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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Just a quick victory card idea:

« on: June 15, 2014, 02:38:32 pm »

you should compare it to island, both are action/victory and get rid of bad cards

your card:
after buy: +2 bad cards
after first play: +1 bad card
after second play: --
after third play: -1 bad card

island:
after buy: +1 bad card
after first play: -1 bad card
after second play: ---

so, your card is as good as an island after you played it 3 times.

There is a problem with a sort of contradicting concept. The card is a trasher, and as such it will be bought if you have lots of time to invest for a long game, and in these games the fact that it's a victory card is likely not to matter much. alas, better trashers like forager, masquerade, or even lookout are almost aways preferable.

Though, long games often end early in a 3-pile ending. It could matter. But the self-junking on gain is so bad that I don't think you'd ever want to buy this card before the Curse pile is empty.

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General Discussion / Re: Song of the day

« on: June 15, 2014, 01:45:37 pm »

American

Is that the joke?

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Really bad card ideas

« on: June 15, 2014, 12:18:10 pm »

Emperor
$14 - Action
You may set this aside. If you do, set aside a King card from your hand. At the start of each of your turns, play that King, setting it aside again when you discard it from play. (Stop playing it if you fail to set it aside on a turn you play it).

Pope
$17 - Action
You may set this aside. If you do, set aside an Emperor card from your hand. At the start of each of your turns, play that Emperor, setting it aside again when you discard it from play. (Stop playing it if you fail to set it aside on a turn you play it).

Like God
$20 - Action
+1 Action

Why is Pope above Emperor? Aren't emperors usually gods?

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: New Promo at Origins...

« on: June 15, 2014, 06:18:36 am »

I think the other major case is where you Prince a +1 Action card to act as a guaranteed Village (or Prince a Village as a guaranteed Crossroads) to get an engine going.

Or Prince a Crossroads. Which probably is a pretty good idea for other reasons too, now that I think of it.

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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff [Serious] [Jokes] [Serious]

« on: June 15, 2014, 06:16:15 am »

In some ways, I like that there is a thread for serious discussion so that I can just stay out of that thread, but the problem is that sometimes there's a topic there that I would like to discuss, too. It's easy to just not post a Mine/Mint joke, but I'm hardly ever completely serious — mostly, I express myself through avant-garde music, which basically means trying out stupid stuff until something actually works and most importantly, having as much fun as you can, and that is also the approach that I take when I express myself through written words. And it's pretty hard to sound serious while you're trying out stupid stuff and having fun.

By the way, the first sentence took two tries before I felt that it worked well enough, the second one took five, I managed to make the last sentence of the previous paragraph work well enough on my first try, and this is my second time writing this sentence. Fun was had.


Here's some completely serious random stuff:

Rolled 1d6 : 3, total 3

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: New Promo at Origins...

« on: June 14, 2014, 06:43:27 pm »

Totally different topic: this might be one of my favorite card arts.

It's the same topic though. This is a totally different topic.

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General Discussion / Re: Song of the day

« on: June 14, 2014, 05:18:37 pm »

I don't really like heavy metal either. I like avant-garde metal, black metal, death metal, folk metal, funeral doom, industrial metal, jazz metal, nu metal and thrash metal a lot more.

Pop is fine, too.

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Well now I want to make a bunch of new promo ripoffs

« on: June 14, 2014, 05:03:35 pm »

Expert Craftsman
$6 Action-Duration
During each of your cleanup phases, draw 6 cards instead of 5.
(I wanted to avoid letting them stack, and wanted to give them a weakness to "Discard to X."  Plus I got tired of start-of-turn.  When I think about Lab I want to make it 7, but when I think of Caravan 6 seems more reasonable.)

Travelling Villagers
$10 Action-Duration
For the rest of the game, your action cards do not cost Actions.
(Ludicrously powerful, but is it worth building an engine around a $10 card?  I could maybe even see pricing it at 12 or something, so maybe it's just plain too strong.  I wish I didn't have to word this awkwardly to get around Diadem.)

These two could do better as prizes or another individual card because you never would want more than one of these.

You might want to take a look at your avatar in the trash pile.

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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff [Serious]

« on: June 14, 2014, 03:45:29 pm »

Burning out on games hasn't really been a problem for me. I get tired of each game I play every time I play it, and then I'm up for it again in a couple of hours or at least the next day.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: New Promo at Origins...

« on: June 14, 2014, 03:30:39 pm »

Well, if it doesn't have "you may", you could be forced to set it aside with nothing!

I thought it was just a one-shot, that you had to keep both the Prince and the set-aside card set aside every turn.
But now I realize the Prince just gets cleaned up and you can set more cards aside with it, making it even more powerful.

