Editing Traveller

[[Image:Hero.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Hero]], a Traveller card.]]

'''Traveller''' is a card [[type]] introduced in [[Adventures]]; cards of this type are marked with a lightened arrow behind their card text.  Travellers can, when discarded from play, be [[exchange]]d for other cards that are not in the [[Supply]]; thus a cheap card bought early becomes an expensive card given enough time.

== List of Travellers ==
* {{Card|Page}}
** {{Card|Treasure Hunter}}
** {{Card|Warrior}}
** {{Card|Hero}}
* {{Card|Peasant}}
** {{Card|Soldier}}
** {{Card|Fugitive}}
** {{Card|Disciple}}

The ends of each Traveller line, {{Card|Champion}} and {{Card|Teacher}}, are ''not'' Travellers themselves.

== Official Rules ==
* {{Set|Adventures}} has Traveller cards. These cards have an arrow over the text box to remind players of their ability to upgrade into another card. 
* When a player discards a Traveller from play, they may exchange it for the card indicated; they return the card being exchanged to its pile, take the card they are exchanging it for, and put that card into their discard pile. 
* For example when exchanging {{Card|Peasant}} for {{Card|Soldier}}, they put Peasant back into its pile and take a Soldier and put it into their discard pile.
* Exchanging is not [[trash]]ing or [[gain]]ing, and so does not trigger abilities like {{Event|Travelling Fair|Travelling Fair's}}. 
** It is optional. 
** It only happens when the card is discarded from play; discarding it from hand, such as due to not playing it, will not trigger it. 
** It only happens if the card being exchanged for has any copies available; if there are no Soldiers in the pile, Peasant cannot be exchanged at that time. 
* If multiple cards do something when discarded from play, the player picks the order; for example, with no {{Card|Soldier|Soldiers}} left in the pile, a player with {{Card|Peasant}} and {{Card|Soldier}} in play could first exchange {{Card|Soldier}} for {{Card|Fugitive}}, then exchange {{Card|Peasant}} for that {{Card|Soldier}}. 
* {{Card|Page}} and {{Card|Peasant}} are [[Kingdom]] cards that are Travellers.
* {{Card|Page}} is exchanged for {{Card|Treasure Hunter}}, which is exchanged for {{Card|Warrior}}, which is exchanged for {{Card|Hero}}, which is exchanged for {{Card|Champion}}; <br> {{Card|Peasant}} is exchanged for {{Card|Soldier}}, which is exchanged for {{Card|Fugitive}}, which is exchanged for {{Card|Disciple}}, which is exchanged for {{Card|Teacher}}. 
* {{Card|Champion}} and {{Card|Teacher}} are not Travellers; they cannot be exchanged for anything. 
* {{Card|Page}} and {{Card|Peasant}} can be bought or otherwise gained when being used in a game, but the other cards cannot, they are not in the [[Supply]]. 
* When a non-Supply pile is empty, that does not count as an empty pile for the game [[Gameplay#Ending_conditions|ending condition]] or for cards like {{Card|City}} (from {{Set|Prosperity}}).
=== Preparation ===
* If Page or Peasant is being used in a game, take the cards that they upgrade into (for Page: Treasure Hunter, Warrior, Hero, and Champion; for Peasant: Soldier, Fugitive, Disciple, and Teacher) and put them near the Supply. 
* They can be in a single pile or multiple piles, depending on player preferences and table space.

== Other rules clarifications ==
* Exchanging must happen both ways; there must be somewhere for the discarding card to return to.  If a Traveller is bought using {{Card|Black Market}}, there is no pile to return it to and therefore it cannot be exchanged.
* Travellers in the [[trash]], even though they are not from the Supply, may be gained by {{Card|Graverobber}} or {{Card|Rogue}} if they have the right cost.
* If a Traveller is played using a [[Way]], or subject to the attack of {{card|Enchantress}}, that doesn't stop you from exchanging it when you discard it from play.

