DOMINON: CITY LIFE Like a nail in a mighty trebuchet, everyone has a place in their hometown. The local baker sells your bread, the local farrier shoes your horse and the local fence extorts your hard-earned doubloons. With every task, a worker is assigned, and together they bustle with purpose in ever-growing urban areas. No kidding; you used to have to brush your teeth all by yourself, but nowadays, they have a guy for that! Sir Hector-the-Teeth-Brushing-Connoisseur, he’s the guy you hired. Perhaps you’ll employ a toenail clipping expert next, that’s ought to be an existing job now.
Sadly, the lively sprawl of lively cities full of lively people brings a darker – less lively – side to what should’ve been a beautiful utopia. They say one bad apple spoils the bunch. In the grimier parts of town, you’ll be hard pressed to find the good apples. Gang of teenage thugs stealing your coin pouch, overzealous bankers taxing your savings to pay for their new wigs, and hired mercenaries leaving with your pants, having no more coins to usurp from your bankrupted pockets. These rotten apples are so common that it's near impossible to avoid the swarm of fruit flies anymore.
Caution is of the essence. In a world where naivety is easily punished, one should be careful when falling for the courtship of a beautiful damsel near a dark alleyway, for a knife to your throat could be the next step to your gullible foray into the dangerous world of romance. If you keep to the main road however, you’ll find buildings upon buildings full of interesting individuals: Mushroom growers, pompadour testers, scarf designers, trapdoor makers, teeth pullers – maybe just try to avoid that last one.
City Life:City Life is a full-sized fan expansion for Dominion. It features 32 Kingdom cards, 10 Events, an out-of-Supply pile of Workers and 10 different Dreads. More onto those last two points in the “New mechanics” category below. In total, randomizers included, the set has 430 cards.
City Life, as opposed to my last two fan expansions (
New World and
Heroes) has no Duration cards! This was by design. City Life also re-introduces
tokens, something I have also done in
New World. I love them
chips, what can I say! Here’s what else you can expect in this set:
- Cheap cards. Indeed, a decent amount of cards cost
, and the proportion of cards costing 
is lower than your typical expansion. - Attacks. Attack cards everywhere! City Life has 7 Kingdom cards bearing the “Attack” label. Tough life in the city!
- Villages. Or pseudo-Villages. City Life offers a lot in terms of being able to play many many terminal cards. You definitely won’t have a hard time building an engine in City Life. An engine that will probably fire volleys upon volleys of the many Attack cards at your disposal!
Here you can find:
Half a year after my release of
Heroes, I present to you this new expansion. And not unlike
Heroes, I have worked for over a year onto this project, until I deemed it was good enough to be exhibited to the grand public. Feel free to play with the cards, and if you have any comments, by all means, post ‘em! I always love reading what you guys have to say.
New mechanics:WORKERS: - A Worker is an out-of-Supply card gainable by specific City Life Kingdom cards (analogous to Horses, Spoils, etc.).
- The Worker pile has 18 copies in it.
| CURSE TOKENS: - Curse tokens are little skull-shaped tokens with -1 printed on them. Certain City Life cards/Events/Dreads dispatch them. They are tokens and thus aren’t taking any space in your deck, not unlike Coffers, tokens, etc.
- There’s a limited pool of Curse tokens that can be given in a game. It scales the same as Curses do. For instance, in a 2-player game, there are 10 Curse tokens that can be given. In a 3-player game, use 20 Curse tokens. So on, so forth.
- When an effect says: “+1
 ,” then you take a Curse token. If the Curse token pool is empty, you take nothing.
- Each Curse token you have at the end of the game incurs -1 to your score.
| HORROR CARDS & DREADS: - Dreads are an out-of-Supply mix pile of 10 different purple-coloured cards. These cards have a general negative impact on your deck, and may be considered junk cards. Dreads are pictured below, under the City Life Kingdom cards.
- Certain City Life cards bear the “Horror” type. If so, you will use Dreads this game. Shuffle them into a face down pile and put it near the Supply. These cards may only be gained when you are instructed to “gain a Dread.”
- When you gain a Dread, you gain only the top card of the face down shuffled pile. You must show it to the other players (turning it face up), so that they may see which Dread you just gained.
- For each player except for the first, use 10 Dreads, just like you would with Curses. So, in a 3-player game, the Dread pile has 20 Dreads mixed in, of which there are 2 copies of each Dread. In a 4-player game, shuffle 3 of each 10 Dreads into a face down pile of 30 Dreads.
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Once again, this set couldn’t have possibly come to be without the generous help of dedicated play testers, and the input of many altruistic community members. Their unconditional aid truly has been a blessing.
With that in mind, a big thank to play testers
Gubump,
LastFootnote,
MochaMoko and
HollowNub. Another shout out to
Hawke, my significant other. Hope I didn’t bore you too much with my insistence, girl!
Other thanks go to Discord members:
Kaplane,
Crlundy,
Mahowrath,
Shvegait,
Braydon,
Pokemonfan1937,
Shael,
S_Smart,
Unjer,
TheFunFighter,
Alion8me and
GarveyParvenu. If I forgot anyone, DM me about it, and I'll promptly rectify (and sorry)!
