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[crj]

While we're on the subject of strange treasures, am I the only person bugged by Fortune saying "x2" in the corner instead of "×2"? Lower-case X and a multiplication sign are not the same!

*twitch*

[LastFootnote]

While we're on the subject of strange treasures, am I the only person bugged by Fortune saying "x2" in the corner instead of "×2"? Lower-case X and a multiplication sign are not the same!

*twitch*

My prototype had the correct symbol.

Don’t ever trust Matthias Catrein to do something correctly. He does not care.

[Jimmmmm]

Did you consider putting a "+" sign on treasures to help avoid "Market gives you Coppers" confusion?

[ConMan]

It looks like the Japanese version of Renaissance still uses Coin token to refer to what are now Coffers, although it does now say "+1 Coin token" instead of "Take a coin token". On the other hand, Villagers are called "Villager tokens". Was there discussion about changing the name of Coffers in other language versions to remain consistent with English?


For reference:
Coin token = コイントークン koin tōkun
Villager = 村人トークン murabito tōkun

[Donald X.]

Did you consider putting a "+" sign on treasures to help avoid "Market gives you Coppers" confusion?

It was a long time ago, but I don't think so. We did not have that confusion ourselves.

[Donald X.]

It looks like the Japanese version of Renaissance still uses Coin token to refer to what are now Coffers, although it does now say "+1 Coin token" instead of "Take a coin token". On the other hand, Villagers are called "Villager tokens". Was there discussion about changing the name of Coffers in other language versions to remain consistent with English?

When foreign publishers ask me questions, I answer them. When they don't, they just do whatever they do. In this case, there were no questions; I didn't even know there was a Japanese version.

[Asper]

Don’t ever trust Matthias Catrein to do something correctly. He does not care.

Where's this coming from? Is he known to be unreliable?

[Donald X.]

Don’t ever trust Matthias Catrein to do something correctly. He does not care.

Where's this coming from? Is he known to be unreliable?

Matthias has done the layout for all of the Dominion expansions. You can go look at what made it out back when we didn't endlessly correct everything. http://dominion.diehrstraits.com/

These days we have pass after pass of corrections, which LastFootnote has participated in for Adventures through Renaissance. Despite that, 24 cards in Renaissance have the wrong color frames.

[Cave-o-sapien]

While we're on the subject of strange treasures, am I the only person bugged by Fortune saying "x2" in the corner instead of "×2"? Lower-case X and a multiplication sign are not the same!

*twitch*

If you think that's bad, don't look too closely at your Curse cards.

[crj]

Curses are allowed to look horrible!

[LibraryAdventurer]

While we're on the subject of strange treasures, am I the only person bugged by Fortune saying "x2" in the corner instead of "×2"? Lower-case X and a multiplication sign are not the same!

I don't get it. What's the difference between a lowercase x and a multiplication sign?

[Jeebus]

I don't get it. What's the difference between a lowercase x and a multiplication sign?

Times New Roman Italic:

[LibraryAdventurer]

I don't get it. What's the difference between a lowercase x and a multiplication sign?

Times New Roman Italic:

I'd argue but I don't want to derail the thread (any worse than it already is).

[greybirdofprey]

I don't get it. What's the difference between a lowercase x and a multiplication sign?

Times New Roman Italic:

[hvb]

Hey Donald, i haven`t played Dominion for over 2 years and came back to it since one week. So the expansions Empires, Nocturne, Renaissance and Base 2nd Ed. are totally new for me.
Before i stopped playing, Dominion was already the best game around and i got pretty addicted. But with the recent expansions it came to another level. The new cards, game mechanics and possibilities are mindblowing!! It is so much fun to play. For me it was not imaginable, that the game would be able to get improved by that margin.
Maybe the biggest difference is the feel that almost every card has a huge impact now regularily, when before more cards were almost always neglectible (chancellor, adventurer,...).

Just wanted to give you that feedback. Fantastic work!

[Awaclus]

While we're on the subject of strange treasures, am I the only person bugged by Fortune saying "x2" in the corner instead of "×2"? Lower-case X and a multiplication sign are not the same!

*twitch*

If you think that's bad, don't look too closely at your Curse cards.

What's wrong with the Curse cards?

