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Other Games / Re: CIVILIZATION VI
« on: December 11, 2018, 11:48:18 am »
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Other Games / Re: CIVILIZATION VI
« on: November 27, 2018, 11:13:01 am »
New expansion announced!
And new civ!
And new civ!
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Dominion: Renaissance Previews / Re: Pssst.... (Eager anticipation) When's it shipping?
« on: November 21, 2018, 11:54:42 am »
Got my copy of Renaissance, all scans are up on the wiki. I got a copy of Seaside 2E at the same time, and the Treasury glitch is fixed! The dividing line is back! Will probably scan those next week, currently travelling.
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Dominion: Renaissance Previews / Re: Pssst.... (Eager anticipation) When's it shipping?
« on: November 19, 2018, 08:58:56 am »
Honestly, all the backs from all the expansions I've ever gotten have had slightly different colorations. If you stare hard enough, you can tell which are base set cards and which are not. So don't stare hard at your deck. At least this can possibly be ignored, whereas whatever the hell happened to the first printing of Adventures really couldn't be.
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Other Games / Re: Dungeons and Dragons
« on: November 15, 2018, 12:14:04 am »
I'm actually currently running a homebrew campaign once a week. Tips:
* You don't necessarily need to write a full narrative for a session, but at least be familiar with your setting. Know your NPCs, and which monsters are lurking where, in case your players head there.
* Always be ready to improvise. It's usually more fun to roll with whatever the players make up, rather than saying "nah, this guy wouldn't do that, that's dumb". Let your players have their fantasy, as long as it's not too ridiculous.
* Challenge your players. A fight where they all almost die is going to be remembered better than one where they kill everything in two turns.
* If you have an idea of where you want your players to go, try to make it happen naturally. Make it seem like their decision. Entice them into your story, rather than frogmarching them down your narrative.
* Honestly, have fun with it. Make up silly voices for your NPCs. Make weird noises for your monsters. Narrate all the little details about how their weapons cleave off which body parts, or how their spells affect their enemies.
* You don't necessarily need to write a full narrative for a session, but at least be familiar with your setting. Know your NPCs, and which monsters are lurking where, in case your players head there.
* Always be ready to improvise. It's usually more fun to roll with whatever the players make up, rather than saying "nah, this guy wouldn't do that, that's dumb". Let your players have their fantasy, as long as it's not too ridiculous.
* Challenge your players. A fight where they all almost die is going to be remembered better than one where they kill everything in two turns.
* If you have an idea of where you want your players to go, try to make it happen naturally. Make it seem like their decision. Entice them into your story, rather than frogmarching them down your narrative.
* Honestly, have fun with it. Make up silly voices for your NPCs. Make weird noises for your monsters. Narrate all the little details about how their weapons cleave off which body parts, or how their spells affect their enemies.
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Rules Questions / Re: Star Chart and Inn
« on: November 12, 2018, 03:26:19 pm »
* Gain Inn.
* Poke through your discard pile and pick some Actions, which can include Inn.
* Shove them in your deck.
* Look at the cards in your deck and pick one.
* Shuffle the rest, put the picked one on top.
* Poke through your discard pile and pick some Actions, which can include Inn.
* Shove them in your deck.
* Look at the cards in your deck and pick one.
* Shuffle the rest, put the picked one on top.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Spices > Gold
« on: November 11, 2018, 05:17:26 pm »I thought this was ehunt replying to his own thread at first.
Guys, this is why I made the card art avatar thread
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Why Peasant Will Be On My Ban List
« on: November 10, 2018, 08:40:24 am »
All these words spent in this thread and still no one has reminded Seprix that Warrior trashing Warrior is far more swingy than anything the Peasant line does.
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Dominion: Renaissance Previews / Re: Pssst.... (Eager anticipation) When's it shipping?
« on: November 10, 2018, 08:35:42 am »
Again, this does not in any way bother me, as long as the backs are not also faded. This has no mechanical effect on gameplay. They're going to feel the same when shuffling. The missing dividing line on 2e Treasury bothers me a lot more.
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Dominion: Renaissance Previews / Re: Pssst.... (Eager anticipation) When's it shipping?
« on: November 10, 2018, 12:01:58 am »
Honestly, this doesn't really bother me. Every single set has slight variations in banner coloring - just look at the recommended kingdoms on the wiki and you'll see.
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Dominion: Renaissance Previews / Re: Pssst.... (Eager anticipation) When's it shipping?
« on: November 08, 2018, 10:06:53 am »Here's the Amazon link, listed as currently unavailable:
https://www.amazon.com/Rio-Grande-Games-RIO558-Dominion/dp/B07HM7WZT9/
That has a release date of December 14. Damn.
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Rules Questions / Re: A Couple of Buy Phase Clarifications
« on: November 08, 2018, 10:00:39 am »
Alright. 
Guess I need to update the wiki to make it clear there are two distinct parts to the Buy phase.
Guess I need to update the wiki to make it clear there are two distinct parts to the Buy phase.
