Re: [piecepack] Re: Rainbow Deck

[Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe@...>]

"Busy" is a good word for it. I'm reserving judgment until I can
actually play some games with it.

Also, the deck seems to be free and open, so anyone can make a
streamlined version if they wish. The designer himself seems to be
pretty flexible about accepting feedback.

Ron

On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Jorge Arroyo <trozo@...> wrote:
> 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:
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>> 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)
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>> 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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