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[eHalcyon]

The last places without indigenous peoples were populated in the early portion of the first millennium CE.  I don't think non-inhabited lands exist in the Dominion universe.

Edit: which, presumably, explains the need to explore florst.

I'm just going by the definition of hinterlands:

an area or sphere of influence in the unoccupied interior claimed by the state possessing the coast.

I didn't mean to take this into RSP.  I guess I misinterpreted the word?  Eh.

[werothegreat]

The last places without indigenous peoples were populated in the early portion of the first millennium CE.  I don't think non-inhabited lands exist in the Dominion universe.

Edit: which, presumably, explains the need to explore florst.

I'm just going by the definition of hinterlands:

an area or sphere of influence in the unoccupied interior claimed by the state possessing the coast.

I didn't mean to take this into RSP.  I guess I misinterpreted the word?  Eh.

i.e. Bosnia with respect to Croatia.

EDIT: Joking, by the way.  Don't want to start an international incident here.

[jaketheyak]

I certainly didn't mean to suggest that I was offended.
I was just pointing out that the traditional Eurocentric definition of "unoccupied" has not historically aligned with the literal definition of the word.
Just some food for thought.

[sudgy]

Well great. Now we need a Trading Village...

Ooh!  Calling that name for Adventures.

[Donald X.]

Why was Walled Village chosen as the Village to be Ruined?  Same for Grand/Ruined Market.

I didn't pick; Jay must have wanted those artists or those particular cards to be ruined.

Ruined Market: A marketplace that's been recently ruined by barbarians and looters - not an ancient ruins. It would be cute to have it be recognizable as the ruined version of the previous cards Market or Grand Market. No people.

Ruined Village: A village that's been recently ruined by barbarians and looters - not an ancient ruins. It would be cute to have it be recognizable as the ruined version of an existing village card. No people.

[AJD]

The last places without indigenous peoples were populated in the early portion of the first millennium CE.

Not quite true. Some locations that were uninhabited until late 1st millennium, or later:

Iceland (8th or 9th century)
New Zealand (13th century)
Bermuda (17th century)
Tristan Da Cunha (19th century)

[Ozle]

Border Village is too far away for anybody to go after. 

Maybe my knowledge of the history of warfare is a little hazy, but I'm not sure that villages on a nation's border are less likely to be attacked.

Hmm.  I always pictured Border Village being way out on the border of unoccupied land rather than the border of another nation, probably because it's in the hinterlands.  But you make a good point.

But maybe the village is way out on the border and doesn't particularly care which nation wants to claim it; they're just there enjoying the trade.

As an Australian, the concept of settling in an "unoccupied land" is somewhat political.

You realise you are talking to Americans mostly....I think they already have their own history with this.....

Makes me glad us Tuvaluans are not territorial..... All those Naaru Islands have some sweet guano we are eyeing up...

[jaketheyak]

Border Village is too far away for anybody to go after. 

Maybe my knowledge of the history of warfare is a little hazy, but I'm not sure that villages on a nation's border are less likely to be attacked.

Hmm.  I always pictured Border Village being way out on the border of unoccupied land rather than the border of another nation, probably because it's in the hinterlands.  But you make a good point.

But maybe the village is way out on the border and doesn't particularly care which nation wants to claim it; they're just there enjoying the trade.

As an Australian, the concept of settling in an "unoccupied land" is somewhat political.

You realise you are talking to Americans mostly....I think they already have their own history with this.....

Makes me glad us Tuvaluans are not territorial..... All those Naaru Islands have some sweet guano we are eyeing up...

Well, the concept of Manifest Destiny was pretty arrogant, but I don't think it beats arriving at a continent full of people and literally declaring it uninhabited.

Not sure that a "we crapped on our native population more than you" contest has any real winners though.

[werothegreat]

Why was Walled Village chosen as the Village to be Ruined?  Same for Grand/Ruined Market.

I didn't pick; Jay must have wanted those artists or those particular cards to be ruined.

Ruined Market: A marketplace that's been recently ruined by barbarians and looters - not an ancient ruins. It would be cute to have it be recognizable as the ruined version of the previous cards Market or Grand Market. No people.

Ruined Village: A village that's been recently ruined by barbarians and looters - not an ancient ruins. It would be cute to have it be recognizable as the ruined version of an existing village card. No people.

Are there any other notes to artists that you think were particularly interesting, asking for specific imagery, etc?

[Marcory]

Makes me glad us Tuvaluans are not territorial..... All those Naaru Islands have some sweet guano we are eyeing up...

That's a batshit argument. Canoe believe what you're saying?

[pacovf]

Makes me glad us Tuvaluans are not territorial..... All those Naaru Islands have some sweet guano we are eyeing up...

That's a batshit argument. Canoe believe what you're saying?

Double boom!

