Dominion - The Dark Ages

Times have been tough. To save money, you have moved from your old castle to a luxurious ravine. You didn't like this castle anyway; it was always looted and never at a reasonable hour. And if it wasn't barbarians, it was the plague, or sometimes both, and there weren't enough chairs. The ravine is awesome; you have a lot of sun, and you can drop the garbage wherever you want. In your spare time, you started begging. Begging is a brilliant idea, but difficult to put into practice, because no one has money. You ask the villagers for twigs, and they ask you for them again, but no one really seems to be getting away with them. That's how life is sometimes. You are quietly conquering people, taking care of your own business, when suddenly there is a plague, or barbarians, or everyone is illiterate, and that is all you can do to cling to a wreck as the storm passes. Yet you are sure, as always, to triumph over this adversity, or at least to do a little better than everyone else.

In Dominion, each player starts with a small package of identical cards. In the center of the table is a selection of other cards that players can "buy" as they can afford it. Through their selection of cards to buy, and the way they play their hands, players build their decks on the fly, striving to find the most effective path to the precious victory points at the end of the game.

This is the eighth title in the Dominion series. Dominion - The Dark Ages adds 35 new Kingdom cards, including new cards to harm your opponents (Ruin cards) and cards to replace the starting domains (Refuge cards). At the heart of this expansion are new mechanisms: turn one card into another, spread cards to trigger different effects, and recover previously discarded cards.

Extension for Dominion and Dominion intrigues. Requires one of the two to be used.