Dominion (game)

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Dominion
Game data
author Donald X. Vaccarino
publishing company Rio Grande Games
et al. a.
Publishing year 2008
Art Card game
Teammates 2 to 4 (with extension to 6)
Duration about 30 minutes
Age from 8 years

Awards

Dominion is a card game with which Donald X. Vaccarino started the deck building genre. The players build their personal set of cards from a range of cards that varies from game to game. By cleverly using action and money cards, they try to strengthen their initially weak deck so that they have the most point cards in the end. The basic principle can be expanded in a variety of ways using the mechanics contained in numerous extensions.

The game published by Rio Grande Games has been translated into many languages ​​and has received numerous international awards. In 2009 it was named Game of the Year in Germany and received the German Game Award .

Theme and gameplay

All players are rulers of a kingdom and start with little money and tiny lands. The players can expand their skills via the continuous expansion of a range of higher value money and useful promotions, which is possible from move to move, in order to ultimately expand their empire with larger lands. The ruler with the largest empire wins the game.

Dominion was the first game that could reach a wide audience in German-speaking countries with the deck-building mechanism. Money, opportunities for action and lands are represented by cards. Each player starts with a given set of cards (English "deck"). The player draws cards from his own pile and uses the cards in his hand to purchase stronger cards from a limited supply and thus improve his deck of cards (the “deck building”). Acquired and played cards as well as the remaining cards in hand are placed on the player's discard pile. When the player's draw pile is used up, he shuffles his discard pile and places it ready as a new draw pile. Since this rotation means that all cards are drawn back into your hand again and again until the end of the game, more and more useful cards can be added to the deck. If there is also the possibility of doing so in the course of the game, it is usually advantageous to remove the low-value and unused cards from the initial deck.

Even the basic game, especially the expansions, offers a wide variety of action options, of which a maximum of 10 are offered in each game round. Their selection can also control which role the interaction between the players should have, whether there are destructive elements against other players or how the focus is shifted between money, action and point cards.

The competition between the players is determined by the individual choice of a strategy and the luck in drawing the cards. There are basically two types of strategies: Either you build a very small deck with mainly high-quality money and only a few, carefully selected action cards. Or you try to acquire many action cards that speed up circulation by drawing more cards and generate additional income. Some strategies have been analyzed in more detail by fans of the game.

Dominion is rated as complex and versatile, yet relatively easy to understand.

Equipment and mechanism

Typical game setup at Dominion
A game of "Dominion" at PAX East 2011

The 500 cards of the basic game are divided into 32 stacks with the "money" cards copper (provides 1 coin value), silver (2 coin values) and gold (3 coin values), the "points" cards estate (1 victory point), duchy (3 victory points) and province (6 victory points), 25 different kingdom cards and curse (−1 victory point). There is also a garbage card.

The money and point cards are used in every game. Although the curses are only distributed by the witch , they should also be displayed in every game. From the 25 kingdom cards, players choose 10 for the game. Thus there are 3,268,760 options for setting up the game in the base game.

Most kingdom cards allow the player different actions (card type "action"), but there is also a point card among them. Point cards are annoying during the game because they cannot be used for anything; they only "clog" the deck. Nevertheless you have to collect them because at the end of the game only the sum of the victory points decides on the victory.

Depending on the number of players, 8 or 12 copies of the point cards are displayed as an offer, action cards with 10 cards per pile, curses are given in proportion to the number of players. The number of money cards decreases with increasing value, but it hardly ever happens that one of these stacks is used up.

Each player plays with his own set of cards (“deck”), which initially contains seven coppers and three properties . The set is shuffled and forms the draw pile, from which each player takes the top five cards in hand at the start of the game.

The players then take turns in their turn. Each turn consists of three phases:

  1. In the action phase, the player whose turn it is may play an action card in hand and follow the instructions given on it. Often these are simple rights to act in short form: being able to play additional action cards, drawing cards from the draw pile, additional purchase rights or additional money for the purchase phase. The right to play additional action cards and draw cards can result in long card chains in one move. But there are also more detailed instructions that give the player and sometimes his fellow players actions. Some action cards, which are also marked with “attack”, have a negative effect on the hand cards or the draw pile of the other players.
  2. In the buying phase, the player can buy a card from one of the ten kingdom stacks on display or from a money or point card stack. If he has acquired additional purchase rights in the promotional phase, he may also buy several cards accordingly. The price of a card is shown in the lower left corner. Payment is made from the amount that has been accumulated through playing money cards and through action cards that deliver money during the action phase. The cards acquired are put on the discard pile.
  3. In the clean-up phase you put all remaining cards in hand and the money and action cards you played on your discard pile. Then you draw five cards from your draw pile. As soon as the draw pile is empty and there are still cards to be drawn, the cards in the discard pile are shuffled and form the new draw pile. The cards acquired in the course of the game come back to hand again and again, which defines the deck building character of the game.

