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[Seprix]

Remove Pillage, replace with Urchin or Cultist. Sounds good otherwise.

[iguanaiguana]

Allright, let's design a "worst possible" Kingdom (subjective, obviously):

Possession
Saboteur
King's Court
Scrying Pool
Torturer
Swindler
Militia
University (got to support those Torturer chains and Scrying Pool)
Knights
Pillage

Needs masquerade real bad

[Awaclus]

I still think the worst kingdom is Ghost Ship, Scheme and 8 useless terminals. I played a 2-player IRL game like that for like 2.5 hours.

[Seprix]

Allright, let's design a "worst possible" Kingdom (subjective, obviously):

Possession
Saboteur
King's Court
Scrying Pool
Torturer
Swindler
Militia
University (got to support those Torturer chains and Scrying Pool)
Knights
Pillage

Needs masquerade real bad

I'd almost cut Militia for Urchin too. Pillage for Cultist, and I'd even consider replacing Saboteur for Masquerade. No one is going to buy Saboteur.

[Seprix]

I still think the worst kingdom is Ghost Ship, Scheme and 8 useless terminals. I played a 2-player IRL game like that for like 2.5 hours.

That's disgusting.

Try a board with Knights, Graverobber, no villages, and nothing else useful on the board. Worst board ever.

[Asper]

Allright, let's design a "worst possible" Kingdom (subjective, obviously):

Possession
Saboteur
King's Court
Scrying Pool
Torturer
Swindler
Militia
University (got to support those Torturer chains and Scrying Pool)
Knights
Pillage

Needs masquerade real bad

I'd almost cut Militia for Urchin too. Pillage for Cultist, and I'd even consider replacing Saboteur for Masquerade. No one is going to buy Saboteur.

Isn't KC/Saboteur, like, hell? Also you can pick it up for free with University. Appreciate my thoughtfulness, goddammit!

[iguanaiguana]

Allright, let's design a "worst possible" Kingdom (subjective, obviously):

Possession
Saboteur
King's Court
Scrying Pool
Torturer
Swindler
Militia
University (got to support those Torturer chains and Scrying Pool)
Knights
Pillage

Needs masquerade real bad

I'd almost cut Militia for Urchin too. Pillage for Cultist, and I'd even consider replacing Saboteur for Masquerade. No one is going to buy Saboteur.

Isn't KC/Saboteur, like, hell? Also you can pick it up for free with University. Appreciate my thoughtfulness, goddammit!

Destroy all your opponent's cards or possess them and force them to pass you all of their possessions, your choice.

[singletee]

Needs Rogue or Graverobber. We want the game to go on forever, right?

[iguanaiguana]

Clearly the worst kingdom ever needs a stacked black market so that we can jam pack as many toe curling combos in as possible.

[BraveBear]

This would have not been a "worst game of dominion" online.  Or even if I was playing more experienced opponents.

However I played a IRL kingdom from hell.  Only because of me of course.

I decided to play an Advisor, Wandering Minstrel, Storeroom engine with Armory support.  It was a three person game however both my opponents decided to play BM.  I quickly drained the advisors and had 4 or so Wandering Minstrels and 2 Storerooms.  My turns took 10 minutes each with the result of buying a province per turn.  While my opponents turns took 10 seconds.  It was not a fun game because they were all butt hurt at me for my turns taking forever.  Oh well

I'm not sure if that would be the worst game IRL.  But I would assume someone could come up with something worst.  Maybe a Hunting Party, Advisor, Scrying Pool, Spy, Envoy, Wandering Minstrel, Oracle engine in a 4 person game where everyone has 10 minute turns......

[Nevermind]

Any IRL game where I have had to ask myself, "Do I contest my opponent for Cities or let him buy them all out with the exception of the one I bought to feel like I had a chance?"

[Seprix]

I post a thread, and everyone but me gets upvotes and a spot on the top of the week's best!

*throws a tantrum*

[liopoil]

I post a thread, and everyone but me gets upvotes and a spot on the top of the week's best!

*throws a tantrum*

Hey, stop derailing the thread.

[Seprix]

I post a thread, and everyone but me gets upvotes and a spot on the top of the week's best!

*throws a tantrum*

Hey, stop derailing the thread.

You guys are the ones derailing the thread!

[Awaclus]

I post a thread, and everyone but me gets upvotes and a spot on the top of the week's best!

*throws a tantrum*

Hey, stop derailing the thread.

You guys are the ones derailing the thread!

You were originally the one who started derailing this "worst games" thread with Dominion.

[JacquesTheBard]

Guys, can we stop bullying Seprix?

[Asper]

Guys, can we stop bullying Seprix?

B-but... he threw a tantrum at me...

But seriously, this is all in good fun. Just, the good fun is made at Seprix' expense.
Oh... I see...

[werothegreat]

You know what game is poorly designed?  Russian Roulette.  No strategy involved at all.

[eHalcyon]

You know what game is poorly designed?  Russian Roulette.  No strategy involved at all.

Have you ever played it though?  I hate when people dismiss games without trying them first.  I see it with Dominion a lot, and now you're doing it with Russian Roulette.  If you give it a fair chance (that means actually playing it more than once), you may learn to appreciate its subtleties.

[markusin]

You know what game is poorly designed?  Russian Roulette.  No strategy involved at all.

Have you ever played it though?  I hate when people dismiss games without trying them first.  I see it with Dominion a lot, and now you're doing it with Russian Roulette.  If you give it a fair chance (that means actually playing it more than once), you may learn to appreciate its subtleties.

Yeah at least see what BGG has to say about it or something.

[werothegreat]

You know what game is poorly designed?  Russian Roulette.  No strategy involved at all.

Have you ever played it though?  I hate when people dismiss games without trying them first.  I see it with Dominion a lot, and now you're doing it with Russian Roulette.  If you give it a fair chance (that means actually playing it more than once), you may learn to appreciate its subtleties.

Yeah at least see what BGG has to say about it or something.

I think you'll find an inherent bias in the users who are able to post reviews.

[Jeebus]

It's a tie between all the games when Goko freezes when the game is loading, giving the other player an auto-win. This happens to me quite a lot, and it very rarely happens the other way.

[Co0kieL0rd]

The worst kingdom needs to include Page. I just played a game with Asper with Page and he managed to trash my Warrior and then build a chain of 6 Pages. I'm sure there's people here who can relate to that. It's very frustrating and it makes me think that Warrior/Page is the worst designed card pair in Dominion. It's just awful, there's nothing fun about it. Sorry, Donald.

[Seprix]

The worst kingdom needs to include Page. I just played a game with Asper with Page and he managed to trash my Warrior and then build a chain of 6 Pages. I'm sure there's people here who can relate to that. It's very frustrating and it makes me think that Warrior/Page is the worst designed card pair in Dominion. It's just awful, there's nothing fun about it. Sorry, Donald.

Ban it with Rebuild.

[Asper]

The worst kingdom needs to include Page. I just played a game with Asper with Page and he managed to trash my Warrior and then build a chain of 6 Pages. I'm sure there's people here who can relate to that. It's very frustrating and it makes me think that Warrior/Page is the worst designed card pair in Dominion. It's just awful, there's nothing fun about it. Sorry, Donald.

I think the idea behind it is cute: Have Page be a simple cantrip that has no use on its own and then make another card in the same line that rewards you for playing those Pages. Nice, very cool idea. The problem is just, the bonus that Donald picked is repugnant. It's swingy, frustrating, annoying and drags out the game. The fact that it disables other players from doing the same, recovering or getting to savety (using Champion) is just cream on top.

Why are people complaining about Champion when the real offender is Warrior?