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Title: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: GendoIkari on April 01, 2014, 09:42:19 pm
Happy April Fools, everyone.
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: eHalcyon on April 01, 2014, 10:18:30 pm
Is that the name of the expansion? Do you have a link? I don't see it announced anywhere else! What's going on?! TELL ME WHAT YOU KNOW!
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: SirPeebles on April 01, 2014, 10:27:54 pm
Is that the name of the expansion? Do you have a link? I don't see it announced anywhere else! What's going on?! TELL ME WHAT YOU KNOW!

You can be so gullible, Robz.
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: Axxle on April 01, 2014, 10:35:42 pm
Is that the name of the expansion? Do you have a link? I don't see it announced anywhere else! What's going on?! TELL ME WHAT YOU KNOW!

You can be so gullible, Robz.
And you must be the Monopoly guy...
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: ConMan on April 01, 2014, 10:50:06 pm
Happy April Fools, everyone.
In my time zone, you posted this at 11AM on April 2nd. So even though I knew it was going to be an April Fools joke, it comes a little late for me :(
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: Marcory on April 02, 2014, 01:07:07 am
Dominion expansion: D O M I N I O N
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: Robz888 on April 02, 2014, 01:08:06 am
Ah!!! This is so confusing!
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: Beyond Awesome on April 02, 2014, 01:16:03 am
What the OP failed to tell everyone is that there is only one card in this expansion...Scout with new artwork and a new cost of $3.
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: Nik on April 02, 2014, 07:10:39 am
Wow I'm gullible. I clicked on this, hoping to see what the new expansion was and when it will be; but instead I got a prank!
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: pacovf on April 02, 2014, 07:43:42 am
Actually I was expecting it would be Ozle the one to do this, from his contributions in the DXV interview thread. So Kudos to GendoIkari, but it would have been better if there were actual prank-cards, prank-name of the expansion, and even prank-description of the box :P

Anyone up to the task?

EDIT: I'll start, because procrastination.

"Jack-in-the-box

So one day you wake up and you are old. Not old, old, of course, since everybody dies before their thirties, what with the plague and the pirates and the tournaments and what-not. And man, you are still gorgeous, I mean check out that duchess, and she's coming your way just to see your duchy if you catch my drift. If you don't, it's fine, don't worry, it was kind of a stretch anyway.
But old inside, because you've already seen everything. Been there, done that, you're not excited about the fancy-schamncy King court's masquerades, there's just so much of your dominion you can rebuild, and it's been a while since the last time they saw you in the chapel.
So in between nefariously challenging other foolish builders for fun, you check your castle again, because why not and you don't need a reason anyway. And hey you find something. A box. Not a chest, why would it be a chest, no, a box, maybe the chest will come some other time. And you think, what's in the box?"

EDIT 2:

Dungeon
3$ Action
Discard a card, trash a card, +3 cards

Politics
3$ Action-Attack-Victory
When you play this, name another player. That player gains a curse and discards a card.
--
At the end of the game, name another player. That player gains one VP for every Politics card in their deck.

Tide
3$ Action-Duration
+1 action
Choose one:
+2 cards or discard two cards
At the beginning of your next turn, do the other one.

Witch doctor
3$P Action
Take an extra turn after this one. The player to your left can see your hand, and chooses what you play in your stead, and gains a copy of every card you gain during that extra turn. If this is the first game you play with Witch doctor today, repeat this process with the player to your right.

Unobtainium
12$ Treasure
+1 buy, +11$

Surgeon
2$ Action
Reveal cards from your deck until you reveal two cards with the same name. Trash the revealed cards.

The Jack in jack-in-the-box
6$ Action
Gain a gold.
Reveal cards from the top of your deck until you reveal an action or treasure card. Discard any of the revealed cards, put the rest on top of your deck in any order.
Draw until you have six cards in your hand.
Trash up to two cards from your hand.
--
When you read this card, squint.

The end is nigh
3$ Action-Attack-Ruins-Looter
+1 action +1 card. Reveal your hand. If you revealed at least one ruin card, all other players gain a Ruins.

