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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Dominion: Sorcery

« on: July 17, 2024, 04:32:14 am »

I'm somewhat confused about how Spells currently work. My best guesses are:

1. If the Kingdom contains any card that mentions preparing Spells, then Invoke will be added to the starting decks and 3 random Spells will be included (not in the Supply).
2. Preparing a Spell requires playing an Action that tells you to do so and involves moving a token to the Spell.
3. Casting the Spell requires (..no idea..) and probably involves removing the token and performing the Spell action.

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Weekly Design Contest / Re: Weekly Design Contest #222: Take Five

« on: June 26, 2024, 08:41:33 am »

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Extra shift (5 Debt - Event)
Once per turn: +5 Cards, +1 Action, +1 Buy,
reveal your hand, discard the Treasures, and
return to your Action phase.

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Dominion: Agraria

« on: June 23, 2024, 11:35:34 am »

Couple of Ally card phrasing comments:

Border Kingdom isn't quite grammatical ("2 or more Favors than every other player" logically means "either 2 Favors or more Favors than every other player", not "2 or more Favors more than every other player"). Here's a suggested rephrasing: "At the end of your turn, if you have at least 2 Favors more than every other player, +1VP. If you have at least 5 more, +1VP."

Brigands: do you want to allow spending no Favors to gain a Copper and/or a Curse? If not, rephrase as "at least one Favor".

Similarly, League of Porters currently lets you discard a card without spending any Favors. If you want to prevent that, you could rephrase as "At the end of your Buy phase, you may spend at least one Favor to discard a card. If you did, Exile that many cards from your hand".

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Dominion: Agraria

« on: June 18, 2024, 11:08:51 am »

This looks like a lovely expansion!

Minor typo in the docs (I think): there are 33 traits (not 32), and 85 total landscape cards (not 82).

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Weekly Design Contest / Re: Weekly Design Contest #221: I Am Forever in Your Debt

« on: June 16, 2024, 05:16:50 am »

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Royal Engineer (1 Debt - Event)
Gain a card costing up to $5. Take 1 Debt per $1 it costs.

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Weekly Design Contest / Re: Weekly Design Contest #209: Next Time, Last Time

« on: January 20, 2024, 01:21:58 pm »

Werewolf only counts because the word "wolf" is in it.

Do Fisherman and Falconer count because they have "fish" and "falcon"?

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Weekly Design Contest / Re: Weekly Design Contest #204: Count up!

« on: November 12, 2023, 01:24:14 pm »

should have Doom type.

Oops! I originally had it giving out Curses but then changed it to be more like Vampire. Fixed now, thanks.

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Weekly Design Contest / Re: Weekly Design Contest #204: Count up!

« on: November 11, 2023, 04:34:44 pm »

Apologies for the pun.

Dracula ($5 Night-Attack-Doom)

You may trash a card from your hand to gain a Spirit or Dracula costing up to $1 per Action card you have in play.

Each other player either reveals a Silver from their hand or receives the next Hex.

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Wonders (new landscape type)

« on: November 06, 2023, 04:55:13 am »

Pentagon seems too cheap for its strength or to strong for its price

You may be right, though it does still cost you a missed Province and two more engine buys. Perhaps I'll playtest it at $4 $6 $8 first and see how it goes.

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Wonders (new landscape type)

« on: November 06, 2023, 04:53:15 am »

United Nations seems too expensive relative to Citadel.

Do you think so? It feels way stronger than Citadel to me. Not only does it not depend on what it's in your hand at the start of turn, it lets you play expensive cards you didn't buy: a $5 or even a $7 like King's Court. And you can change what you play with it depending on your hand and as the game progresses.

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Variants and Fan Cards / Wonders (new landscape type)

« on: November 05, 2023, 10:28:41 am »

Another landscape idea that I'm trying to suss out. Inspired by Through the Ages as well as this previous post by Tables.

WONDERS are super-projects that must be built in stages. Each wonder has multiple stage costs listed, and these must be bought in order. Each stage purchase requires a Buy, and multiple stages can be bought in the same turn using multiple Buys or split across turns. The project effect is activated only once the last stage is built. You can use the project cube to track which stage you're on. Like projects, multiple people can build the same wonder.

Below are a few draft examples, though still untested and the prices may be way off. Mainly curious as to what people think about the general idea. Is it intrinsically flawed, or can it be made to work?

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Rules Questions / Re: Innovating a Duration during Donate

« on: November 04, 2023, 11:31:00 am »

The Cabin Boy effect is still being set up at the start of your turn (even if it happens "first") so will not trigger until your next turn as the card states.

Guide on the other hand will trigger the same turn, as it just says "at the start of your turn" not "at the start of your next turn". Ditto Hireling.

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Weekly Design Contest / Re: Weekly Design Contest #202: Extra! Read all about it!

« on: October 25, 2023, 04:51:17 am »

Concerning my card having to be a Duration, no. It does nothing after Clean-up and everybody should be able to countdown turns.

It still tracks "but not a 3rd turn in row" after Clean-up, like Outpost.

