Inns and Cathedrals (3rd edition)

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In this expansion for Carcassonne you enhance your roads and cities with inns and cathedrals to score even more points! The large meeple is a strong asset when it comes to majorities.

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In this expansion for Carcassonne you enhance your roads and cities with inns and cathedrals to score even more points!

The large meeple is a strong asset when it comes to majorities.

General info and comments

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Inns & Cathedrals was updated and re-released by HiG for the third edition, known as C3.1 for short, in 2025. This edition includes more detailed graphics than previous versions and cities with clipped buildings.

This expansion includes 24 tiles, and one of them is a river tile. It also introduces several new elements:

• Large meeples, more powerful than standard meeples
• Inns, which grant extra points to roads
• Cathedrals, which grant extra points to cities
• A meeple set in pink for a 6th player.
• Score tiles as an aid to keep track of scorings above 50 points.

Expansion background This expansion differs from the third edition version, known as C3 for short, only released as part of  Big Box 7 in 2021. This version also featured more detailed graphics than previous editions and cities with clipped buildings. This expansion was previously released by Hans im Glück for the second edition, known as C2 for short, in 2015. And it was originally released for the first edition, known as C1 for short, in 2002. These original versions include 18 tiles, instead of 24, and no river tiles. They also had a different end-game scoring for inns and cathedrals. Short roads were handled differently as well.

Contents

• 24 land tiles (marked with to help you separate and sort your tiles) including 2 cathedrals, 7 inns and 1 river with inn.
  
  

 
Cathedral

 
Inn (by a lake)

 
River with inn

• 6 score tiles 50/100 (front/back)

• 6 large meeples

• 8 standard meeples and 1 abbot in pink. This set of figures allows you to play with 6 players.

Rules

Preparation

Additional preparation

Hand each player the large meeple in their color.

Lay aside the 6 score tiles with 50/100. These help to track your score. Place a score tile in front of you whenever you reach the number of points shown. For example, when you reach or exceed 50 points, place a score tile with the 50 side facing up in front of you; when you reach or exceed 100 points, flip the score tile over to the 100 side.

If you are playing with the mini-expansion  The River, shuffle the new river tile into the usual river tiles.

Shuffle the rest of the new land tiles into the other land tiles.

Each new game element is explained in relation to the 3 actions:

• 1. Placing a tile
• 2. Placing a meeple
• 3. Scoring a feature

If an action is not explained in detail, the base rules apply.

Inns and cathedrals

3. Scoring a feature

Scoring a road with an inn If one of your roads with one or more inns is completed, you score 2 points per road tile instead of the usual 1 point.

Example 1: You score 6 points for the completed road, as it is 3 tiles long and there is an inn on it.

Example 2: Although there are 2 inns on this road, you receive the bonus only once, so 4 x 2 = 8 points total.

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Scoring a city with a cathedral If one of your cities containing one or more cathedrals is completed, you score 3 points per city tile and per coat of arms instead of the usual 2 points.

Example 3: For this city, you receive 7 x 3 = 21 points (6 city tiles and 1 coat of arms).

Final Scoring

Important: If a road with an inn or a city with a cathedral is not completed by the end of the game, you score 1 point per tile and coat of arms as usual.

The large meeple

2. Placing a meeple

Instead of a standard meeple, you may place your large meeple as a traveler, knight, monk or farmer according to the usual rules.

3. Scoring a feature

When determining the majority in a feature, the large meeple counts as 2 standard meeples (it has a strength of 2).

Example 4: You have a large meeple in this city and Blue has only a standard meeple. This means that you have the majority in this city. You score 8 points and Blue scores 0 points.

Final Scoring

The same rules apply to large meeples during final scoring.

Example 5: In the final scoring you have a large meeple as a farmer in the field.
Blue has 2 standard meeples there, too.
This means that neither of you has the single majority in this field (both players share the majority), so you both score the points (3 points for the completed city).