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| <h5> Deprecated rules clarifications (2015 2019) </h5>
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<li> <p>Cards playing ''as'' Travellers, such as {{Card|Band_of_Misfits|oi=2|the early version of Band of Misfits}} or {{Card|Estate|Estates}} via <span class="card-popup">[[Inheritance#Versions|Inheritance (early version)]]<span class="noprint">[[File:InheritanceOld2.jpg|320px|link=]]</span></span>, can be exchanged; in that case, they return to their respective pile, and ''not'' to the pile of the Traveller they're emulating.<sup>†</sup></p>
	
<sup>†</sup> ''This interaction is no longer possible with [[Dominion_2019_Errata_and_Rules_Tweaks|reworded versions]] of cards like {{Card|Band of Misfits}}, which are now just causing the targeted Supply card to be played without entering the play area (i.e., "leaving it there").''
</ul>
|}

==Gallery==

{{CardImage|Disciple}}{{CardImage|Fugitive}}{{CardImage|Hero}}{{CardImage|Page}}{{CardImage|Peasant}}{{CardImage|Soldier}}{{CardImage|Treasure Hunter}}{{CardImage|Warrior}}

=== End cards of Traveller line ===
{{CardImage|Champion}}{{CardImage|Teacher}}

== Trivia ==
=== In other languages ===
* Dutch: Reiziger
* Finnish: Matkaaja
* French: Itinérant (lit. ''travelling'')
* German: Reisender
* Russian: Путешественник (pron. ''putyeshyestvyennik'')
=== Spelling ===
{{Quote|Text=I used the old form Traveller because it's a medieval game and I like the old-timey look of it.
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
 |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=13103.msg486179#msg486179 IRL Adventures stories]
}}
=== Secret History ===
{{Quote|Text=Okay so. As explained in the intro, the topic came up, maybe over lunch, man I don't remember, of someday doing an online-only [[promo]]. It would necessarily be something that couldn't exist in a physical expansion, so as not to enrage people. I went for the low-hanging fruit of, there could be a card that added +1 of something to itself when you played it. That sounded good, I filed the idea away.

But one day it came up for some reason, and I thought, hmmmm. I could simulate that in a physical card, by having piles of unique cards. You start out with say +1 Card +1 Action for {{Cost|2}}. When you play it (wait, when you discard it from play), you upgrade it into your choice of cards from the {{Cost|3}} pile, which are all worth about {{Cost|3}}. They wouldn't need to be adding +1 of something each time, but at the same time they could mostly be vanilla cards. {{Card|Village}} wasn't just Village here, it was a thing you picked to upgrade into, then upgraded away from later. You have to stop eventually and I figured four piles was enough. So you got a Peasant, and he turned into a Worker, then a Craftsman, then an Artisan, then a Master. And mostly they were vanilla cards, they had to be simple for multiple reasons.

I tried it and it was fun. It had issues though. Originally you got to pick the upgrade. You'd play three of these guys at different levels and then stare at the options. Oh man. So painful with less-frequent Dominion players. So I changed it to, we shuffle the piles, there's no choice. If you had to take the top one and put yours back on the bottom, it was kind of clumsy resolving it. If you put yours back on top, you would have slow decisions again, based on the order you upgraded guys. The upgrade thing was cool but the cards themselves were not too exciting. You would build this deck where they were a lot of your village/[[+buy]]/[[draw|+cards]], they did it all, and you would never know what your cards did and it would slow down games. It had seemed so cool, but was it really worth preserving?

I decided to make it a fixed four cards. You could learn them much faster; they could be more exciting although they still couldn't be too wordy, since the upgrading part took space. It still seemed like a cool thing, so I did two sequences: {{Card|Page|one}} is just a hero getting better, while {{Card|Peasant|the other}} tells a little story. They took up a lot of space in the set so I didn't make a third. The new version was way better, all problems solved, hooray. I picked names for the cards first, then picked abilities to go with the names, then polished them and in some cases replaced them as we tested them.
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
 |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=13082.0 The Secret History of Dominion: Adventures]
}}
=== Relevant outtakes ===
{{Quote|Text=I tried a drastically simpler variation on the {{Card|Peasant}} concept, where playing a card got you a token, or you traded in the card and 3 tokens for a particular card costing {{Cost|5}}, different each game. It was fine but didn't seem worth the tokens.
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
 |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=13103.msg486179#msg486179 IRL Adventures stories]
}}
=== Development history ===
{{Quote|Text=
Well for the step where I first had the two linear paths, I picked names first. One line was just someone getting better, the other told a little story. Then, the effects wanted to at least somewhat fit the names.

For the {{Card|Page}} line, I liked the idea of having just one attack (and one in the other in the obvious {{Card|Soldier}} slot). The names thus had to work with not being attacks despite being names that might otherwise go on attack cards. One thing was to have a {{Card|Moat}}, but that had to go on the top, since the under-the-line space was reserved for upgrading. So, there's an attack, a {{Card|Moat}}, and two treasure-gainers, which also fits with the names. Your {{Card|Hero}} fights, but doesn't fight the other players.

