Characters have a chance of picking up individual cards through the game. There are 16 suits of cards numbered 2-8 as well as an ace card. When someone gets a card they are given a message indicating its number and suit as well as a brief descriptive message "property of the Darkmoon Faire"
Once a character gathers all numbers in an individual suit it completes a deck which in turn gives a buff or special ability to that player.
The suits are:
- Beasts
- Furies
- Chaos
- Elementals
- Storms
- Nobles
- Portals
- Blessings
- Prisms
- Warlords
- Lunacy
- Undeath
- Rogues
- Swords
- Mages
- Demons
Why this is interesting to me is because this just screams potential for an art project. First off, there is no preexisting artwork to go off of. So anything that I make becomes valid as far as what the 'real' card looks like. Also, just look at these suits! If we imagine that all cards have images on them, and not just a number that indicates their placement in the deck, than each deck will require 8 unique pieces of artwork. Just glancing at the suits, I can easily imagine 8 distinct images that would work, and that's without trying.
These cards are just begging to be created.
8 is a good number for pictures that share a common theme or layout. I made a tarot deck once, and quickly lost enthusiasm for the project after about 15 images. That wouldn't have been a problem if the average tarot deck only has 15 cards. It doesn't, it has more. Much more.
The "Darkmoon Faire" part should be cake as well. I'd imagine that such a label would probably be on the back of the card, out of the way of the main image. This gives me something to incorporate as a standard back, as well as an overall look. I'll sketch something out and post it later.
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