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Rules Questions / Precise meaning of "if you bought it"

« on: March 29, 2023, 11:26:17 am »

I'm assuming that "when you gain ... if you bought it" only triggers if the gain was the one triggered by the buying, rather than a later one? So for example if I:

* Play a Hoard and an Astrolabe
* Buy a Duchy, gaining a Gold
* Reveal a Watchtower to trash the Duchy
* Buy a Gamble, revealing and playing a Graverobber
* Gain the Duchy from the trash

Now I assume that even though you're once again "gaining a Victory card that you've bought this turn", Hoard doesn't trigger and you don't gain another Gold?

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Dominion: City Life

« on: March 25, 2023, 01:41:06 pm »

Woohoo, a new X-tra expansion! Looking forward to trying this out.

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Weekly Design Contest / Re: Weekly Design Contest #181: Building a Better Harem

« on: March 15, 2023, 08:17:29 am »

A Treasure-Victory card worth $2/2VP with an orientalist name beginning with H and ending with M?

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Tactics (new landscape type)

« on: March 07, 2023, 12:43:58 pm »

Security seems awful to track. It's also completely useless in games with no Attacks. The rest of these all seem pretty good.
Also, what makes these different from Charters?
http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=gom6cs496p9ieabsivh93kv2i3&topic=21586.msg899037#msg899037

Very little as far as I can tell! I actually discovered Charters for the first time earlier today when I looked at the latest Mechanics contest, which refers back to them. Some good ideas in the contest (a few of them fairly similar to some of mine, but none identical).

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Interview with Donald X.

« on: March 07, 2023, 04:13:01 am »

As far as I can tell, Donate is the only Event that affects a future (non-extra) turn without any method to track it: Delay, Inheritance, etc have an Action card; Ferry, Pathfinding, etc have a token. Is this an intentional precedent, or just a side effect of the 2022 errata? Is tracking here simply not an issue because of the price? Did you ever try adding other Duration-type "next turn" Events?

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Weekly Design Contest / Re: Weekly Design Contest #180: Pay the Iron Price

« on: March 05, 2023, 04:04:02 pm »

Coronet aka Princess is too good. You'd often rather have an extra Coin than the benefit of whatever Loot and this is just the baseline. With easy Loot gaining and thus enough extra Buys this can easily yield the equivalent of 6 or 8 Coins.

Drat, you're probably right. I'll have a think how to fix it (assuming it's possible).

How about this?

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Weekly Design Contest / Re: Weekly Design Contest #180: Pay the Iron Price

« on: March 05, 2023, 03:39:38 pm »

Coronet aka Princess is too good. You'd often rather have an extra Coin than the benefit of whatever Loot and this is just the baseline. With easy Loot gaining and thus enough extra Buys this can easily yield the equivalent of 6 or 8 Coins.

Drat, you're probably right. I'll have a think how to fix it (assuming it's possible).

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Weekly Design Contest / Re: Weekly Design Contest #180: Pay the Iron Price

« on: March 05, 2023, 03:36:41 pm »

Just curious.  Is there a reason you’re using a new Jargon mat instead of Exile?

It seems weak compared to something like Forager.  Maybe it could cost 3 and/or “gain a Loot to your hand,” or something else.

Good comments, thanks!

I originally had it discard rather than trash to get a Loot and didn't want any unexpected interactions with e.g. Camel Train. But then I realised it was far too weak like that, so there's no reason not to use Exile now. I expect you're right that it's still too weak. I'll probably update it tomorrow when I'm next at a computer. Updated.

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Weekly Design Contest / Re: Weekly Design Contest #180: Pay the Iron Price

« on: March 05, 2023, 03:17:58 am »

Updated



Originals (mentioned in comments below)

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Tactics (new landscape type)

« on: March 03, 2023, 02:14:50 am »

Security seems annoying to track if the opponent is playing multiple Attacks per turn.

Indulgences is very close to turn 1 autoresign territory if you open 2/5 or 3/4 while your opponent opens 4/3 or 5/2, which happens 25% of the time and a separate 25% of the time for the opponent. So basically half the time Indulgences is in the kingdom, one player at random gets to start the game with what's probably an insurmountable advantage.

Security is actually written incorrectly. I meant it to protect against all attacks played but require just $1 per turn-with-attacks to keep (not $1 per attack). I’ve rephrased it so it works (hopefully).

You’re definitely right re Indulgences. How about this as a potential fix? (upping the price but also making it more flexible so less swingy)

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Tactics (new landscape type)

« on: March 03, 2023, 02:11:07 am »

In terms of the analogy, half of these are like regular Durations, and the other half are like Reserve cards.

True. Though Reserves are just Durations in disguise

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Fan Mechanics Week 59: Play now, Buy later

« on: March 02, 2023, 11:40:54 am »

You can spend Workers* during your Buy phase for +1 Buy each. I was slightly worried that, unlike Coffers or Villagers, these would often just end up accruing, so I added a mechanism in the card to prevent that.

*so-called because Worker's Village = Village + Buy