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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3200 on: July 12, 2016, 01:23:44 pm »
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Do you give any thought to the alphabetic distribution of cards in sets?  For example, Empires has 7 piles beginning with C, and 2/3 of its cards in the first half of the alphabet.  Cornucopia has most of the set beginning with F and H.
I do not give that any thought at all.

You expect us to believe that it's just a coincidence that no cards start with the letter X? Admit it, you're ex-ist.
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3201 on: July 12, 2016, 01:31:17 pm »
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Do you give any thought to the alphabetic distribution of cards in sets?  For example, Empires has 7 piles beginning with C, and 2/3 of its cards in the first half of the alphabet.  Cornucopia has most of the set beginning with F and H.
I do not give that any thought at all.

You expect us to believe that it's just a coincidence that no cards start with the letter X? Admit it, you're ex-ist.
Yes.  That's why he's called Donald Middle-Name-Omitted Vaccarino.
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3202 on: July 12, 2016, 01:48:00 pm »
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So I taught this to someone recently who really loved it (and she's not a gamer). She wanted to know if there was a Dragon card or something similar. I said that you tend to keep it within reality and not fantasy, but she pointed out Witch. And then there's also Scrying Pool, Transmute, Transmogrify... a few things that are more fantasy than reality. So my question is, would Dragon be the type of thing that could exist on a card, or does that seem outside of the theme for you?

Donald did Giant. I don't see why Dragon wouldn't be unreasonable.
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3203 on: July 12, 2016, 01:55:52 pm »
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So I taught this to someone recently who really loved it (and she's not a gamer). She wanted to know if there was a Dragon card or something similar. I said that you tend to keep it within reality and not fantasy, but she pointed out Witch. And then there's also Scrying Pool, Transmute, Transmogrify... a few things that are more fantasy than reality. So my question is, would Dragon be the type of thing that could exist on a card, or does that seem outside of the theme for you?

Donald did Giant. I don't see why Dragon wouldn't be unreasonable.

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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3204 on: July 12, 2016, 02:08:37 pm »
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Dragon
Action – Attack
Cost: $7
+$2 or gain a Gold.
You may reveal a Gold from your hand. If you do, each other player with 5 or more cards in hand reveals them and discards a card that you choose.

Clearly Dragon should be a $7 because Dragons like Hoards and Hoard is in Prosperity.  ;)

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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3205 on: July 12, 2016, 04:08:49 pm »
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So I taught this to someone recently who really loved it (and she's not a gamer). She wanted to know if there was a Dragon card or something similar. I said that you tend to keep it within reality and not fantasy, but she pointed out Witch. And then there's also Scrying Pool, Transmute, Transmogrify... a few things that are more fantasy than reality. So my question is, would Dragon be the type of thing that could exist on a card, or does that seem outside of the theme for you?

Donald did Giant. I don't see why Dragon wouldn't be unreasonable.

Everybody knows that dragons are extinct. Don't believe the rumours of dragons returned!

That's why Seprix totally intentionally said that he felt Dragons were unreasonable.
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3206 on: July 12, 2016, 04:21:16 pm »
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So I taught this to someone recently who really loved it (and she's not a gamer). She wanted to know if there was a Dragon card or something similar. I said that you tend to keep it within reality and not fantasy, but she pointed out Witch. And then there's also Scrying Pool, Transmute, Transmogrify... a few things that are more fantasy than reality. So my question is, would Dragon be the type of thing that could exist on a card, or does that seem outside of the theme for you?
It would need to be in a set that leaned in that direction theme-wise, like Alchemy and Adventures do. For most sets the idea is just to have a hint of fantasy. Adventures would have been a good place, but I still felt like, how far do I want to go here.
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3207 on: July 13, 2016, 02:46:45 am »
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Did you consider a card shaped thingy that was both an event and a landmark?
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3208 on: July 13, 2016, 06:17:35 am »
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Did you consider a card shaped thingy that was both an event and a landmark?
I did not.

