Dominion: Dark Ages

Recommended for Ages 13 & up
2-4 Players
30 minutes playtime

Description:
Game description from the publisher:

Times have been hard. To save on money, youve moved out of your old castle and into a luxurious ravine. You didnt like that castle anyway; it was always getting looted and never at a reasonable hour. And if it wasnt barbarians it was the plague, or sometimes both would come at once, and there wouldnt 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 youve 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. Thats just how life is sometimes. Youre quietly conquering people, minding your own business, when suddenly theres a plague, or barbarians, or everyones illiterate, and its 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.





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Components Rio Grande Games standard edition:


Rulebook
500 cards:
34 Action Cards: 10 each of Altar, Armory, Band of Misfits, Bandit Camp, Beggar, Catacombs, Count, Cultist, Death Cart, Forager, Fortress, Graverobber, Hermit, Hunting Grounds, Ironmonger, Junk Dealer, Madman, Marauder, Market Square, Mercenary, Mystic, Pillage, Poor House, Procession, Rats x20 Rebuild, Rogue, Sage, Scavenger, Squire, Storeroom, Urchin, Vagrant, Wandering Minstrel
2 Treasure Cards: Counterfeit x10, Spoils x15
1 Victory Card: Feodum x12
10 Knight Cards: 1 each of Dame Anna, Dame Josephine, Dame Molly, Dame Natalie, Dame Sylvia, Sir Bailey, Sir Destry, Sir Martin, Sir Michael, Sir Vander
35 Randomizer Cards
1 Knight Randomizer Card
5 Ruins Cards: 10 each of Abandoned Mine, Ruined Library, Ruined Market, Ruined Village, Survivors
3 Shelter Cards: 6 each of Hovel, Necropolis, Overgrown Estate






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Designer(s):
Donald X. Vaccarino

Artist(s):
Brian Brinlee
Eric J. Carter
Matthias Catrein
Jessica Cox
Garret DeChellis
Julien Delval
Alex Drummond
Martin Hoffmann
Lynell Ingram
Simon Jannerland
Ian Kirkpatrick
Ryan Laukat
Alayna Lemmer-Danner
Harald Lieske
Dennis Lohausen
Doris Matthaus
Marcel-Andrae Casasola Merkle
Kurt Miller
Raven Mimura
Marco Primo
Lorraine Schleter
Jason Slavin
Claus Stephan
Joshua J. Stewart
R. C. Torres
Donald X. Vaccarino
Franz Vohwinkel

Board Game Geek Category(s):
Card Game
Expansion for Base-game
Medieval

Board Game Geek Mechanic(s):
Card Drafting
Deck
Bag
and Pool Building
Hand Management