Re: [piecepack] Re: Rainbow Deck

[Jorge Arroyo <trozo@...>]

I'm not sure, I find the Rainbow deck a bit too busy although I guess it's a
matter of getting used to it... As for decks for use with the piecepack,
what I was thinking recently is to have a deck with the suits I usually use
(regular + seasons) to use instead of the tiles for games that can be played
with rectangular tiles. In fact I recently ordered this deck (24+24 cards)
from Artscow and will see how it goes... Maybe it can also be used in
addition to the tiles for new games (or maybe there is already a game that
uses this idea?)

Another deck that is very interesting because it's not just x numbers in y
suits is the Decktet, where each number card belongs to two suits. The suits
are Moons, Suns, Waves, Leaves, Wyrms, Knots. Some of those are easy to
associate with the piecepack suits (Suns, Moons and Leaves). Wyrms are
green, so they could be associated with Crowns. Knots are yellow, and are
similar to the Spring suit. And waves could be associated either with Summer
(Water is similar to Fish) or Arms which is also blue.

I don't have any ideas about how they could be combined, but maybe something
cool might be possible...

-Jorge

On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe@...> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Mark Biggar <mark.a.biggar@...>
> wrote:
> > On 4/3/2010 8:01 AM, Ron Hale-Evans wrote:
> >> Howdy, Clark! Because you contributed to the original Rainbow Deck
> >> thread on BGG, I thought this thread might flush you out, busy though
> >> you be. :)
> >>
> >> It would be great if you (or someone else) would make a page about
> >> your deck on the wiki.
> >
> > IcePack also had a deck of cards, 56 cards (nine suits and 2 jokers)
>
> Yes, and I think there are a couple of other, similar decks floating
> out there, all of varying thoughtfulness, compatibility with one
> another, and integration with the piecepack. Has anyone actually
> written a game with any of them? Someone who knows more should
> definitely write about this on the wiki.
>
> What intrigues me about the Rainbow Deck is that it's the first
> project of its kind that I've seen the boardgaming community show much
> enthusiasm for. Thus, there is some hope that people may use it and it
> will stick around long enough to become some kind of standard.
>
> Marty and I were talking recently about how the piecepack lends itself
> more to small, short games than to large, sprawling games like
> Advanced Civilization and its descendants. She attributed this to its
> relatively small number of components, among other things, and
> threatened to write an essay about it. :) Meanwhile, we talked about
> adding a standard deck of cards to a playing cards piecepack, or
> combining the three standard piecepacks to get 12 suits. (To my
> knowledge, Clark's Spam-o-Rama is the only game that does this at the
> moment. Good game, BTW.) Anyway, that was about when I started getting
> interested in the 12-suited Rainbow Deck.
>
> Ron
>
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