Special land tiles

This corner separates the 2 field segments from each other.

The monastery is a closed end for both roads.

The intersection is a closed end for all 3 roads. The inn counts for the roads heading to the left and right, but not for the road heading down.

This is not a closed end for any road. Instead, the road splits into 4 directions. All open ends must be closed to complete this road.

The intersection is a closed end for all 4 roads. The two short roads to the city are already completed. You may place a meeple on them to score 1 point.

Quick overview

Inn 2 points per tile for a completed road with an inn. 1 point per tile for an uncompleted road with an inn during the final scoring.

Cathedral 3 points per tile and coat of arms for a completed city with a cathedral. 1 point per tile and coat of arms for a uncompleted city with a cathedral during the final scoring.

Large meeple Type: Meeple Strength: 2 Eligible features: Road, city, monastery, field Placing rules: Used instead of a standard meeple; on features without a meeple

Other Expansions

This section contains additional information about the interactions with other Carcassonne expansions.

General comments:

When scoring a road with one or more inns, you score 2 points for each land tile of that road. As usual, you simply count the land tiles, not the road segments.
When scoring a city with one or more cathedrals, you score 3 points for each land tile of that city (and each coat of arms). As usual, you simply count the land tiles, not the city segments.

Exp. 2 - Traders & Builders

If you place your large meeple as a traveler or knight, you may assign your builder to it.

If you place your large meeple as a farmer, you may assign your pig to it.

You do not receive additional goods tokens for completing a city with a cathedral.

Exp. 3 - Dragon & Fairy

When orienting the dragon, it must face in the direction of a meeple, including large meeple.

The dragon removes meeple of any type. This includes large meeple as well.

You may place your large meeple via the magic portal.

Exp. 4 - Towers & Thieves

You may not place your large meeple as a watchman.

Exp. 5 - Messengers & Mayors

When you score a road with an inn and with your messenger, you score the bonus for the inn as usual.
When you score a city with a cathedral and with your messenger, you score the bonus for the cathedral as usual.

Exp. 6 - Jousts & Crests

If your large meeple was placed as a traveler, knight or farmer, you may nominate it as usual (when continuing its feature).
Inns or cathedrals do not affect your tournament value.

Exp. 7 - Siege & Defense

You may not place your large meeple at a defence post.
You may have to remove your large meeple as a consequence of an attack (as the large meeple is also considered a traveler, knight or monk).

Exp. 8 - Castles & Bridges

You may place your large meeple on a bridge as a traveler.

You may not place your large meeple on a castle as a maiden. When scoring your maiden, you score all knights in the playing area, including large meeple in cities.

If your large meeple was placed as a farmer, you may move it onto a barn.

Exp. 10 - Circus & Artists

You may not place your large meeple as an acrobat.
When scoring a performance token, your large meeple is taken into account.

Tile distribution

Normal tiles

Total tiles: 23

 ×1

Inn + (H)

 ×1

Inn + (G)

 ×1

Inn + Crossroad + (P)

 ×1

Monastery

 ×1

(F)

 ×1

(D)

 ×1

(W)

 ×1

Inner Field + (G)

 ×1

Village

 ×1

(H)

 ×1

Cathedral

 ×1

Cathedral

 ×1

Inn

 ×1

Inn

 ×1

Inn

 ×1

(F)

 ×1

(W)

 ×1

 ×1

 ×1

 ×1

 ×1

 ×1

Inn

Several tiles have a small illustration on them. The letters in brackets show which illustration is on each tile:

 

G | Garden

 

F | Farmhouse

 

W | Water Tower

 

H | Highwaymen

 

P | Pigsty

 

D | Donkey Stable

Note: The small illustrations of a cowshed, a pigsty and a donkey stable are collectively referred to as sheds or stables.

River tiles

Total tiles: 1

 ×1

Inn

Special tiles

Total special tiles: 6

 

 ×6

Front and back score tiles

Footnotes

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