These days when I explain Dominion to a set of non-gamer friends I only use five cards instead of ten. It all fits in memory that way. For their second game, I roll out a full set of ten cards. Of course if you have an experienced boardgaming audience then you can start with ten to begin with.
Wait, there's a question? The second is obviously crazier.
Watch out -- edge cases incoming. Can you think of when the first would be crazier?
The real question for the edge case experts is to find a situation in which each of them is the best play of all possible plays.
If the game didn't include any cards anyone hated, it wouldn't include any cards anyone loved either. You are complaining about a tiny number of things that some people absolutely adore. Don't play with Tournament and Knights if you don't like them. They are slam dunks for me.
The thing is, I don't think guided's example there:Quote3b. I choose to activate Mint's when-buy condition before Talisman's. I trash all my treasures from play.
4b. Talisman is no longer in play, so I am not able to trigger its when-buy condition.
...is correct. Guided writes that, since the Talisman is no longer in play after you resolve Mint, you no longer activate its on-buy effect, even though it was in play when you bought Mint. But here Donald writes:QuoteThe resolution of the first won't stop us from trying to resolve the second. So isotropic has Royal Seal / Mandarin right.
—in other words, even though Royal Seal is no longer in play after you resolve Mandarin, you still activate its on-gain effect, since it was in play when you gained Mandarin. So I think guided is wrong: if you have Quarry and Talisman in play and buy Mint, Mint tries to trash your Treasures, and Talisman tries to gain you an extra Mint, and both effects go through in either order.
So in this case, even though Betty is no longer about to gain a Province, you still activate Trader's would-gain effect, since she was about to gain one and Trader's effect was triggered, but Alex just decided to activate Possession's simultaneous would-gain effect first.
I'm sure that BGG has a play mat that you can print out...Does anyone know if there is such a thing? It would help me this Christmas when I shall introduce my family to Dominion.
It could be this, but I don't have a BGG account to check the download. (It's the first hit on Google. Interestingly, most of the results seem to be for somewhere to lay out the supply, rather than a playing aid.)
Thanks Donald X. I found the errors again. $ sign missing on page 5, 6th line from bottom. Another on page 7, 10th line from top. And the Sir Martin cost is page 15, 8th line from top.The one you didn't catch is "Dark Ages includes two Treasure cards with rules on them. They are in the Supply if selected..."
Again, it's not really that important, but I was just wondering if anyone else noticed it.
good point. how about this instead:
Conform, $6, Action
+1 Action
Gain a card costing $3 or less. Put it into your hand.
I can always be persuaded to play a game of 7 Wonders, and that says a lot about a game...
$4
+2 Actions
If you have less than four cards in hand, draw until you have four cards
your thoughts? too niche?
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For me, the play area doesn't matter. I'm usually playing on a small table where I don't have the luxury of organizing that. What I am incredibly particular about is the set-up of the kingdom.
__________________________
C P D E C
P G S C P
K K K K K
(B)
K K K K K
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Victory on top, money underneath, followed by the kingdom cards. The kingdom cards must be organized from most expensive to least expensive going from upper left to lower right. If a bane (or any other action related extra pile) is present, it goes to the far right in between the two rows of kingdom cards. Treasure related extra piles go in the treasure row. My friends have learned to just let me do the set up and either get the starting decks prepared or hand me stacks.
"While a copy" and "While at least one copy" mean the same thing. Don't confuse "While a copy" with "While this copy".
I'm not sure if you're disagreeing with me or not, but in the case where you are:
I have a card called Foo. Foo reads:
Foo - $3
Action
+1 Card
+1 Action
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While one or more Foos is in play, cards cost $1 more.
I play a Foo. I check its conditional statement ("While one or more Foos is in play,..."), and it evaluates as true. Cards cost $1 more!
I play another Foo. Hmm, it has a condition also, but "one or more Foos is in play" is still true, so cards cost $1 more again. Now all cards cost $2 more.
A card that increased prices could cause a confusing game state if any of these and a Highway were out. Would a copper cost 1 or 0?
Maybe the text could read something like 'While a copy of <this card> is in play, all costs are increased by one'. This way, multiple copies do not increase the costs further, the max increase is one.
I don't think this'd work the way you want it to; each copy of the card would still have this ability, so the price of everything would increase by one for each copy of the card.
