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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Thematic Kingdom Design Contest
« on: July 02, 2016, 11:43:05 am »
Has anybody filled out their brackets?
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: McGarnacle's Kingdom of the Week #1 Cities and Knights
« on: June 28, 2016, 11:17:42 am »
The ruins pile out quickly, and often people forget they are a pile 
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Thematic Kingdom Design Contest
« on: June 28, 2016, 08:16:54 am »Is this going to be a Pirates of The Caribbean moment where everyone votes for themselves?
Absolutely
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Thematic Kingdom Design Contest
« on: June 28, 2016, 08:16:01 am »
Yes, I just realized it should be brackets. I'll keep the poll up though. For the brackets, I'll just match up the last posted kingdom with the first posted kingdom and so on.
f.ds meme theme vs Kingdom Builder
Roadrunner's unnamed kingdom vs In the Woods
Pauper's Kingdom vs Dominion: Cities and Knights
A Day At The Zoo vs Going Dutch
Colloseum vs Setbacks and strategery
Do. T. vs On to Victory
Rule Questions vs Dialing for Dollars
Jade Empire vs You can Bank on it
Chess vs Hogwarts
Fall of Rome will get a bye. If I forgot any, let me know.
f.ds meme theme vs Kingdom Builder
Roadrunner's unnamed kingdom vs In the Woods
Pauper's Kingdom vs Dominion: Cities and Knights
A Day At The Zoo vs Going Dutch
Colloseum vs Setbacks and strategery
Do. T. vs On to Victory
Rule Questions vs Dialing for Dollars
Jade Empire vs You can Bank on it
Chess vs Hogwarts
Fall of Rome will get a bye. If I forgot any, let me know.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Thematic Kingdom Design Contest
« on: June 27, 2016, 12:32:59 pm »
Okay, the first round of voting has begun. It will remain open until the end of the month.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: McGarnacle's Kingdom of the Week #1 Cities and Knights
« on: June 27, 2016, 12:22:05 pm »
Thanks for the advice guys. Yeah, I might drop Advisor and maybe put in a mid-level trasher.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Semi-Interesting Dominion Moments of 2016 Thread
« on: June 27, 2016, 10:00:12 am »Log : http://gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?http://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160620/log.0.1466427278200.txt
Played wishing well 18 times.
Guessed correctly 15 times.
No scout, apothecary or any other deck examination involved, just sheer luck.
One of the incorrect guesses was when I guessed a card not in my deck because I wanted to leave the top card for my next hand.
One of these days we should see an article specifically about how do use "name a card". I find those to be really cool, and I feel like they are more strategic than they are given credit for.
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Dominion General Discussion / McGarnacle's Kingdom of the Week #1 Cities and Knights
« on: June 27, 2016, 09:56:59 am »
Hello everyone, this is the start of a weekly series were I will show kingdoms I have created and we can discuss them. (Plus hopefully some of you will enjoy playing them). One of my favorite parts of Dominion is creating kingdoms with multiple, sometimes subtle, strategies. So without further ado, here is the first kingdom.
Cities and Knights
Advisor
City
Cultist
Fairgrounds
Inn
Jester
Knights
Magpie
Menagerie
Stonemason
1. What do you think are the main strategies to win. Which is the best?
2. Any redundant cards, traps, or ways to make the kingdom better?
I have created this kingdom and played it IRL probably 20 times, but I'm sure you guys will be able to find something new which I didn't notice.
Cities and Knights
Advisor
City
Cultist
Fairgrounds
Inn
Jester
Knights
Magpie
Menagerie
Stonemason
1. What do you think are the main strategies to win. Which is the best?
2. Any redundant cards, traps, or ways to make the kingdom better?
I have created this kingdom and played it IRL probably 20 times, but I'm sure you guys will be able to find something new which I didn't notice.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Thematic Kingdom Design Contest
« on: June 27, 2016, 08:47:25 am »
Okay everyone, this round will close in a few hours. I will then create a poll were we can vote for all the first round contestants. If anyone wants to submit any last minute kingdoms, now is the time.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Thematic Kingdom Design Contest
« on: June 27, 2016, 08:45:22 am »
Dominion: Cities and Knights
Advisor
City
Cultist
Fairgrounds
Inn
Jester
Knights
Magpie
Menagerie
Stonemason
Advisor
City
Cultist
Fairgrounds
Inn
Jester
Knights
Magpie
Menagerie
Stonemason
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Beginners' mistakes
« on: June 25, 2016, 07:22:32 am »
My favorite is when I play 6 villages, just assume I have enough actions, but then play so many terminals I may be running out. Then I need to re-count everything.
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Introductions / Re: Hello is this thing on?