Fat cow
5$ Action
Take 3 coin tokens
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: pacovf on April 02, 2014, 09:05:18 am
"Secret history of Jack-in-the-box

Dungeon: this card has been around since quite early. It's alright, it lets you trash, it doesn't slow you down, it's pretty vanilla. It didn't make it into the base set, but with this cool new expansion, I can finally add it in. Much rejoicing was had.

Politics: I always get complaints that there isn't enough interaction in Dominion. They are wrong, of course, but Jay is very business-oriented, so he told me "make a card with more interactions, will you?", and I had this outtake lying around from another game I am working on which may or may not be a Dominion spin-off, so I obliged. Since this card was meant to represent Intrigue, it had to have the dual action-victory type (actually now it has triple typing, how cool is that I ask you), so I came up with this, playtested it for two games, and since nobody seemed to be openly against it once I suggested that maybe we should playtest 6-player Dominion some more, here you are. Now you can play diplomacy in 40 minutes instead of 40 hours. No, no, no need to thank me, I do it for the Greater Good.

Tide: people love their duration cards. Don't get me wrong, they are nice, but it's logistically complicated to print new ones, because what do you do to explain how they work in the rulebook. But this expansion doesn't have a rulebook at all, since it is marketed for the hardcorest fans of mine, so yay I guess. This one also gives you choices, which is a premiere, no other duration card does that, unless you count haven, but that's neither here nor there. Sure, one of the two choices has some rule issues, but you'll get over it quickly, especially since it is the worst option anyway, why would you take it in the first place. Also some people forget what they chose the previous turn, don't play with them. As an added bonus, this card also helps new players understand that a strong turn and a bad turn are better than two middle ones, so slap this into a game with your mother to help her learn advanced techniques faster.

Witch doctor: this is in many senses a fixed Possession. Many many senses, I tell you. The price is right. It doesn't feel like an attack, except against yourself. Only one (or two) of your opponents benefit from it. This card is better balanced when there are two extra turns, but then again two extra turns take forever to resolve, so people get bored very quickly, that's why there's the clause about the second turn taking place only if it's the first time you play with it today; nobody wants to go through it twice in quick succession, believe me. There are many other reasons that should be apparent when reading this simple and elegant card. I am not going to tell you how to use this card correctly, I prefer when people find it by themselves.

Unobtainium: Well this one was obvious. Prosperity's theme is spendy, so we might as well go overboard, explore the limits of Dominion, and how expensive can a card be before nobody buys it anymore. To boldly go where no man has gone before they say. You only play with Unobtainium when Colonies are out, of course. You might have noticed that 11$ is exactly the cost of a colony, and that Unobtainium gives you an extra buy, there's a hint right there on how you want to use this card.

Surgeon: Cornucopia cares about diversity. Surgeon cares about diversity. For only two, you might trash two estates and a copper, and still have a four card hand, how strong is that, even better than chapel I tell you. It does share the same problem that lookout, since you might trash your precious provinces, and labs, and pretty much everything else really, but if your deck only consists of unique cards costing 3+, maybe you shouldn't have played surgeon in the first place, unless you want to undo all the hard work you did to get there for some reason.

The Jack in jack-in-the-box: I know that hinterlands theme is cards that do stuff when bought/gained, but there was this joke to be made, so I went with it. This is a stronger version of Jack-of-all-trades, in case you hadn't noticed. Need more economy? Here's a gold, to make up for the fact that you bought The Jack instead of a gold. People messing with the top of your deck? The Jack doesn't even notice as he cleans it (note, you can even leave those victory cards on top, Scout likes that). You had to discard your cards? The Jack laughs and gives you more than you know what to do with them. Got stuff that you don't like in your deck? Not anymore. All in all, The Jack smiles at you and then you win. I noticed during playtesting that some people had trouble reading all that text in the card, that's why I tell people to squint in the card itself, in case they forget.

The end is nigh: looters! Self-replacing attacks! Two concepts that work, just check Dark Ages. This one gives ruins, which is definitely stronger than discarding down to four cards, and it is only worth 3$, and comboes with itself since it is considered a Ruins (the typing is important). Since there is no rulebook with this expansion, you don't know whether you can gain a "The end is nigh" when you have to gain a Ruins or not, so you'll have to debate it with your fellow players. The end is nigh becomes stronger as you receive more ruins, and it even comboes with vagrant, there's some cool theme for you people.

