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On a board like this, I'd love to see something like "Buy Duchy, get Duchess; Remake Duchy into Nobles" work, but it's extremely hard to get them to collide by the time you have both of them.

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General Discussion / Re: Probability paradoxes
« on: January 14, 2013, 05:44:21 pm »
I think the biggest reason he's celebrated now is because he strongly defended his models and their prediction of Obama's relatively easy win, compared to a large number of more conservative (in both senses of the word) commentators who seemed to be trying to drum up excitement by suggesting it was going to be neck-and-neck. And, yes, he guessed all of the states and got the margins of error pretty close, too.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Homage to the Best Card
« on: January 14, 2013, 09:03:48 am »
It's very new, so it's probably still up for grabs a bit. However, Know Your Meme currently has it listed as Boardroom Suggestion.

EDIT: Oh, and it agrees that in the typical usage, the first two suggestions are typical marketing hype ideas while the third, defenestration-inducing one, is the one that the consumers probably actually want.

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Innovation Game Reports / Re: I didn't deserve to win this game.
« on: January 14, 2013, 08:39:16 am »
Additionally, a few cards in Ages 9 & 10 can cause you to activate the dogma effects of other cards - in the case of Software, it makes you draw and meld a card, then execute it. Often this is great, since you don't have to share the effects with anyone else and the 10s are nice powerful cards. But every so often, it'll pull something like this, just like playing a Golem and having it find the one Scout in your deck. So here, Software pulled out Robotics and AI, then executed AI, which includes the clause something like "If Software and Robotics are top cards on anyone's board, the player with least score immediately wins".

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Really bad card ideas
« on: January 14, 2013, 02:15:27 am »
The best thing is, I was just catching up on over 2 weeks of posts after the holidays, so I wrote that up *before* I noticed the Probability paradoxes thread. What're the odds of that, huh?

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Really bad card ideas
« on: January 14, 2013, 01:55:38 am »
Monty Bank
Action - Attack
+$2
For each other player, place a Province and two other cards from the supply face down in front of them in an order of your choosing. They select one card, and you reveal one of the other cards that is not the Province. They then gain either their selected card, or the card you did not reveal. Return the other two cards to the supply.

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Hmm.

Secret Chamber, Beggar, Watchtower, Market Square.

Although I would be seriously worried about my opponent if it was clear I had my entire deck down to those four cards, and they played an attack.

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I've seen Peter Jackson's latest movie four times already! That's a hard hobbit to break.
Don't get me started on hobbit puns. Irregular Webcomic managed to make just about all of them in its run.

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Dominion Articles / Re: Governor
« on: December 12, 2012, 11:42:33 pm »
Yeah, I did think that Silver -> Feodum and Feodum -> $5-cost would at least make your opponent think twice about doing the remodel option on Governor, even if he hadn't given you (m)any silvers from it. I wondered whether it's worth buying your own Governors, but then you'd presumably avoid the Silver/Gold option in favour of trashing, probably Estate -> Feodum or similar. Or you could choose Governor as your $5 to go to from Feodum, but still the question remains of what you do with it?

I'm trying to think what support would be just enough to make it work, and of course the problem then is you wind up with an extremely complex, and hence probably fragile, strategy. Border Village? Some other trasher? Graverobber/Rogue?

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If a saint is de-sainted, is he fired from the canon?

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Interview with Donald X.
« on: December 12, 2012, 07:42:13 pm »
If you weren't known as "The guy who created Dominion", which of your other games would you most want to fill that space?

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Dominion Articles / Re: Governor
« on: December 12, 2012, 06:50:17 pm »
I am now wondering - how would a Governor/JoaT/Feodum game go? Would much support for Feodum be needed to be the dominant strategy, especially if the opponent goes for a Governor rush?

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Since it's not come up yet I'll just throw out the one I have.

14: Nobles (it's somewhere in the meme thread)
I just worked that out myself. And now don't I feel silly.

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Dominion: Guilds Previews / Re: First small Guilds Spoiler
« on: December 12, 2012, 06:37:31 pm »
If you want expensive cards, play Magic: The Gathering.
Fixed it for you :)

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Interview with Donald X.
« on: December 11, 2012, 05:26:00 pm »
Donald is Celtic.
It means "world ruler." And Vaccarino means "cow herder." And then X is the unknown. So, put it all together and it's like that South Park joke. phase 1: herd cows. phase 2: ? ? ?. phase 3: world domination.
But since it's the other way around, it seems to me like you're taking over the world in order to herd cows.

Allegedly, the biggest-selling LCG in Japan is a game called "Tanto Cuore", a maid-themed deck builder. While a lot of its mechanisms are practically identical to Dominion, its basic currency costs one more than the Dominion equivalent (so the $1 costs $1, the $2 costs $4 and the $3 costs $7). Did you ever consider doing anything like this in Dominion - particularly, moving Copper off the $0 price point?

