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Gaming => Table-top Games => Topic started by: Wyldwing on December 20, 2009, 08:19:27
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Well... I'm glad you resurrected your old thread since I got this game as a Christmas present. (Thanks again Chris!!)
I read through the rules tonight and looked through most of the cards. Although I haven't played it yet, I think I can say with confidence that this game is something we will have a lot of fun playing. The 25 decks of cards are all optional, as you only use 10 decks per game and I don't think that they will make the game too complicated... it would just give us some more options to play with.
I also noticed that Dominion already has an expansion out which adds some new decks, which should increase the variety of gameplay.
(I tried to use as much of Nathaniel's post as possible...call it...digital recycling).
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Just finished my first game of Dominion with Kamryn and Wendy. They both enjoyed it and I had a lot of fun. Can't wait to play it with you guys...it is (rightfully so) limited to 4 players. But a very cool game.
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There are actually two expansions out for this game. The first one will expand the experience to up to 6 players!! I will have to wait on purchasing Seaside, but I will be calling Patrick and Tim to find out how the 6 player version works for them. Sometimes adding that ability changes the game into something that isn't fun anymore...can't imagine that with Dominion...but I'll find out. Unfortunately, Emerald City doesn't carry Intrigue. I'd have to order it online.
Dominion: Intrigue
Dominion: Intrigue adds rules for playing with up to 8 players at two tables or for playing a single game with up to 6 players. This game adds 25 new Kingdom cards and a complete set of Treasure and Victory cards. The game can be played alone by players experienced in Dominion or with the basic game of Dominion.
Dominion: Seaside
All you ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by. And someone who knows how to steer ships using stars. You finally got some of those rivers you'd wanted, and they led to the sea. These are dangerous, pirate-infested waters, and you cautiously send rat-infested ships across them, to establish lucrative trade at far-off merchant-infested ports.
First, you will take over some islands, as a foothold. The natives seem friendly enough, crying their peace cries, and giving you spears and poison darts before you are even close enough to accept them properly. When you finally reach those ports you will conquer them, and from there you will look for more rivers. One day, all the rivers will be yours.
This is the 2nd addition to Dominion. It adds 26 new Kingdom cards. Its central theme is your next turn; there are cards that do something this turn and next, cards that set up your next turn, and other ways to step outside of the bounds of a normal turn.
Dominion: Seaside is an expansion to both Dominion and Dominion: Intrigue. As such, it does not contain material for a complete game. Specifically, it does not include the Treasure, Victory, Curse, or Trash cards. Thus, you will need either the base game or Intrigue to play with this expansion and have experience playing Dominion with either of the first two games. It is designed to work with either or both of these sets, and any future expansions that may be published.
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I saw the Seaside expansion in the store. I personally have enough trouble keeping track of what I'm doing in my current turn of Dominion, much less trying to remember what I'm supposed to do later. ::)
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i just picked up a copy of dominion alcamey i have had a copy of dominion for a cople of weeks now i have played a cople of games now and my friends seem to like it i have only looked over the alcamey cards and cant wait to play with them
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This begs two questions... 1. What kind of stuff is in the Alchemy expansion? 2. Why have you never invited your one group of gaming friends to game with your other group of gaming friends? :'( Ashamed of us?
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1-well the card that stand out the most is possession it lets you take control of the player to you lefts turn and gain any cards he buys and there potions that are a new form of money that some cards cost
2- i have been trying
i am going to have another gaming session with them Monday or Tuesday any of you are welcome to join
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I'm transcribing this from an episode of "The Dice Tower" podcast ep. 169. It was a house variant suggested by a guy named John Simmers to the Dice Tower guys, and I thought it was intriguing given our recent discovery of Dominion.
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"This variant plays exactly like normal Dominion, but the setup is different, and the whole turn-out depends on it.
"Instead of randomizing the kingdom cards or using a prescribed 10-card setup, players take turns choosing supply cards. The catch is though, that only the player choosing those cards will get to use them... except for one anyway.
"So, here's how it looks. Player-A flips through the randomizers... until he finds the supply he wants. He takes that card and puts it in front of him. Player-B picks a different card and puts it in front of him. If there are more players they each do the same thing.
"This continues until each player has four cards representing the supply piles before them. Players will have exclusive rights to buy from these. No one else will be able to, but there's a balancer here because one card's rights will be revoked.
"As the next step, each player will secretly choose a card from the person to their left. When everybody is ready, someone says 'go' and all players simultaneously point to one card in front of the player to their left. That card/supply pile is pulled into the center.
"So when you're ready to start, each player will have 3 supply piles in front of them that no one else can buy from, plus supply piles in the middle from which everyone can buy equal to the number of players in the game."
(As stated above, the rest of the rules stay the same.)
