https://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?title=Boon&feed=atom&action=historyBoon - Revision history2024-03-28T20:18:05ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.19.2https://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?title=Boon&diff=69643&oldid=prevPersonman: That sentence doesn't make sense in isolation2023-05-17T14:24:35Z<p>That sentence doesn't make sense in isolation</p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== Official Rules ==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== Official Rules ==</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Boons are a face-down deck of cards that are revealed as needed.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Boons are a face-down deck of cards that are revealed as needed.  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* The phrase "receive a Boon" means, turn over the top Boon, and follow the instructions on it.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* The phrase "receive a Boon" means, turn over the top Boon, and follow the instructions on it. If the Boons deck is empty, first shuffle the discarded Boons to reform the deck; you may also do this any time all Boons are in their discard pile.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Received Boons normally go to the Boons discard pile, but three (The Field's Gift, The Forest's Gift, and The River's Gift) go in front of a player until that turn's Clean-up.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* Received Boons normally go to the Boons discard pile, but three (The Field's Gift, The Forest's Gift, and The River's Gift) go in front of a player until that turn's Clean-up.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Personmanhttps://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?title=Boon&diff=66339&oldid=prevM knox: /* In other languages */2022-11-15T12:41:57Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">In other languages</span></span></p>
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</table>M knoxhttps://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?title=Boon&diff=66132&oldid=prevDZ: /* Why are some Boons not optional? */2022-10-11T13:00:20Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Why are some Boons not optional?</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>  |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=18767.msg761033#msg761033 Could The Wind's Gift been optional]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>  |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=18767.msg761033#msg761033 Could The Wind's Gift been optional]</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">I shouldn't have done Hexes; I'm happy to have done Boons, though I should have only done ~5 cards that used them, avoiding situations that make some Boons worse e.g. {{Card|Idol}}.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The intention is to not do errata, unless it's really really helping. So, "now boons are optional" has no shot. It's great that I get to do errata at all; Jay's initial stance was very anti-errata. If you errata something, you might get a mix of players who know about it and don't, and have a bad argument that makes them hate that game. That is the basic reason to not do errata. It's less important now, when everyone has the combined knowledge of humanity in their pocket, but it's still a thing. My strategy depended on the card doing what it says, and now you're saying no it's got errata, suck it up.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Anyway. There are of course cases where this seems super not a thing, and there are cases where the errata is too important to pass on. But still, the basic stance is, the errata needs more of a reason than "boo hoo I didn't want that {{Card|Silver}}."</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">If {{Set|Nocturne}} weren't out yet and someone said, Boons could be optional, well, it's something we could have tried. It wouldn't have saved e.g. {{Card|Idol}} (typically the worst case for {{Boon|The Wind's Gift|Wind's Gift}}), and mostly you should just take the {{Card|Silver}}. I like rules to be worth their weight. But it's an example of a case where it's about as much weight either way; people will sometimes ask, do I have to, so you have to answer that, so saying "yes" or "no" isn't much different. Instead what would matter is, if you don't know this rule, what would you guess from the cards. If they don't all say "you may" I am betting more people would guess it's mandatory.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''Boons''', introduced in [[Nocturne]], are small bonuses that may be useful to the player receiving them. They are bestowed by [[Fate]] cards.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''Boons''', introduced in [[Nocturne]], are small bonuses that may be useful to the player receiving them. They are bestowed by [[Fate]] cards.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The pile of Boons is shuffled, and when a Fate card instructs you to receive a Boon, you draw the next one and get whatever bonus it tells you, and return it to the Boon discard pile when you've resolved it. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> </del>{{card|Druid}} is an exception; it selects three Boons at the beginning of the game and gives access to only those three. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> </del>When the Boon pile is exhausted, the discarded Boons are reshuffled.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The pile of Boons is shuffled, and when a Fate card instructs you to receive a Boon, you draw the next one and get whatever bonus it tells you, and return it to the Boon discard pile when you've resolved it. {{card|Druid}} is an exception; it selects three Boons at the beginning of the game and gives access to only those three. When the Boon pile is exhausted, the discarded Boons are reshuffled.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Boons are not "cards"; any text referring to a "card" does not apply to Boons. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> </del>However, for reference, the Boon effects are printed on cards in a landscape orientation with golden frames.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Boons are not "cards"; any text referring to a "card" does not apply to Boons. However, for reference, the Boon effects are printed on cards in a landscape orientation with golden frames.