Fat cow: a common question is why there is no action card that gives +3$. Mainly because they are boring and hard to price. This solves both problems, because coin tokens are awesome like that. You can use those tokens now, or later, that's the whole point. A baseline strategy for Fat cow is play it 8 times -> ??? -> Profit! But there are other strategies too, of course. Amass them before your bridge megaturn. Use them with butcher, transform your lowly coppers into provinces, amaze your friends. Play seven fat cows on the same turn but only use the coins on the next (achievement unlocked!). Truly limitless strategies."
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: Ozle on April 02, 2014, 09:09:52 am
Actually I was expecting it would be Ozle the one to do this, from his contributions in the DXV interview thread.

I thought about it, but then rejected it as I thought it would be suspected of me.

I had two other ideas in the end, but went with the really really sneaky subtle one....
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: Witherweaver on April 02, 2014, 09:30:29 am
I heard it had a new mechanic to incorporate Monopoly rules into Dominion.  Dice come included.
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: Blueswan on April 02, 2014, 10:06:21 am
Joking aside, I actually really like these 5 cards:

Quote
Dungeon
3$ Action
Discard a card, trash a card, +3 cards

Tide
3$ Action-Duration
+1 action
Choose one:
+2 cards or discard two cards
At the beginning of your next turn, do the other one.

Surgeon
2$ Action
Reveal cards from your deck until you reveal two cards with the same name. Trash the revealed cards.

The end is nigh
3$ Action-Attack-Ruins-Looter
+1 action +1 card. Reveal your hand. If you revealed at least one ruin card, all other players gain a Ruins.

Fat cow
5$ Action
Take 3 coin tokens
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: Kirian on April 02, 2014, 10:14:30 am
I actually like Dungeon quite a bit.  Might be worth better than $3 though.
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: GendoIkari on April 02, 2014, 10:27:11 am
I actually like Dungeon quite a bit.  Might be worth better than $3 though.

Well it would certainly be a very strong $3. I think it would match Masquerade's strength pretty much exactly. They both let you trash a card and still have a 5 card hand. This just trades Masquerade's ability to screw with your opponent when they don't have bad cards to pass for and extra "discard 1, draw 1" filtering.
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: pacovf on April 02, 2014, 10:38:49 am
I thought that it was common knowledge that Dungeon was a heavy contender for a spot in a chest-like expansion. Donald has talked about it before. I put it here to make people think (at first) that I was serious.

Aside from dungeon, I was trying to make cards that Donald would never do. I probably should have spent more time in the terribly bad card ideas to make this funnier, but oh well.
Politics is obviously wrong, so is Witch Doctor.
The Jack, Unobtainium and Fat cow are terribly uninspired, and very probably not priced right, if at all possible.
Tide is very confusing and needs rules clarifications, so does the end is nigh but that one could actually be solved.
I personally think that surgeon is bad because of how swingy and dangerous it is, and even though it looks like it rewards diversity, it actually doesn't, so it doesn't really represent cornucopia. I guess the first issue could be fixed (add the option to discard one of the revealed cards, for example), but then you are getting very close to doctor (guilds)

I encourage any other person to try to make a joke list of cards!
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: AJD on April 02, 2014, 12:08:41 pm
I thought that it was common knowledge that Dungeon was a heavy contender for a spot in a chest-like expansion. Donald has talked about it before.

By "a heavy contender for", you mean "one that a lot of us wish would be in", right?

(Actually I don't think Dungeon would be that great in a Treasure Chest expansion, now that Masquerade and so on exist; I think it should have been in the base set instead of one of the duds like Feast.)
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: LastFootnote on April 02, 2014, 01:45:58 pm
(Actually I don't think Dungeon would be that great in a Treasure Chest expansion, now that Masquerade and so on exist; I think it should have been in the base set instead of one of the duds like Feast.)

Yeah, it's not so much that Dominion as a whole needs Dungeon; the Base Set in particular needs Dungeon because it's got such a dearth of good Curse-trashing cards.
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: pacovf on April 02, 2014, 03:04:56 pm
By "a heavy contender for", you mean "one that a lot of us wish would be in", right?

