I was role-playing this weekend, and when we where done Dave suggested a game of Dominion.
This is my first experience of dominion and I was quite surprised. Even if the game contains a lots of cards the basic rules are quite simple.
1. You need victory points to win.
2. You got Gold that you buy new cards with.
3. You draw untill you have 5 cards on hand
4. You can only do one action and one buy per turn unless the Cards you play say otherwise (+1 action, +1 buy, +1 Card,+1 gold)
It’s essentially a game of build a good deck of cards. The victory points can be bought, but the cards will take up space in your deck (One turn I hade 1 copper and 4 VP cards in my hand) At the end of your turn, you have to drop your entire hand into the discard and draw 5 new cards. Once your draw pile is out of cards you reshuffle your discard pile and draw 5 more cards again. The same thing apply if you play a “draw more cards” card and don’t have any more cards to draw.
The Player winning the game can choose to replace a existing Action card with another type of action card from the box. This will reshape the game for the next turn. (removing the moat and adding a thief apparently makes gold cards worthless because everybody need to throw their gold away) Instead the wood cuter becomes the most valuable card since it gives +2 gold when played and it can’t be stolen. The only way to block the thief was with the moat that’s been replaced. So as you learn to play the game you are still being faced with new challenges and changing game play.
I want to get my own version.