The game ends with the turn, at the end of which either the province stack or any three other stacks are exhausted. The player with the most victory points then wins. If there is a tie, the player with fewer moves wins. If these are also equal, the players share the victory.

Extensions

The boxes were originally divided into editions and extensions. Editions also contained the basic cards, without which the expansions cannot be played in accordance with the rules. On the one hand, the basic maps are now also available on their own. On the other hand, as part of a major revision of the original from the previous second edition, Die Intrige, became a pure expansion in 2016 by omitting the base maps. Since then, Edition has been used more to distinguish between original and revised versions.

With a combination of all boxes and the promos , a maximum of 366 kingdom card stacks are available (as of spring 2020). From this over 10  trillion tens combinations can be drawn.

overview

Surname Publication
date 		Art cards Kingdom
card deck 		Cross Remarks
Base game  Oct 2008 Basic game 500 25th Originally only with the subtitle "What a world"
Base game 2nd edition  Aug 2017 Basic game 500 26th 16 known, 3 modified and 7 new Kingdom cards
The intrigue  July 2009 Basic game 500 25th Cards with selectable effects / point cards, which are also action or money cards
The intrigue  March 2014 extension 300 25th Since March 2014 only available as an extension without base maps
Seaside  Oct 2009 extension 300 26th Effects on the next turn
The alchemists  May 2010 Small extension 150 12 Currency potion
Also part of the mix box
Heyday  Oct 2010 extension 300 25th high priced cards ( platinum and colony ) / cash cards with instructions
Rich harvest  June 2011 Small extension 150 13 Diversity in your own inventory is worthwhile
Also part of the BigBox , the Mixbox and the entry-level BigBox
Backland  Oct 2011 extension 300 26th Effects when buying or taking cards
Dark Ages  Aug 2012 extension 500 35 rummage in the garbage / effects when disposing
The guilds  Oct. 2013 Small extension 150 13 Effects for Pay More / Savable Coins
adventure  Sep 2015 extension 400 30th 20th Bunker cards for later use / buy effects instead of a card
Empires  Sep 2016 extension 300 24 34 Get in debt / victory points for fulfilled conditions
extension  Apr 2017 Small extension 161 14th Extension set: 2x7 kingdom cards for exchange in the basic game and intrigue
nocturne  Aug 2018 extension 500 33 27 Fourth draw phase / random effects
Renaissance  Aug 2019 extension 300 25th 25th permanent effects / contested effects / storable +1 action
menagerie Sep 2020 extension 400 30th 40 Effect replacement for action cards
Promos various parcel 11 each 10 for special occasions / as an encore
1 each 1
Base maps  March 2014 Replacement cards 250 - - representative graphic

Base game

The basic game (initially without this name, instead with the subtitle “What a world!”) Also contains basic cards (3 money cards, 3 point cards, curse). The kingdom cards are mostly simple (compared to the later expansions). Once you have understood the basic terms, they can be played without looking at rules or explanations.

Appeared in several versions or with different covers, sometimes also bundled with promotion cards (see below). Also part of the big box (see below). A special edition with 511 cards was  published for SPIEL '13 in Essen . The base maps and the garbage map have new illustrations. The 11 additional cards result from the addition of the special black market card .

In September 2016 the American publisher announced the revision of the base game to the 2nd edition. In addition to clearer wording, new illustrations for the basic maps and other little things, 6 of the previous kingdom maps have been replaced by 7 new kingdom maps. In Germany, the supplementary set was released in April 2017, which contains the 7 new cards combined with 7 new cards for intrigue . The base game - 2nd edition has been available since August 2017 .

The intrigue

The end of June 2009 was the second edition of Dominion Die Intrige . This was not an extension in the true sense of the word, but an independent basic game that also contains all of the basic cards of the basic game and can therefore be played without it. However, if you combine Die Intrige with the basic game , playing with up to six players is regulated by doubling the number of basic cards.

