Re: [piecepack] Re: Rainbow Deck

[Jonathan Dietrich <jcdietrich+yahoo@...>]

The standard JCD piecepack + the card suits, lend itself to the 6 suited
Empire deck. http://www.rightfast.com/empire/

(this was part of the reasoning behind changing the fleur-de-lis to an
anchor)

Jonathan C. Dietrich

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On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe@...> wrote:

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>
> "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@...<trozo%40makasoft.net>>
> 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@...<rwhe%40ludism.org>>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Mark Biggar <mark.a.biggar@...<mark.a.biggar%40comcast.net>
> >
> >> 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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