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Dominion General Discussion / Re: jamfamsam's art ranking by committee

« on: July 30, 2016, 11:16:50 am »

#75 - Outpost



I love the building. However, constructing those lower down parts of the structure would be extremely hard in this location. This would probably just be an awful place to live. It's not like you can get a boat into that swirling vortex of death. If that bridge goes down while you are in the building, you are totally up a creek without a paddle.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: jamfamsam's art ranking by committee

« on: July 30, 2016, 11:13:47 am »

#76 - Native Village



There's a tree growing out of the roof of the one hut. I'm sure that's not super unusual, but the trunk doesn't extend down through the hut. Maybe it's an antenna for the TV.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: jamfamsam's art ranking by committee

« on: July 30, 2016, 01:00:47 am »

#77 - Rogue



I think borrowing the Duke's quilted shirt is a questionable fashion choice, but it is dark out so no one will really see it especially if you are going to sneak up on them and knife them from behind. I'm not quite sure what the setting here is. It almost looks like he is in a cave.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: jamfamsam's art ranking by committee

« on: July 30, 2016, 12:58:44 am »

#78 - Plaza



The water is a funny color. Is the guy carrying a plate of sausages?

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: jamfamsam's art ranking by committee

« on: July 30, 2016, 12:57:15 am »

#79 - Monument



After a really long day at work, here is the start of group E, 15 cards.

Monument to teenage lameness.

Monument to stupidity.

Monument to whatever.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: jamfamsam's art ranking by committee

« on: July 29, 2016, 12:55:13 pm »

We have now posted 300 cards. I'm going to take a minute and vent. It has been increasingly difficult to get my daughters together to process a batch of cards. Apparently they enjoyed making fun of the lesser art. Now I just get, "This is all good art, Dad." I have nearly run out of cards to post on a few occasions.

With 5 groups and 79 cards to go you can rest assured that we will finish. You can complain about a lot of things with our rankings, but you can't say we haven't been regular and diligent about posting cards. Hopefully my daughters will not be such pains about finishing. The last couple of groups have been very unpleasant to process and the commentary isn't very interesting once everyone has had to be brow-beaten into participating.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: jamfamsam's art ranking by committee

« on: July 29, 2016, 12:44:51 pm »

#80 - Keep



Why does it look like there has been frosting poured over the far half of the walls? I didn't really notice that at first. My daughters thought there should have been more uniformity in the helmet style for an army.

That is the end of group F.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: jamfamsam's art ranking by committee

« on: July 29, 2016, 12:42:25 pm »

#81 - Mining Village



My daughters say the climbing guy looks like Shadow Mario. I've never played a game with that character so I couldn't say. I just like the art.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: jamfamsam's art ranking by committee

« on: July 29, 2016, 12:40:38 pm »

#82 - Caravan Guard



The horse has a very arched neck considering it doesn't look like the reins are being pulled at the moment. I'm glad that didn't go with the camel caravan theme. This is much nicer.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: jamfamsam's art ranking by committee

« on: July 28, 2016, 06:14:34 pm »

#83 - King's Court



My daughters say this reminds them of King Trident from Little Mermaid. I can see it a little. Either that's a dirt floor or they have terrible taste in carpet.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: jamfamsam's art ranking by committee

« on: July 28, 2016, 06:12:38 pm »

#84 - Grand Market



My daughters say this looks like a scene from Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. It's been so long since I've played the game that I can't remember. The guy on the left has a bit of a face like a sloth.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: jamfamsam's art ranking by committee

« on: July 28, 2016, 06:10:46 pm »

#85 - Warrior



Shooting down the walls of heartache....