The 25 kingdom cards are different from those in the base game. In the intrigue , cards with combined main types appear for the first time: There are action point cards and money point cards, which, unlike pure point cards, can be played in the action phase or purchase phase. Several action cards offer the player the opportunity to choose different functions of the respective card. The edition contained a total of 500 cards.

Since March 2014, Die Intrige has only been sold in Germany without the basic maps and thus as a pure extension that contains 300 maps.

In September 2016 the American publisher announced the revision of Intrigue to the 2nd edition . In addition to clearer formulations and other little things, the basic maps are missing; thus the original edition became a pure extension. In Intrigue - 2nd Edition , 6 of the previous Kingdom cards will be replaced by 7 new Kingdom cards. A German version has not yet been published. In April 2017, the expansion set was released, which contains the 7 new cards combined with the 7 new cards for the basic game .

Seaside

The first pure expansion is Seaside . The base maps are missing here, so an edition must be available. The expansion contains 26 new Kingdom cards (including an Action Points card). A new additional type has been introduced in Seaside: “Duration” cards have effects that take effect on the next turn. That's why they stay where they are and are only cleared away on the train in which they do something for the last time.

The expansion went on sale in October 2009 and contains 300 cards. The equipment also includes three different tableaus (each available six times) and 40 metal markers in 2 shapes that are used as counters on certain kingdom cards.

The alchemists

A second expansion was released in May 2010 entitled The Alchemists . Here too, the basic cards from a basic game are required. The small expansion (150 cards) consists of only twelve new kingdom cards (including a point and a money card) and a new basic card, the potion money card . The latter is required to pay for cards, the price of which includes this.

Heyday

In autumn 2010 the third expansion bloom was published on the game  2010. The focus of this expansion is on wealth and its increase. It contains 25 new Kingdom cards, eight of which are money cards. The latter sometimes have functions that go beyond the generation of money or only determine their value at the moment of playing. There are also two new basic cards: Colony is a points card that provides 10 victory points, and Platinum is a money card that generates 5 coin values. If these two cards are used, the game ends in addition to the normal victory conditions if the colony pile is empty. There are also 32 victory point chips in 2 sizes, 9 coins and 9 tableaus. This extension was sold exclusively through branches of the Metro Group ( Real and Kaufhof ) until January 2011 .

Rich harvest

The fourth expansion, Rich Harvest , has been available for Dominion since July 2011 . The theme of the small extension with 150 cards is versatility. The number of different cards in the respective situation is decisive. It includes 13 new Kingdom cards and 5 “Prize” cards. With the latter, "non-stock" cards appear for the first time, which cannot be bought, but can only be taken by explicitly naming them.

Backland

In October 2011,  the fifth expansion entitled Hinterland was published on the 2011 game . The 300 cards are divided into 26 kingdom cards. Thematically, the game takes you to the exotic regions beyond your own realm. The focus is on cards that trigger an effect when they are taken or bought. For example the blood toll money card , which distributes curses to the other players when you take it (also included in the purchase) , or the Silk Road points card , the value of which results from the number of all point cards in the respective deck. As a variation on the well-known action-reaction cards, a money reaction card appears for the first time with Katzengold and a points reaction card with Tunnel .

Dark Ages

In August 2012, another expansion entitled Dark Ages was presented at the Gen Con game fair . With 500 cards it can be called a big expansion that offers 35 new kingdom cards and 3 cards that cannot be bought. There are also "shelter" cards that the Start Deck instead of the property be used and little useful "ruins" that are similarly distributed curses. The main topics are the disposal and upgrading of cards. There are also cards that make a difference if you throw them away, cards that rummage in the trash , and cards that improve themselves or other cards. The German version of Dark Ages was released in October 2012 . That was the last expansion, the German version of which was created by Hans im Glück Verlag.

The guilds

The seventh expansion called The Guilds has been available since October 2013 . It consists of 150 cards, which are spread over 13 kingdom cards, and 25 metal coins. The latter can be used as a one-off payment as you like. The new game mechanic is overpaying, where you can trigger additional effects for an additional amount of money. Starting with this expansion, the original American publisher Rio Grande Games also acts as the publisher of the German editions of the Dominion series.

adventure

Adventure was published in April 2015 (in German from September 2015). In addition to new season tickets , this expansion offers "reserve" cards as a new game principle, which you can keep and use when the opportunity arises. There are also 2 upgrade chains in which you can exchange a card for a more valuable card. In addition, 10 different markers are included, which give kingdom cards additional effects or hinder the player once. And finally there are “events” that can be triggered instead of buying tickets. The box contains a total of 400 cards as well as panels and markers in 6 colors.