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Rules Questions / Re: A Couple of Buy Phase Clarifications
« on: November 07, 2018, 07:53:17 pm »
Hmm. I mean, I can't even think of an instance where it would actually matter if you can play more Treasures after buying from Black Market, as the card lets you play more Treasures while it's being played anyway. The only potential problem I can think of is more than one Black Market, which can just be played by the first Black Market anyway.
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Rules Questions / Re: A Couple of Buy Phase Clarifications
« on: November 07, 2018, 05:21:25 pm »It's not that I think your interpretation is clearly wrong, it isn't. It just that you quoted one sentence, that is summing up 4 paragraphs of buy phase explanation, IMO out of context. The first two of those paragraphs start with
> First you can play any number of Treasure cards from your hand, in any order....
> Then, you can buy one card, costing as much as you have or less....
I think this is a strong indicator for a conceptual division of the buy phase (though not explicit, agreed). Also the sentence you quote says "You cannot go back and play more Treasures..." If you played a Black Market during the Buy phase, there would be no 'going back', as you never left the part where you play Treasures. Again, in the context of a base Dominion rulebook that just two paragraphs before feels necessary to say that "Buying cards does not use up Treasure cards; you still have the cards." it should be a possible interpretation that the sentece you quote refers to the normal buying in the buy phase.
But again, there isn't really a "Treasure-playing part" explicitly in the rules, or even mentioned on any cards. We treat the "start" of phases differently because cards refer to them, and their timing can be noted. This is why a Summoned Transmogrify can be called immediately - it's still the start of your turn. This all progresses very neatly from the basic rules and what's on the cards.
Transmogrify can be called at the start of your turn --> Summon plays a card at the start of your turn --> Summoned Transmogrify goes on your Tavern mat at the start of your turn --> That same Transmogrify can now be called
It's a neat, logical process that you can deduce.
The Buy phase rules come down to "you can play Treasures until you buy a card." No part of these rules says Treasures are played at the start of your Buy phase. In fact, the start of your Buy phase is before "normal" Treasure playing - look at Arena. Dominion players have been playing "I can't play any more Treasures after I buy something" for a decade now.
Now if Black Market were doing literally anything else - playing Actions, gaining without buying, reducing costs, getting resources, trashing, discarding, whatever - of course you could play more Treasures afterward. But Black Market specifically lets you buy a card, which is what matters about Treasure play timing. The official FAQ for Black Market mentions that buying a card in your Action phase doesn't matter with regards to your Buy phase, but the rules are pretty clear about the Buy phase. It doesn't matter whether the Buy is a Buy that uses up one of your Buys (a "normal" Buy) or the special one Black Market lets you do - it's still a Buy.
Let's imagine there's a new type of card - let's call them Preactions. The rules on Preactions is you can play any number of Preactions at the start of your turn. Once you play an Action, you can't "go back and" play more Preactions. But what if there were a Preaction that could play an Action? It would be pretty clear that if that Preaction played an Action, you couldn't play any more Preactions afterward. It doesn't matter that that Preaction playing an Action doesn't count as using up your Action for that Action phase, you played an Action, no more Preactions. That's the rules for Preactions.
I feel I'm just rambling at this point, but really I don't see allowing more Treasure plays after buying a card through Black Market during your Buy phase as being at all justifiable.
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Rules Questions / Re: A Couple of Buy Phase Clarifications
« on: November 07, 2018, 11:55:10 am »
I've been thinking about this some more. Black Market's "you may buy one of them" to me reads like Throne Room's "you may play an Action" in that it definitely shouldn't count against your Buys, even when played during the Buy phase: it gives you an extra opportunity to buy. HOWEVER, it is still a "Buy", even though it's not using up a Buy.
So when you play BM during the Action phase, you cannot use Coffers or pay off Debt (not your Buy phase), and BM explicitly says you can play Treasures. Then you get to your real Buy phase, which starts by letting you play Treasures, spend Coffers, pay off Debt. However, once you buy a card during your Buy phase, you can no longer play Treasures or spend Coffers. I get that Donald X has a conception of two halves of the Buy phase, but that is not explicit in the actual rules.
If you play a Black Market in your Buy phase, and Buy a card, you should not be able to play any more Treasures afterward, period*. This has the added benefit of being most intuitive to new players ("Oh, I bought a card, I can't play any more Treasures, makes sense") even if it may cause competitive players to bitch and moan that they can't play as optimally as they might like.
* The exception being if you play Black Market with Black Market with Black Market etc. in a 10-fold Dominion matryoshka, in which case once you resolve one level of Black Markets, the next level up should let you continue playing new Treasures until you buy or choose not to buy with that one.
So when you play BM during the Action phase, you cannot use Coffers or pay off Debt (not your Buy phase), and BM explicitly says you can play Treasures. Then you get to your real Buy phase, which starts by letting you play Treasures, spend Coffers, pay off Debt. However, once you buy a card during your Buy phase, you can no longer play Treasures or spend Coffers. I get that Donald X has a conception of two halves of the Buy phase, but that is not explicit in the actual rules.