[Marcory]

While we're on the subject of strange treasures, am I the only person bugged by Fortune saying "x2" in the corner instead of "×2"? Lower-case X and a multiplication sign are not the same!

*twitch*

If you think that's bad, don't look too closely at your Curse cards.

What's wrong with the Curse cards?

They cost you -1 each and they clog up space in your deck that could be better occupied by more useful cards, or by nothing at all.

[crj]

What's wrong with the Curse cards?

It looks like they use the hyphen-minus rather than the minus sign. Maybe a hyphen. Maybe the "-" and the "1" aren't even in the same typeface.

A hyphen "‐1", a hyphen-minus "-1", and a minus sign "−1" are all different.

[Donald X.]

Just wanted to give you that feedback. Fantastic work!

Thanks!

[GendoIkari]

While we're on the subject of strange treasures, am I the only person bugged by Fortune saying "x2" in the corner instead of "×2"? Lower-case X and a multiplication sign are not the same!

*twitch*

If you think that's bad, don't look too closely at your Curse cards.

What's wrong with the Curse cards?

They cost you -1 each and they clog up space in your deck that could be better occupied by more useful cards, or by nothing at all.

Awaclus just got Awaclused.

[ipofanes]

While we're on the subject of strange treasures, am I the only person bugged by Fortune saying "x2" in the corner instead of "×2"? Lower-case X and a multiplication sign are not the same!

*twitch*

If you think that's bad, don't look too closely at your Curse cards.

What's wrong with the Curse cards?

They cost you -1 each and they clog up space in your deck that could be better occupied by more useful cards, or by nothing at all.

Some people consider them worse than Silvers.

[Phil]

Despite that, 24 cards in Renaissance have the wrong color frames.

Which?  I glanced through them and didn't see anything suspicious.

(Also, Renaissance is amazing.  Nocturne left me a bit cold, but I got Renai over the holidays and played it quite a bit with friends, and we enjoyed the heck out of it.  I'm consistently amazed that you still find new not-overly-complex design space to mine.  Thanks for continuing to put out high-quality expansions, a decade plus in.  I really appreciate it.)

[Donald X.]

Despite that, 24 cards in Renaissance have the wrong color frames.

Which?  I glanced through them and didn't see anything suspicious.

All kingdom cards except Research. Compare Research to Cargo Ship, that's the easy one. The Renaissance cards are lighter than normal.

(Also, Renaissance is amazing.  Nocturne left me a bit cold, but I got Renai over the holidays and played it quite a bit with friends, and we enjoyed the heck out of it.  I'm consistently amazed that you still find new not-overly-complex design space to mine.  Thanks for continuing to put out high-quality expansions, a decade plus in.  I really appreciate it.)

(Thanks; it's not getting easier, but having tokens helps a lot.)

[Phil]

All kingdom cards except Research. Compare Research to Cargo Ship, that's the easy one. The Renaissance cards are lighter than normal.

Ahh, I thought you meant something like "it should have been blue but we forgot to put the Reaction color."  Yeah, we noticed that the cards seemed a bit washed-out color-wise.  Fortunately it doesn't affect gameplay.

Dracs* like Donate and Keep (and cards like Chapel) pretty dramatically change the way the game plays at the table in what I believe to be an intentional way.  (Unlike, say, Rebuild, which often dominates Kingdoms in a way I suspect was less intentional.)  I'm not sure anything in Renaissance comes quite to that level, although Capitalism might be close.  Do you intentionally look for/design a "big splash" or two for your sets, or is it just a result of exploring the design space, or...?

(* I was explaining Race for the Galaxy the other day and needed to differentiate between the role-selection Card Shaped Objects and regular cards, and my childhood habit of reversing words came to the rescue.  It's a dumb word, but one people seem to immediately get.  I expect it to catch on with exactly zero other people... but very soon!)

[Awaclus]

Dracs* like Donate and Keep (and cards like Chapel) pretty dramatically change the way the game plays at the table in what I believe to be an intentional way.  (Unlike, say, Rebuild, which often dominates Kingdoms in a way I suspect was less intentional.)  I'm not sure anything in Renaissance comes quite to that level, although Capitalism might be close.

Cathedral is probably pretty close to Donate.