Carcassonne: The Cult
Carcassonne: The Cult Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
The Cult Place and the Heretic
The cult place and the heretic may be played with the basic Carcassonne game and with any or several of the other expansions to the basic game. To play, shuffle the cult place landscape tiles with the landscape tiles for the basic game (and any expansions you choose to include). The rules for the basic game (and any expansions used) apply with the following additions.
The cult place is used and scored exactly like a cloister. If the player places a follower on the cult place, this follower is called a heretic.
Placing the Cult Place
When a player puts a cult place directly (horizontally, perpendicularly or diagonally) adjacent to a cloister occupied by a monk of another player and puts a heretic on it, then the heretic must challenge the monk. The same applies if a player places a cloister directly (horizontally, perpendicularly or diagonally) adjacent to a cult place occupied by a heretic of another player. That is, the monk must challenge the heretic.
Printing note: in the source, two lines of text overlap at "places a cloister directly" ("monk is set" is printed over the sentence). The sentence above is read from the surrounding text, which matches the wording on the facing column.
A player may not place a cult place adjacent to several cloisters, nor may a player place a cloister adjacent to several cult places.
The Challenge
Once a challenge has been declared, the player (of those two involved in the challenge) who first completes his cult place or cloister scores 9 points as normal. The other player scores nothing and both followers are returned to their players. If a challenge is not resolved by the end of the game, both players receive the usual points as described in the scoring of cloisters at game end.
When a player places a tile with a cult place, he need not place a follower on the cult place. He may place a follower on the field, or the city or road when present. Also, he may choose not to place a follower at all on the tile.
Printing notes: the source prints "fist" for "first" in the challenge sentence above, and reads "choose to place to follower at all on the tile" in the paragraph above; "first" and "not to place a follower" are the evident intended wording and are used here.