Going into battle with your hair down is a bad idea. It's the same as the long cape, likely to get in your way or be used as a tool against you. She does have fabulous hair (I know it's hard to see) but this would be the time to keep it up.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: jamfamsam's art ranking by committee

« on: July 28, 2016, 12:05:23 pm »

#86 - Mystic



Here is Calypso from the Pirates of the Caribbean. That skull in the foreground has a nice grill.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: jamfamsam's art ranking by committee

« on: July 28, 2016, 12:03:50 pm »

#87 - Legionary



As with Adventurer the cape is way too long. How could you even function with that thing flapping around? You'd step on it or have someone grab it and pull you down. Even if it's just ceremonial, you couldn't march around in that thing. The guy behind you would stomp on it and you'd end up on your face.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: jamfamsam's art ranking by committee

« on: July 28, 2016, 12:00:46 pm »

#88 - Patrician



The question in my mind is; how did Patrician end up at 88 when Patrician/Emporium and Emporium ended up at 310 and 298 respectively?

One of my daughters must have really hated the Emporium part of the scene. She rated Patrician 7 out of 7 but the other two cards 4 or worse. It's all very strange. As if there weren't enough evidence to reduce the credibility of this whole effort.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: jamfamsam's art ranking by committee

« on: July 28, 2016, 11:57:14 am »

As will be seen in my next post, you can hardly fathom the mind of a teenager.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Empires: The "Eat Your Vegetables" Expansion

« on: July 28, 2016, 12:50:51 am »

I think the best examples for the thing you're trying to express are actually the attacks. You want to use them as your payload? You better work for it, either gaining silvers for catapults or a Gold for Legionary. I like this design trend very well, it's just so much more fun than cursing with a Witch

When all is said and done though, there is something extremely satisfying about the basic cursing with witch.

I disagree completely. I think Witch is the worst designed card in Dominion next to Cultist since it so good without the attack that it becomes obnoxious with it.

Witch without the cursing attack is crap.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: jamfamsam's art ranking by committee

« on: July 27, 2016, 07:24:01 pm »

#89 - Witch



That's some nice seaweed she has draped over her in various spots. She has a little bit of a butt chin going if you look closely. My daughters called the little creature being summoned an 'Evil Hello Kitty'. She's had some nice work done on her nails to get them that sharp.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: jamfamsam's art ranking by committee

« on: July 27, 2016, 07:20:25 pm »

#90 - Duplicate



None of my daughters was able to pick out the immediate problem with the duplicate. How the heck are they going to reproduce the spear? This is an awful lot of work for one guy.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: jamfamsam's art ranking by committee

« on: July 27, 2016, 07:15:26 pm »

#91 - Followers



This is the start of group F, 12 cards.

Where are they following her to? We can only guess. I think we have to assume this is some kind of unruly mob since the card is an attack but they aren't armed with anything other than banners and fruit and vegetables that I can tell. Perhaps she is like a Pied Piper.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Empires: The "Eat Your Vegetables" Expansion

« on: July 27, 2016, 02:22:04 pm »

I think the best examples for the thing you're trying to express are actually the attacks. You want to use them as your payload? You better work for it, either gaining silvers for catapults or a Gold for Legionary. I like this design trend very well, it's just so much more fun than cursing with a Witch

When all is said and done though, there is something extremely satisfying about the basic cursing with witch.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: jamfamsam's art ranking by committee

« on: July 27, 2016, 11:20:54 am »

#92 - Palace



Another prominent building set up on a pinnacle of rock. It sure would make you not want to travel having that nasty incline to manage so you could get home.

That is the end of group G.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: jamfamsam's art ranking by committee

« on: July 27, 2016, 11:18:29 am »

#93 - Ruined Market



If I'm not mistaken, this is Ruined Grand Market. It used to be Great Salt Lake City and they dropped the Great, so whatever.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: jamfamsam's art ranking by committee

« on: July 27, 2016, 11:16:36 am »

#94 - Rats



Rats is such a fun card to win with. I admit I've lost a ton of my attempts to win with a Rats strategy, but so satisfying when you pull it off. None of the people I regularly used to play with (all have moved) ever even tried to do anything with Rats. If there's even an inkling of a chance with it, I will go for it.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: jamfamsam's art ranking by committee

« on: July 27, 2016, 11:13:28 am »

#95 - Marauder



He'll have a lot more success if he puts his loot in a sack or something.