Just joined although I've read the forums and articles for a while. I started playing Dominion last fall and ended up introducing it to one of my students after he tried to teach me Magic like this:
Him: OK, now that you won with both of us playing starter decks, you keep playing with that and I'll use my deck.
<5 minutes later>
Me: Yay, I'm winning!
Him: And now you have triggered my unbeatable death trap combo.
Me: Great.
After about 2 games like this, I introduced him to Dominion and he enjoyed it so much he brought friends. Meanwhile, my initial reservations about playing hard against students were gone and I just called every game a learning experience for them. ("And now you have learned that the Ambassador's gifts of copper should not be welcomed.") I also count it a minor success that my nerdlings are about half female while before I started playing with them, all the kids who played games after school were boys. And since they all think I'm doing them a favor by letting them hang out in my classroom, I make them clean things. Win!
But every now and then I like to play a game with adults. Recently started playing on Goko.
Anyway, hi.
