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Rules Questions / Re: Possession + Goons
« on: September 11, 2011, 05:00:59 pm »
Similarly, if you force him to play an attack, it targets you. He is playing everything, not you.
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Rules Questions / Re: Possession + Goons
« on: September 11, 2011, 04:56:42 pm »
Your opponent gets them.
He is playing his own Goons. You are forcing him to. Same with Bishop and Monument.
He is playing his own Goons. You are forcing him to. Same with Bishop and Monument.
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Dominion FAQ / Re: Dominion Lingo Dictionary
« on: September 11, 2011, 04:54:48 pm »
What's "BMU"? I'm familiar with BOM (Buy Only Money), and BM (Big Money), and I presume BMU is related. Suddenly it seems to have displaced the first two in conversation. But a search of this thread reveals no occurence of BMU. What's the U?
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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Idea for a New Dynamic
« on: September 09, 2011, 01:19:31 pm »
You know, this could be the heart of a whole new game.
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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Magistrate
« on: September 08, 2011, 05:08:12 pm »
I just want this card:
Architect
Type: ACTION
+1 Action.
Look at the top 3 cards of your deck.
You may discard any of them that you choose.
Return the rest to the top of your deck in any order.
Then, +1 Card.
I've got to say, there is already enough there to stop writing on the card.
How would you price this? It's better than Lookout and maybe even Warehouse. I'd pick it over Spy. Does it need to inspect one more or one less in order to match a full integer $ figure?
Architect
Type: ACTION
+1 Action.
Look at the top 3 cards of your deck.
You may discard any of them that you choose.
Return the rest to the top of your deck in any order.
Then, +1 Card.
I've got to say, there is already enough there to stop writing on the card.
How would you price this? It's better than Lookout and maybe even Warehouse. I'd pick it over Spy. Does it need to inspect one more or one less in order to match a full integer $ figure?
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Other Games / Re: Donald X.'s new game Kingdom Builder
« on: September 08, 2011, 04:14:41 pm »
I am so blogging this.
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Feedback / Re: Cursing on the dominion strategy forum
« on: September 08, 2011, 03:53:47 pm »
What are your goals here, rrenaud? To make the forum more attractive to newcomers with delicate sensibilities? Or just to stop the private complaints?
If it's the latter: Just ask them what level of swearing they would accept. Then weigh how important their contributions are.
If it's the former: The swearing on this forum is not being used as a weapon to detract from the civility of discourse. I think that's usually what turns people off, but that's not happening here. So, the objective would be to attract the sort of person who objects to swear words for their own sake, as if they were voodoo magic words. I'm intimately familiar with that sort of person. Generally speaking, they tend not to be satisfied with compliance. Conforming a community to them will only increase their demands.
If it's the latter: Just ask them what level of swearing they would accept. Then weigh how important their contributions are.
If it's the former: The swearing on this forum is not being used as a weapon to detract from the civility of discourse. I think that's usually what turns people off, but that's not happening here. So, the objective would be to attract the sort of person who objects to swear words for their own sake, as if they were voodoo magic words. I'm intimately familiar with that sort of person. Generally speaking, they tend not to be satisfied with compliance. Conforming a community to them will only increase their demands.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Any Gossip About Fall 2011 Expansion?
« on: August 19, 2011, 11:36:04 am »
Well, how about these?
The Real Loan
Type: Treasure
Cost: Negative $1
When you buy this, +1 Buy.
When played, gives you: $0
Army
Type: Victory/Duration/Attack
Cost: $5
+2 VP
+1 Action
Each other player cleans up an Army from play.
At the start of your next turn,
if you have as at least 5 Armies in play
(minus the number of players, but no fewer than 1),
the game ends.
The Real Loan
Type: Treasure
Cost: Negative $1
When you buy this, +1 Buy.
When played, gives you: $0
Army
Type: Victory/Duration/Attack
Cost: $5
+2 VP
+1 Action
Each other player cleans up an Army from play.
At the start of your next turn,
if you have as at least 5 Armies in play
(minus the number of players, but no fewer than 1),
the game ends.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Any Gossip About Fall 2011 Expansion?
« on: August 05, 2011, 10:23:19 am »
I got to meet Jay Tummelson yesterday at GenCon. When I asked him, he cupped his hands around his mouth as a megaphone and cried out to the room, "HINTERLANDS!" He doesn't care who knows. It's like Donald said: He's just busy!
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Dominion General Discussion / Any Gossip About Fall 2011 Expansion?
« on: July 24, 2011, 11:25:41 pm »
Text often fails to convey tone-- I am not complaining or criticizing (which would be odd), but curious enough to wonder if there is any gossip.
Correct me if I'm wrong on any of these details. It has been previously mentioned that Rio Grande plans to publish two Dominion expansions per year: a half-size set in the spring, and a full-size set in the fall. This process is supposed to end in 2012, with the final planned expansion (although some more cards might come out in the unforeseeable future).
