Editing Fan cards

'''Fan cards''' are unofficial Dominion kingdom cards created by fans of the game for personal use. 

== Fan Card Creation Guide ==
The Fan Card Creation Guide is an extensive collection of tips and guidelines for fan created cards written by user rinkworks. The guide is well respected and often referenced in the design and critique of fan made cards. The guide is broken down into the chapters listed below:
* [http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=699.msg9668#msg9668 General Tips]
* [http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=699.msg9668#msg9668 Common Pitfalls]
* [http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=699.msg9669#msg9669 Myths About Card Prices]
* [http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=699.msg9670#msg9670 Pricing Your Cards]
* [http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=699.msg9671#msg9671 Formatting Your Cards]
* [http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=699.msg9671#msg9671 Printing Your Card]

An updated version of the original guide was written by user Aquila; it features more of an emphasis on the design cycle, planning out which mechanics to use, and how to test your cards. The guide is broken down into the chapters listed below:
* [http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=20045.msg820516#msg820516 Overview]
* [http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=20045.msg820517#msg820517 Why to create fan cards]
* [http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=20045.msg820518#msg820518 Design brief: the purpose of your project]
* [http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=20045.msg820519#msg820519 Research: dos and don'ts]
* [http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=20045.msg820520#msg820520 Specification: Criteria for your project]
* [http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=20045.msg820521#msg820521 Design Ideas: Translating your specification into effective designs]
* [http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=20045.msg820522#msg820522 Testing: proving the quality of your idea]
* [http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=20045.msg820523#msg820523 Final outcome]

== Design Contests ==
[[Image:FanArchivist.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Card mock-up for Archivist made by [http://boardgamegeek.com/image/1140683/jsimantov jsimantov of Board Game Geek].]]
=== Dominion Fan Card Contest ===
In October 2011 user Davio organized a fan card creation contest.<ref>Davio, [http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=809.0  "Dominion Fan Card Contest"], [[Dominion Strategy Forum]]</ref> As motivation to receive quality entries, Davio offered a modest prize of an Amazon gift card. Davio received 20 entries and allowed the community to vote on the winner. The chosen winner was Archivist, a card designed by rinkworks.<ref>Davio, [http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=809.msg13009#msg13009  "Dominion Fan Card Contest"], [[Dominion Strategy Forum]]</ref> The card was an example of a [[Engine#Single_Card_Engines|single card engine]], with the following card text:

* Name: Archivist
* Type: Action
* Cost: {{Cost|5}}
* Card Text: +1 Action. Choose one: Draw until you have 6 cards in hand; or +{{Cost|1}} and discard 1 or more cards from your hand.

To the surprise of the community, Davio had secretly contacted [[dougz]] and the card was playable for a limited time on Isotropic.<ref>Davio, [http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=875.0  "Fan Cards On Isotropic"], [[Dominion Strategy Forum]]</ref>  This is the only instance of an unofficial Dominion card being playable on the public version of Isotropic.

=== Mini-Set Design Contest ===
As a followup to Davio's contest, rinkworks later launched a far more ambitious design contest. The second contest attempted to create a complete mini-set of cards, with every card in the set being designed, voted on, and fine tuned by members of the community. There was a full subforum dedicated to the contest on the [[Dominion Strategy Forum|forums]].<ref>[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?board=32.0  "Mini-Set Design Contest Subforum"], [[Dominion Strategy Forum]]</ref>

=== Weekly Design Contest ===
A follow-up contest to rinkwork's Set Design contest, [http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=18987.0 the Weekly Design contest] was started by Doom_Shark; it has a rotating judging criteria and its host is whoever won the previous week's contest. It has been running since Sept 2018. Its winners are posted in the [http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=19239.0 Weekly Design Hall of Fame].

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