{"id":873,"date":"2012-05-01T14:20:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T14:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/?p=873"},"modified":"2017-01-24T21:16:12","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T21:16:12","slug":"draco-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faidutti.com\/blog\/blog\/2012\/05\/01\/draco-co\/","title":{"rendered":"Draco & Co"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Au mois de juillet 2000, mon jeu Citadelles ayant \u00e9t\u00e9 “nomin\u00e9” pour le Spiel des Jahres, je me suis pay\u00e9 une petite escapade \u00e0 Berlin pour la soir\u00e9e de remise des prix. C’est l\u00e0 que j’ai fait la connaissance de Michael Schacht, dont le jeu Kardinal und Koenig \u00e9tait \u00e9galement nomin\u00e9 – m\u00eame si personnellement je pr\u00e9f\u00e8re son TohuWaBohu. Et que peuvent faire deux auteurs de jeu qui se rencontrent, sinon parler de leurs jeux. C’est l\u00e0 que Michael m’a parl\u00e9 d’un petit jeu de cartes, Die Tafelrunde, qu’il venait de publier \u00e0 compte d’auteur.<\/p>\n

Ma curiosit\u00e9 fut piqu\u00e9e et, quelques semaines plus tard je m’en procurais un exemplaire pour l’essayer. Die Tafelrunde \u00e9tait un tr\u00e8s bon petit jeu de cartes, de la famille de Family Business, Guillotine ou Castel, tout \u00e0 fait le genre de chose que j’aurai pu faire. Draco, roi des voleurs, r\u00e9unissait autour d’une grande table ronde sa bande de malandrins pour un partage de butin relativement anim\u00e9. Tr\u00e8s vite, ce jeu me donnait plein d’id\u00e9es, des nouvelles cartes, des nouveaux personnages, un peu d’alcool et de chaos… que je m’empressais d’envoyer, sous la forme de quelques emails assez denses, \u00e0 mon comp\u00e8re Michael Schacht.<\/p>\n

La r\u00e9ponse ne se fit pas attendre. Tout cela a l’air int\u00e9ressant, disait en gros Michael, si on faisait ensemble une nouvelle version du jeu? Aussit\u00f4t dit, aussit\u00f4t fait. Je ne parle gu\u00e8re plus allemand que Michael ne parle fran\u00e7ais, mais on bosse tous les deux sur Mac, ce qui est sans doute plus important, et on s’est \u00e9chang\u00e9 des fichiers en anglais, que chacun retraduisait de son c\u00f4t\u00e9 pour les tests. Quelques semaines plus tard – c’est all\u00e9 vite – la Table Ronde nouvelle version \u00e9tait l\u00e0. Draco s’\u00e9tait mis \u00e0 boire plus que de raison, et avait recrut\u00e9 dans sa bande quelques nouveaux personnages, comme Fr\u00e8re Jean et la vieille Tante Sarah. Zork est toujours l\u00e0, pas moyen de s’en d\u00e9barrasser.<\/p>\n

Draco & Co a \u00e9t\u00e9 publi\u00e9, comme bien de mes jeux de cette \u00e9poque, dans la gamme des Blue Games de Jeux Descartes, aujourd\u2019hui disparue. Ce petit jeu plein d\u2019humour et sans pr\u00e9tention est donc aujourd\u2019hui introuvable.<\/p>\n

Draco & Co<\/strong><\/span>
\n Un jeu de Michael Schacht & Bruno Faidutti
\nIllustr\u00e9 par Julien Delval<\/span>
\n 3 \u00e0 6 joueurs \u2013 60 minutes<\/span>
\n Publi\u00e9 par Jeux Descartes (2001)<\/span>
\nTric Trac<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Boardgamegeek<\/a><\/p>\n

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In July 2000, my game Citadels was nominated for the Spiel des Jahres, and I made a little trip to Berlin for the award party. There, I met Michael Schacht, the author of Kardinal und Koenig (Web of Power), who had also been nominated – though I’d rather play his TohuWaBohu. Of course, when two game authors meet, they talk about inventing games. And Michael told me a bout a little card game, Die Tafelrunde, that he had just self-published.<\/em><\/p>\n

The description sounded interesting and, a few weeks later, I managed to find a copy and play it. Die Tafelrunde was a nice little card game of the Family Business \/ Guillotine \/ Castle family, the kind of game I could have made. Draco, king of thieves, and his noisy gand of rogues and goblins, were meeting in a tavern, sitting around a large round table, and divying up the loot. Almost at once, I have lots of ideas for new cards, new characters, and a bit more alcohol and chaos, and I send a few long emails full of ideas to Michael Schacht.<\/em><\/p>\n

The answer came at once: all this sounds interesting, wrote Michael, why not make a new improved version of this game together? Well, why not! I have little german, Michael doesn’t speak french, but we both use Macs, which is probably more critical, and we started exchanging and correcting english cards and rules files, which were translated in french and german and tested on both sides. A few weeks later – this went surprisingly fast – the new Round Table was ready. Draco had started drinking a bit too much, and a few new characters had joined the gang, such as Brother John and the old Aunt Sarah. Of course, Zork was still here, no way to get rid of him.<\/em><\/p>\n

Like many of the light card games I used to design in these times, Draco & Co was published by Jeux Descartes, in the Blue Games series. Jeux Descartes doesn\u2019t exist any more, and this light and unpretentious game is now out of print.<\/em><\/p>\n

Draco & Co<\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\n A game by Michael Schacht & Bruno Faidutti<\/em><\/span>
\nArt by Julien Delval<\/em><\/span>
\n 3 to 6 players \u2013 60 minutes<\/em><\/span>
\n Published by Jeux Descartes (2001)<\/em><\/span>
\n<\/em><\/span>BoardgameGeek<\/a><\/p>\n

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