(worth -1VP) with +1 victory token for each other player when gaining Mermaids during your turn.Aside from Haven, Archive and Crypt the discarding durations thing doesn't work - you still get the next turn effect even if they're discarded from play. So you'd have to add wording to say that this cancels the duration effect or something. The problem is though, you already need a magnifying glass to read Mermaid, the text is tiny!
Mermaid is also super broken! Even as just +2 cards +2 actions -1vp isn't as bad of a drawback as Lost City's +1 card, it's pretty negligible actually. The trashing option is Masquerade + a junking attack, which is also incredibly powerful, even at $5. Unlike Ambassador you're also trashing 1 card and giving out 1, so no progress is ever made and you just pass cards back and forth until the piles run out. The duration cancelling, assume it's worded to work will never actually be chosen, because you won't touch durations in a game with this.
That's good, you should fix Mermaid next.
Well, the Treasure version has the advantage that you can play it even if you have no Actions left when you draw it. Like, play Smithy, draw Stock, play Militia. That's pretty strong. It has the downside that nonterminal cards will never be played with Stock as long as you can avoid it, though. Basically it goes good with terminals: Terminal draw because you can play it after the draw, and coin because those are the perfect Stock card (no loss or risk). Nonterminals have the only advantage that you can load up on them to drain the pile, but then you get nothing special out of having them.
I agree that Stock should not be a Treasure if it allows playing a Company. I'm not really a fan of allowing to play a Company either in fact, but if you have that, there's really no reason to not make this an Action with +1 Action instead. Basically it becomes a Village variant this way, where you must use one of the actions on a particular card.
Rules wise, I don't see an issue playing an Action card in your buy phase. It's just ugly. Then again, official cards already play Treasures in your buy phase and play Actions outside of your turn, but I can't say I'm a fan of those, either.
OK, looks like you've removed the first-play-only limitation with it. So the possibility of trashing the opponent's deck is back again, but they can defend against it now with their own pirate.The first-play-only effect has been replaced with the attack only affecting players with 5 or more cards in hand. So I don't see how you can trash opponent's hand (which I agree is ludicrous) given the new effect. Concerning the defense, I was told to look at Knights for their power, price and self-trashing upon trashing another Knight effect.
There's no way as yet to play actions in the buy phase [...] I don't know a good answer why not here, but if you decided you really wanted to involve the Company at the buy phase, then perhaps you could set a company aside to play at the start of next turn, or you can buy a Company (could be with debt) straight onto the deck?
Villa puts a player back into their Action phase when they gain a Villa, with the gained Villa going into their hand.
Some of your cards are really text-dense. Simple is better. I would recommend trying to find ways to pare down words, even if that means getting rid of effects. One card doesn't have to do everything (even Jack of all Trades doesn't, really). Figure out what the card is trying to do, and have it do that, without any extranea. Then add vanilla bonuses for balance purposes, as necessary.
Concerning BGG, I just posted it there for publicity. Not everyone that likes Dominion and is willing to check out fan expansions knows that this website exists. I actually found out that this site existed through Reddit (which is where I originally posted).
EDIT: I mean it's labeled "fan expansion", which is great. Really it just boggles my mind that BGG lumps official expansions for things together with fan ones. There should be separate categories. But that's not your fault, that's just BGG being BGG.
Generally, you can't prevent infinite revealing - it's in your hand, it goes back into your hand, there's no accountability. The two ways around infinite revealing are (1) make it only do something useful on the first reveal (e.g. if you reveal Moat a second time, it doesn't double-protect you or anything), or (2) put it somewhere it can't be revealed again (e.g. Horse Traders gets set aside and goes back into your hand at the start of your next turn, Caravan Guard gets played, etc).
Now about revealing Reactions, I never quite understood the infinite revealing. What wording would be appropriate to reveal once per attack/gain?
I did something similar here:
http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=16928.msg710352#msg710352
Ravhiser doesn't work well. For example, my hand is 5 Coppers, you play Ravhiser, I reveal Ravhiser, trash it, you choose me, I choose "gain, trash another", to gain Ravhiser. I don't have to trash anything except for the first Ravhiser. And what happens when 2 players reveal the same?
I can try reorder it. But I definitely don't want the opponents to reveal their hand before the player has chosen the effectYou don't need them to, but you do need them to before they actually trash the card. Because if the card to be trashed is a Rats or a Cultist, you will otherwise be unable to tell if they have been cheating.
