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

« on: October 14, 2015, 04:20:25 pm »

And Travelling Fair still costs $6.

Other than that, pretty neat. I don't often use random kingdoms but if I do this would be the best way to get them.

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

« on: October 03, 2015, 02:05:45 pm »

I've always had mixed feelings towards Treasury. On the one hand the perspective is weird as all get out; on the other it's very distinct and fits the card name very well. Plus Treasury has been one of my favorite cards from the beginning.

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Really bad card ideas

« on: September 14, 2015, 11:49:26 am »

Blue Balls Seven - $7
Treasure
When you play this card, if you have exactly $7 in play, $1. Otherwise, while this is in play, your $ is set to $7, regardless of all other modifiers.

...For humor's sake, how does playing two of these cards resolve?

I think since the first one is still in play, you get your $8, but it immediately becomes $7.  But if you Procession it, I'm not so sure.  I guess it would constantly check itself to see whether it's in play, so it would check before Procession had a chance to trash it.

The real thing to do is to spam +buys, though.  Nothing fancy - just Market Square or maybe some Squires and/or Goons.

You mean Counterfeit?

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Promo Event card in Germany

« on: September 11, 2015, 12:51:17 pm »

The artist drew a sketch of a wizard in a forest shooting out a stream of butterflies. I said looks good. Then he did another sketch, the woman in that place, conjuring the weird thing from Transmogrify. I said well it's fine but I also liked the first sketch. Then he did a polished version. I said well the weird thing is weird and mentioned the butterflies again. He replaced it with a butterfly.

I assumed it was "summon" as in "the king summons you" not "summon" as in "Summon Greater Fish." Now that you mention it the card art makes more sense.

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

« on: September 05, 2015, 10:45:50 pm »

Can we get an official ruling on the gender of the person in the red robe in the middle of the card?

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: What cards are still unique?

« on: September 03, 2015, 10:43:53 am »

Apprentice is the only card that cares about the Potion cost of a card.

I know this was posted pre-Guilds, so it wouldn't take Stonemason into account, but don't cards like Remodel, etc. also factor in Potion cost?

That said, I don't know of any other cards that do something slightly different for the Potion cost of a card, nor specify in the card text.

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

« on: August 24, 2015, 09:07:18 pm »

I noticed that the flavor text for each expansion mentions some card names, but also gives us the name of several other potential cards, and I want to see the top minds of f.ds make them happen.

Dominion:
River
Evergreen
Fief
Freehold
Petty Lord
Building

Intrigue:
Secret Plot
Codebook

Seaside:
Tall Ship
Rat-infested Ship
Merchant-infested Port

Alchemy:
Quicksilver
Universal Solvent

Prosperity:
Straw Hat
Life-sized Statue made of Baklava

Cornucopia:
Roast Hay
Nose-stealing Competition

Hinterlands:
Moderate-sized Kingdom
That Look Two People Give Each Other When They Each Hope That the Other Will Do Something That They Both Want Done but Which Neither of Them Wants to Do (TLTPGEOWTEHTTOWDSTTBWDBWNOTWTD)

Dark Ages:
Luxurious Ravine
Barbarians
Plague
Illiteracy

Guilds:
Ironic Tiller
Shoemaker
Cheesemaker
Cheese Destroyer

Adventures:
Giant Bees
Land of Eggs and Licorice
Loyal Jungle
Distressed Damsel

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Why don't we usually play with Colonies?

« on: August 13, 2015, 09:21:10 pm »

So I play 2P RL games with my wife, and we take turns choosing the kingdom. Whether to use Plats and Colonies or not, and whether to use estates or shelters to start, is just one of the decisions made by the person choosing the kingdom cards. I think we end up in a lobster/steak situation because we pull them out maybe 1/10 of the time. I mean, it was awesome that one game when I had $33 and 3 buys and there were 3 colonies left in the supply, but every game being like that would be tedious.

tl;dr do whatever you want. It's fun!

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Literal Q&A about Dominion

« on: August 07, 2015, 03:05:02 pm »

You gain the thing that the Border Village borders.

Why, literally, does it take a potion to buy a vineyard?