Last year, Dominion: Prosperity was discussed on Boardgamegeek.com as early as March, revealed its theme and color text around May 25, It was announced as an "August/September" release, Jay Tummelson revealed Counting House and Contraband around August 1, I bought it at GenCon, and by August 11 we actually had DXV's Secret History of Prosperity.
Naturally, many (if not perhaps most) highly-anticipated games arrive a couple of months later than the predicted date. That's normal. What piques my curiosity is that, nearing the end of July, we do not even know the name of this year's large Dominion expansion.
I find myself, as if an expectant uncle, at a loss for what name to call the fetus, and perhaps even its pronoun, despite that the parents have presumably had an ultrasound like they did with all their previous pregnancies. It is one of the foremost topics of discussion by the extended family, because they already know they love this person who they have not met, and yet they all circumlocute awkwardly for lack of language. That is what my game group is like now. Forgive my amazingly rubbish metaphor!
What strikes me as out of the ordinary is that the process has not publicly begun its first step. Perhaps a different, more mysterious and dramatic marketing strategy on the part of Rio Grande?
If it takes as long as previous timetables, would that not mean Dominion: 2011 will not arrive until perhaps February 2012? Has any "Dominion meteorologist" tracked how long most previous expansions have taken from name announcement to store shelves, so that we can make forecasts as foolhardy as any weatherman?
Correct me if I'm wrong on any of these details. It has been previously mentioned that Rio Grande plans to publish two Dominion expansions per year: a half-size set in the spring, and a full-size set in the fall. This process is supposed to end in 2012, with the final planned expansion (although some more cards might come out in the unforeseeable future).
Last year, Dominion: Prosperity was discussed on Boardgamegeek.com as early as March, revealed its theme and color text around May 25, It was announced as an "August/September" release, Jay Tummelson revealed Counting House and Contraband around August 1, I bought it at GenCon, and by August 11 we actually had DXV's Secret History of Prosperity.
Naturally, many (if not perhaps most) highly-anticipated games arrive a couple of months later than the predicted date. That's normal. What piques my curiosity is that, nearing the end of July, we do not even know the name of this year's large Dominion expansion.
I find myself, as if an expectant uncle, at a loss for what name to call the fetus, and perhaps even its pronoun, despite that the parents have presumably had an ultrasound like they did with all their previous pregnancies. It is one of the foremost topics of discussion by the extended family, because they already know they love this person who they have not met, and yet they all circumlocute awkwardly for lack of language. That is what my game group is like now. Forgive my amazingly rubbish metaphor!
What strikes me as out of the ordinary is that the process has not publicly begun its first step. Perhaps a different, more mysterious and dramatic marketing strategy on the part of Rio Grande?
If it takes as long as previous timetables, would that not mean Dominion: 2011 will not arrive until perhaps February 2012? Has any "Dominion meteorologist" tracked how long most previous expansions have taken from name announcement to store shelves, so that we can make forecasts as foolhardy as any weatherman?
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Game Reports / For Everything Else, There's Dominioncard
« on: July 18, 2011, 12:26:18 pm »
Black Market. Three dollars.
King's Court. Seven dollars.
Buying the only Fairgrounds in the Black Market deck? Priceless.
King's Court. Seven dollars.
Buying the only Fairgrounds in the Black Market deck? Priceless.
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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Reducing the luck factor?
« on: July 18, 2011, 11:50:01 am »
I would like to see blog entries on dominionstrategy.com ranking the Swingiest Dominion Cards.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: What is the "engine" referring to?
« on: July 18, 2011, 11:05:32 am »
The visceral adrenaline of Dominion feels like Mario Kart to me. (Except turtle shells are aimed at everyone, not the leader.) Your deck is the racetrack.
I have always felt like Dominion could be re-themed as a racing game. However, you are building more parts for your craft as it travels.
Estate/Duchy/Province => Mile/League/Fathom
Treasury => Flywheel
Warehouse => Cornering
Chapel => Ballast Hatch
Witch => Monkey Wrench
Curse => Defect
King's Court => Flaming DeLorean Tracks
etc.
I have always felt like Dominion could be re-themed as a racing game. However, you are building more parts for your craft as it travels.
Estate/Duchy/Province => Mile/League/Fathom
Treasury => Flywheel
Warehouse => Cornering
Chapel => Ballast Hatch
Witch => Monkey Wrench
Curse => Defect
King's Court => Flaming DeLorean Tracks
etc.
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Dominion FAQ / Re: Dominion Lingo Dictionary
« on: July 12, 2011, 03:44:57 pm »
My gaming group has this acronym: CUPS (Cities' Unstoppable Peddler Stack)
Pseudo-Trashing: getting rid of cards from your deck in ways other than directly trashing them, i.e. Ambassador, Native Village, bridgeBridge?
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: What are the white/blank cards used for?
« on: July 12, 2011, 03:35:03 pm »
Design your own custom cards!