For the {{Card|Peasant}} line, things were more of a mystery. {{Card|Soldier}} wanted to attack and {{Card|Teacher}} wanted to hand out tokens. {{Card|Fugitive}} and {{Card|Disciple}} did not suggest as much in terms of what they would do. At one point the {{Card|Fugitive}} went on the Tavern mat; that was cute, he hid out in the Tavern. That was part of trying to make {{Card|Teacher}} harder to go nuts with, but was very wordy.

It was natural to look at old ideas to see if some of them would work; I mean I needed 8 extra cards. {{Card|Fugitive}} in particular was a card I was resigned to never doing, but I could just do it here with no issues. {{Card|Treasure Hunter}} you know about. It had been in [[Hinterlands]], it was pretty cool there, what with {{Card|Haggler}} and {{Card|Border Village}} and so on. {{Card|Disciple}} tried another classic dead card, but didn't keep it. {{Card|Hero}} tried something new simple & exciting, that would be dangerous on a regular card. {{Card|Champion}} was a {{Card|Moat}} variant, then Moated from anywhere. {{Card|Teacher}} was new. {{Card|Soldier}} and {{Card|Warrior}} were just very simple attacks using the tokens (at first). Attacks are hard and that was an easy way to get terse new ones.

There were things that weren't a reason why a card showed up, but which then seemed nice, and made it less likely that that card would leave. It was cute that {{Card|Page}} and {{Card|Treasure Hunter}} were +1 Action while {{Card|Peasant}} and {{Card|Soldier}} weren't. It was cute that {{Card|Peasant}} was the +'s not on Page, but it didn't start that way. It was cute that {{Card|Champion}} was a duration and {{Card|Teacher}} a reserve; neither started that way. It was cute that {{Card|Soldier}} gave the -1 card token and {{Card|Warrior}} gave the -{{Cost|1}} token, while {{Card|Soldier}} gave +{{Cost|2}} and {{Card|Warrior}} gave +2 Cards.

I liked the idea of trying to have each step be worth stopping on sometimes, but it was clear you would usually want to push to the top with your first {{Card|Page}}/{{Card|Peasant}}. I do think it ended up where every step is worth stopping on sometimes, except {{Card|Page}} (and yes even then but way less often). You don't stop on {{Card|Fugitive}} that often, but I have done it. You stop on {{Card|Soldier}}, {{Card|Warrior}}, and {{Card|Disciple}} all the time; and then sometimes there's a combo for {{Card|Treasure Hunter}} or {{Card|Hero}} (or you don't need {{Card|Champion}}).
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
 |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=5799.msg569616#msg569616 Interview with Donald X.]
}}
{{Quote|Text= 
Mostly what makes for a poor upgrade but not a poor card, is something that's missing out by being an upgrade. You see the upgrade less often; it would bring more joy to the game as a regular card. There's also, things you need early game, since the upgrades are delayed. Arguably when an ability is precious (e.g. +buy, in some games) it's bad to have it on a traveller (other than the 1st or last one). I kind of shied away from those but not completely.

A card that's too narrow as a regular card can hope to find life in a less-used slot like the travellers; if this isn't the game for {{Card|Treasure Hunter}} combos, you just play it once and move on. A card that's hard to cost (e.g. {{Card|Fugitive}}) gets this new option of costing time.
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
 |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=5799.msg569616#msg569616 Interview with Donald X.]
}}
=== Retrospective on exchanging ===
{{Quote|Text= I think of this as, well not exactly a failed experiment, but something that was better constrained to the Travellers. I think it confuses people and the move is not to use it. {{Card|Trader}}, as I've said in the past, either it should not have the reaction, or the reaction should let you trash a when-gained non-{{Card|Silver}} card to gain a {{Card|Silver}}. Of course a spin-off could have exchange but not when-gain, or could just really require that people learn all about exchanging day one, as a basic part of the rules.
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
 |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=18180.msg742782#msg742782 How would old cards be made differently with new mechanics?]
}}
=== Why is exchanging not gaining?===
{{Quote|Text= 
I obv. didn't want to trash the Travellers because it would reduce your ability to go up the path, or require 40 more cards. It made no sense to both trash and return them, it's just extra words to confuse people. Since you weren't trashing them, I automatically preferred not gaining them, it seems simpler. Gaining them but not trashing them just seems weird to me.

Since they are people getting better there's a poetry to not gaining/trashing, hooray. And to fit on the cards it's all just this magic word "exchange" you have to look up anyway.
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
 |Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=5799.msg489643#msg489643 Interview with Donald X.]
}}
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