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: I taught 2 people to play Dominion today

« on: July 18, 2015, 12:40:00 pm »

I've taught a bunch of people - but I only recently got the original game, so only once have I played with the "first game" kingdom.

Next time I want to be much more specific in the whole "you get 1 action, you show all your treasures when you are in your buy phase, etc." aspect. My stepmother-in-law still has a tendency to put all her actions down at once and let us be the ones to tell her what order to play them in.

(Of course, the last game we played, she opened Squire/Duchy and won so I dunno.)

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Literal Q&A about Dominion

« on: July 15, 2015, 09:55:05 am »

The farmland is so rich and fertile that everything you plant will grow as something better, even rats.

Why, literally, are peddlers cheaper the more actions you have in play?

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Literal Q&A about Dominion

« on: July 12, 2015, 03:39:30 pm »

You know how cats sometimes bring you dead animals as a "gift?" Well, rats are sort of the opposite; when they die, they present their own corpse as a present.

Why do Mined cards go into your hand, literally?

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: What are the Worst Dominion Games you've played?

« on: July 09, 2015, 02:32:28 pm »

I played a IRL 3P game once that was no fun - I don't really remember the details except that the only trasher was Spice Merchant and there were no villages. Other than that even a bad game of Dominion beats anything else I play.

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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Storytelling with Cards

« on: July 01, 2015, 02:51:09 pm »

Genre: TV Show
Hint: Each roman numeral is a season

Storyteller:
i. Curse/Estate
ii. Madman
iii. Young Witch
iv. Jester/Caravan
v. Inn

American Horror Story?

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Letting a computer program make cards

« on: June 17, 2015, 02:00:34 pm »

I've been reading all these card names in Homsar's voice.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Favorite cards, and why

« on: June 10, 2015, 02:16:17 pm »

The problem I have with fortress is that somtimes you use it only for the on-trash effect, sometimes only for the village… not as often both. So overall, it feels like a "patchwork" for me.

Well, the Bishop/Fortress combo requires it to be both.

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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Storytelling with Cards

« on: June 09, 2015, 04:26:28 pm »

The Masque of the Red Death?

Yeah.

So I wasn't TOO far off I guess . . .

Here's a whacky one

The Hobbit.

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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Storytelling with Cards

« on: June 06, 2015, 10:51:01 am »

King's Court, Masquerade, Goons.

Hop-Frog?

1. Miser/Ghost Ship/Ghost Ship/Ghost Ship/Alms

There were 4 ghost ships, remember? One came to introduce the other 3.

4. Goons/Treasure Map/Adventurer
Counterfeit
Explorer/Tunnel/Wishing Well
Treasure Trove

Goonies.

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Master of Disguise

« on: May 30, 2015, 03:38:49 pm »

It would be a pain to keep track of IRL, but potentially interesting.

Would it be an Action/Treasure type?

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Dominion: Adventures Previews / Re: Traveller backstories

« on: May 12, 2015, 02:25:52 pm »

And Urchin/Mercenary.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Homage to the Best Card

« on: May 07, 2015, 07:37:17 pm »

Sorry, I just . . . it was a bit much.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Interview with Donald X.

« on: May 07, 2015, 04:56:29 pm »

Do you think there's any chance you would sell a pack of just blank cards (so people could make a whole kingdom out of their own fan cards, or whatever)?

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Should I buy Adventures now, or wait for the reprint?

« on: May 07, 2015, 02:49:02 pm »

If I intentionally try bending my sleeved cards, I can notice the difference; but during the course of normal gameplay I don't handle my cards in a way that would make it at all obvious.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Homage to the Best Card

« on: May 07, 2015, 02:40:32 pm »

 . . . at any rate, while Oracle, Fortune Teller, and Soothsayer are attack cards, they aren't necessarily negative references.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Trading Post

« on: May 02, 2015, 12:53:59 pm »

Maybe his wife caught cold and for the first time in his life he goes for groceries. Naturally, the guy feels a bit nervous about it.

As much as I want to believe this, I sense malicious intent by the way he is holding his sword. Envoy looks the most like a guy sent grocery shopping for the first time. He even has the grocery list with him.

He also looks really, really confused by it.

"What the . . . feminine hygiene products?"