cards as randomizers
Apr 28, 2022 22:15:16 GMT -5
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Post by hengest on Apr 28, 2022 22:15:16 GMT -5
An idea, based loosely on tetramorph 's cool cartomancy post.
Place
Suit gives general location.
♠ underground
♥ indoors
♦ outdoors, populated area
♣ outdoors, basically wild
(these below are suggestive: simply apply to your setting)
A useless place but with a portal, magical or earthly
2 place with one possibly obvious use (spring, abandoned item or treasure, whatever)
3 place that makes use of visitors (capture, eat, interrogate, toy with...)
4 smallest possible trace of localized activity (campground, fire, inhabited hollow trunk)
5 evidence of extended stay
6 settlement or space in regular use
7 sparsely furnished
8 modestly furnished
9 ornate
10 oriented towards past
J oriented towards future
Q monarch's residence (not so obvious)
K monarch's residence (obvious)
Draw
♦ 5: evidence of extended stay in populated area. Campground between two large towns, perhaps a regular stopping place for merchants or others who have regular business travelling on this road.
♠ 3: place that makes use of visitors underground. Well in underground temple that looks useful but will try to pull in and consume anyone who actually tries to draw water.
♣ 8: unpopulated area outside, modestly furnished. In this waste, apparently never traveled by anyone, you come upon a treehousesome 15 feet off the ground. Clambering into it, you find some bits of wicker furniture apparently for children as well as an unbroken mug half-filled with rainwater.
Place
Suit gives general location.
♠ underground
♥ indoors
♦ outdoors, populated area
♣ outdoors, basically wild
(these below are suggestive: simply apply to your setting)
A useless place but with a portal, magical or earthly
2 place with one possibly obvious use (spring, abandoned item or treasure, whatever)
3 place that makes use of visitors (capture, eat, interrogate, toy with...)
4 smallest possible trace of localized activity (campground, fire, inhabited hollow trunk)
5 evidence of extended stay
6 settlement or space in regular use
7 sparsely furnished
8 modestly furnished
9 ornate
10 oriented towards past
J oriented towards future
Q monarch's residence (not so obvious)
K monarch's residence (obvious)
Draw
♦ 5: evidence of extended stay in populated area. Campground between two large towns, perhaps a regular stopping place for merchants or others who have regular business travelling on this road.
♠ 3: place that makes use of visitors underground. Well in underground temple that looks useful but will try to pull in and consume anyone who actually tries to draw water.
♣ 8: unpopulated area outside, modestly furnished. In this waste, apparently never traveled by anyone, you come upon a treehousesome 15 feet off the ground. Clambering into it, you find some bits of wicker furniture apparently for children as well as an unbroken mug half-filled with rainwater.