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Dominion => Rules Questions => Topic started by: meshuggah42 on September 11, 2011, 04:54:17 pm

Title: Possession + Goons
Post by: meshuggah42 on September 11, 2011, 04:54:17 pm
If I possess my opponent, and I play a Goons from his hand, who gets the VP chips?
Title: Re: Possession + Goons
Post by: Matt_Arnold on September 11, 2011, 04:56:42 pm
Your opponent gets them.

He is playing his own Goons. You are forcing him to. Same with Bishop and Monument.
Title: Re: Possession + Goons
Post by: Matt_Arnold on September 11, 2011, 05:00:59 pm
Similarly, if you force him to play an attack, it targets you. He is playing everything, not you.
Title: Re: Possession + Goons
Post by: meshuggah42 on September 11, 2011, 06:01:57 pm
Thank you!
Title: Re: Possession + Goons
Post by: hughes on September 11, 2011, 09:16:59 pm
When possessing an opponent, it's super fun to play their possessions.  Your opponent will thank you for it!
Title: Re: Possession + Goons
Post by: biopower on September 11, 2011, 09:44:14 pm
When possessing an opponent, it's super fun to play their possessions.  Your opponent will thank you for it!

It's totally viable if your next hand was bad (e.g. $2 or less with no important actions).
Title: Re: Possession + Goons
Post by: DsnowMan on September 12, 2011, 09:08:09 am
Goons is a great anti-possession card. Maybe the best.
Title: Re: Possession + Goons
Post by: Jimmmmm on September 12, 2011, 09:26:57 pm
In my limited Possession experience, I'd say it's probably about on par with Golem. If they have a Possession or two and maybe one or two other cards you don't want to play, there's no way you're touching that Golem. Also great for finding your own Possessions.
Title: Re: Possession + Goons
Post by: Thisisnotasmile on September 13, 2011, 03:55:33 am
When my girlfriend got me Alchemy earlier this year for my birthday, we opened it up to have a game. I got a couple of Possessions and played one to show her how it works and she got annoyed that I had stolen her turn... as you do. A bit later on she had managed to get her own Possession to get me back. She Possessed me and played my Golem. 2 Possessions. Of course, I had many many other actions in my deck because I wasn't playing as seriously as I do online, and also it was an Alchemy game so there was always going to be actions anyway, so it probably wasn't very likely the Golem would hit a single Possession, let alone two.

After that Alchemy stayed on the shelf for a while.
Title: Re: Possession + Goons
Post by: Jimmmmm on September 13, 2011, 07:02:06 am
I think when playing in real life, Possession is much more fun to play, and much more aggravating when someone does it to you.