In my mind, those two are equivalent.  ;D

It's a heavy contender because it is the only one I know of, basically, but my point was that I expected people to recognize that particular card.
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: jonts26 on April 02, 2014, 03:21:02 pm
Actually I was expecting it would be Ozle the one to do this, from his contributions in the DXV interview thread.

I thought about it, but then rejected it as I thought it would be suspected of me.

I had two other ideas in the end, but went with the really really sneaky subtle one....

Is this one of those recursive pranks where you hint at a really really sneaky subtle one but really the hinting is the really really sneaky subtle one?
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: Ozle on April 02, 2014, 03:25:58 pm
Actually I was expecting it would be Ozle the one to do this, from his contributions in the DXV interview thread.

I thought about it, but then rejected it as I thought it would be suspected of me.

I had two other ideas in the end, but went with the really really sneaky subtle one....


Is this one of those recursive pranks where you hint at a really really sneaky subtle one but really the hinting is the really really sneaky subtle one?

I think you are overestimating my intelligence.....
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: SCSN on April 02, 2014, 03:30:24 pm
I suspect the actual prank is that there is no prank at all, but by suggesting its subtle existence he has us feverously searching for it, wondering what it might be.
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: pacovf on April 02, 2014, 03:30:50 pm
Actually I was expecting it would be Ozle the one to do this, from his contributions in the DXV interview thread.

I thought about it, but then rejected it as I thought it would be suspected of me.

I had two other ideas in the end, but went with the really really sneaky subtle one....


Is this one of those recursive pranks where you hint at a really really sneaky subtle one but really the hinting is the really really sneaky subtle one?

I think you are overestimating my intelligence.....

So you are smart enough to do a really really sneaky subtle prank, but not enough to understand that saying that you did a really really sneaky subtle one without actually doing so constitutes a really really sneaky subtle one?

Sorry Ozle, I just don't trust you enough to believe that you did a prank.
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: Ozle on April 02, 2014, 03:33:08 pm
Actually I was expecting it would be Ozle the one to do this, from his contributions in the DXV interview thread.

I thought about it, but then rejected it as I thought it would be suspected of me.

I had two other ideas in the end, but went with the really really sneaky subtle one....


Is this one of those recursive pranks where you hint at a really really sneaky subtle one but really the hinting is the really really sneaky subtle one?

I think you are overestimating my intelligence.....

So you are smart enough to do a really really sneaky subtle prank, but not enough to understand that saying that you did a really really sneaky subtle one without actually doing so constitutes a really really sneaky subtle one?

Sorry Ozle, I just don't trust you enough to believe that you did a prank.

some of this is exactly true. Although in not smart enough to work out which part
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: Donald X. on April 02, 2014, 04:11:29 pm
I actually like Dungeon quite a bit.  Might be worth better than $3 though.
The version in Dark Ages cost $4.

I have actually been working on a new expansion. Oh Dominion. No, not a Dominion expansion.
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: JacquesTheBard on April 02, 2014, 04:57:52 pm
Dungeon at 3 doesn't actually sound better than Masquerade. It's certainly a strong card, but one of the best traits of Masquerade is that you draw before you trash, which gives you more options in trashing. Dungeon would not do this.
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: Donald X. on April 02, 2014, 05:05:07 pm
Dungeon at 3 doesn't actually sound better than Masquerade. It's certainly a strong card, but one of the best traits of Masquerade is that you draw before you trash, which gives you more options in trashing. Dungeon would not do this.
Masquerade is not exactly a benchmark!

The similarity to Masquerade did contribute to killing Dungeon though.
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: LastFootnote on April 02, 2014, 05:10:31 pm
I have actually been working on a new expansion. Oh Dominion. No, not a Dominion expansion.

Is it for a game that has been released, or a game that hasn't?

Also, Gauntlet of Fools 2? Eh? Eh?
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: SCSN on April 02, 2014, 05:11:02 pm
I actually like Dungeon quite a bit.  Might be worth better than $3 though.
The version in Dark Ages cost $4.

I have actually been working on a new expansion. Oh Dominion. No, not a Dominion expansion.

