My friends tend to call the robber Fritz. They call being robbed, "being Fritzed."
Anyone else have any pet names for the unwashed scum who steals our resources?
Anyone else have any pet names for the unwashed scum who steals our resources?
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Re: Names for the robber?
Mon, October 20, 2003 - 1:38 PMwhen teaching the game to a newbie, I have a bad habbit of calling the robber either "the dude" or "the baron." Don't really know why.
Some friends of mine got creative and painted their robber piece to look something like an easter egg. Naming him a real name is a good idea though.
Ha ha... we could call it the US troops. <sorry... I support our troops... really!>
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Re: Names for the robber?
Thu, October 23, 2003 - 4:37 PMFor some reason my gaming group started calling him the raider, which became a touch confusing when we got Seafarers...
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Wed, April 21, 2004 - 5:44 PMWe've always called him the pirate. Can't say as I know why, the folks who taught me called him that. -
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Sun, April 25, 2004 - 12:44 PMActually, the pirate is a different piece. In seafarers, there's a pirate and a robber. The pirate blocks ports and the robber blocks landy bits. -
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Sat, May 1, 2004 - 3:07 PMI thought the pirate just blocked shipping route segments.
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Sat, May 1, 2004 - 5:19 PMI think my brother's Catan group calls the pirate the Pirates of Ipanema, which they sing, every time the pirate moves. apparently came out of (initially)
saying "pirates! du du dunnn!", when it was rolled, drinking a lot, girl from ipanem inspiration... etc.
and now they sing the girl from ipanema like pirates and do a little dance.
I have yet to see this myself.
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Sun, May 2, 2004 - 3:06 PMI've never played seafarers... so I was unaware of the true pirate! However, the folks who taught me do play seafarers... so I have to wonder, are they just trying to keep me confused and ensure future victories?!?
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Re: Names for the robber?
Mon, December 20, 2004 - 11:51 AMThe group I used to play with called the robber Gee Bee Jay, for "George Bush Jr." since we're all democrats and we hate him.
The seafarers raider was christened the "Butt Pirate" because we figure that whan you land him on something you're getting f'd up the ass...
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Wed, December 29, 2004 - 1:18 PMIn our family games he goes by the monkier "the bastard" 'cause he's a right bastard, 'natch!
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Wed, April 5, 2006 - 11:17 PMWe all felt that havin a black robber was very un-PC, so we call him the CEO. -
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Thu, April 6, 2006 - 10:26 AMOh man, that is good. I'm probably going to get this game soon, maybe I'll call mine Kenny, for my fave Enron employee.
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Thu, April 6, 2006 - 9:06 PMWe swapped out the black piece with a similarly shaped white piece from another game, after someone (jokingly) said that having the robber painted black was racist. We started calling him Whitey. Later, when one of my friends bought Kill Doctor Lucky, we used that same piece to be Dr. Lucky and renamed the game "Kill Whitey." -
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Tue, April 25, 2006 - 8:54 PMUh... after buying all three sets with the 5-6 player expansions I was back about $200 easy.
Hardly cheap. -
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Tue, April 25, 2006 - 9:00 PMYeah, settlers isn't cheap. "Kill Doctor Lucky," mentioned above, is a Cheapass game. Check out www.cheapass.com
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Thu, May 18, 2006 - 1:46 PMAMEN! With the price of starfarers, sounds like you got a deal somewhere at that.
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Tue, April 18, 2006 - 5:30 PMThe Indigenous people.
Truly aren't the unwashed scum stealing all the resources the settlers? Thus, the robber is merely the displaced people of Catan rightfully claiming their resources. Admittedly, the name came about in a late night, somewhat drunken stupor during a four hour game, but it just stuck. It is a bit Berkeley-ish... -
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Sat, April 29, 2006 - 3:51 PMThe problem with that is who would want to win? That would make you the most ruthless asshole in the game! -
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Thu, May 18, 2006 - 1:45 PMUm... yeah. Is that a problem? You don't do trades to help out the other players. C'mon, it's fun to be an asshole sometimes!
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Re: Names for the robber?
Mon, February 12, 2007 - 2:55 PMBecause of the black and the whole "rawr I steal j00" attitude, the first group I played with tended to call him the "ninja" and would cry out "YOU GOT NINJA'D!" when rolling a seven.
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Re: Names for the robber?
Fri, September 7, 2007 - 1:52 PMSometimes we'll call him "El Bandito" but generally just "the bandit".
Although, we've begun a silly habit of saying, "MOVE - THAT- BANDIIIIIT!!!" in a cheezy game-show host voice whenever someone rolls a 7. ;)