I am not really seeing it. I already have Events that give out VP tokens; that seems like the good simple version of combining the concepts. It's not like I wanted to try to cram two words onto that diagonal bar either.
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3209 on: July 13, 2016, 09:16:21 pm »
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how much was the starting deck with three estates influenced by the three estates
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3210 on: July 13, 2016, 09:18:22 pm »
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how much was the starting deck with three estates influenced by the three estates
Zero. The starting deck existed before the VP cards had names.
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3211 on: July 14, 2016, 03:55:15 am »
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The question posed backwards ("how much was the choice of name for Estate influenced by the fact that there are three of them") would still hold some validity given your response but as estate as a plot of land and estate as a rank in society are completely different matters it would be a bad pun so I guess the answer would still be "zero".
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3212 on: July 14, 2016, 04:01:55 am »
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The question posed backwards ("how much was the choice of name for Estate influenced by the fact that there are three of them") would still hold some validity given your response but as estate as a plot of land and estate as a rank in society are completely different matters it would be a bad pun so I guess the answer would still be "zero".
It is still zero. A bad pun doesn't rule out a card name though; it's Baron because he's a real estate baron.
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3213 on: July 14, 2016, 03:00:07 pm »
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The question posed backwards ("how much was the choice of name for Estate influenced by the fact that there are three of them") would still hold some validity given your response but as estate as a plot of land and estate as a rank in society are completely different matters it would be a bad pun so I guess the answer would still be "zero".
It is still zero. A bad pun doesn't rule out a card name though; it's Baron because he's a real estate baron.

And Bridge Troll was kind of a pun too, right? It's like a Bridge but it trolls your opponent.
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3214 on: July 14, 2016, 04:48:10 pm »
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The question posed backwards ("how much was the choice of name for Estate influenced by the fact that there are three of them") would still hold some validity given your response but as estate as a plot of land and estate as a rank in society are completely different matters it would be a bad pun so I guess the answer would still be "zero".
It is still zero. A bad pun doesn't rule out a card name though; it's Baron because he's a real estate baron.

And Bridge Troll was kind of a pun too, right? It's like a Bridge but it trolls your opponent.
"Bridge" there is a reference to Bridge, but "Troll" isn't a reference to trolling (although trolling is a reference to trolls).
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3215 on: July 14, 2016, 05:08:11 pm »
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3216 on: July 14, 2016, 09:13:15 pm »
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Actually, trolling is a reference to fishing!
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3217 on: July 15, 2016, 10:44:15 am »
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Also, Duchy must clearly be a foreshadowing of the eventual bad translation into the language of the Netherlands.
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3218 on: July 15, 2016, 10:51:40 am »
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Also, Duchy must clearly be a foreshadowing of the eventual bad translation into the language of the Netherlands.

And how do you call this mysterious language of yonder Netherlands?
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3219 on: July 15, 2016, 10:55:24 am »
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3220 on: July 16, 2016, 09:38:26 am »
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Arter Adventures, you made a promo event. Enpires is out now. Do you plan to follow a similar pattern and make a promo landmark?
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3221 on: July 16, 2016, 12:54:54 pm »
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Also, Duchy must clearly be a foreshadowing of the eventual bad translation into the language of the Netherlands.

What would you say the translation should have been?
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« Reply #3222 on: July 16, 2016, 01:22:34 pm »
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Arter Adventures, you made a promo event. Enpires is out now. Do you plan to follow a similar pattern and make a promo landmark?
That's not the kind of question I answer, unless this counts.
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3223 on: July 16, 2016, 01:31:20 pm »
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Would you consider creating a digital expansion that is gradually gainable by going outside to hunt for cards via an augmented reality app?
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« Reply #3224 on: July 16, 2016, 02:16:03 pm »
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Assuming, for the sake of argument, that you do keep making expansions at, say, one per year: how long before I get to see a card called "Squirt"?
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