Couldn't there be unsolvable randomization setups? I guess it's been a while (highschool?) since I played through this, but it seems like you could have a lock, where you need A to get B and you need B to get A.
A specific idea that occurred to me the other day:
Gizmo (Action Heirloom, Cost $0)
+1 Action
You may discard a card that is not a Treasure. If you do, +$2.
Considered in isolation, if you replaced just one Copper with a Gizmo, it would do interesting things to the distribution of possible amounts to spend on turns 1 and 2.
I've no doubt Donald will come up with something much more interesting, but that at least illustrates the kind of space I'm expecting them to occupy.
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I had fun the other day doing a Pegasus bootless seed. Do not recommend. I couldn't get a key in ganons tower off the bonk spot, went all the way upstairs without a small key and got stuck, and realized at the end I forgot to check the right side chests. Oops.
Randomizer is so legit though. I saw wanderingwinder a few times in speed gaming chatrooms on twitch, which was pretty exciting lol.
I deleted 180 gigs worth of stuff.
I do that fairly routinely.
Courtyard/BM can certainly win games against Black Market, but isn't going to beat the best pulls from the Black Market deck
I'd open Black Market/Silver, look to pick up a Band of Misfits on the first 5 while looking for a good spot to Mint
1. Breath of the Wild
2. Link to the Past
3. Majora's Mask
4. Link Between Worlds
5. Link's Awakening
6. Ocarina of Time
7. Wind Waker
8. Minish Cap
9. Oracle of Seasons
10. Oracle of Ages
11. The Legend of Zelda
12. Zelda 2
13. Twilight Princess
14. Spirit Tracks
15. Phantom Hourglass
16. Skyward Sword
Am I the only person who like Skyward Sword? I guess I am.
As much as I enjoyed BOTW, I'm quite worried it's not going to stand the test of time, at least for me.
It sounds like your play style quite is different from mine and others' I play with. And I don't know which is better.
Well, there are ways to find out. On this online implementation (the cards have different color combinations than the official game so it's a bit confusing, but I think they just superficially swapped entire colors with one another without changing the functionality of the game — not sure though), I just won with 15 points, 6 cards and obviously 0 nobles on turn 23 against two CPUs, to give you some idea how good this is. We could also arrange a match there if you want.
They could be better than coppers, but they probably won't be that much better. They won't be worth $2, for instance.They won't all be. But there could easily be a mixture of better-than-Copper and worse-than-Copper.
Indeed, it remains to be seen whether Heirlooms will lead to a quicker start for the game or a slower. Maybe we don't even start with the same 7 Heirlooms each game? Maybe the Hierlooms don't replace all 7 Coppers. Maybe, when using Hierlooms, our starting deck isn't 10 cards any more.
There are a lot of possibilties. The one thing I really hope is that Heirlooms make the game less swingy on the initial shuffle rather than more. Even the current 5/2 v. 4/3 matters a lot on some boards.
Splendor is barely a game, that's how I see it. The expansion you mention is actually four expansions in a box that you can mix and match. I'm hoping that some combination of them makes Splendor interesting.
I sort of feel the same but my group still plays it now and again. In fact it's known as the game where everyone is tense and doesn't speak for 30 minutes. And the guy who has it on his phone wins every time. But we still play it, I think maybe it's just quite nice to play even with the tension and builds nicely.
I really like the aspect of building up your tableau. I just want my tableau to have more interesting things than cost reduction.
Actually I disagree; I find it to be a pretty big advantage to be sitting to the left of the newbie in a game between 2 experienced players in a new player.
I've often seen a specific color card desired by all players, and not available on the board. Better players will avoid buying any cards that they don't need to win, since it gives the next player the chance that he can buy the card he needs. The new player just buys a card because they can afford it (maybe it's even free), and the next player gets the noble.
I actually don't think it makes that big of a difference. You should be planning for most of your card purchases much more ahead than "oh, the previous player flipped that card, I'm going to buy it" and it's also not very common that you have the right gems for the card and even if you do, it's not very common that you want to spend them on that card instead of whatever you originally got them for.
Q. I bought nothing but Travelling Fair in turn 3. Why?
(Maybe someone saw me playing like that.)
You wanted to topdeck a Madman.
One thing that I really appreciate about it is that while many games that are for 2-4 players work wonderfully with just two players but an unskilled third player can ruin them for everyone else (especially true for Dominion), you can't seem to ruin Splendor for the other players no matter how much you suck at it.
