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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Announcing Jack of all Dominion (android randomizer app)

« on: February 01, 2016, 10:55:17 am »

I also noticed Walled Village is actually Walled Laboratory.

Also, are you planning on adding Empires?

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Dominion: Empires Announced!

« on: January 31, 2016, 10:56:37 pm »

In Russia they had Base and Intrigue translated, but recently they stopped printing Intrigue..

In Russia, Intrigue translates YOU!!

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Super old quotes

« on: January 28, 2016, 02:45:00 pm »

I'm having trouble finding any practical use for Remodel. It seems I'm better off in any circumstance without buying it at all. I'm pretty sure I'm wrong, but I just can't come up with any situations where buying Remodel can be useful.

So did you ever figure out how to use it?

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Card Names in Search of a Card

« on: January 26, 2016, 05:57:22 pm »

Co0kieL0rd and i are currently working on a project that would enable things like this. Not sure whether a card that can only be bought during your opening is worth a full kingdom card slot, though.

And now, months later, I see what you were talking about.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Interview with Donald X.

« on: January 26, 2016, 05:32:05 pm »

I was reading the flavor text for the base game over dinner last night (as I do) and I noticed that it mentioned 3 of what would become card names in later expansions (Feodum, Minion, Treasury.) Was this in any way intentional? I ask especially for feodum because unlike the others it's a pretty obscure word.

I named Feodum that because it was in the first blurb (which predated it). The others weren't especially intentional; they were good as card names for the same reasons they were good as blurb details.

Does that mean we can look forward to names such as:

Fife, Freehold, Petty Lord, Banner and Anarchy?

I compiled a list of card names that need cards.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Interview with Donald X.

« on: January 26, 2016, 02:26:01 pm »

I was reading the flavor text for the base game over dinner last night (as I do) and I noticed that it mentioned 3 of what would become card names in later expansions (Feodum, Minion, Treasury.) Was this in any way intentional? I ask especially for feodum because unlike the others it's a pretty obscure word.

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Really bad card ideas

« on: January 20, 2016, 04:42:34 pm »

Should cost more and be an event.

This is the thread for really bad card ideas.

Technically, it's a comment in the thread for really bad card ideas.

Technically, it's a pipe.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: 5 Ways to Win Dominion

« on: January 15, 2016, 11:38:27 am »

The only way to win is not to play.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Fan Made Cards You Can Play With??

« on: January 14, 2016, 04:34:07 pm »

I found this place because someone sent me a link to some fan cards.

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Let's Discuss ... / Re: Let's Discuss Adventures Cards: Bridge Troll

« on: January 12, 2016, 03:49:44 pm »

When did Giant stop being your favorite card from Adventures?

It will be his favorite card again as soon as he flips over his Journey token.

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: You make the card: An F.DS community-created fan card! (Part 8)

« on: December 16, 2015, 09:25:06 am »

How about a discreet discrete diss Crete poll?

I feel honor-bound to tell you that I'm stealing that joke.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Throwing games

« on: December 13, 2015, 10:47:46 am »

I play exclusively IRL, so I'll never lose by misclicking.

I have, however, played suboptimally in games I had a strong chance of winning, for various reasons. Sometimes the game is taking longer than expected and I'll try to end the game on piles so I can do something else even if it costs me a win.

And then sometimes I'll try a high-risk strategy knowing there's a good chance I'd win with a less risky one, just to a) try something new and b) make sure my wife doesn't always lose or she'll stop playing with me.

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Slight card change ideas

« on: December 10, 2015, 03:24:06 pm »

Soothsayer:
Action/Attack - $5
Gain a Gold
Each other player gains a Curse. If he did, he takes a Coin token.

Reason: More on theme with Guilds

IMO to make it more on theme with Guilds you should be the one gaining coin token(s) in place of Gold. I actually started a thread once to ask how many tokens it should give; the consensus was "2" but I never playtested enough to be sure.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: JSH's True Art Rankings

« on: December 07, 2015, 12:44:09 pm »

Either jsh is still fighting the skeleton war or he just had an anatomy exam <.<

Doot doot.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: New Donald X. article / interview on game design

« on: November 24, 2015, 03:05:28 pm »

Makes me realize how many more mechanics Adventures added.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Summon: Promo Event card

« on: November 19, 2015, 11:20:50 am »

Probably some IRL groups will make the mistake of thinking they can do it, but I don't think it's ruining those games.

The great thing about IRL games is that you can houserule anything you want. And this is exactly the sort of thing I'd houserule.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Lowering piles

« on: November 06, 2015, 12:20:54 pm »

But in that case it probably would have been much safer for her to build more than to deplete the third pile. Given that you were able to overtake from the state of "10 curses in a deck", I suppose the board actually had enough components to continue building.

Why's that? I was able to recover not through my sheer brilliance but because she gave me the time to do it. A quick ending would have left her with 1 or 2 points (from estates she had not yet trashed) and me firmly in the negatives.

I mean there are other factors (she's my wife and playing Dominion is one of our favorite things, so making the game longer is worth it) but from a purely win or lose standpoint, she should have gone for the last pile.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Lowering piles

« on: November 06, 2015, 09:38:06 am »

So here's an anecdote about a RL game between 2 not-very-good players.

I don't remember everything on the board, but the most important cards for the purpose of this story were Familiar and Port. I decided to skip Familiar because it was the only Potion cost card out and there were a couple of trashers. Well, very quickly I found myself with 10 curses in my deck. And the Ports ran out because we're both a couple of Village Idiots.

At this point, I was just about screwed. All it would have taken to leave me with a negative score would have been to aggressively clear out one pile. But my opponent didn't do this - she focused on buying Provinces as usual. That gave me a chance to clean out my deck, build up an economy, and out-Province her. This is the most obvious case I can think of where my victory owed more to her decisions than to mine.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: 5 cost treasures

« on: November 01, 2015, 11:27:35 pm »

Hey, Mine has its uses.

Absolutely. I usually have a spare cheat at the end of Day 1 (after Mickey Mantle/mainstat) and cheating a Mine saves me a clover and/or pull for the Trapper.

Wait, wrong Mine. (Ctrl+F may be necessary.)

It's been so long. I understood half of that, and for the sanctity of my free time I don't think I want to understand the other half.

I haven't been able to donate for a while, but I spent like a month farming to buy it for the Dominion references alone.

(And I knew I'd seen that username before . . . )

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: 5 cost treasures

« on: November 01, 2015, 10:10:22 am »

Hey, Mine has its uses.

Absolutely. I usually have a spare cheat at the end of Day 1 (after Mickey Mantle/mainstat) and cheating a Mine saves me a clover and/or pull for the Trapper.

Wait, wrong Mine. (Ctrl+F may be necessary.)

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General Discussion / Re: Let's count each other!!!!

« on: October 29, 2015, 09:20:39 am »

XXX

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: JSH's True Art Rankings

« on: October 26, 2015, 08:00:01 am »

The Philosopher's Stone isn't a stone. It's a substance, typically imagined in powder form (as here).

Philosophers are really bad at naming things.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Mystic/Stash/X

« on: October 22, 2015, 10:03:26 am »

Or just take a marker and write "Stash" on the back of all of them or something.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: New Polish version has badass box art

« on: October 16, 2015, 01:56:27 pm »

Are shiny beige rooms common in Poland?

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: hasn't ranking the cards just been a goddamn blast

« on: October 15, 2015, 11:49:15 am »

23. Borrow - It's a marginal benefit that causes you to have a marginal detriment next turn. Seems pretty mediocre at best.

It won't do much for you most of the time, but every once in a while a marginal increase in coins can be worth a lot.