Empires

In June 2016, Empires went on sale in America; in September 2016 in the German. This expansion with 300 cards and 96 metal markers offers several new features: The simplest are "split stacks", in which 5 pieces of a cheap card have to be taken before 5 pieces of an expensive card are available. Debt is more complex, a new type of cost in the shape of reddish hexagons. If you buy a card with such, you have to take debt tokens accordingly. However, these must first be repaid before you can buy something again. The main topic is new ways to get victory points: Kingdom cards with the secondary type “Collection” have instructions with which victory point markers are accumulated in the respective pile. They serve as a counter for bonuses or are collected by a player on occasion. Another way are “Landmarks”, which expand the “Events” format : they don't even have to be bought, but rather define conditions which, if they are fulfilled, earn additional victory points. Victory point markers are distributed for this purpose during the game. For other landmarks, the number of certain cards at the end of the game is relevant, either in absolute terms or in comparison to the other players, and can also result in point deductions.

Supplementary set

In April 2017, the German distributor published 14 new kingdom card decks under the title Expansion - Basic Game & The Intrigue . 7 of these should replace 6 cards in each of the two boxes that the author considers to be weak or seldom used. In addition to the sorting strip for the supplementary set itself, there are also matching sorting strips for the boxes of the basic game and intrigue , which can be converted into the 2nd edition.

nocturne

At the beginning of August 2017, Rio Grande Games announced the eleventh expansion with 500 cards. A mix of “spooky” and “Celtic mythology” is the theme for many card names. The newest feature are "night" cards, which can be played in any number after the purchase phase. Cards with the type “blessing” or “calamity” distribute “gifts” or “plagues” in random order, which the players do not integrate into the deck because of the landscape format. This also applies to a third variety, the “state”, which has a different duration. With kingdom cards marked accordingly, “heirlooms” with various effects replace individual starting copper pieces of the players. The German sales department started delivering its version in August 2018.

Renaissance

At the beginning of August 2018, Rio Grande Games announced the twelfth expansion with 300 cards. 25 kingdom cards are supplemented with coins that serve as collectable markers for one-time money or additional actions. Projects are similar to events , but have an effect until the end of the game. Artifacts also belong to the landscape format maps and are contested because of their challenge cup function . The German version has been in stores since August 2019.

menagerie

At the beginning of 2020, the thirteenth expansion was announced by Rio Grande Games. Their 400 cards are often titled after animals. This applies consistently to the new variant of the landscape formats, the "path". Their instructions may be used to replace the original instructions on action cards. In addition, other events and season tickets are included. The author also highlighted reaction cards and cards with strange costs as secondary topics. The latter vary their starting price according to the fulfillment of individual criteria. The German version of Menagerie is planned for September.

Promotion cards

Individual cards, which are abbreviated as "promos", are mainly issued as promotional gifts. They often use designs that, for various reasons, have not been included in an extension. But there are also cards specially designed for a special occasion. Except for collectors who want everything, they are also popular as a gimmick partly because of special mechanisms that are otherwise not found in any expansion . In this context, 10 Kingdom cards and 1 event have been published by October 2019.