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I thought this sounded interesting. I'm not saying we need to try this for our event, especially since there are a bunch of cards I've never even seen. I'm just putting this post up as a reminder for when you're looking to mix things up and try something new.
If you want the tips on possible strategy construction that followed, I suggest listening to the free podcast which you can find at www.thedicetower.com (http://www.thedicetower.com), or download it from iTunes.
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Very Interesting!!!
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Yeah, that does sound cool, although I'm not yet familiar with much of Dominion in the first place. It's a fun game... something I'm definitely interested in trying more.
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Yeah...we're going to need to find a time for you to do that!! ;D
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I told my wife that if she didn't have anything else in mind already, I'd really like to get Dominion for my birthday and I mentioned that she could probably find it at Emerald City in Clearwater. Tonight she told me, "If you already know what you're going to get, you might as well go buy it yourself." So I said, "If that's what you want me to do, that's fine." Kind of takes the fun out of it, but I was just trying to offer a suggestion since she kept asking me what I wanted (http://www.funagain.com/list/11814). Anyway, I'll be in Clearwater on Wednesday for a "Professional Mixer" for work, so if I have time I might end up swinging by Emerald City to pick up my birthday present.
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Nice!!!!
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Yeah.... would have been cool, but I didn't get out of that thing for work until after 8pm tonight. On top of that, my wife had to take another cat to the vet this evening, and I needed to put gas in my car... along with some other bills that went through just a couple days ago, which means I've got next to no money until payday.... and then I'll be broke again because of bills due before the next payday. At this point I don't even have money to go out to my favorite place for dinner on my birthday. :'( Well... anyway, I'm going to get Dominion one of these days. It's a great game!
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So her actual birthday present to you was to let you buy something you wanted. I guess when you're married, you take what you can get. ::)
If you still want it to be a surprise, you can give her the option of buying one of the two Dominion base games... and by the time you can afford it, the real surprise will come in that you'll get your birthday present for Hanukkah.
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She actually did surprise me this evening. She came home and said, "I have enough money available on my credit card so we can go out to eat." I had told her a couple months back that I really wanted to go to Carrabba's on my birthday - that's my favorite restaurant to eat at. After everything that happened yesterday, I didn't think that was even going to be possible, since she had pulled all the money out of savings to go get the cat checked out and get some anti-depression medication for our cat. Since I've been keeping up on the bills though, she did manage to have some money available on her credit card so we could go out. I know... in some ways it felt a bit crazy to go out splurging on a meal, but since that was the birthday present that I was given, I decided to take it.
In any case... I will get Dominion eventually, even if it is buying it for myself as a Hanukkah gift. ;)
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Anti-depression medicine...for a CAT? ??? Wow....I can't say I'd ever spend money on that! I value other things far more than my cat's happiness. You're not worried that it's going to jump out in front of a dog someday and end it all, are you?
Anyway, I'm glad you found the money to go to Carrabas. Wendy and I enjoy that too. Typically we sit up at the grill area so we can watch them cook and we'll share the fried mozzarella and then share an entrée. Typically we get water as well, so the evening is quite reasonable.
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I think that's what it was... although I'm not certain what the medication was, but yes, it was something because the cat wasn't acting herself.
We like sitting up at the grill at Carrabba's too! Actually, for the last 3 or 4 times that we've gone there we've sat at up at the grill area. Very cool seeing the chefs flip stuff around. Plus, we've even gotten some great samples that way. ;D
Tonight my wife went out after checking our bills. She also mentioned something about getting some other money... not sure where that came from, but I heard her say that she might be gone for a while.... maybe I'll have a new game this evening. :)
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I'm hoping that I'll get a chance to break out my copy of Dominion again soon. I was very excited about getting it for my birthday because I thought for sure that it was a game that was fun and short enough that my wife would be interested in playing more often. Unfortunately, so far I've only been able to play one game of it with her. The last time that I asked her about playing it with me she said, "Not when you ask at 10 o'clock at night," then she proceeded to stay up for another hour on Facebook. I'm hoping that this Sunday afternoon, while we're at a pizza & games party with some friends, I'll get to introduce them to Dominion.
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Come over pal. I'll ensure it gets played!!
For one thing, Wendy and I BOTH love it.
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The previous weekend was spent in partially in the hospital, but this weekend I felt well enough to get out of the house and go play some games. After lighting off some fireworks to celebrate New Years with the kids, my friend Blain and I enjoyed a few games of Dominion. My wife and his wife get along well, and once the "Falalala Lifetime" movies started for Christmas season they decided to go watch some movies while Blain and I play Dominion. (I really thought that it would be a game that my wife would like, but she keeps getting frustrated with me trying to enforce some basic things to keep things from getting confusing, so although I'd really like to play the game with her too, maybe it's better that we don't.)
