Valentines Day Scenario

I am posting here a new scenario created by the Reddit user "Stone804_". I will let Robert describe this fun scenario himself.

Introduction

This scenario was originally created in the early parts of 2025 just before Valentine's Day. I'd wanted to do something nice for my fiancée as we are huge fans of the game and played weekly. I had thought about how Klaus used to introduce the scenario by giving us a little backstory and tried to follow that tradition in the design of the rulebook and how I approached creating the scenario.

I worked really hard play testing and thinking through how each mechanism would fit with the overall balance of Catan as well as the additional expansions and scenarios so that they could would seamlessly together as best as I was able. We played tested a few different versions, and you may see some differences in the behind-the-scenes (BTS) images as I was re-designing after each game.

I'm calling this the penultimate edition/version as there's some refinements to go, but essentially this is worked out enough to be a released version. I hope maybe you'll have a chance to give it a try, and if you do, I would, of course love feedback on what you think I could change to make it more balanced, more interesting, or easier/more fun to play.

Robert