I like Mausoleum but even without the extra Buy it would be too strong.
Also why does it have +1 Card? If +1 Card is on a non-terminal card, it should probably have a pretty good reason to be there.
Escort, $4 Night-Duration
Until the start of your next turn, when you gain a card you may put it into your hand. At the start of your next turn, +$2 and you may trash a card from your hand.
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This is gained to your hand (instead of your discard pile).
Mausoleum, $5 Action
+1 Card
+1 Buy
Look at the top 2 cards of your deck. Choose one: Put them in your hand; Exile them, Trash them; or Discard them and +2 Cards.
Offering, $4 Action-Attack-Looter
Each other player gains a Ruins. Trash a card from your hand. If it has exactly...
1 Type: +$2
2 Types: +3 Cards, +1 Action
3 or more Types: +3VP
Opportunist, $5 Action-Reserve
Put this on your Tavern mat.
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At the start of your turn, you may call this for +$3.
While this is on your Tavern mat, when another player buys a card costing $5 or more, +1 Villager.
Vulture, $5 Action-Reserve
+3 Cards
Put this on your Tavern mat.
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When another player buys a card costing $5 or more, you may call this to either gain a Gold or gain a Silver to your hand.
Interest, $2 Action
Count the number of Interest and Savings cards in the Supply. If the difference is at least 2, draw a number of cards equal to the difference. Otherwise, +1 Card, +1 Action, +1 Buy.
Savings, $6 Treasure
$4
+1 Buy
Return this to the Supply.
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This costs $1 less per Interest you have in play.
Housing, $4 Action
+1 Card
+1 Action
+$1 per other Housing you have in play.
You may put a Victory card from your hand onto your Housing Mat.
Residents, $5 Action
If there are any Victory cards on your Housing mat with fewer Meeples than its cost in $, choose one of them, then +1 Meeple and put it on that card.
Nest, $3 Action-Duration-Host
+1 Card
+1 Action
You may discard a Treasure other than Copper to gain an Egg.
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During clean-up, if this Hosts an Egg, it stays in play.
Egg, $4 Action
Put this on an empty Nest you have in play. If you did, at the start of each of your turns, turn this over. Then, if it's face-up, trash it, gain a Chicken, and +1 VP.
Chicken
+1 Card
+1 Action
Trash an Estate from the Supply, and if you did, +2VP; otherwise, trash a Duchy from the Supply, and if you did, +3VP.
7 villages! That's a lot for an expansion with about 30 cards. Then again I feel like I've played a lot of village-less games lately, so maybe increasing the average number of villages in the pool is a good thing.
Arcade: This is way weaker than Plaza for a few reasons. When you discard a Copper with Plaza, you're basically saving the $1 the Copper would have gotten you for a future turn. But Arcade doesn't save the effect of the action you discard, and +1 Villager is usually pretty poor compensation since your Actions are generally far stronger than a Copper. Add to that the fact that Arcade gives you +2 Actions, so you'd almost always rather play the Action cards instead of discarding them. I think this card needs major changes, probably away from being a village.Agree on this one. Probably the weakest attempt of the bunch here. A prime candidate for the cutting room floor.
Cahoots: A little too complex, I think. Also I'm trying to figure out if this really provides any gameplay that Ironmonger doesn't already. It's a Laboratory far more often, I'm guessing. But I think overall it's too similar. Perhaps you can rework the concept of "if your top card matches the one of the player to your left" into a simpler, more unique form.It lets you capitalize on the player on your left's top card. In theory (at least the one I made up in my head), the most valuable form for this card is the Lab form (a $5 card vs. a $4+ and a $3), so you want the types to mismatch. If your opponent has an unusual card type on top of their deck, you can stack these against it. Say they reveal a Curse, for example. Every Cahoot is then going to be a Laboratory. Alternately, if they have a Treasure on top of their deck, none of your Cahoots will wind up being the weakest form, the Village (all will become a Peddler or a Laboratory). Probably not a huge difference, but what I was going for, anyway. I can tell you during play-testing, you can feel that difference.
Cottages: Well, this seems reasonable, but maybe not exciting. Even once it activates, it's just a village. I think it needs a little something extra. Nothing crazy, since you usually want to trash your Coppers anyway, but something.Yep, went for simplicity here.
Horse Ranch: Hmm, interesting. I like this one. As you say it's a village overall, but most of the benefit is deferred. I would cost it at $3! It's not strictly better than Village, so I think you can get away with that.$3 is an interesting idea, and I didn't even consider it. I just think filling your deck with horses seems too strong for that, but you might be right.
Mining Town: In general, effects shouldn't just happen at any time during your turn. Being able to do things in the middle of resolving effects is asking for trouble. Beyond that, I'd say this seems strong. The way it's worded, you can gain a Gold per time you've played a Mining Town, and Mining Towns are cheap. Also Natural Resource should be white and green since it's an Action-Victory card. Natural Resource will certainly shake up openings, which is mostly good, though at this point lots of cards do that already.I'd prefer it to be once per turn period, no matter how many Mining Towns get played. I'd love a wording suggestion here. I think I struggled with that for awhile when I made the card. Interestingly, Natural Resource is white and green, I just use the Night Blend mode so only the top and bottom are green while the rest is white. I hate the stripey look, so I just use that out of preference even though I know it's inconsistent. I should probably change it.
Township: This seems promising. I bet reasonably often you'll be able to get the benefit, but sometimes you won't. I'm guessing it's quite strong and maybe too strong, but I'm not willing to make that claim before testing it out.Haven't gotten this one in a game yet, so I'm not sure either. Might consider a tiny nerf on top of it, but I have no idea what.
This is such a cool mechanic! I'm looking forward to seeing all the different entries, and hopefully I can come up with a decent one.