Anyway, one notable game this weekend we had quite a battle between the Stash and the Gardens. Blain had picked up several Stash cards early in the game. The Thief was in play, without the Moat, which I was using to try to pull Treasure cards out of Blain's deck, but I didn't have much success with that. He was using the Stash cards to keep the treasure in his hand rather than in his deck, which obviously worked out well. He was also cycling through his deck often enough to pick up a very threatening amount of provinces. Fortunately for me, I had a couple Workshops, and since I ended up getting very little Treasure, I spent several turns picking up the Gardens with the Workshop and buying an Estate with my 2 Copper. By the end of the game, Blain had most of the Provinces, but I had all but one of the Gardens. I had 50 cards in my deck at the end, making each Gardens card worth 5 victory points, but in my final turn of the game I chose to take a Village rather than an Estate and that cost me the game. Blain beat me by one victory point: 79 to 78!
So... the moral is, never underestimate the little Estates. :D
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Well... although we played Dominion quite a bit last year (not that I was ever posting about it here at that time, but it was our most played game of 2021 (https://www.dragonshobbies.com/archive.php)), this year it took a while before it hit the table. The really nice thing was, that it was brought over by our old friend, Mac (https://www.dragonshobbies.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=117). It had been a while since we had seen Mac and he mentioned that he felt like a time traveler, seeing us here and there at different points of our lives, each time having our children much more grown than the last time he'd seen them.
Yesterday Mac brought over Dominion: Empires, which is an expansion of the game that I hadn't played before. My son, Isaac, also joined us at the table. Using just the Base Cards along with the Empires set, we played the Basic Empires setup. The first game took quite a while, almost 2 hours to play, due to several off-topic discussions, a late dinner, and some work-related issues. (I'm on call this week.) One of the cards used most often was The Wedding, which gave us Gold and a Victory point and occasionally some debt, which was sometimes even rolled over into the next Wedding. We joked about how many wives we were marrying and how some of us didn't have enough land to support that many wives. Although I used The Wedding a few times myself, it wasn't as much as Isaac did. He had a stack of extra Victory points from Weddings and the Farmers Market which was nearly double of what I had. In the end, Isaac and Mac had a tie score, but Mac won with the tie-breaker since he'd had less turns than Isaac.
After some delay, we decided to play another game using the same card set. This time Mac started the game. He mentioned at the end that he'd gone with a different strategy than the previous game. (He had more attacks in the first game and went all out focusing on Weddings for Gold and Provinces this time.) Once again, I didn't feel like I could get a good strategy together but our game did go much faster the second time. Isaac and I nearly tied this time, but Mac had a big lead away from us.
Of course, I really enjoy playing Dominion whether I'm winning or losing. Most of the cards in the game are enjoyable to play with, especially when it gets into the multiple-action-chain. The Empires expansion is no exception to this.
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I finally got the Alchemy expansion for Dominion and played it against my son. We decided to try using 10 cards just from the Alchemy box rather than going with one of the Suggested Sets which combined Alchemy with cards from another box, just because we wanted to see the Alchemy cards the most. Out of the 12 cards that were available for the domain, I chose to remove the Familiar and Scrying Eye from our first game, primarily based on the fact that there were more cards that has 2 or 3 coins in the costs. Getting any synergy was slow going, but eventually we got there. Isaac picked up the first Province. At the end of the game, he was able to buy two Provinces in the final turn of the game!
There were definitely some powerful cards in the set. The potions do change up the way that treasures are considered. I was hoping to make more use of them and I think I had 3, maybe even 4 at one point in the game, but they ended up clogging my hand more than being useful since I got unlucky and often had either no potions or multiple potions when I could only spend one. Isaac made good use of the Golem and Alchemist. I tried using the Possession card when I could, and probably managed to get most of my stuff during turns I could use that, since Isaac had built up a good deck.
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Friday night, Isaac and I played Dominion again with the Alchemy expansion. This time we used the cards from the "Forbidden Arts" set, which includes some about half of the cards in supply from the first Dominion set, along with the Bandit card which was in the second edition of the Dominion set. That confirms that I got an updated version of the Alchemy set since the 2nd edition for the base set wasn't released until after Alchemy originally came out.
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Today, Isaac and I played Dominion again with the Alchemy set called Potion Mixers. I found that I really like the Herbalist from this set of cards, but the Transmute along with the Golem just got me flooded with more Transmute cards than I ever needed. At the end of the game, I had about as much money as Isaac did, but he had gotten the Silver and Gold earlier and managed to get almost all of the Provinces. He never even got a single potion during the game and I only had one. The Herbalist helped keep the Potion playable more than having multiple Potion cards did in previous plays, but I'm still not sure if it even seems worth picking one up. There are still many sets to try with Alchemy and I'm not giving up on it yet, but it definitely feels safer to have just a single Potion with the sets played so far.