Dominion

[Wishmaster]

Just played a game of this at lunchtime today. Took me a while to get to grips with what I had to do but once I'd twigged it decided it was a very good game and actually simple to play> i don't usually like card only games, but I may even have to consider a purchase of this one sometime.

[Bixby]

Cool.
I played this at BGG.CON and bought it shortly after playing it. Very clever deck building / deck use mechanic.

[Wishmaster]

Yes, that's the bit I got confused with until about 3/4 way through... then it all dropped into place.

[Wishmaster]

Did I read somewhere here that there's an expansion and a new stand alone version?

[Lardarse]

Dominion: Intrigue will be stand-alone. No decision has currently been made for Dominion: Seaside.

[Wishmaster]

Bit of an update here : According to BGG Forums, of which our fried Jay at Rio Grande along with the games author have contributed... Dominion: Intrigue is in fact both an expansion and stand alone game. It will contain another 25 Kingdom cards, plus treasure and estate cards etc as in the base game. There will be rules to allow up to 6 players or (oddly) two tables of four to play. It should be due April/May time.

Meanwhile, a second expansion only set is said to be due later in the year (September I think?)

even more meanwhile  BGG are offering two exclusive promo kingdom card sets (10 of each) of the game direct from there site for jus 1p (UK) and only a couple of quid P&P - A very generous bargain courtesy of the games author - They will not be available in either of the above sets.

And then I played a couple of games at lunchtime. As part of an experiment a group of us tried the base set with 'too many' players. We had an 8 player game followed by a 6 player! Stuch to only 10 kingdom sets but ignored copper and esates running out as far as game end went. Actually it good fun. The six player proved best but you do need to think what kingdom cards you play with.

[Wishmaster]

I actually managed to by a copy of Dominion yesterday from my local friendly games specialist. He did it at a good price as i'm a member of my works club and we've put some business his way. Fantastic - Wishy happy now. 

[Bixby]

Congrats on getting the game!

[Novelty]

So, will we be getting an unboxing set of photos and a review anytime soon, Wishmaster?

[Wishmaster]

So, will we be getting an unboxing set of photos and a review anytime soon, Wishmaster?

Dunno about the un-boxing pics but I may write something up....

[Novelty]

Use imagebucket or flickr or something to host your images, if that's what's holding it up...

[canada steve]

Played this last night, a very good game but no way worth the money for what is a bunch of cards IMO.

[Wishmaster]

Played this last night, a very good game but no way worth the money for what is a bunch of cards IMO.

can't agree with you there. It's a well thought out, very balanced game. It's in a good solid box, well designed inner tray and %00 cards all with excellent artwork on them. Lots of play variations too, so hours on hours worth of play and no game is the same. Good value in my book.

That said, i've no idea how much you paid for it of course!! 

[canada steve]

Over £30 for a box of cards is a lot of money. The game is good but as I said not worth the cash. I mean you dont really pay for the packaging at the end of the day do you ! Yes the cards are well designed but remember they are cards and they do get worn as they are the only thing in use for a whole game and they do get a fair amount of use so will get bent, tatty in the end.

[Wishmaster]

My two sets of the extra (promo) cards turned up in the post today. Fantastic!!