You made my day, then ruined it right after :(
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: pacovf on April 02, 2014, 05:12:36 pm
I have actually been working on a new expansion. Oh Dominion. No, not a Dominion expansion.

What is this I don't even

EDIT: this is so going to mess up with BGG. "The hotness : Dominion (2014)".
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: blueblimp on April 02, 2014, 05:13:37 pm
Dungeon at 3 doesn't actually sound better than Masquerade. It's certainly a strong card, but one of the best traits of Masquerade is that you draw before you trash, which gives you more options in trashing. Dungeon would not do this.
Losing the "may" before "trash" is also a big deal. Masquerade is usable through the whole game if you keep around a single junk card to pass. Dungeon isn't.
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: LastFootnote on April 02, 2014, 05:34:02 pm
I have actually been working on a new expansion. Oh Dominion. No, not a Dominion expansion.

What is this I don't even

EDIT: this is so going to mess up with BGG. "The hotness : Dominion (2014)".

He means he's working on an expansion for a game other than Dominion, not that he's working on a new game that is also titled "Dominion".
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: Donald X. on April 02, 2014, 07:55:16 pm
He means he's working on an expansion for a game other than Dominion, not that he's working on a new game that is also titled "Dominion".
Yes, it's an expansion for an unpublished game. It was an easy project and we were playing the game anyway. It's looking good but no doubt more stuff will change before it's done.

Gauntlet of Fools is unlikely to get an expansion. I guess it will have one shot at anything more happening with it, which is, BGA may put up a version of it. If they do then conceivably that will cause any interest at all in this game. Currently it is just an invisible game, no-one has heard of it and it sells very few copies. We liked it a lot, it was popular among the people at game nights who playtested it, but it did not catch on. I would point at the bidding, the fact that it's a bidding game with only one round of bidding. So some people decide, I don't know what to bid, no bidding for me this time, and then hey where were the decisions, what a stupid game.
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: Kirian on April 02, 2014, 08:34:17 pm
I have actually been working on a new expansion. Oh Dominion. No, not a Dominion expansion.

What is this I don't even

EDIT: this is so going to mess up with BGG. "The hotness : Dominion (2014)".

He means he's working on an expansion for a game other than Dominion, not that he's working on a new game that is also titled "Dominion".

If he wants to go full April Fools, then the expansion will be $new_game_name: Dominion.
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: Jack Rudd on April 02, 2014, 08:44:21 pm
Dungeon at 3 doesn't actually sound better than Masquerade. It's certainly a strong card, but one of the best traits of Masquerade is that you draw before you trash, which gives you more options in trashing. Dungeon would not do this.
Losing the "may" before "trash" is also a big deal. Masquerade is usable through the whole game if you keep around a single junk card to pass. Dungeon isn't.
Edge case: Fortress.
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: Archetype on April 02, 2014, 08:55:49 pm
Is that the name of the expansion? Do you have a link? I don't see it announced anywhere else! What's going on?! TELL ME WHAT YOU KNOW!

You can be so gullible, Robz.
Woah wait why is that eHalc.
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: eHalcyon on April 02, 2014, 09:07:57 pm
Is that the name of the expansion? Do you have a link? I don't see it announced anywhere else! What's going on?! TELL ME WHAT YOU KNOW!

You can be so gullible, Robz.
Woah wait why is that eHalc.

Hahaha, classic. :D

I changed my profile pic to Robz' profile pic yesterday.  SirPeebles caught it in the Contraband+Advisor thread and he was just playing along here.
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: pacovf on April 02, 2014, 10:29:25 pm
Wait wait wait, let me check if I got it right the first time: you are working on an expansion of a game that you aren't close to publishing yet, and you've already decided that the name of the expansion would be Dominion, and you tell this here the other way around? In what universe is that not cruel? THE FEELS!  :'(
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: GendoIkari on April 02, 2014, 11:38:54 pm
Wait wait wait, let me check if I got it right the first time: you are working on an expansion of a game that you aren't close to publishing yet, and you've already decided that the name of the expansion would be Dominion, and you tell this here the other way around? In what universe is that not cruel? THE FEELS!  :'(

