Count me in. Thank you.
I'm sure Hasbro Scrabble has rebuilt a community by now, but it's not the same people.
I'd bet not. People play Words With Friends instead because Zynga's clone works better than Hasbro's correct version ever did. And we know how people around here love clones.QuoteThe parallels are uncanny. If this train wreck continues, I probably won't see most of you in a game again and it won't even be my conscious decision.
I'll admit I'd forgotten about the Scrabulous debacle, but yeah. It's missing the lawsuits, thankfully.QuoteThere's still time to label the GenCon release as a public beta
/crosses fingers
A friend of mine once tried to rationalize the Chapel's trashing ability as representing "atoning for your sins," this makes sense with the Bishop too, if it represents confessing to a Bishop (this is an idea found in Catholic, Orthodox, and several protestant branches of Christianity). Not that the game has any hidden religious message or anything like that!Given that this is a medieval theme, perhaps the Bishop is selling indulgences?
On Funagain's storefront on Amazon, it says that DA will be available August 17th. I pre-ordered from there but I don't know exactly how that works when it's released everywhere else on September 1st.
http://www.amazon.com/Rio-Grande-Games-Dominion-Dark/dp/B0088W8Z5O/ref=lh_ni_t
Hmmm... my first thought was that BM+X is even stronger with these three cards in your starting deck. 2 Smithies + money is marginally faster thanks to Necropolis, and Hovel can be moved out of the way when you ghit that first province, so that the first province doesn't damage your deck.
This is significant to me, as it means that if BM+X is stronger, then a lot of the funky combos we've been talking about on other previews are going to be edged out, by sheer fact of relative lack of tempo.
Then there's the whole develop/remake thing. Now we've got $1 cards instead of $2 cards, any opening based on trash for benefit / remaking are going to be weaker.
So actually, I'm not convinced that these three cards instead of estate encourage engines. Instead, they up the power of Dominion's most basic winning strategy: BM+X.
I don't think I'm getting something about the colors in general.Is anyone else freaking out that Necropolis should be red on the top and not the bottom, to match the other two? Maybe I need to get my OCD checked...
Yes. I'm telling myself it won't be as bad when I'm actually playing, rather than seeing them all right next to each other like that, but I don't think I'm convincing myself.
Shelters appear to be orange, like durations.
Ruins appear to be brown.
But Shelters that are Action-Shelter are white/orange, whereas Ruins that are Action-Ruins are all-brown.
I know Donald has said that coloring is used to alert you when you're holding your hand that you might want to do something (ie reveal a reaction card). Can someone help me out on why Ruined Market shouldn't be brown/white, or Necropolis only orange?
Is anyone else freaking out that Necropolis should be red on the top and not the bottom, to match the other two? Maybe I need to get my OCD checked...
Yes. I'm telling myself it won't be as bad when I'm actually playing, rather than seeing them all right next to each other like that, but I don't think I'm convincing myself.
Harvest is pretty sweet now. Never would have guessed it could become a decent opener (shuffle dependent).
That's true. Opening Harvest on 5/2 might be pretty cool.
And be prepared for a rage-quit when someone draws on his third turn: Harvest, $2 buy, Necropolis, Overgrown Estate, and Hovel.
Okay, maybe not that bad.
Okay, so this is supposed to be like Col/Plat in that you only play with it with a probability of N/10, but I wouldn't mind always playing with them!
Unfortunately, it also introduces some extra early game variance.
We've accepted the 5/2 vs 4/3 start and we can even enforce same starts on Iso, but I could see how it would matter even more with Shelters.
Same start Shelters?
Also: OPEN MENAGERIE!!!
I feel a little underwhelmed, though.
Hell, I can leave my Estates, Colonies, Platinum, and Potions at home.
Estates will still be in the game, just not in your starting hand. Don't leave them behind just yet.
And can someone remind me what the Platinum/Colony rule is? I've never played it IRL.
I believe it was Wandering Winder in yesterday's preview forum that mentioned that this expansion is shaping up to be much more tactical than previous expansions. And just think, we have only seen 9 of the 35 kingdom cards so far. And we are still yet to see Shelters and the upgrade card. If these few cards are changing our whole approach to the game, what else does Donald have up his sleeve? Whatever it is, it is going to be great!
50 are Ruins. It's likely that these too have randomizer cards, just as every other supply pile in the game.
I don't remember from other sets, but do blank cards count towards the total?
But the ruins do partially explain why we need 500 cards for only 35 kingdom cards. Still 100 MIA, though.Well, some of those 100 are victory cards, which get 12 instead of 10.
Well even if the other 30 kingdom cards are all victory types, we are still missing a ton.
Which is what I think ties into the idea of cards being gained only through other cards - I think there are piles of 10 cards (or some other number) that, like prizes, are not part of the kingdom, but can be gained byt specific in-game actions; trash a squire, gain a knight; trash a knight, gain a crusader, etc - knights and crusaders cannot be bought and would have a price (0?) that excludes them or includes them, at Donald's perogative, in grave-robber-like actions.
ninja'ed by Jonts. oh well.
So there's two interpretations of "upgrading", and we seem to be focusing on one of them—i.e., effects like the card Upgrade (or Remodel or whatever), where you trash a card and gain a better card. Another possibility is that "upgrading" refers to cards that get better themselves, rather than being trashed and replaced by new cards. In existing sets there are already City, Trade Route, and Pirate Ship as cards that get "upgraded" in this sense.
I'm thinking more on the lines of Feast, but with specific upgrade paths, i.e. buy A from supply, trash it to get B* (not in supply), trash that to get C* (not in supply). The description did mention many cards that "you can only get via specific other cards".
Olneyce, your tips on Throne Room are great, and could be the beginning of an article. But I'm confused about this:The second situation can really suck, and comes up more often than you might think (though still not very often). And it can be any drawer, not just a terminal one. Yes, if it's non-terminal, you can always throne separately. But if you have sufficient terminals in your deck... you may want the extra actions that throning throne provides you.The fact that Throne Room autoplays is one other reason that it's worse than King's Court. That doesn't matter all that often, but it can be a real killer sometimes.
I know that KC says I "may" choose an action, while TR forces me to, but I wouldn't normally play Throne Room unless I wanted to choose an action. I can only think of two cases where that would matter. I can imagine playing Golem, revealing a Throne Room and something else, and only having a Trader (or another mandatory trasher) and good cards in my hand. That would have to be be pretty rare, I'd imagine, and would be no riskier than the direct danger of revealing the Trader with my Golem.
The other situation I can imagine is having 2 Throne Rooms and a terminal drawer in my hand. Simply throning the drawer would get me extra cards, but no way to play the actions I draw. Throning the TR and then choosing the drawer would allow me to draw and then play (twice) any action I draw... but would also require me to play it (twice). This could lead to an amusing Ambassadorial disaster, for instance. Is this the sort of situation you meant?
But then, would it be weird for a card to refer to another card that might not be in the game?Apprentice refers to Potions.
Yes, I'm referring to the Star Wars CCG released by Decipher. Lord of the Rings TCG was also what I was referring to. I have not played SWCCG since 2006, the game just got too big in scope for me to keep up with. I still visit the PC forums though, as "Nitsuj"
I find that dominion is a very popular game amongst the SWCCG crowd. In fact, there are a lot of isotropic players that are still current SWCCG players - its cool to run into them in the lobby.
You can play LOTR online now, it looks pretty slick, and may fill the hole I'm gaining with Isotropic's pending shut-down.
http://www.gempukku.com/gemp-lotr
