Some time ago, my family and I all enjoyed playing Settlers of Catan. After a while, we decided to get the Seafarers expansion, and that just made things funner. The Cities and Knights expansion, however, radically overcomplicated the game, and in a way, ruined it for us.
I'm a little worried about this happening for Dominion as well. At the moment, I've got the base game, Intrigue, and Cornucopia. Before buying Intrigue and Cornucopia, I looked over the card lists to make sure that nothing too game-warping was included. Cornucopia and Intrigue seemed to be the most "harmless."
I've caught "the bug", so to speak, and it seems that I may be buying another expansion soon. However, I'd like some input from the more experienced community. In particular,
Seaside: The duration cards seem like they might be interesting, but putting cards aside with cards like Island, Native Village, and other things that have to be kept track of like Pirate Ship or Embargo seem like a lot of extra rules.
Prosperity: I guess the real big change here is Platinum and Colony. I don't know about the victory point tokens either. It seems that one of the nice things about the game as I have it right now is that in order to get victory points you have to slow your deck down.
Alchemy: No. Just, no.
Hinterlands: Seems like it might be the most harmless of the four that I don't have, but maybe there's something I'm not seeing.
Maybe some of these concerns are overblown, but I don't know. The other thing that concerns me is that if I'm going to be purchasing a set with 25 cards in it, I want to be able to play and enjoy all of them, instead of setting certain ones aside (or at the very least, set aside as few as possible).
Thanks