[Ozle]

Makes me glad us Tuvaluans are not territorial..... All those Naaru Islands have some sweet guano we are eyeing up...

That's a batshit argument. Canoe believe what you're saying?

bOOM! for the first part, negative BOOM for the second. Tried to push it too far my friend.

[Donald X.]

Are there any other notes to artists that you think were particularly interesting, asking for specific imagery, etc?

I don't think those are so interesting either. In general I leave as much as possible up to the artist. The whole point to the notes is just that some early cards had the wrong thing illustrated. The image on Goons was submitted for Pawn; Steward showed a guy with a serving dish. Not everyone was going to know the terms and sometimes they're ambiguous. Not everyone was going to feel like doing any research. So I started typing up notes.

Treasures often say "no people" because some of the Prosperity ones showed people and I didn't like that as much. A few times I've pointed out things not to do like "no New World crops" or "no gore." Sometimes I've noted the frame color or that something is an attack; I stopped doing that eventually but probably should have kept it up. In rare cases there has been something special to communicate, like the Ruins being ruined versions of things, or the Hermit/Madman connection.

There is an opening paragraph that probably they all get, that notes that the game is medieval, and says the expansion theme. It says that buildings can be shown from inside or outside, that people can be non-European. I used to say could be male or female, then I added, we don't get many females and would like more. Even female artists mostly drew men. For Adventures I just specified male or female on all of the cards that were a person. There will be some women in this art.

[Seprix]

There will be some women in this art.

 

[DStu]

There will be some women in this art.

 

Wrong thread...

[Ozle]

Will this sets art also have the tiny meeple silhouettes in the background of some of them the same you told me about in Dark Ages?

[Donald X.]

Will this sets art also have the tiny meeple silhouettes in the background of some of them the same you told me about in Dark Ages?

In an effort to spice things up for what is after all the 9th expansion, most of the art this time around will be macramé. We initially tried origami, but it made the cards too hard to shuffle.

[theblankman]

Jacked this from another thread...

If the game had started out as an online game, I would have tried having non-VP piles be unlimited (and done whatever work on the ending condition that I'm not doing for a hypothetical).

You've said you'd prefer to do spinoffs over further expansions, and now the above, so would you ever consider doing an online-only spinoff to try physically impossible features?  Do you think "Dominion with online-only features" is far enough from the original to be a called a spinoff? 

[Donald X.]

You've said you'd prefer to do spinoffs over further expansions, and now the above, so would you ever consider doing an online-only spinoff to try physically impossible features?  Do you think "Dominion with online-only features" is far enough from the original to be a called a spinoff?

- I made Dominion on a weekend. We played it that Monday.
- I showed Dominion to RGG in June of 2007. It was published in October of 2008.
- My first contact with Funsockets (later called Goko) was October 2011. It's March 2015. The online version still isn't done.

Which is to say, board games are so much easier to get made than computer games. Man. I think I could do good things for some existing computer games. I have some ideas for new computer games. It never sounds fun to pursue them.

I'd consider doing physically impossible things in the online version. I probably won't ever make an online-only expansion, because an expansion that could also be sold irl would be a better project, but I might do a physically impossible promo. I've given it some thought.

For me it's more a question of keeping whatever spin-off close enough to Dominion to justify calling it a spin-off.

[werothegreat]

Maybe you have answered this, but i can't find it anywhere: When did you decide to add a ninth expansion, since guilds was supposed to be the last? And what happened that made making another dominion expansion seem like something you would want to do again? Not that i'm unhappy for another expansion. I just remember reading some statements in the past that indicated you were excited to move on from dominion to designing other games.

This will most likely be answered once Donald X. does the Secret History for Adventures.

[Donald X.]

Maybe you have answered this, but i can't find it anywhere: When did you decide to add a ninth expansion, since guilds was supposed to be the last? And what happened that made making another dominion expansion seem like something you would want to do again? Not that i'm unhappy for another expansion. I just remember reading some statements in the past that indicated you were excited to move on from dominion to designing other games.

I started working on Adventures last May. I decided to go through with it after the initial work seemed sufficiently promising.

What made me want to do another expansion was the combination of not having managed to make a spin-off yet (Kingdom Builder and Temporum both started out as Dominion spin-offs), and wanting a project to work on that I could immediately be getting stuff done on and feeling satisfied about.

[Kirian]

- I made Dominion on a weekend. We played it that Monday.

You are my hero.  This isn't intended as sarcasm.  That is totally awesome.

[werothegreat]

Will Adventures only get recommended kingdoms for Base and Intrigue, or will it get them for all the other sets?

[Donald X.]

Will Adventures only get recommended kingdoms for Base and Intrigue, or will it get them for all the other sets?

It has 'em all; 20 recommended sets total.

[Watno]

At what time will you post previews each day?
I assume you'll post them here and on BGG, where will you post first?