The name of the expansion is not "Dominion". At least not based on what he said here. I'm not sure where the confusion lies. He's simply working on an expansion for a game; nothing that has anything to do with Dominion in name or in game.
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: LastFootnote on April 03, 2014, 12:21:22 am
Gauntlet of Fools is unlikely to get an expansion. I guess it will have one shot at anything more happening with it, which is, BGA may put up a version of it. If they do then conceivably that will cause any interest at all in this game. Currently it is just an invisible game, no-one has heard of it and it sells very few copies. We liked it a lot, it was popular among the people at game nights who playtested it, but it did not catch on. I would point at the bidding, the fact that it's a bidding game with only one round of bidding. So some people decide, I don't know what to bid, no bidding for me this time, and then hey where were the decisions, what a stupid game.

Perhaps I just haven't played enough times, but I think there are usually several good decisions to be made in the Gauntlet phase. Enough such that new players (who tend not to boast) want to play again. I agree that the not-boasting issue is the game's biggest problem, though. It takes several games before you can get a decent handle on the power level of various heroes, and until then the boasting round is sort of moot.

I think the easiest way to fix this is to add more decisions in the Gauntlet phase. You can even do this with the existing game by playing with 2 heroes per player, even when playing with 3 or 4 players. Unfortunately, the rulebook fails to address a lot of questions regarding 2-hero games. Just off the top of my head, does the Wand's always-on ability continue to function even after that hero dies? Is the player locked into using the Wand hero if he does use the Wand's ability(s)? Honestly, I've pretty much taken the Wand out of circulation anyway. Good lord does it slow the game down!
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: Archetype on April 03, 2014, 12:42:48 am
I like Gauntlet. My main problem with it is that when you play with a bunch of people totally new to the game, there is little to no bidding because they don't really know what's good and what's not. You almost need to play a test round before actually playing, which is undesireable for such a light game.
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: Donald X. on April 03, 2014, 01:32:35 am
Perhaps I just haven't played enough times, but I think there are usually several good decisions to be made in the Gauntlet phase. Enough such that new players (who tend not to boast) want to play again. I agree that the not-boasting issue is the game's biggest problem, though. It takes several games before you can get a decent handle on the power level of various heroes, and until then the boasting round is sort of moot.
There are decisions in the gauntlet; I am just summing up the case against it. People who didn't bid tend to feel like there was no skill involved, and of course they feel that way because a lot of the skill is in the bidding.

I think the easiest way to fix this is to add more decisions in the Gauntlet phase. You can even do this with the existing game by playing with 2 heroes per player, even when playing with 3 or 4 players. Unfortunately, the rulebook fails to address a lot of questions regarding 2-hero games. Just off the top of my head, does the Wand's always-on ability continue to function even after that hero dies? Is the player locked into using the Wand hero if he does use the Wand's ability(s)?
When the hero with the Wand dies you no longer have access to the Wand. You can use the Wand ability and then send the other hero.

I don't play with Wand for a first game but like it fine otherwise. It would be better as an expansion card but well.
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: pacovf on April 03, 2014, 07:45:16 am
Wait wait wait, let me check if I got it right the first time: you are working on an expansion of a game that you aren't close to publishing yet, and you've already decided that the name of the expansion would be Dominion, and you tell this here the other way around? In what universe is that not cruel? THE FEELS!  :'(

The name of the expansion is not "Dominion". At least not based on what he said here. I'm not sure where the confusion lies. He's simply working on an expansion for a game; nothing that has anything to do with Dominion in name or in game.

How do you explain the "Oh Dominion" in "I have actually been working on a new expansion. Oh Dominion. No, not a Dominion expansion."?
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: Polk5440 on April 03, 2014, 07:48:22 am
Wait wait wait, let me check if I got it right the first time: you are working on an expansion of a game that you aren't close to publishing yet, and you've already decided that the name of the expansion would be Dominion, and you tell this here the other way around? In what universe is that not cruel? THE FEELS!  :'(

The name of the expansion is not "Dominion". At least not based on what he said here. I'm not sure where the confusion lies. He's simply working on an expansion for a game; nothing that has anything to do with Dominion in name or in game.

