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Dominion General Discussion / Best kingdom to play with new players?

« on: July 21, 2012, 08:50:54 pm »

Does anyone have a standard kingdom they like to play with friends new to the game?

It's an interesting balance to try to find something that has easily understandable cards, but still has enough interesting ones to make the experienced player enjoy the game (multiple strategies, fun cards, not likely to go Big-Money).  I find that with a new player, instead of doing new kingdoms, we end up playing the same one multiple times... so I want something that has multiple layers of strategy.  (To handicap myself, I start with x number of curse cards in my deck... every time I win a game, add one to x... when I lose... subtract one.)   After spending a couple hours on this I settled on:

$7 - King's Court
$5 - Wharf, Witch, Ghost Ship
$4 - Militia, Treasure Map, Worker's Village
$3 - Masquerade, Warehouse
$2 - Lighthouse

No platinums or colonies.

Thoughts?

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Battle Royale - letter to isotropic.org

« on: July 02, 2012, 06:21:26 pm »

What's the end condition in a game like this?

The standard ones: All Colonies, all Provinces, or 3 piles

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Variants and Fan Cards / Battle Royale - letter to isotropic.org

« on: July 02, 2012, 05:52:37 pm »

Hi,

Love your site.  You're awesome.


My brothers and I sometimes like to play a crazy variant called Battle Royale where every single card is available in the kingdom.  We like it because we vet different deck-engines against each other and rank which ones are the best.  It's a fun change-of-pace after playing a bunch of games where it didn't feel like we had any fun combos.

Anyway...just thinking about how cool it would be if there was a Battle Royale lobby on isotropic for players who want to try this... and generate some stats to speculate about which combos are the best-of-the-best.  I don't think it would be too hard to program... except for designing an interface to somehow accommodate all the buy options.  (Maybe players would have to type in their purchases?  And then the cards already purchased in their deck would have clickable pictures/icons?)

And then for variation (and strategy analysis), throw in game creation options for:
(a) with/without Colonies
(b) with/without Chapel
(c) with/without heavy cursers (Witch/Mountebank/Sea Hag/Ill-Gotten Gains, for example)
(d) with/without Tournament

Hope you like the idea.

Kind regards,
David