Faidutti<\/span>
\n 2 \u00e0 8 joueurs \u2013 30 \u00e0 60 minutes<\/span>
\n Publi\u00e9 par Windrider Games, Edge, Hans im Glueck
\nLudovox<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Vind’jeu<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Tric Trac<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Boardgamegeek<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nWilliam Shakespeare, Coriolanus<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
\nbut folly is not always folly.
\nIt depends upon the character.<\/em><\/span>
\n Jane Austen, Emma<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/em>
\n The first French edition of Citadels (2000)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/a><\/em>
\n La the new Citadels classic edition
\n<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00ad\u00ad<\/em>
\n The new complete edition of Citadels
\n<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
\n A game by Bruno Faidutti<\/span>
\n 2 to 8 players \u2013 30 to 60 minutes<\/span>
\nPublished by Windrider Games, Edge, Hans im Glueck<\/span>
\nTric Trac<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Boardgamegeek<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"