You I remember that, after the first game I played we were dicussing a variante that you only may play one Village per turn, because hey, how insanely powerfull is that card...
But you don't really need that. If you play a little more, you will come back here in a few days and tell us how insanely powerfull it is too just buy money and Provinces, and that all the fun is out of the game because all this funny action-chaining is gone.
Playing all these actions is very powerfull. But
buying them will take some time, time you could invest in Gold, or Provinces. The game can be shorter than you might think now, or as it is in the first games. So the first games tend to allow very long chains, because spending your time buying actions is not that a big deal. There is plenty of time while everybody tries out all these shiny actions. When all of you figure out how to get to the Provinces faster, there is not the time anymore to mass all these actions, and these long chains are not as easy to pull of anymore. That doesn't mean
they are not possible anymore, and when it happens it's the most of the fun.
Anyway, welcome to Dominon and the forums, I hope you enyoy.