The Rats thing is already possible with Watchtower, they become Lab Rats. IW/Fortress too. The rest don't sound broken either.
Platnum
$9 Treasure
When you play this, everybody else gets confused.
Don't hurt yourself in your confusion!
Treasure, cost $2
When you play this, discard a card from your hand. If itis...
a treasure : this is worth $3
an action card : this is worth $2
another card : this is worth $1.
(rules clarifications : if the card you discarded has several types, you take the most expensive one)
Rewording:
Scrap-Iron, Treasure, 2$
1$
When you play this, discard a card from your hand. If it is...
...an action card : +$1
...a treasure card: +$2
This is much cleaner wording, except that you can play this last and have it worth $1 without discarding anything. That is probably fine, but it is a difference from the original.
Potions are a little system in itself. If you go for them, don't expect that you can just build the same kind of deck you'd build without them.There is one disadvantage if you do this: you'll get to see each card with a potion cost in it way more often than cards without potion, more than twice than cards without potion cost in it (assuming you have all sets, I'll show the math if anyone is interested). If you want to make sure each card will show up approximately as much, you could do the following:
If you want Potions to be more attractive, consider a custom setup-rule Donald once mentioned: When drawing cards randomly, if out of your first 8 kingdom cards none has a Potion cost, make sure the remaining 2 aren't with Potion costs either. If one of them has Potion cost, make sure the remaining two have, too. (And as the max number of Potion cards recommended is 5, stop adding potion-costs if you reach 5). This way you make sure that if there's Potions included, there's also more room for them, and you'll never have games where 9 cards are potionless and 1 isn't. Statistically Potions will show up just as often.
Draw the first 4 kingdom cards randomly. If there are no potion cost cards in it, make sure there are no potion cost cards in the last 6 as well. If there is at least one card with a potion cost in the first 4, make sure there will be at least two more cards with potion cost in the last 6 cards (so choose the ninth and tenth card randomly from potion cost cards if you do not have enough, yet).
This will make potion cost cards show up about as much as all other cards (only ~10% more often).
I assumed it was a commentary on Greek fascism. I associate Cyrillic most strongly with Russian, which in turn has a stronger historical association with communism.I guess i'll not explain it in detail - at the end it'll just make me feel i've put way too little effort in it...
Treasure, cost $2
When you play this, discard a card from your hand. If itis...
a treasure : this is worth $3
an action card : this is worth $2
another card : this is worth $1.
(rules clarifications : if the card you discarded has several types, you take the most expensive one)
Moneylender: I'd like to speak with the King.
Guard: He's very busy right now, but we shall ask him if he is willing to see you right now.
*a few minutes later, in the Library*
King: Why have you interrupted my research of the land and my studies on economic theory?
Guard: My Liege, a moneylender has asked to see you.
King: Bah, send him away.
Seriously, what in the world is going on with Library thematically? Does the King go there in his spare time or something? And why does it let you skip actions? Is it a central hub for all your staff?
I think it's just one person. The man in the background is holding a lantern slightly behind himself, and the shadow in the foreground appears to be his shadow. You can tell from the shadows along the wooden supports that the lightsource is from the back, rather than from the foreground.
Then why does the shadow have two visible hands, when one of them would have to be behind him/invisible and one above his hand, with a latern's shadow? It also doesn't seem to work out for the light to go that way, and the pile and beam in the middle have no shadow in that direction, either. Nosferatu creeping in the mines is much more plausible
There are twelve people in this picture. Eleven of them are time-shifted by a second or two in either direction, and one of those people in casting the "extra" shadow.
Seriously, though. Vashta Narada. In the shadows. Stay out of the damned shadows or you're gonna have a bad time.
Edit:Poster text is english.But transliterated into Greek, presumably using the Symbol font. So a bit jarring for anyone who can recognise the difference between Greek and Cyrillic letters, and were expecting the latter.
Edit:Poster text is english.
Nobodsp likes Schout?
Do you have inserted Χρυσή Αυγή symbolism?
Very nice, but the fortress you deleted was part of the experience to me.
