Anyone still knowing the Adventure Design Deck. It did about the same thing with specially prepared cards.. I never used it, but I think it can be useful Brian Koppi wrote: > I've seen a number of responses to the idea of a Plot Deck. It > appears some people have encountered similar concepts out there. I > thought I'd take a chance and post the beginning of a strategy to > create such a device to gmast-l. Hopefully the effort will spark the > creative energies of some of you who can succeed in areas where I > will fail. > > First , for the sake of accessibility, I'd like to stick with a > regular deck of cards as a vehicle. In a 52 card deck there are the > following: > > 26 Black Cards (2 suits) > 26 Red Cards (2 suits) > 12 each of clubs, diamonds, hearts and spades > 4 each of 2-9, jack, queen, king, ace and joker (13 cards) > > The first scheme that comes to mind is to give each of the 13 > cards a broad meaning and to use the different colors and suits as > modifiers. > > Here's an idea how: > > Black Suits (negative effect) > Clubs: Directly effect the party > Spades: Effect the party indirectly > > Red Suits (positive effect) > Diamonds: Directly effect the party > Hearts: Effect the party indirectly > > A direct effect might mean the introduction of a romantic > interest for a party member that has beneficial or detrimental > results. An indirect effect might mean the introduction of a romantic > interest for an associate of the party (NPC) that has beneficial or > detrimental results for the party. > > The next step would be determining what each of the 13 cards mean > in broad terms. Someone with knowledge of a tarot deck might be of > great help here. Some thoughts are: > > Love, Wealth, Death, Truth, Stranger, Faith... > > Each of these things can have positive or negative effects, > depending on the color of the card pulled. If the 5 card is "Truth" > and a 5 of Clubs is pulled it means someone the party interacts with > will give them bad information. > > That's as far as I've thought things out. Anyone care to lend a hand? > > Brian Koppi > chikoppi@21stcentury.net > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > GMAST Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gmast/ > Tech support questions go to support@phoenyx.net. ---------------------------------------------------------------- GMAST Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gmast/ Tech support questions go to support@phoenyx.net.