If you play a Black Market in your Buy phase, and Buy a card, you should not be able to play any more Treasures afterward, period*. This has the added benefit of being most intuitive to new players ("Oh, I bought a card, I can't play any more Treasures, makes sense") even if it may cause competitive players to bitch and moan that they can't play as optimally as they might like.
* The exception being if you play Black Market with Black Market with Black Market etc. in a 10-fold Dominion matryoshka, in which case once you resolve one level of Black Markets, the next level up should let you continue playing new Treasures until you buy or choose not to buy with that one.
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Dominion: Renaissance Previews / Re: Renaissance rulebook is up
« on: November 07, 2018, 09:01:36 am »Anyone know why all the pictures on the wiki are fuzzy?
Because they're from fuzzy pictures from the rulebook pdf posted online. No one (except playtesters) has a physical copy yet.
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Rules Questions / Scepter + Storyteller/BM
« on: November 07, 2018, 08:56:01 am »
If I play Scepter via Storyteller or BM, can it replay the ST/BM that played it, even though it isn't finished being played?
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Rules Questions / Re: A Couple of Buy Phase Clarifications
« on: November 07, 2018, 08:27:43 am »
I mean, the 2E rules also say "You cannot go back and play more Treasures after buying a card; first play Treasures, then buy." It would seem to me to be more consistent that Black Market's buy counts as ceasing Treasure playing. Though I can also see the argument that BM in the Action phase doesn't disallow playing Treasure in the Buy phase, and BM has always been weird with Coffers.
I think it would be most consistent to go with either a) BM's buy is a buy in the buy phase, and all that that implies (no Treasures/Coffers afterwards), or b) BM is its own weird sui generis thing and doesn't count as a "buy" in the buy phase. However, going with b) begs the question, what about Goons and Merchant Guild? Does BM's buy count as a buy for their purposes? When does it count as a buy and when not? I think a) is the best option here.
I think it would be most consistent to go with either a) BM's buy is a buy in the buy phase, and all that that implies (no Treasures/Coffers afterwards), or b) BM is its own weird sui generis thing and doesn't count as a "buy" in the buy phase. However, going with b) begs the question, what about Goons and Merchant Guild? Does BM's buy count as a buy for their purposes? When does it count as a buy and when not? I think a) is the best option here.
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Feedback / Re: Chrome Extension for f.ds!
« on: November 06, 2018, 10:01:54 pm »Capitalism makes Inherited Estates also count as Treasures sometimes. Woah.
An Inherited Capitalized Caravan Guard is an Action-Duration-Reaction-Treasure-Victory. Seprix made a custom banner template for it, and a few other combinations.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Can't Stop Playing Spooky Kingdoms
« on: November 03, 2018, 12:02:57 pm »
How has no one mentioned Harem's art yet
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: card ranking lists
« on: October 05, 2018, 01:50:32 pm »
The reason it hasn't been posted here is because Adam had a big falling out with this forum a while back.
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Dominion: Renaissance Previews / Re: Renaissance Previews #4: Flag Bearer, Swashbuckler, Treasurer
« on: October 03, 2018, 12:58:58 pm »Not really. There is basically no such thing as a player 2 advantage. If there were, the first player would pass to become the second player. Sure, the timing of your shuffles don't quite make that always the best play, but that's a higher-order effect.
There's a second-mover advantage, though, which means that there's less incentive than usual to take the artifact first. By doing so, you're opening your opponent up to a much stronger play of stealing it from you. It's like taking Dame Josephine if she's the top Knight on the pile, but even more so.
I think this is totally wrong, and for a reason you have noted - the timing of shuffles. You seem to think this just occasionally might muck up your logic, but it totally nukes it every time. You don't get to pass in dominion. You get to put your hand into your discard pile and draw 5 more cards. That's absolutely not the same thing.
I think the shuffle timing actually gives an advantage to the first player. For example, if both players buy a Flag Bearer on T2, then P2 ends up with the Flag, and the decks are otherwise the same. On the other hand, if P2 buys a Flag Bearer on T2, and P1 buys one on T3, then P1 ends up with the Flag, and their Flag Bearer comes a shuffle later. But here's the key point: having a Flag Bearer a shuffle earlier is bad. Instead of having the Flag Bearer earlier, you could have bought a silver, and had the silver a shuffle earlier instead.
I mean, it depends on what else you open with. I wouldn't mind having a Flag Bearer in my deck if my
was Forager or Oasis or even just a Silver.
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Dominion: Renaissance Previews / Re: Renaissance Previews #4: Flag Bearer, Swashbuckler, Treasurer
« on: October 02, 2018, 07:35:40 am »
Or even subsumed into the Borg Rats!
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Rules Questions / Re: Order of gaining card vs. on gain effects
« on: October 01, 2018, 02:08:01 pm »
Compare to Trader's effect, which happens before you (would) gain the card in question.