« on: June 23, 2016, 12:34:31 pm »Given that this is my 500th post on these forums I thought I'd introduce myself.
I am 30 years old, went to college for 9 years but never finished, and currently do technical writing for a software company. I have been playing strategic board/card games for about 10 years. Some non-Dominion favorites are Agricola, Tichu, and Scrabble. My Dominion story is thus:I first played with some friends in college in 2008. Base only because that was all there was. We all thought Bureaucrat was way overpowered. Silver for free, immediately topdeck it, and an attack? Unfair. I only played a few games then. Fast-forward to 2011 and I played once more with a local gaming group; thence I discovered isotropic. Isotropic was the bomb. You could see your entire hand at once and stuff and it was so fast. I found this forum in late 2012 (via the dominionstrategy blog) but never posted until mid-2015.
I also like video games, anime, and manga. Some favorites are Cowboy Bebop, Dennou Coil, and Puella Magi Madoka Magica. I'm a fan of symphonic metal and synthpop music.
I am also a new homeowner, which is both great and stressful.
Welcome to the forums!
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Interesting Accessibility Quirk
« on: June 22, 2016, 05:36:33 pm »This extension makes it easier to reference cards while browsing the forum here, the card names turn into links that you can even hover over to see the card - http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=13363.0
I spend many of my early Dominion days browsing this. Huge help. Yes, you do need to actually use a card to truly understand it, but knowing what it does is often enough to understand what someone means by mentioning it.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Beginners' mistakes
« on: June 22, 2016, 12:01:22 pm »Telling players to follow the rules does not make your a "rules Nazi". It makes you a competent teacher of the game. Rules are there for a reason.
Exactly.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Beginners' mistakes
« on: June 22, 2016, 10:06:41 am »
Very good article! I totally agree with what you said. At first, you seem like a rule Nazi (I know how it feels), but it is super important. Another you didn't mention is people shuffling their discard pile when they do not have a deck but before they actually need to draw cards. It matters if you get cursed or hit with a handsize decreaser.
If beginners start learning bad habits that seems like little "who cares" stuff, as the game gains in complexity, they are going to run into trouble.
If beginners start learning bad habits that seems like little "who cares" stuff, as the game gains in complexity, they are going to run into trouble.
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Help! / Re: Seprix's Game Report Centre
« on: June 21, 2016, 11:26:37 am »http://gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?http://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20160517/log.0.1463523713520.txt
Code: [Select]Trade, Haven, Pearl Diver, Ratcatcher, Raze, Ambassador, Develop, Advisor, Feodum, Messenger, Adventurer
I love this game, because I got to use Adventurer. I don't know whether I played 'optimally' or not, but given the circumstance I was in, I like the Adventurer I got, since I could quite handily hit Province with it almost all the time towards the endgame.
Interesting. I would have thought Advisor/Messenger would be the best.
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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Haiku Hell
« on: June 21, 2016, 10:16:24 am »
The brave knights are out
The feodum to protect,
And I am its count.
The feodum to protect,
And I am its count.
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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Haiku Hell
« on: June 21, 2016, 10:15:43 am »
Jester is so fun,
It is my favorite card,
What a complement!
It is my favorite card,
What a complement!
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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Haiku Hell
« on: June 21, 2016, 10:09:57 am »
The harvest has come,
A hunting party is fun,
I am a young witch.
A hunting party is fun,
I am a young witch.
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Let's Discuss ... / Re: Let's Discuss Prosperity Cards: Counting House
« on: June 21, 2016, 09:21:30 am »i will still defend counting house in really bad colony slogs. even before adventures, i ranked it above cache & harvest
As it should be. Which breaks my heart. I like Harvest.
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General Discussion / Re: EURO 2016?
« on: June 18, 2016, 04:59:29 pm »
I'm a huge soccer fan. I hope Poland wins (since I'm from there) but I doubt it, especially with Lewandowski's recent form. I think France will win.
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General Discussion / Re: Five Night's at Freddy's
« on: June 18, 2016, 10:13:22 am »I haven't played any of the games, but I watched all the Game Theories about it. Does that count?
No. This thread is only for real FNAF fans. Get out!
Hey, were did everyone go?
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Let's Discuss ... / Re: Let's Discuss Prosperity Cards: Counting House
« on: June 18, 2016, 10:11:15 am »
Counting house combos with Warehouse (obviously). Another nice one is Artficer. Close to a re-shuffle, you discard everything to gain a Counting House, buy a copper with you $1 from Artificer, and then next turn play the counting house.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Thematic Kingdom Design Contest
« on: June 18, 2016, 08:32:06 am »
Nice guys, these all look pretty good!