Forum Overview :: Overboard!

Dominion by Mischief Maker 04/10/2025, 8:18pm PDT Man, if there's one thing I'm learning from this new hobby, it's to START with the classic games that birthed a genre. Dominion is the original deckbuilder. Everything from Quest for El Dorado to Slay the Spire owe their existence to this game. And it's fucking fantastic! The premise is you're a relatively poor medieval lord looking to uplift their land holdings and build a mighty kingdom, but their neighbors have the same idea and it's a mad scramble to buy and upgrade your hand and your lands. You and your opponent are taking turns buying cards from a (random?) market of 10 advanced cards, looking to raise enough money to buy land cards enough to grant you a victory point win. An interesting wrinkle with this game is that land cards are just deadweight in your hand until the end of the game, so buying land can potentially slow you down against your opponents' leaner, more efficient decks. I've got to squee over the box! This is the greatest box of any board game ever. Neat little rows to keep every type of card sorted and organized. And while the picture I used doesn't have it, it also comes with a little index in the center that identifies every card for easy access. This game absolutely has the fastest and most painless assembly and teardown of any board game I've played. So if you want to play a deckbuilder, but don't have anyone who wants to play nerdy violent shit like Star Wars or Aeon's End, Dominions is the perfect choice. 10/10!

I'm designating this the boardgaming forum by Mischief Maker 02/03/2025, 4:34pm PST     Ticket to Ride by Mischief Maker 02/03/2025, 4:36pm PST     Mysterium Park by Mischief Maker 02/03/2025, 4:41pm PST     Codenames Duet by Mischief Maker 02/03/2025, 4:44pm PST         I HATE regular Codenames by fuk that 02/19/2025, 10:08pm PST         Ended up trading this one. by Mischief Maker 04/08/2025, 7:03am PDT     Lost Cities by Mischief Maker 02/03/2025, 5:10pm PST         This is why I got kicked out of law school, I guess. by Mysteriobama 02/04/2025, 7:09pm PST             Is my explanation confusing, or did you get overwhelmed trying it before? by Mischief Maker 02/04/2025, 8:18pm PST                 Re: Is my explanation confusing, or did you get overwhelmed trying it before? by Mysteriobama 02/06/2025, 5:47pm PST     Onitama by Mischief Maker 02/04/2025, 7:57pm PST     Azul by Mischief Maker 02/04/2025, 9:12pm PST         If you like Azul, Art Society is a variant on it with different strategy by Fullofkittens 02/05/2025, 11:40am PST             Thanks for the suggestion! NT by MM 02/05/2025, 2:31pm PST         Re: Azul by Mysterio 02/07/2025, 7:23pm PST     Patchwork by Mischief Maker 02/06/2025, 9:00pm PST     Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle Earth by Mischief Maker 02/07/2025, 6:05pm PST     Dune: Imperium by Mysterio 02/07/2025, 7:39pm PST         Once you go Ix or Uprising by you never go back 02/08/2025, 10:13am PST             Wholehearted agree NT by Mysterio 02/08/2025, 1:53pm PST     Forbidden Desert by Mischief Maker 02/15/2025, 8:22pm PST     The Quest for El Dorado by Mischief Maker 02/19/2025, 4:38pm PST     Under Falling Skies by Mischief Maker 02/25/2025, 6:11pm PST     Compile by Mischief Maker 03/16/2025, 1:52pm PDT     Lost Ruins of Arnak by Mischief Maker 03/27/2025, 6:44pm PDT     Dominion by Mischief Maker 04/10/2025, 8:18pm PDT         Dominion always felt like playing a magic eye painting by Lord of the Dongs 04/11/2025, 6:58pm PDT             Nix to Dune. Nerdy and/or violent games have been preemptively vetoed here. by Mischief Maker 04/11/2025, 8:27pm PDT                 Come on, MM. Get the Dune app and we'll play asynchronously. by A sane, decent poster 04/12/2025, 8:23am PDT                 Dominion is THE most aspie game I can think of besides MTG by Lord of the Dongs 04/13/2025, 12:19am PDT                     I'm not playing tournament-level. We're just a pair of newbs having fun. NT by Mischief Maker 04/13/2025, 7:04am PDT                     So you're saying the problem is a fixed market instead of a shifting random one? NT by Mischief Maker 04/13/2025, 8:01am PDT                     You're right, pal! by Game recommendation 04/13/2025, 9:31am PDT                         Ooh! I'll take a look at that one. NT by Mischief Maker 04/13/2025, 2:08pm PDT                         I am! by a pal 04/20/2025, 12:32am PDT     Canvas by Game recommendation 04/12/2025, 8:56am PDT         Thanks, I'll check it out! NT by Mischief Maker 04/12/2025, 12:27pm PDT     I love this thread. That is all NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/12/2025, 1:41pm PDT         Love is all this thread needs. NT by Mischief Maker 05/30/2025, 3:42pm PDT     Spirit Island by Mischief Maker 04/21/2025, 8:42pm PDT     "Final Girl" is the shittiest, most overhyped game in all of boardgaming. by Mischief Maker 05/30/2025, 3:41pm PDT         Root & Terraforming Mars by Feris is a crying twat 05/30/2025, 8:30pm PDT     "Hardback" is Star Realms meets Scrabble. It's better than both. by Mischief Maker 06/11/2025, 2:40pm PDT