Irritation with Dominion card choices

2010-09-18T14:15:47Z

I understand that Dominion is set in medieval Europe and as such is likely to depict limited numbers of women and people of color, especially in powerful roles. But... did they really have to pick the things they did?

Here are all of your women (unless I missed some):

Witch (hands out curse cards, is an attack card)
Sea Hag (hands out curse cards, is an attack card)
Harem (worth money! and victory!)
Herbalist (can't really complain about this one)

Here are your people of color (unless I missed some):

Harem (don't lean on me babe, 'cause I can't afford the ticket...)
Native Village (...back to stereotype city!)
Pearl Diver (actually the kid on the card looks sort of white to me, but I figure this is meant to pair with "Native Village")
Noble (one of the advisors, not the noble himself)
Navigator (this one's fine!)

This is arguably one of the more minor things in the history of minor things, but it makes me grumble, so. Only the Witch, of all eight of those cards, is in the base set. Assuming this universe has a Harem (ugh), there must be contact with non-Western-European communities, so some of the trader/market type cards could have had people of color on them, maybe? Or something? I dunno. Anyway, it's still an awesome game that I intend to play hundreds of times, and now that I have expansions we can have giant eight-person games, which is good, since I was really lacking in games that play well with more than four or five. It's just... irritating that it is not better in this regard.

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Irritation with Dominion card choices