If "Abandoned Mine" is abandoned, then why is there still at least two guys in it?
I think it's just one person. The man in the background is holding a lantern slightly behind himself, and the shadow in the foreground appears to be his shadow. You can tell from the shadows along the wooden supports that the lightsource is from the back, rather than from the foreground.
Don't exclude Thief, it helps teach important lessons and is sometimes a counter to Chapel. I would also not exclude Mine, which is a perfectly reasonable card and a good example of trash-for-benefit.The most important lesson Thief teaches is "if you buy Thief, you lose". While that might be an important lesson, it is not a lesson you have to learn during your first couple of games.
I'm perfectly happy with Dominion the way it is. It has some faults, like the KC-Goons-Masquerade pin, but those things make the game more interesting. Even scout is great when you play on a board that has six alternate VP cards, not counting colony. Thief has already been fixed by Noble Brigand and Golem/Counting House Combos are one of my favorite things about Dominion. So every card has its place, just some show up there more than others.
Yeah, the wording I made for Spanish Inquisition was... bad. The idea was to have one in each pile of cards, including ones like Mercenary and Spoils, and players getting them randomly when they were trying for something else. Then I added something that fit the actual inquisition (punishing witches) and it kind of got out of hand.
Anyway, I like the all-different-reactions idea much better.
Crossroads
Great Hall
Trade Route
Scout
Silk Road
Rebuild
Farmland
Nobles
Harem
Even Scout is strong here!
Can't help thinking of fascist propaganda posters.
Something I should add to this discussion is that, IMO, Potion is designed to be frustratingly difficult to get. All of these clauses with coins and only coins make it so that the only way to get a card costing Potion is to play the freakin' mostly-dead Potion for it, and that's the only thing that the Potion treasure is useful for (besides trash fodder).
QuoteSpanish Inquisition
Action - Attack, 5$
Each player gains a card: A Curse and a Copper. No - two cards! A Curse, a Copper, a Ruins from the ruins pile... THREE cards: A Curse, a Copper and a Ruins from the Ruins pile. That is, each player but you. Each OTHER player gains three cards... Each OTHER player gains ONE OF EACH of the following: A Curse, a Copper and a Ruins from the Ruins pile. Or the Copper pile, or the Curse pile, respectively.
There's also only one of them, inserted randomly into one of the Kingdom Card piles at the beginning of the game. And when you play it, you return it to your hand.
And I think you can choose "gain a Copper" and not get one if the pile is empty.
Count is OP when the Copper pile is empty.
And, it even provides a built-in way to drain that Copper pile to get it there! Self-synergy!
That's why both Count and Counting House cost 5. Too much synergy otherwise.
The Spanish Inquisition (30 copies)
$5 Action
Each other player gains a Curse. Each other player reveals their hand and discard all cards with the word "Witch" in the title.
When you gain this, put your deck into your discard pile. Reveal your discard pile. Each other player chooses one card in your discard pile that you trash.
Setup: Shuffle one copy of The Spanish Inquisition into each other pile of cards, including ones in play but not in the supply. While there is a copy of this card visible in the supply, any time a player would gain a card from a pile they gain the bottom card of the pile instead of the top card. If they gain a copy of this card, take a visible copy of this card and shuffle it into the pile they gained it from.
I've had idle thoughts of matching a song to every Dominion card, but then I wake up and do something constructive with my time. Like building a chicken factory in Minecraft.
Anyway, these are some of the song connections I remember right now.
Chapel - Chapel of Love, The Dixie Cups
Harem - Woman and Gold, Spooky Tooth, or Harem in the Leningrad Cowboys version
Mine - Diamonds in the Mine, Leonard Cohen (because, y'know, there really are no diamonds in the Mine); but also Gimli's bit about Moria from the first LotR movie ("And they call it a mine! A mine!")
Torturer - The Torture Never Stops, Frank Zappa
Taxman - Taxman, The Beatles
Cultist - Oops, I Did It Again, Britney Spears, though this shows up with a fair number of attack cards
City - I Am the City, ABBA
Witch - I Put a Spell On You, Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Bridge - Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Simon and Garfunkel
