Being a christian myself, I felt a little bit uneasy when Nocturne came out. It's by far the darkest expansion so far, thematically, and almost all of the cards have some reference to the occult. But I kinda got over it. I figured God won't condemn me just because of a card game.
Yeah, problem is, too many monitors and resolutions to contend with.Methinks width=160 would work better to fit "5-to-a-row"....
It fits with 200 too.
4p base game with many Thieves, the guy who complained about some of his Gold and Silver getting swiped also ended up winning!Pirate Ship: Shit dude, I don’t know if this is fixable. I’d consider it always both attacking and paying?
I like the idea of fixing this without intruding on miser. But maybe give the choice AFTER getting information...Code: [Select]Fixed Pirate Ship
Action - 4$
Each other player with at least (5) cards in hand REVEALS THEIR HAND.
Choose one:
* Trash up to one treasure of your choice from each player's revealed cards, and (then if any treasure was trashed) add a Coin token to your Pirate Ship mat.
* +$1 per Coin token on your Pirate Ship mat
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(When you gain this, put a coin token on your Pirate Ship mat.)
Stuff in parenthesis is flexible.
Now it's also a handsize attack that reduced their economy for the next turn, and can't even make them discard shitty cards to get to their other cards faster. Is that good enough to get it out of the bottom 10%? Or did I overdo it?
I think the first time somebody has to trash a Gold—or maybe even a Silver—from their hand, that's it. Rage quit.
To celebrate what Christians call Holy Week (Palm Sunday through Easter), here's a kingdom you can play, in order of appearance in the Gospel of Matthew, chapters 21 and 26-28.
Who buys more than one LegionaryIt's like asking why buy more than one Witch. If there aren't collisions, then you came out ahead.
Sitting through longer turns, only to build up to a... an Estate, has been both amusing and disappointing at the same time.Show of hands here-- which one is more frustrating,
You getting a bad draw or your opponent getting a good one?
Just curious how people feel about this (and we're not talking about how they're the same thing).
Definitely the former. Getting to see your opponent's engine run at its most optimal is actually kinda fun. If nothing else, you get to see their ideal implementation of whatever strategy they're running and try and beat it with your own. Having a hilariously bad set of draws wreck your game before you even get to try running whatever strategy you're going with, on the other hand, is just deeply unsatisfying to me.
(That being said, if an engine is getting consecutive bad draws, it's probably that the engine itself is built wrong)
I’ve been doing this, but my case is getting wayyyy too heavy to bring anywhere now. Pretty soon i’m going to make / print? custom boxes for each expansion that nest into a bigger box (or two) - that way, I can grab the base cards and two sets on the go to bring to a friend’s house or whatever. Full Random is also a lot harder for players who don’t know everything already.
This is what I do, except I keep the boxes in a duffel-style bag rather than another box. I find it works really well. Except that Dominion has become too large to fit inside the bag, so I have to keep a couple of the boxes elsewhere. And when I do want to bring all of Dominion somewhere, I have to transport those other boxes separately.
Salt The Player!Transmogrify is the original Salt the Earth.
Yes, I often like to buy Transmogrify early, stack them up and mill the provinces once I've got enough of a lead to guarantee a win.
That doesn't work against a competent opponent.
Neither does Salt the Earth!
I'm buying my brother Dominion for his birthday. I can buy him the 2nd edition or for about the same price I can buy him the 1st edition and give him the update pack (I have an extra one i'll never use). So the decision is kind of whether or not to give him the old cards for free. The extra variety would be nice but are they so bad that it would be better to not give them to a new player at all?More is merrier in this case. They're always free to ignore cards they don't like. Let them explore for themselves, like the rest of us did!
Yes. I have seen new players get reduced to being forced to buy coppers in futility because they literally can't do anything else in more than just one game thanks to Thief. Usually because they don't see it coming until it's too late. These were IRL games. Bear in mind that in 4 player you frequently get hit multiple times between your turns.I always assumed the reason Bandit didn't trash coppers wasn't to teach that coppers are bad, but because those 4 player newbie Thief games where someone gets totally bankrupted are exceptionally unfun for that player.Have you ever actually experienced such a game?
Obviously wouldn't happen to an experienced player, I know that Thief is a bad card and having opponents trash your coppers is good for you. But this sort of thing is a real turn-off. Thief was just below Sabatouer for card most likely to give people a terrible game, in my experience (Witch and Torturer followed shortly behind, I soon learnt what sort of cards to not bring to the table against players that didnt have experience with deckbuilder games).
You can't inherit Night cards, only Action cards.Werewolf would disagree with you.
The best example that comes to mind is getting Duchies via Swindler. Even in the middlegame you rarely ever want them so in the opening you would want Duchies even less.Interestingly enough sucking down 3 to 4 Curses via Embargo is about when Provinces "get expensive"
So my guess is around 4 or 5 VPs. Estates being Provinces seems like too much.
Play best-of-6 matches instead of games.Better yet, play 10 to 18 games, and call it Dominion Legacy
Here are some things I do to let engines get bigger:Remember... Dominion Intrigue 2nd Edition does NOT include the "foundation"/start cards!
- Always use Platinum/Colonies
- Always use Dominate (ideally with Platinum/Colonies, since Platinum makes players more likely to reach Dominate, and Colony makes them less likely to buy Provinces directly)
- Include 12 of each Victory card in a 2-player game and 18 of each non-Kingdom Victory card in a 3-4 player game (you'll likely own extra basic cards due to them being included in both the base game and Intrigue)
- Play to 4 (or more!) empty piles instead of 3
I've seen someone just a make a BM deck with the randomizers. If you buy a card, remove the randomizer from the deck, and then find a copy of the appropriate cards.Have you ever tried playing with [Black Market] IRL?I have not. I've seed it played in videos. It looks... cumbersome but reasonably straightforward. I can see tracking issues IRL: you have to remember how much of your money you've spent. What am I missing? Or is your point just that: that it's cumbersome?
I can see myself coding up something that does Base and Intrigue, and then being surprised to learn that treasures can be played in your action phase—and even more, that you can buy something in your action phase. But your claim wasn't about that, so... I'm still not seeing the thing that should make my head explode?
I think they're just talking about setting up the Black Market deck being a pain.
So much so that many people use a randomizer app for the black market deck. Only if you buy something do you fish for the physical card.
Personally, I think if the estates were provinces it would still be the best move to trash them a significant portion of the time.It's especially fun to do via Bishop. You're only coming out 1 pt behind, but your deck is one card thinner. It's like a "reverse Curse"
The only card I really miss is Coppersmith. That card was actually interesting, and not only because of its unique ability. I really liked how it could be useful, but not in the way you initially think. When you first see it, you go "my opening Coppers become Silvers? I'm getting that right away!" But then you realize that it actually totally sucks in the beginning because it takes up space in your hand and doesn't produce any $ by itself. And then you discover when you should get it: When you don't trash your Coppers for whatever reason, but can still draw your whole deck. And then it becomes a powerhouse, and really satisfying to use.If nothing else, it was still satisfying for us to observe, and those doing it... Coppersmith, then play 4 Coppers, for a Province.
The argument is concerning spamming more than 3 copies per turn.I didn't have anything to prove. I just wanted to play a game, and the variant on Labs was tolerable. If I argued with everybody who said something negative about Dominion, that would still leave me with less free time than I'd prefer. I've got better things to do.
>"Labs are too powerful"
>"I don't think they're too powerful"
>"Yes they are"
>"Then how about you're allowed to buy them and I'm not?"
>"Sure"
Took a whole ten seconds to have that conversation.