  • The magazine Spielbox (issue 2/2009) contained the special black market card . When playing with this kingdom card, an extra pile of 1 copy of the kingdom cards that are not on display is formed, one of which can then be bought when playing the black market .
  • The special envoy card originally appeared at the games festival in Vienna . With it, the player gets 4 out of 5 cards to be revealed.
  • As a thank you to the Spiel des Jahres jury, Hans im Glück Verlag issued the special money hiding card. The back of this money card shows the red Halma cone (" Pöppel ") of the SdJ logo on a yellow background, so that the card can be easily recognized when shuffled and can be arranged as desired.
  • Carcassonne has appeared as the fourth special card . This card was developed at the request of the publishing director of Rio Grande Games based on the game Carcassonne , as this celebrated its 10th anniversary as Game of the Year in 2011 . This village variant may be put on the draw pile when cleaning up.
  • A special card based on the game Puerto Rico , which was released in 2011, was named governor . With it you choose to draw cards, rebuild cards or take gold and the other players each receive a smaller version of it.
  • With the Fan Edition 1 , the Prinz special card appeared on the German market for the first time . You can use it to automatically play an action card every turn.
  • The special invitation card was issued for the German sales launch of the eighth adventure expansion . It is an "event" , of which there is only 1 copy in landscape format. It was not designed by Vaccarino and even came out before the English original. It allows you to take an action card and play it on the next turn.
  • At the 2016 game, sauna / ice hole were distributed, which can be recognized by the name combination as a “split pile” . Sauna can dispose of hand cards and Eisloch draws cards. They can be played alternately in a chain.
  • Demolition was the Spielbox at 6/2017. Originally designed for Empires , this card was not adopted for Nocturne either and was therefore available as a quick response to a request from ASS Altenburger . Discard a hand card and take a cheaper card and gold.
  • Schwerin Cathedral is one of two special cards that were created for the anniversary championship due to Dominion's tenth “birthday”. For their ranking, the participating players had to declare themselves for one of the 16 German federal states or one of 3 Austrian regions. In order to honor the ranking list with the best yield from 12 monthly evaluations, the card was given a picture and name of the church representing Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Schwerin Cathedral allows you to stash cards for the next train and then dispose of a card there. It was initially distributed at Spiel 2019.
  • Captain Tobias is one of two special cards that were created for the anniversary championship due to Dominion's tenth “birthday”. It shows the winner of the final of the German Championship (see below). An action card is played with the captain when he is played and on the next turn. In Germany, it was initially distributed to participants in tournaments organized as part of the Dominion League in 2020, but is also included in the collector's box (see below).

Revisions

Over time, Vaccarino announced several changes in the text of existing cards and in the rules.

  • 2nd Edition
    2016 in the first two boxes each 6 of the previous cards that were rated as weak or not very useful were replaced by 7 more effective cards. Additional cards - also in later boxes - received functional changes. The plural introduced in the original when naming individual players aims at gender neutrality and cannot be translated into German.
  • Errata 2019
    In order to eliminate pitfalls in the execution of certain combinations and to resolve other ambiguities, map changes and rule adjustments were published in autumn 2019 . For some self-disposal companies, their other effects are now linked to disposal. So-called shapeshifters were simplified to remote controls. An additional type was introduced that prevents endless loops.

BigBox

A Dominion BigBox appeared exclusively in the Metro Group's retail trade in autumn 2011 . It contained the base game, the Reiche Harvest expansion and the first four promotion cards .

Base maps

Since March 2014, the basic cards displayed in every game have been available as a separate set. This means that you are no longer dependent on a basic game ( basic game or 1st edition of The Intrigue ), but can start in combination with any expansion. Or it is used to top up the base cards for a game with more than four players. A third possible use is the replacement of worn out playing cards. The 250 card box contains the basic cards from the basic game , alchemists and heyday : the 60  copper , 40  silver , 30  gold , 12  platinum , 16  potion , 24  estate , 12  duchy , 12  provincial , 12  colony and 30  curse cards as well as one garbage card have been provided with new illustrations.

Mixbox

Since November 2014, the two expansions Rich Harvest and Alchemists have been combined under the name Mixbox .

Fan edition 1

The Fan Edition 1 package released in November 2014 is not an extension in the strict sense of the word. It is a box with mostly additional materials. It contains 60  coppers (30 of which are glossy), 40 blank cards (20 of which are glossy), the Gouverneur and Prinz promos , two playmats (with markings for the different areas in which a player's cards are located), a travel box (for space-saving Transport of a selection of Kingdom cards) as well as 27 writable separation cards.

Entry-level BigBox

For the 10th anniversary of the Game of the Year award , a box containing 1000 cards was launched in April 2019, which contains the base game 2nd edition , the expansions Alchemists , Rich Harvest and Guilds as well as the Black Market , Money Stash and Fortified Village (formerly  Carcassonne ) promos .

Collector's box

For Christmas 2019, a completely black box was offered exclusively at Amazon, which contains all promos that have appeared up to that point, a set of basic cards and a corrected version of assets (from Empires ). There is also a card to mark the ban pile for young witches (from Reiche Harvest ) as well as tableaus for the coin markers in guilds . The main content is a sorting and storage solution consisting of a plug-in compartment system in which all cards that have appeared up to that point (up to the Renaissance ) can be accommodated in just two boxes with the help of separator cards that are also included. The box has also been available from selected retailers since mid-March 2020.