Cool card, but it doesn't fit the contest, which requires that it be something that affects all players equally in most cases. This refers to your own Exile mat, meaning each player's Horsemaster would have a different strength, depending on how many Horses are in their own Exile mat
QuoteFamily Loyalists
Action - Duration - Attack - Kin
At the start of your next turn, +1 Buy and Kin cards cost $2 less that turn.
Move a Kin marker from one Kingdom pile to another non-Victory, non-Kin Kingdom pile.
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While this is in play, when another player plays a Kin, they put their –1 Card token on their deck.
Not sure if that is not allowed
Fan Card Mechanic Contest #7: Next of Kin.
"Kin" is a new card type from the Dynasties expansion by Aquila. Kin cards have a turqoise coloring. When a card with the Kin type is selected to be in a kingdom, two other (non-Victory) kingdom cards that were selected to be in the kingdom are randomly chosen to have the "Kin marker" placed under them. These cards are now "Kin" cards also.
The original Kin card can interact with these new cards in whatever way you choose (via being referred to as "Kin" cards in the card text).
Here are some implementations of the concept as examples (by Aquila):QuoteBanner - Victory Kin, $5 cost.
Worth 1VP per 3 Kins in your deck (round down)QuoteFestival Grounds - Action Kin, $2 cost.
+2 Actions
+1 Buy
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In games using this, when you gain a 3rd differently named Kin on your turn, you may gain a Chief.
I will include Aquila's final note on his mechanic here, too:QuoteNothing stops you from playing with 3 or more of the original Kin cards, just too many can lead to analysis paralysis and too much going on. Having 2 opens up a fun interaction between them, just enough, or one can be influential on its own. I've tried to cover a wide variety of different relationships with them; one thing that's somewhat missing is one that completely supports other Kins. I'm working on it. At the least I hope I've got across the feel for compelling diversity and replayability I get with the Kin mechanic.
If you use the generator and want to use a standard color that is close to the Turqoise Aquila used, I suggest these:
R: 0.2, G: 1.1, B: 1.0
or something like RGB: 0, 240, 235 in a normal graphics program.
This will probably be impossible, but I plan to playtest each entry in at least part of an actual game in Tabletop Simulator. A complete game for each would almost definitely be out of the question, but at least throwing a few turns around should be possible. I plan to ask for feedback from several others and incorporate their thoughts and opinions into my judging process due to my inexperience in judging cards, but I promise I will do my best.
I will close submissions at noon (my time, central US) on the next Sunday of your life. Judging will then be as soon as possible.
To clarify: there are no restrictions on which cards can receive the Kin marker, except that they cannot be Victory cards? E.g., they could be Night or Treasure cards?
Fan Card Mechanic Contest #7: Next of Kin.
"Kin" is a new card type from the Dynasties expansion by Aquila. Kin cards have a turqoise coloring.
Would you like to standardize the custom color for Kin cards? When mathdude hosted a contest using Dawn cards, he gave us the RGB values for the card, so they could all look the same. I realize this is not exactly the same situation, as Aquila created the cards initially.
Banner - Victory Kin, $5 cost.
Worth 1VP per 3 Kins in your deck (round down)
Festival Grounds - Action Kin, $2 cost.
+2 Actions
+1 Buy
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In games using this, when you gain a 3rd differently named Kin on your turn, you may gain a Chief.
Nothing stops you from playing with 3 or more of the original Kin cards, just too many can lead to analysis paralysis and too much going on. Having 2 opens up a fun interaction between them, just enough, or one can be influential on its own. I've tried to cover a wide variety of different relationships with them; one thing that's somewhat missing is one that completely supports other Kins. I'm working on it. At the least I hope I've got across the feel for compelling diversity and replayability I get with the Kin mechanic.
Results!
Very well designed cards everyone! There's not a single card I would describe as lackluster, and with a few minor tweaks I think any of these cards could have been in the number one spot! Very close call, congratulations all! This judgement was so delayed because I had to just spend a whole day thinking about the cards and seeing how they looked on second sight, and then another day for the feedback they all deserved. This is a very tough choice to make but I think I have to go with:
Honorable mentions: Orcs/Elven Village, Faustian Dealings
Runner up: Fishwife/Townspeople
Winner: Craftsman
Congratulations to user DunnoItAll! Seems you do know something after all!
I've replaced the images in the original post now with images of higher quality.
A few notes, if you want to play with those cards:
- They are only a subset of a large expansion. I am still working on some cards before I may show them.
- From the cards shown here, Drummer/Drums and Mahout/Elephant use Morale. This is a pile of 30 landscape cards, comparable to a mix of Boons/Hexes. All players are affected from the actual Morale until the next one is revealed. Players receive the actual Morale at the start of their turns (not when they are revealed).
- Elephant and Coach can gain a Cart. This is in a non-Supply pile with a limited copy number. My current setting is 6 copies for 2 players, +2 copies for every additional player. Please note that Cart says "empty pile" and not "empty Supply pile". So, also non-Supply piles count, i.e also the Cart pile itself.
- Most importantly, I recommend not to play with too many of the Equipment cards at once. That can be confusing at the beginning, and even annoying after a while (if done too often). Consider it like a game full of Heirlooms and/or with a lot of Fate and Doom cards.
I see. Would the following quality be high enough?
Easily. Sorry it's a pain. I thought you probably just had a stash of them on your computer from the generator.
No, there are still too often changes. For that purpose, it's quicker and easier to work with low resolution images. If you like, I can gradually replace (some) of the images over the next couple of days. Although it wouldn't be highest on my priority list. Anyway, if you indeed play with some of my cards, I would be very happy if you could give me some feedback. Thanks.
I see. Would the following quality be high enough?
