My cards are sleeved. I can easily tell when someone is drawing an Adventures card.
Rules question: With Black Market, can only 1 Castle be in the deck? And how do you choose which one?
Same question for the split piles, can you have either of the cards in the BM deck, and how would you choose it?
I believe Donald's ruling for this so far has been: do what you want. Which is a fine ruling, I think.
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This Donald fellow must be a popular guy.
No kidding. And gaining respect like he's the creator of Dominion or something.
Well I strongly suspect that most of the guests were Redditors since this was posted to /r/dominion. And then somebody made a highly upvoted post on the thread that was just a copy-paste of the DXV so you didn't have to click through to f.ds. Not sure what yo conclude there.
Adam and WW's cult followers, no doubt. This site is the real OG, and they are all heretics.
I mean it's an Action-Treasure. If it's in play, it's an Action in play for Peddler. It's also a Treasure in play for Bank.
I dont see why it should have different effects if played differently.. 'Played as an Action' or 'Played as a Treasure' doesn't make sense to me. Though, could behave differently whether it's your Action or Buy phase, that's fine. But either way, you played both am Action and Treasure, either during your Action phase or during your buy phase. Counts for all the things it counts for.
If you play it during your Action phase and it, say, doesn't give money, what's the problem? Still a Treasure played. HoP doesn't give money.
Of course, I'm just speculating. I just don't see an issue with that behavior.
The parts of your post that I emphasized are what make the most sense to me. If you play it during your action phase you get the action benefit and the treasure benefit. If you chose not to use it during your action phase, but only in your buy phase, then you only get the treasure benefit. Either way the card would always be both an action and a treasure for the purposes of things like Peddler and Bank. So the result of playing it may change depending on when it is played, but its type never changes.
I don't see a huge benefit to behave differently on different phases. There's nothing wrong with the version Seprix proposed. You play it, draw 2 cards, continue with your buy phase as normal. You're already used to playing and resolving one Treasure at a time. Even if it gives +Actions, that makes a difference for, e.g., Diadem.
I mean it's an Action-Treasure. If it's in play, it's an Action in play for Peddler. It's also a Treasure in play for Bank.
I dont see why it should have different effects if played differently.. 'Played as an Action' or 'Played as a Treasure' doesn't make sense to me. Though, could behave differently whether it's your Action or Buy phase, that's fine. But either way, you played both am Action and Treasure, either during your Action phase or during your buy phase. Counts for all the things it counts for.
If you play it during your Action phase and it, say, doesn't give money, what's the problem? Still a Treasure played. HoP doesn't give money.
Of course, I'm just speculating. I just don't see an issue with that behavior.
The bidding thing - this is one of the aspects of Empires that I'm not too fond of. Something I love about Dominion is how equal AND isolated the play is. Sure there are attacks and stuff, but everyone has access to exactly the same things. And there's no direct competition for resources other than pile control. So there are parts of Empires that get rid of that, and bidding is one of them.
I know I just need to wait until it's released before making any judgments, but that sounds really bad. I'm imagining a scenario where I begin my turn intending to gain card X, but fail to because I get outbid for it. Unless I am in control of if/when bidding occurs on my turn, I just don't know if I'd care for that.
But even if it is it will likely only be on a few cards or events and you can always just not play with those cards. Like Donald always says (roughly) "there need to be hated cards if there are going to be loved cards"; some people may like the bidding and some may hate it but there are plenty of cards to play with if you hate it!
The bidding thing - this is one of the aspects of Empires that I'm not too fond of. Something I love about Dominion is how equal AND isolated the play is. Sure there are attacks and stuff, but everyone has access to exactly the same things. And there's no direct competition for resources other than pile control. So there are parts of Empires that get rid of that, and bidding is one of them.
I'm a bit worried about the bidding thing, I ususally don't like bidding.
Great news, I am super pumped and will gladly throw $3 (or however much) a month at a subscription online Dominion service that's actually reliable and run by people who understand security and are good at their work.
Actually it doesn't matter that much if it costs $3 or $4; the big gap is to $5, which most players can't reach in the beginning.
How do you know if there isn't much difference between $3 and $4. $4 is another $12 a year that everyone would be paying for the service. That adds up.
$3 Dominion implementations tend to be just as good as $4 Dominion implementations, so people will often spend $4 or a $3 implementation anyway.
Can that box contain all cards?
Does anyone sell these on ebay or etsy? I'm not handy and would prefer to purchase something, though I would be willing to give making this a shot.
http://www.thebrokentoken.com/dominion-case-and-organizer-set/
Although you will want to change the latches to something more sturdy after you buy it.
I went to the copy shop today and got a couple of sheets of various sizes of cardstock. The "110 lbs" cardstock seemed sturdy enough, though maybe the tabs might wear down after a while, I'm not sure...
In any case, I measured the thickness of these vs. the ones I currently have and found it should give me room for 220 more cards. This is sort of a conservative guess so hopefully it will be a little more in practice, and I may have a little bit of wiggle room.
Over the next couple of weekends I'll get the dividers printed and start the very long process of cutting them out -- I want tabbed dividers so there will have to be a lot of cutting done by hand...
Can you laminate them to cut down on wear? Or would that add too much to the thickness? You can buy sheets of laminate paper for pretty cheap. Though being married to a teacher might give you laminater machine privileges.
These are good questions that I do not know the answers to. I will find out.
I use these and absolutely love them. If you have a bit of money to spend, just have them printed on regular paper and then laminated. They hold up well, but aren't too thick. Otherwise, using unlaminated card stock is a good second option. My first set was on card stock and held up fairly well.My dividers are on heavy card stock printed from Sumpfork's tab generatorThis actually looks pretty nice. I will have to do some experimentation on these -- last I saw this generator it didn't support vertical dividers so this solution is something new to me that might work well. I may be able to get away with experimenting with different types of paper to see what's the thinnest thing I like, then trying to calculate how much space that will save me. While I'm reluctant to change my dividers again, it's mostly because I spent a ton of time on the ones I currently have, which isn't actually a good reason. The PlexiGlas isn't perfect and having opaque, tabbed, double-sided dividers might be a good thing.
http://domtabs.sandflea.org/
Thank you for the heads-up! I've never tried carrying the case like a briefcase. In fact, I haven't moved it away from my usual gaming area. There seems to be some space for cards to move sideways if the case is held like that. I'm afraid I will ruin the organization or worse, the cards themselves. Do you also have that problem? My friend suggested putting a foam-like material on top so that the cards don't move around.
First, What I would really like with the black market deck is for it to be completely virtual. What I mean is that if black market is in the game, I'd rather not go through the effort of setting up the deck. I'd rather have a button on the app I could push whenever someone plays the card, which would list the 3 possible options they could purchase. We would then go fish in the box for only the cards actually purchased.