Online version

Dominion can currently be played via browser on the website operated by Shuffle iT . The company founded for this purpose has held the online license since 2017. The cards in the basic set are available free of charge. The use of the extensions requires a subscription . Programmed bots are available for exercise purposes, which essentially follow the big money strategy and otherwise act rather stupid. As a host, you can choose your kingdom and teammates yourself, or you can choose to draw both automatically and randomly. The latter variant is also used to determine a ranking list for 2 players and for 3–4 players, which is updated once a day via Glicko-2 . The site is also the arena for a league with 6-week seasons (Dominion League) and the annual online championship.

First you could play Dominion online in the board game world . In addition to the basic game, 5 kingdom cards from the first expansions were also offered. When the Internet rights for Dominion were commercially awarded by Rio Grande Games, the board game world deleted the game from its offer.

Another possibility to play Dominion online was the English language website Isotropic until March 15, 2013 . A German version was not available. This version used the game's artwork that the game designer used during development. All maps of the Dominion world to the hinterland as well as the first 5 promotional cards were available to the public. Isotropic was also used by the game author to test new extensions.

The third option with a graphical user interface is the Dominion browser game. The page was in German, an English translation only rudimentary. A ranking list was created using an Elo system . The general public has been locked out since September 14, 2012: for legal reasons, the browser game as a private gaming community is only accessible to registered members. It is not known to what extent the extensions that have appeared since then have been incorporated into the programming or whether it is still playable at all.

Tournaments

Since choosing a deck building strategy to match the kingdom on offer is seen as a critical factor, Dominion is well suited for running meaningful tournaments. The range of such tournaments extends from closed private events to casual game day events to full-blown championship systems. When it comes to the latter, the distributing publishers also rely on the expertise of experienced organizations.

On March 2, 2011 in Wil ( Canton St. Gallen ) as part of the “19th Wiler Spielfest ”, the 1st official Swiss championship in the Dominion will take place in the Wiler Stadtsaal, sponsored by Hans im Glück Verlag and organized by the Wil Games Club and the Wil Ludothek. Anyone who wanted to could take part. A qualification was not necessary, just a timely registration. The first four players fought for the right to take part in the 2011 international Dominion Championships in Essen.

On October 20, 2011, the final of the German championship was played as part of Spiel '11 in Essen . The victory entitles them to participate in the World Championship, which also took place on October 22, 2011 at Spiel '11. World champion was Ryo Shigekiyo ( Japan ). Second place went to Berndt Ivar Nodland from Norway and third went to German Arndt Feddersen.

The 2012 World Cup took place at Gen Con in August . World champion was Kazuhiko Mitsuya ( Japan ). Second place went to Fabian Sjöblom ( Sweden ) and third place went to Alexander Deutinger from Austria . Since the German championship was only held on Game 12 in October, no German participant took part in the World Cup.

German champion 2012 was Christoph Saßen.

German champion March 14, 2015, Altenburg: Heike Müller.

Final German Championship 2018 (called the Jubilee Championship because of the tenth "birthday" of the game; 3 qualification paths) on March 3, 2019 in Altenburg: Tobias Rietze (Berlin) ahead of Lukas Kautzsch and Peter Pütz.

In 2020 the Dominion League was started. For a ranking list evaluation calculated by Glicko-2 over a six-month period with monthly interim evaluations, games in private round can also be reported. ASS Altenburger equips public tournaments with prizes for the best players and also provides the game material.

history

Vaccarino was a software developer in the 1980s and 1990s. He enjoyed playing board game prototypes in his spare time when Magic: The Gathering came out in 1993 . His enthusiasm for this culminated in his development of a 90-card fan extension and he became a freelance supplier of Magic supplements. Over the years he developed several ideas for games which he discussed with the inventor of Magic, Richard Garfield .

Vaccarino invented the deck building mechanics in 2006 while working on a fantasy adventure game. In order to be able to present anything to his regular playgroup, he briefly reduced its complex design to core elements. Instead of cards becoming available as the game progressed, he decided to make them available from the start. When he showed this design to his playgroup, the game was instantly so popular that for the next two years it was preferred to all usual favorites including Magic.

