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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Any Gossip About Fall 2011 Expansion?
« on: August 08, 2011, 04:19:14 pm »
From Wikipedia:
"Hinterland" was borrowed from German, where it means literally the land behind (a city, a port or similar),[1] with the English cognate hind land.[2] In English, the term was first used in 1888 by George Chisholm in his work Handbook of Commercial Geography.[3] In German this word sometimes also describes the part of a country where only a few people live and where the infrastructure is underdeveloped; although "Provinz" (equal to "province") is more common. The direct analogy in English is "back country" or "the countryside". See also The Bush of Alaskan and The Outback of Australian usage.
"Hinterland" means a rural area surrounding the urban catchment of large cities or agglomerations. It is characterized by a less dense population and infrastructure. In shipping usage, a port's hinterland is the area that it serves, both for imports and for exports. The size of a hinterland can depend on geography, but also on the ease, speed, and cost of transportation between the port and the hinterland.[4]
Wild speculation time:
- This set will be, in some ways, the opposite of Prosperity (as previously speculated by Davio). It's about people leaving the hustle and bustle of city life to strike out into harsh new territory. Resources will be scarce, and people will have to make the best of what little they have. Estates and coppers will rise in value in the Hinterlands.
- There will be cards that punish 'city slickers', as in high costing cards. Something like Saboteur, but hopefully much, much, much better.
- There will be a card called 'Fur Trapper'. Because there's always plenty of cash to be made from slaughtering newfound species!
I was hoping for something that made cursing your opponents dangerous, such as a VP card that gives you 1 VP per 2 curses in your deck, or maybe allows you to discard curses for monetary benefit (better than Vault/Secret Chamber), but Hinterlands doesn't strike me as the right fit from a flavour perspective. Of course, I could be way off track.... which is dangerous in the HINTERLANDS!
"Hinterland" was borrowed from German, where it means literally the land behind (a city, a port or similar),[1] with the English cognate hind land.[2] In English, the term was first used in 1888 by George Chisholm in his work Handbook of Commercial Geography.[3] In German this word sometimes also describes the part of a country where only a few people live and where the infrastructure is underdeveloped; although "Provinz" (equal to "province") is more common. The direct analogy in English is "back country" or "the countryside". See also The Bush of Alaskan and The Outback of Australian usage.
"Hinterland" means a rural area surrounding the urban catchment of large cities or agglomerations. It is characterized by a less dense population and infrastructure. In shipping usage, a port's hinterland is the area that it serves, both for imports and for exports. The size of a hinterland can depend on geography, but also on the ease, speed, and cost of transportation between the port and the hinterland.[4]
Wild speculation time:
- This set will be, in some ways, the opposite of Prosperity (as previously speculated by Davio). It's about people leaving the hustle and bustle of city life to strike out into harsh new territory. Resources will be scarce, and people will have to make the best of what little they have. Estates and coppers will rise in value in the Hinterlands.
- There will be cards that punish 'city slickers', as in high costing cards. Something like Saboteur, but hopefully much, much, much better.
- There will be a card called 'Fur Trapper'. Because there's always plenty of cash to be made from slaughtering newfound species!
I was hoping for something that made cursing your opponents dangerous, such as a VP card that gives you 1 VP per 2 curses in your deck, or maybe allows you to discard curses for monetary benefit (better than Vault/Secret Chamber), but Hinterlands doesn't strike me as the right fit from a flavour perspective. Of course, I could be way off track.... which is dangerous in the HINTERLANDS!