I'm still thinking it is just a one-shot.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: New Promo at Origins...

« on: June 14, 2014, 03:25:19 pm »

It also helps with the accountability problem: now there are very few situations where someone would want to set it aside when they don't have an Action in their hand that they want to set aside.

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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Strictly better than....

« on: June 14, 2014, 03:21:18 pm »

How do Poor House and Highway work together?

Not at all. Peddler and Poor House, on the other hand, have a negative interaction sometimes.

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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff

« on: June 14, 2014, 03:20:14 pm »

I read fanfiction of sorts on sadpanda.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Post Your Fun Kingdoms to Play

« on: June 14, 2014, 12:21:35 pm »

Code: [Select]

Chapel, Village, Masquerade, Bridge, Remake, Saboteur, Goons, Possession, King's Court, Prince
"…and they never played Dominion again. The End!"

This is the Post your fun kingdoms to play thread.

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Really bad card ideas

« on: June 14, 2014, 12:00:24 pm »

This card just says, "Play a card" without saying what type.  Because card rules override normal rules, I think you can play pure victory cards (but you can't do much with them).

Yes, it doesn't say what type. It doesn't explicitly allow you to play a pure Victory card, which means that it doesn't contradict the rules.

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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Strictly better than....

« on: June 14, 2014, 10:26:51 am »

Easy puzzle: What is a case, besides all those possession/fairground type cases (as well as king's court, throne room, procession, prince, etc.) where highway is better than peddler on a board with no plus buy or cost-dependents?

Poor House
Swindler, when you're going for Duchy/Duke (or does this count as a cost-dependent?)

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Really bad card ideas

« on: June 14, 2014, 05:04:33 am »

Iron Throne
Cost: $5

You may play an Action card from your hand twice.  If you do, each other player chooses to either discard two cards or gain a Curse.

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Setup:  Each player who loses this game dies.

Iron Throne
$5 Action

You may play a card from your hand twice. If you do, if it's an...
Action card, +1 action
Treasure card, +$1
Victory card, +1 card

Nobles and Great Halls, away!  Also, is this a Black Market variant, i.e., you can play treasures during your Action phase and bypass Tactician downsides?  Is it also possible to play pure Victory cards, so that they just go into play and say hi?

You can play Treasures during your action phase. You can't play pure Victory cards.

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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff

« on: June 13, 2014, 06:29:37 pm »

Heh, there seems to have been an anti-ozle thread spring up! Surprised it took this long!

I thought the same thing.

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Rules Questions / Re: Rules question with more players

« on: June 13, 2014, 05:46:52 pm »

Hmm I guess it could be a plus. But i've found that I have won many games by just buying a single province or colony and then emptying out a pile. Although I'm playing with people who are very knew to the game so maybe thats why it keeps happening.

It's also pretty normal in 2-player games.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: New Promo at Origins...

« on: June 13, 2014, 05:36:54 pm »

remake is the best one - TWO cards...

Plus you gain something cool whenever you Possess him.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: New Promo at Origins...

« on: June 13, 2014, 03:51:27 pm »

Maybe this has already been asked, but if you have Durations and this, do you get to choose the order of resolving them?

Yes and yes.

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Really bad card ideas

« on: June 13, 2014, 03:49:42 pm »

Iron Throne
Cost: $5

You may play an Action card from your hand twice.  If you do, each other player chooses to either discard two cards or gain a Curse.

------------------------------------------

Setup:  Each player who loses this game dies.

Iron Throne
$5 Action

You may play a card from your hand twice. If you do, if it's an...
Action card, +1 action
Treasure card, +$1
Victory card, +1 card

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: New Promo at Origins...

« on: June 13, 2014, 03:24:24 pm »

Prince is easier to connect with another action though.

At least if any Action is fine. If you need a Prince of a specific card, then isn't it equally easy, am I missing something here or was that just not the point?

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: New Promo at Origins...

« on: June 13, 2014, 03:22:12 pm »

The card does seem kind of swingy (is that the right word?), given that even if both players go for it, it will be much much better for anyone who activates it even just a few turns ahead. No more so than some other cards, I suppose though.

The comparison to Tournament is pretty good.

Quite similar, given that both hinge upon getting an 8$ card and then linking it with a 4$ card. But I anticipate that with Prince, the effect will be far, far more exaggerated.

Depends on the kingdom, probably. Sometimes, being the only player to get the Princess or the Followers can be extremely good.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: New Promo at Origins...

« on: June 13, 2014, 03:12:49 pm »

The card does seem kind of swingy (is that the right word?), given that even if both players go for it, it will be much much better for anyone who activates it even just a few turns ahead. No more so than some other cards, I suppose though.

The comparison to Tournament is pretty good.