How do you explain the "Oh Dominion" in "I have actually been working on a new expansion. Oh Dominion. No, not a Dominion expansion."?

Short for, "Oh, you wanted a Dominion expansion, not just any old expansion. No, I am not working on a Dominion expansion."
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: Nik on April 03, 2014, 07:49:46 am
Wait wait wait, let me check if I got it right the first time: you are working on an expansion of a game that you aren't close to publishing yet, and you've already decided that the name of the expansion would be Dominion, and you tell this here the other way around? In what universe is that not cruel? THE FEELS!  :'(

The name of the expansion is not "Dominion". At least not based on what he said here. I'm not sure where the confusion lies. He's simply working on an expansion for a game; nothing that has anything to do with Dominion in name or in game.

How do you explain the "Oh Dominion" in "I have actually been working on a new expansion. Oh Dominion. No, not a Dominion expansion."?

Short for, "Oh, you wanted a Dominion expansion, not just any old expansion. No, I am not working on a Dominion expansion."
BUT WHY NOT??
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: Donald X. on April 03, 2014, 04:03:46 pm
Wait wait wait, let me check if I got it right the first time: you are working on an expansion of a game that you aren't close to publishing yet, and you've already decided that the name of the expansion would be Dominion, and you tell this here the other way around? In what universe is that not cruel? THE FEELS!  :'(

The name of the expansion is not "Dominion". At least not based on what he said here. I'm not sure where the confusion lies. He's simply working on an expansion for a game; nothing that has anything to do with Dominion in name or in game.

How do you explain the "Oh Dominion" in "I have actually been working on a new expansion. Oh Dominion. No, not a Dominion expansion."?
I did not think anyone was serious about this. The thread title does not refer to Dominion - just some new expansion. Stressing the word that previously wasn't understood is a thing you can do in English; there's an implicit "you mean" after the "oh."
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: Witherweaver on April 03, 2014, 04:08:00 pm
Wait wait wait, let me check if I got it right the first time: you are working on an expansion of a game that you aren't close to publishing yet, and you've already decided that the name of the expansion would be Dominion, and you tell this here the other way around? In what universe is that not cruel? THE FEELS!  :'(

The name of the expansion is not "Dominion". At least not based on what he said here. I'm not sure where the confusion lies. He's simply working on an expansion for a game; nothing that has anything to do with Dominion in name or in game.

How do you explain the "Oh Dominion" in "I have actually been working on a new expansion. Oh Dominion. No, not a Dominion expansion."?
I did not think anyone was serious about this. The thread title does not refer to Dominion - just some new expansion. Stressing the word that previously wasn't understood is a thing you can do in English; there's an implicit "you mean" after the "oh."

They weren't serious, it was just an elaborate April's Fools prank to get you to over-explain.
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: Donald X. on April 03, 2014, 04:32:25 pm
They weren't serious, it was just an elaborate April's Fools prank to get you to over-explain.
http://nedroid.com/2011/04/wont-get-fooled-again/
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: Witherweaver on April 03, 2014, 04:35:04 pm
They weren't serious, it was just an elaborate April's Fools prank to get you to over-explain.
http://nedroid.com/2011/04/wont-get-fooled-again/

Well the optimal day to April Fool's prank is April 2nd, after everyone drops their guard. 
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: soulnet on April 03, 2014, 08:34:53 pm
They weren't serious, it was just an elaborate April's Fools prank to get you to over-explain.
http://nedroid.com/2011/04/wont-get-fooled-again/

Well the optimal day to April Fool's prank is April 2nd, after everyone drops their guard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexpected_hanging_paradox
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: Witherweaver on April 03, 2014, 09:43:07 pm
They weren't serious, it was just an elaborate April's Fools prank to get you to over-explain.
http://nedroid.com/2011/04/wont-get-fooled-again/

Well the optimal day to April Fool's prank is April 2nd, after everyone drops their guard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexpected_hanging_paradox

Way to not let us play it out :P
Title: Re: Donald announces new expansion!
Post by: Titandrake on April 03, 2014, 10:14:07 pm
I'm so sad that Nedroid doesn't update that often anymore.

To be fair, I think he does colors for Dr. McNinja and other things, but I miss Funny Bear and Bird Show.