I picked up Renaissance this week week and I loved it! I've always been a fan of the simpler sets, my favorite being Seaside and my wife's being the Base set, so getting a new expansion somewhere around that complexity has been fun for us. You said in the secret history that expansions have gotten too complex and that this one was made intentionally simple. Where do you think future expansions will fall on the complexity scale?They will try to be as simple as Renaissance, but I don't know how well I'll do there. I'll have to put in the work to know for sure though.
When Dominion was run by Goko and Making Fun, ragingduckd had a plot showing the number of Dominion games played each day. I don't think such a plot exists for Shuffle IT but you should be able to get an estimate by checking how game numbers change between days (assuming it always counts up by 1). If you poke someone with access to the raw stats (people who work on Dominion Scavenger), maybe you can get estimates that way.
Sadly Dominion's rules are superseded by both local laws and laws of nature. Otherwise I would long ago have made "For the rest of this turn, there is no entropy" and then wandered off into the world of dreams.
I don't even want to think about how many different MtG decks you could construct.
Dracs* like Donate and Keep (and cards like Chapel) pretty dramatically change the way the game plays at the table in what I believe to be an intentional way. (Unlike, say, Rebuild, which often dominates Kingdoms in a way I suspect was less intentional.) I'm not sure anything in Renaissance comes quite to that level, although Capitalism might be close.
Cathedral is probably pretty close to Donate.
My favorites are probably Governor and Envoy. My least favorite is probably Dismantle, though, frankly, I don't dislike any of them. I do like Black Market, but I only play with it when I play online -- I just haven't come up with an easy way to incorporate it IRL.
While we're on the subject of strange treasures, am I the only person bugged by Fortune saying "x2" in the corner instead of "×2"? Lower-case X and a multiplication sign are not the same!
*twitch*
It requires none of your time when not playing
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Not all Projects are pure upside, but I didn't spot any in the long list of outtakes. I understand it is partly because in-game downside effects are often missed, but some end-of-game condition (like a gentle version of a Wall, maybe a ditch) could have been considered, and I wonder why it wasn't.I'm not sure what you mean, but I specifically tried to have Projects not overlap much with Events and Landmarks. So no VP Project, no Projects you buy repeatedly.
The beauty of having a ban list - or playing irl where everyone has it - is that there can be cool fun cards like Peasant and King's Court and people who hate them don't have to play with them.
Experiment + Devil's Workshop
Buy an Experiment, gain two of them, and get an imp from Devil's Workshop
I remain surprised there's never been a cost increaser in Dominion. I mean, as an attack that stacked it would clearly suck majorly, but that's not the only thing which could be done with such a mechanic.
