Yes I love Illwinter and the Dominion game but this thought did have sneaky undertones.....
I was thinking "Master of Magic" which is an old standby (I still play it on my WinXP machine). Alot of what I would like to see in Dominions comes from that. But hey, he could just download that from the-underdogs.org
Maybe "Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic" which in many ways is a decent replacement for MoM. Its a PBEM but has many of the features that are being mentioned on the wish lists here.
There is an old board game called "Magic Realm" which I considered a great effort to try and achieve random in a board game. It still shows up on EBay every once in awhile
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/viewitem.php3?gameid=22
(Sorry. The board was slow and I used to do things like this just to spark activity back when I was paid to manage chat forums. Dont mind me, Im only half serious)
[ November 12, 2003, 00:03: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]