Dominion Strategy Forum
Dominion => Dominion General Discussion => Topic started by: Aquila on May 16, 2020, 05:55:28 pm
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Over on the Variants forum we have a weekly contest to design fan cards, and I thought we could easily have just the same for designing really interesting kingdoms (of official cards). Dominion is that big and expansive now that it could be fun.
So how it would work: each week, somebody thinks of a central theme or concept they want to see in a kingdom, then others try to design a kingdom to fit the brief. Then the contest setter judges each kingdom design and chooses a winner, and that winner gets to pick the brief and judge for next week. Time rules aren't rigid, of course, because life.
The spirit wouldn't primarily be about winning weeks, but to come up with games that people look at and want to go and play at their next games evening/online/etc.
Would this be interesting? Would it help to create more fun Dominion? Is it already done somewhere, like on Discord (I'm not on there)? Or is there a better format?
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the reddit does a Kingdom of the Week but i think thats more moderator curated than anything
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I really like this idea. It'd give me loads of ideas for kingdoms for my solitaire Dominion games.
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This does seem like an interesting contest as well as a good way to save up interesting kingdoms for those who do IRL kingdoms.
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Two ideas for themes:
- Several Victory cards and / or interaction with victory cards.
- Minimum 3 bad cards that could win! A kingdom that values several bad cards (stash, Transmute, Harvest, Bureaucrat, loan ... etc).
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Nice to see the initial interest, but I feel there could be more. I've made a week-long poll, please fill it in even if you're not interested.
Thanks
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My guess is that you would have much better luck with this on the discord, because, well, there's people there.
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My guess is that you would have much better luck with this on the discord, because, well, there's people there.
Maybe I'm too old fashioned, but I still didn't get used to Discord. Since it's not divided by subtopics for each specific discussion, it looks like a mess to me, I am not able to follow each reasoning.
Or is there something I'm missing about how to use it?
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Or is there something I'm missing about how to use it?
It's exactly like IRC but worse.
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Option 5: I'd participate if using fan cards is allowed in the kingdoms. (which I know it probably won't be)
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So the results of the poll show a lot of people said maybe, and I was one of those. I thought some more, and wondered if the format couldn't be better for this. Quite often somebody could post a brief and it would be like solving a puzzle. Once somebody posts a sound answer, it's either great in itself or others suggest small tweaks to it. So leaving a whole week would be quite boring.
So maybe all it would take is a thread where people post briefs and answers to them on a free basis, and then either on the first post or on another thread a list of the kingdoms could be put up for easy reference.
Option 5: I'd participate if using fan cards is allowed in the kingdoms. (which I know it probably won't be)
Could start a similar thread on the variants forum for this.
Is this better?