Based on this enthusiasm, Vaccarino wanted to refine and publish the game. At the Origins Game Fair Convention 2007 he presented it to the Rio Grande Games and got a contract. Together with BoardGameGeek columnists Valerie Putman and Dave Yu, the game was further developed under changing names.

Dominion first appeared at SPIEL '08 in Essen and was voted the most popular game at the fair with the help of the fair play scout campaign. At that time, the game was published in Germany by Hans im Glück Verlag in Munich , with all rights to new editions, extensions and promo cards being held by Rio Grande Games. In June 2012, both publishers announced that they would terminate their cooperation by the end of the year. Rio Grande Games emphasized that the co-productions with other publishers should be reduced and the focus should be placed on their own core business. Rio Grande Games has been publishing the German translations under its own name since October 2013, with production and distribution being carried out by ASS Altenburger.

Dominion has been translated into 17 other languages using 6 different alphabets : Chinese , Finnish , French , Greek , Italian , Japanese , Korean , Dutch , Norwegian , Polish , Portuguese , Romanian , Russian , Spanish , Swedish , Czech , Hungarian .

Translation error

Since the first edition, translation errors have been found in almost all German editions and extensions on cards, in their explanations and in the rules. Often it is only formal negligence that most players go unnoticed or that cannot significantly change the game even with malicious interpretation. However, some major errors have also been built in, which restrict, expand or seriously change decisions and actions compared to the original. A few errors were tacitly corrected in later editions or provided with errata information on the website for the respective game. After the change of publishers, ASS Altenburger, now responsible for the German editions, was finally convinced to have its drafts of new extensions and re-editions of known extensions checked by a group of knowledgeable players and thus to achieve as far as possible agreement with the English original.

Trivia

  • Each Dominion card (except for the replacement base cards) has a symbol in the lower right corner that assigns it to an edition or expansion. The promotion cards originally each had their own symbol, but have been uniformly marked since 2016.
  • Each Dominion card (except for the original base cards) names the artist of the graphic at the bottom.
  • Every rule of the game in a Dominion edition or expansion begins with a small text that aims to create a mood that fits the topic in just a few sentences. However, this text is irrelevant for the game (s).

Awards

Distinctive year Award space
game of the year 2009
German Games Prize 2009 Best family and adult game 1st place
Select cafeteria 2009
À la carte card game price 2009
BoardGameGeek - Golden Geek 2009 Game of the year
Best card game
Japan Boardgame Prize 2009 1st place
Games 100 2009 Best family strategy game 1st place
International Gamers Award 2009 nominated
Dutch game award 2009 nominated
Årets Familiespill (Norway) 2010 Winner family game of the year
I Hungar canteen IQa Társasjátékverseny (Hungary) 2009 Best strategy card game
Game of hearts 2009 1st place
BoardGamer.ru 2009 Card game of the year
Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming 2009 1st place
Dice Tower Gaming Awards 2009 Best game of the year 1st place
Guldbrikken 2009 Årets Jurypris (Special Jury Prize) 1st place
Hra Roku (Czech Republic) 2009 game of the year 1st place
JogoEu User's Game (JUG) 2009 1st place
JoTa 2009 Card games 1st place
Lucca Games Best of Show (Italy) 2009 Best card game 1st place
Ludoteca ideals 2009 Games of the year 1st place
Origins Award 2009 Best card game 1st place
Vuoden aikuistenpeli 2009 Adult game of the year 1st place
Meeples' Choice Award 2008
Juego del Año Tico 2010 nominated

Web links

Commons : Dominion (game)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Explanations (footnotes)

  1. ↑ Garbage has been a tableau since 2016
  2. ↑ For the determination of the Kingdom can (blue border back) than the so-called blank cards Los be used.
  3. ↑ binomial coefficient
  4. ↑
  5. ↑ Landscape format: Same dimensions as normal maps, but the orientation of the image and text is rotated by 90 degrees.
  6. ↑ A basic game contains the basic cards copper , silver , gold , province , duchy , estate , curse
  7. ↑ A small extension is sold in a box that is half the width of the normally square box.
  8. ↑ The English versions of the promos are sold exclusively by BoardGameGeek at Spieletagen and via their website.
  9. ↑ Later versions of the hiding place only use the colors yellow and red applied to the standard back.
  10. ↑ In April 2019 Carcassonne was renamed Fortified Village closer to the original .

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