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Dominion: Dark Ages

Dominion: Dark Ages

Expansion

2012·Donald X. Vaccarino

2 - 4 players
30 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting

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Game description from the publisher: Times have been hard. To save on money, you've moved out of your old castle and into a luxurious ravine. You didn't like that castle anyway; it was always getting looted and never at a reasonable hour. And if it wasn't barbarians it was the plague, or sometimes both would come at once, and there wouldn't be enough chairs. The ravine is great; you get lots of sun, and you can just drop garbage wherever you want. In your free time you've taken up begging. Begging is brilliant conceptually, but tricky in practice since no one has any money. You beg twigs from the villagers, and they beg them back, but no one really seems to come out ahead. That's just how life is sometimes. You're quietly conquering people, minding your own business, when suddenly there's a plague, or barbarians, or everyone's illiterate, and it's all you can do to cling to some wreckage as the storm passes through. Still, you are sure that, as always, you will triumph over this adversity, or at least do slightly better than everyone else. Dominion: Dark Ages is the seventh addition to the game of Dominion. It contains 500 cards but is not a standalone game. It adds 35 new Kingdom cards to Dominion, plus new bad cards you give to other players (Ruins), new cards to replace starting Estates (Shelters), and cards you can get only via specific other cards. The central themes are the trash and upgrading. There are cards that do something when trashed, cards that care about the trash, cards that upgrade themselves, and ways to upgrade other cards. Part of the Dominion series.

Dominion: Dark Ages

Which Dominion: Dark Ages video should I watch?

Dominion: Dark Ages has 2 videos from 1 creator: 1 review and 1 other video. They date from June 2022.

If you like it, try Moon Colony Bloodbath, Dominion, Dominion: Rising Sun and Kingdom Builder, also by Donald X. Vaccarino.

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Board Game Theater: Dominion Dark Ages1:39

Board Game Theater: Dominion Dark Ages

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Rolling With Two

Rolling With Dominion: Dark AgesReview10:43

Rolling With Dominion: Dark Ages

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About Dominion: Dark Ages

From BoardGameGeek:

Game description from the publisher: Times have been hard. To save on money, you've moved out of your old castle and into a luxurious ravine. You didn't like that castle anyway; it was always getting looted and never at a reasonable hour. And if it wasn't barbarians it was the plague, or sometimes both would come at once, and there wouldn't be enough chairs. The ravine is great; you get lots of sun, and you can just drop garbage wherever you want. In your free time you've taken up begging. Begging is brilliant conceptually, but tricky in practice since no one has any money. You beg twigs from the villagers, and they beg them back, but no one really seems to come out ahead. That's just how life is sometimes. You're quietly conquering people, minding your own business, when suddenly there's a plague, or barbarians, or everyone's illiterate, and it's all you can do to cling to some wreckage as the storm passes through. Still, you are sure that, as always, you will triumph over this adversity, or at least do slightly better than everyone else. Dominion: Dark Ages is the seventh addition to the game of Dominion. It contains 500 cards but is not a standalone game. It adds 35 new Kingdom cards to Dominion, plus new bad cards you give to other players (Ruins), new cards to replace starting Estates (Shelters), and cards you can get only via specific other cards. The central themes are the trash and upgrading. There are cards that do something when trashed, cards that care about the trash, cards that upgrade themselves, and ways to upgrade other cards. Part of the Dominion series.

Designer

Donald X. Vaccarino

Artists

Brian Brinlee, Eric J. Carter, Matthias Catrein, Jessica Cox, Garret DeChellis, Julien Delval, Alex Drummond, Martin Hoffmann and 19 more

Publisher

Rio Grande Games

Categories

Card GameMedieval

Mechanics

Deck BuildingMarket & TradingHand ManagementDrafting
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