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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Interview with Donald X.
« on: December 05, 2022, 01:39:17 pm »Landmarks and Allies are actually exactly the same thing functionally except for the setup rules.
Could you elaborate?
I see they are the same except for the part where Allies have an entire card type dedicated to them which are a prerequisite for their inclusion in the kingdom and also use a brand-new currency common to all of them to manage access to their benefits… at which point I think, if anything, Allies are closer to Events than Landmarks.
The "prerequisite for their inclusion in the kingdom" is a setup rule, and as I said the setup rules are different.
The rules for "Favor" (Favor tokens and the meaning of "+1 Favor") are given in the rulebook, and both Allies and Liaisons refer to Favors. So although all Allies use Favors, technically there is no rule saying that "any landscape card that refers to Favors is an Ally" or anything like that; just as there is no rule saying that "any landscape card that gives VP tokens during the game or VP at the end of the game is a Landmark". Functionally, Allies and Landmarks are landscape cards that don't have any specific rule associated with them (again, except for setup) except the rule that the abilities on them are available at all times for all players.
Events, on the other hand, also have the rule that their ability can be bought by spending a buy and paying the given cost, immediately triggering it.
EDIT: Ninja'd!
This is only true for those Allies for which you don't spend favors to activate. I think it's pretty clear that those Allies for which you have to trigger by spending a currency DO have an additional rule (i.e. you must spend favors to activate) compared to Landmarks or to those Allies which are not triggerable.