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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Scariest art in each expansion

« on: April 05, 2018, 09:06:12 pm »

Borrow, surely:

Borrow's art just makes me think of this:

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Dominion FAQ / Re: How to get 2nd edition except for Dominion and Intrigue

« on: March 23, 2018, 02:13:05 pm »

I see Guilds/Cornucopia back in stock on Amazon. Does that mean the 2nd ed for it is out now?

Edit: Nevermind. Someone posted about it in a different thread.

I just want to make sure it is the second edition before ordering it.

I'll probably grab it when it comes back in stock on Miniature Market.

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Dominion FAQ / Re: How to get 2nd edition except for Dominion and Intrigue

« on: March 22, 2018, 06:57:54 pm »

I see Guilds/Cornucopia back in stock on Amazon. Does that mean the 2nd ed for it is out now?

Edit: Nevermind. Someone posted about it in a different thread.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Why Dominion is great!

« on: March 10, 2018, 04:45:14 am »

I wish more people understood that, while Dominion was hugely innovative as the game which started the deck building genre, that's not a big part of why it's such a good game.

Particularly, I wish that was understood by the people who know I love Dominion and therefore expect me to be keen to play whatever other deck builder they've picked up this week.

I used to be one of those people that went "there are so many deckbuilders now that we don't need Dominion anymore". Then I actually played it, and liked it, and with each game I've grown to appreciate how fine-tuned and consistently worded everything is despite how expansive it is. Now it's my #1 favorite deckbuilder and overall favorite board game. I still like other deckbuilders and have nearly a dozen of them, but I find myself comparing new deckbuilders I encounter to Dominion, and most of the time I find that I'd rather just play Dominion.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Nocturne: Yay or nay?

« on: January 04, 2018, 11:53:13 pm »

I'm a little disappointed it doesn't have events. I love how you can add them to every set.

Yeah. Personally I was hoping for some landmarks but overall I'm not complaining. More Dominion is always good.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: farmer's market is pretty good

« on: December 08, 2017, 02:15:07 pm »

I just can't believe nobody spelled Farmers' Market correctly in this entire thread.

It could just belong to a single farmer.

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Dominion Online at Shuffle iT / Re: Is it okay to buy Possession?

« on: November 07, 2017, 05:18:45 am »

Will there ever be an option to force one of the retired cards into a game?

The "ever" makes that question impossible to accurately answer. There are no plans to ever add the retired cards.

Forcing Scout into games would make a great April Fools' Day prank.

April Fool's Day:  All Kingdoms are ten piles of Scout.

+Inheritance just to rub salt into the wound.

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Dominion FAQ / Re: How to get 2nd edition except for Dominion and Intrigue

« on: November 04, 2017, 09:52:29 pm »

Is there an ETA on Cornucopia/Guilds and Alchemy? I know Nocturne is about to come out now but I'm pretty excited to complete my Dominion 2nd ed collection.

The layout isn't done for Guilds/Cornucopia, so it's months away. Nothing has even been started for Alchemy.

Thank you.

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Dominion FAQ / Re: How to get 2nd edition except for Dominion and Intrigue

« on: November 04, 2017, 05:09:14 pm »

Is there an ETA on Cornucopia/Guilds and Alchemy? I know Nocturne is about to come out now but I'm pretty excited to complete my Dominion 2nd ed collection.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Weird German Dominion promotion video

« on: October 29, 2017, 03:45:39 pm »

The music in the first part of the ad made me think of the theme song for Friends.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: What do you like/dislike about dominion?

« on: October 21, 2017, 10:41:08 pm »

I'm not an online player so my main complaints boil down to storage and setup. I use a BCW Super Monster with dividers by the same company for Dominion and the thing is extremely large and heavy. It doesn't fit in any of my shelves so I have to put it on the top of a shelf. Luckily my shelves are fairly short so I can get it down with ease but I can't imagine doing the same if I had taller shelves and used one of those Broken Token cases, which probably adds at least 5-10lbs of weight to add to all that cardboard. I also basically can't take it with me anywhere that doesn't have nearby parking since it's so heavy. I'm also afraid of having it stolen or even accidentally dropping it and having all the cards spill out and unsort themselves. That's basically an afternoon that I'm not getting back.

As for setup, I have all my cards alphabetically sorted in the Super Monster but pulling 10 piles out and then later putting them back and then pulling another 10 out is pretty cumbersome. I actually got a few deckboxes with multiple compartments with all the basic cards (Estate, Silver, etc.) in their own compartment so I can just open them up and have all of those set up beforehand so I can skip having to pull them out of the box and put them where they belong. It makes initial setup a lot less painful, but I wish I could figure something out for the kingdom cards too.

Also, a pro that I don't think has been mentioned yet is how the game has so many expansions that add to the depth of the game without much additional complexity. I feel like most eurogames past the first expansion add a bunch of things that distract from what makes the base game fun and Dominion never does that.

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Dominion: Nocturne Previews / Re: Is there any update on Nocturne?

« on: October 15, 2017, 02:48:09 pm »

I realized that when I do dirty outdoor work (like clearing a fire break below my house on the Peninsula), I still wear a couple Sears work shirts made in US that I bought many years ago as a teenager, and they are still in perfect condition despite heavy use and paint stains...

While I don't doubt that these days everyone is involved in cost engineering and planned obsolescence, it is worth being aware of a common fallacy in this area:

All the appliances I have that I bought in the twentieth century are still going strong after seventeen years, whereas many things I bought recently have broken after only a couple of years. But this statement is inherently true. You've had a lot of time to forget about all the things you bought twenty years ago and threw away fifteen years ago.

There's a term for this too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

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Dominion FAQ / Re: How to get 2nd edition except for Dominion and Intrigue

« on: September 08, 2017, 09:10:19 pm »

Is the version of Dark Ages sold on Amazon right now 2nd ed? I noticed that it's been out of stock for a while and suddenly returned.

The new edition of Dark Ages has been sent to distributors, but I have no way of knowing for sure what you'll get if you buy it somewhere without checking the back of the box.

Thank you.

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Dominion FAQ / Re: How to get 2nd edition except for Dominion and Intrigue

« on: September 08, 2017, 07:37:36 pm »

Is the version of Dark Ages sold on Amazon right now 2nd ed? I noticed that it's been out of stock for a while and suddenly returned.

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Dominion FAQ / Re: How to get 2nd edition except for Dominion and Intrigue

« on: July 26, 2017, 02:32:08 pm »

Is Alchemy 2nd ed now?

No.

Thank you.

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Dominion FAQ / Re: How to get 2nd edition except for Dominion and Intrigue

« on: July 25, 2017, 03:54:28 pm »

Is Alchemy 2nd ed now? I want to fill out an order on Miniature Market for free shipping and they have 2 in stock.