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>{{LandscapeImage|The Earth's Gift}}{{LandscapeImage|The Field's Gift}}{{LandscapeImage|The Flame's Gift}}{{LandscapeImage|The Forest's Gift}}{{LandscapeImage|The Moon's Gift}}{{LandscapeImage|The Mountain's Gift}}{{LandscapeImage|The River's Gift}}{{LandscapeImage|The Sea's Gift}}{{LandscapeImage|The Sky's Gift}}{{LandscapeImage|The Sun's Gift}}{{LandscapeImage|The Swamp's Gift}}{{LandscapeImage|The Wind's Gift}}</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>{{LandscapeImage|The Earth's Gift}}{{LandscapeImage|The Field's Gift}}{{LandscapeImage|The Flame's Gift}}{{LandscapeImage|The Forest's Gift}}{{LandscapeImage|The Moon's Gift}}{{LandscapeImage|The Mountain's Gift}}{{LandscapeImage|The River's Gift}}{{LandscapeImage|The Sea's Gift}}{{LandscapeImage|The Sky's Gift}}{{LandscapeImage|The Sun's Gift}}{{LandscapeImage|The Swamp's Gift}}{{LandscapeImage|The Wind's Gift}}</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The different Boons vary greatly in power, and their utility also depends on when you receive them, in terms of both the stage of your turn and the stage of the game. Consequently, receiving a single random Boon is a high variance effect that can range from highly valuable to detrimental, and since this is the most common way to receive them, it is generally hard to plan around Boons or make them a central component of your strategy. A few [[Fate]] cards mitigate this problem by allowing you to choose your Boons to varying extents or by offering multiple Boons at once or in quick succession, thereby decreasing variance and increasing the chance you'll get meaningful benefits from them; however, in most cases, Boons are best thought of as small unreliable bonuses.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">However, other Boons that affect cards in your hand (e.g. {{Boon|The Earth's Gift}}) can make it desirable to try and draw as much as possible before receiving a Boon. In the absence of much information about which Boon you'll get, it's usually a good idea to play your Fate cards after most of your other [[draw]], but before your other [[payload]] cards.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">While it is difficult to plan around a specific Boon given the low odds of finding any particular one, it is important to understand each one's potential impact. In cases where a Boon or class of Boons is particularly desirable, it may be worth trying to receive a large number of Boons to increase your odds of receiving a particular one.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* In the unlikely event that all the Boons are set aside at the same time <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and </del>there are no Boons in the Boons deck or discard pile when you are told to receive a Boon, you don't receive one.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* In the unlikely event that all the Boons are set aside <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">or otherwise occupied </ins>at the same time<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, so </ins>there are no Boons in the Boons deck or discard pile when you are told to receive a Boon, you don't receive one.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* If any Kingdom cards being used have the Fate type, shuffle the Boons and put them near the Supply, and put the {{Card|Will-o'-Wisp}} pile near the Supply also.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* If any Kingdom cards being used have the Fate type, shuffle the Boons and put them near the Supply, and put the {{Card|Will-o'-Wisp}} pile near the Supply also.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It's strictly for simplicity. It's normally simpler to not make something optional. Things only want to be optional when it's actually simpler that way for some reason (e.g. we will need an honesty clause otherwise), or when you really want to only sometimes do them.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">I do imagine that today I would do {{Card|Idol}} in a way that doesn't involve Boons, as it's the main case for being sad about what Boon you get.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>A big issue with Boons was making sure they didn't make the game too slow. There were cards that gave +Cards and gave you a Boon; they did not work out. The cantrip that gave you a Boon is gone. Even the Treasure only gives you a Boon half the time (in multiples).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>A big issue with Boons was making sure they didn't make the game too slow. There were cards that gave +Cards and gave you a Boon; they did not work out. The cantrip that gave you a Boon is gone. Even the Treasure only gives you a Boon half the time (in multiples).</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The goal was always to have 12 Boons that were reasonably close in power level. Obv. they vary with the circumstance. They also wanted to be simple, you do not want to spend a while poring over them. Because of {{Card|Idol}}, it seemed bad if any were just dead in the Buy phase. It would have been nice to have them all work for the other players for {{Card|Sacred Grove}}, but that was too much to ask. Too much I say.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The goal was always to have 12 Boons that were reasonably close in power level. Obv. they vary with the circumstance. They also wanted to be simple, you do not want to spend a while poring over them. Because of {{Card|Idol}}, it seemed bad if any were just dead in the Buy phase. It would have been nice to have them all work for the other players for {{Card|Sacred Grove}}, but that was too much to ask. Too much I say.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It was hard getting that set of Boons. If I wanted to revisit them, I suspect I would just reprint them. Conceivably the set could have a mechanic that lent itself to adding a Boon, e.g. {{VP}} tokens. But we would still need to reprint all the old Boons, it's not like the set would have new mechanics that generated 12 new Boons. So if somehow there was a new Boon, it would just be, if you're playing with [[Nocturne]], well now there are 13 Boons there too.</ins></div></td></tr>
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