Yet it remains a figure representing the player in the game so… technically it’s a meeple. For instance, the official stance from Hans im Glück is that mayors and wagons from the Abbey & Mayor expansion are meeple but the barn is a special figure – it doesn’t follow the usual rules of deployment, doesn’t affect the majority and can’t be eaten by the dragon or captured by a tower. Of course, there’s debate about whether all those 12 pieces count as meeple. These days the term meeple is a synonym for any board game figure representing the player in any game, including the other 12 unique player pieces found across Carcassonne’s various expansions. Yet even then it took many years before Carcassonne’s rules actually referred to the pieces as meeple, an expansion in terminology that was long overdue. It wasn’t until after Carcassonne’s release that American gamer Alison Hansel came up with the portmanteau word ‘meeple’ in November 2000, by combining the words ‘my’ and ‘people’*. The rules referred to them as ‘Followers’ (‘Gefolgsmann’ in German), which become highwaymen, knights, monks and farmers when placed on the game’s roads, cities, monasteries and fields. Seidenstücker designed the iconic player pieces. It was during the game’s rapid development that Bernd Brunnhofer (founder of Hans im Glück, Carcassonne’s publisher) and wood manufacturer and token-creator Mr. Yet meeple, both the name and the shape, didn’t exist before Carcassonne. Squat and colourful person-shaped playing pieces, they’ve appeared on everything from t-shirts to cushions, earrings to Christmas decorations, wedding cakes to café names and, of course, websites. Perhaps the most famous image of the modern tabletop hobby, meeple are an iconic and influential design. To celebrate this incredible game, Meeple Mountain is proud to present the 21 most important and influential moments from 21 years of Carcassonne. It’s no exaggeration to say that Carcassonne has changed the landscape of tabletop gaming forever. Published in 2000, Klaus-Jurgen Wrede’s board game behemoth has sold over 12 million copies, been officially translated into 22 languages and reached an all-time high of #2 in the rankings on BoardGameGeek. Join Meeple Mountain as we celebrate everything Carcassonne, including the 20th anniversary of Carcassonne winning the Spiel des Jahres prize.Ĭarcassonne is one of the classic modern board games.
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