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#15: Really? Colony   

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Really bad card ideas
« on: December 10, 2012, 07:10:13 pm »
Here's a little game : try to guess the cards'names

Witchtower
Action attack reaction, $5
Draw until you have 6 cards in hand.
Each other player gains a Curse card.
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When you gain a Curse card, you may reveal this. If you do, either trash the gained card or put it on top of your deck.
Nuts, I guessed Watchtorturer.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Interview with Donald X.
« on: December 09, 2012, 09:38:18 pm »
Of all the different mechanics, themes, concepts and what have yous out there that you *haven't* explicitly made a game about, what do you most want to try?

Did Kingdom Builder ever have a different name?

Out of all the Dominion cards so far released, what is your favourite interaction - combo or nombo - between two or more of them?

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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff
« on: December 06, 2012, 06:37:08 pm »
I've never had persimmons. We bought some the other day, but we haven't tore into them yet. I have no idea the best way to eat them. My wife seems certain, but she's been too busy to prepare them.

So I stare at them on the countertop, looking like little weird tomatoes. Soon, my little persimmons, soon.
This is about the most difficult to eat Dutch delicacy I can think of:


When you press down on the top, the cream in the middle comes out.

Looks like a clear case of "Eat with your fingers" to me.
If it's anything like the vanilla slice* it resembles, then using hands is the way to go but you're still going to have the same problem, but you can then rotate it to get at the filling that's come out.

* There seem to be two main kinds of vanilla slice in Australia - the "real" kind, which features a stiff, yellow vanilla custard in between two pieces of puff pastry, topped with passionfruit icing (or occasionally something heretical like the pink icing in the photo), and the "French vanilla slice", also known as a Napoleon, or a mille-feuille, which usually has an extra middle layer of pastry, a whiter, creamier custard, and is topped with either icing sugar or a kind of streaky mix of white and chocolate icings.

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General Discussion / Re: Computer and Video Games
« on: December 06, 2012, 06:00:22 pm »
For all Final Fantasy enthusiasts, I recommend Theatrhythm on the DS. 
I'm not an FF fan, but I played the demo and I'm considering getting it as I do like a rhythm game (but unless there's a compelling reason to do so, I will probably try to play as many songs on the top difficulty only).

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Pet tricks you haven't tried yet
« on: December 05, 2012, 12:19:22 am »
With the Farmland pile empty, three Farmlands and $6 in hand, Ambassadoring two Farmlands then buying a Farmland back to Farmland the third Farmland into a Province. Bonus points if this empties the Province pile.
This is one occasion where it would be neat for Farmland to have been on-gain, since you would then force your opponent to Remodel one of his cards when he doesn't necessarily want to (perhaps just after a Militia).

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Dominion Strategy Wiki Feedback / Re: A quiz feature? :D
« on: December 02, 2012, 11:24:44 pm »
It's doable-ish, but not necessarily a good use of resources. WikiNews has (or had, it's been a while) a weekly news quiz add-on, although it was always the same questions for everyone and I think it had a thing at the end to either automatically post scores or open a box so you could post them.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Pet tricks you haven't tried yet
« on: December 02, 2012, 04:13:40 pm »
I've just noticed another crazy case that I'd love to have the excuse to play - key cards are Mining Village, Highway, Band of Misfits and either Graverobber or Rogue. Play Highway twice, play BoM as MV and trash, and then get it back from the trash knowing that if I'd just played Mining Village I wouldn't be able to retrieve it this turn.

Reminds me of trashing a Mining Village and making enough money to... buy a Mining Village.
I think I've done that before. Usually when I've trashed the MV thinking "I'll put those $2 towards a Province or other useful buy", then realised I'd messed up my count, but I had a Woodcutter-equivalent so I had a spare buy and $4 spare ... just enough to replace the MV.

Because there are plenty of combos that you want to one day be able to say "I did that ... and lost 500-0" about.

I look forward to playing Workshop (or similar) + Fortress + Watchtower. Or, for that matter, any gainer + Watchtower + on-trasher.
Heck, I'm just looking forward to any combination of Dark Ages + Watchtower.
Oh, me too, definitely, but for some reason the idea of gaining a Fortress, then trashing it to get it into hand just in time to play it amuses me. Watchtower + Market Square must be a bit of a lark too.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Pet tricks you haven't tried yet
« on: November 29, 2012, 07:12:31 pm »
I've just noticed another crazy case that I'd love to have the excuse to play - key cards are Mining Village, Highway, Band of Misfits and either Graverobber or Rogue. Play Highway twice, play BoM as MV and trash, and then get it back from the trash knowing that if I'd just played Mining Village I wouldn't be able to retrieve it this turn.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Stupid Pet Tricks
« on: November 28, 2012, 06:42:00 pm »
When a player buys a card, he gains a curse per Embargo token on that pile.
Not sure what card you're looking at ...

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