[mcv]

I played Catan about 1000 times in 1997, and it did nothing to hurt my friendships. If your friendship can't survive this game, I wonder if there's any game it can survive. Well, there are friendlier games, but Catan is fairly middle of the road in how much you can screw someone over.

The only true dick move in the game is to trade away all of a certain good in lucrative trades, and then take it all back with a monopoly card. Most people have enough decency not to do that. Then again, at my house, we play it in a fairly friendly way and don't try to cripple each other unless we have to.