The past few days have been a little slow on here, so I went over to BGG to try and get my Dominion chatter fix.
My mistake.
I guess I'm so used to talking to people who either own all the expansions or are familiar with them and can appreciate them. Reading how people avoid Alchemy and Cornucopia because of how complicated they are puzzles me. Also, I think my heart broke when someone said they were disappointed by Hinterlands. I just wanted to shove Fool's Gold in their face, but not in a mean way.
And whenever people ask about which expansion to get first (which just gets so old), I can't help but look to my own experiences with teaching people Dominion. It really, really depends on the person. Some people need to play the First Game setup fifty times before they can even be shown, happenstance forbid, Chancellor, or their brains will break. Other people I've shown Hinterlands and Dark Ages on their second game and they don't even bat an eye. One person I showed it to, who had MTG experience, was bored and disappointed by the First Game setup, so I threw Hinterlands and Dark Ages at him just to show him how much variety there was. He really enjoyed Ill-Gotten Gains and Cultist. Like, a bit too much. I'll most likely be playing Dominion with him again, but the base set will be left at home.
Anyway, that's my whatever this is.