Tarots

by Tenebrae

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Unknown2005-08-31 18:26:40
I'm also going to take this oppurtunity to say 'huzzah!' to Estarra. That it is the city-based priests and not the woodland wiccans which use tarot in-game has always been a bit of flavour that I enjoy.
Unknown2005-08-31 18:28:57
Agreed. smile.gif

Yay for Estarra, breaking tradition.
Unknown2005-08-31 19:04:24
QUOTE(Shorlen @ Aug 31 2005, 02:02 PM)
I'm sure it is all very interesting what you two think of the Christian Faith, but is this the place to discuss it? Can we, for once, perhaps, stay on topic, rather than creating what is known vernacularly as a  hijack.gif ?
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Agreed. As to what Gwylifar said, I agree. I'd like to see someone take the time and sit down, make out a Lusternian Tarot system. It'd be fairly cool. biggrin.gif It'd probably take some time, maybe allow us to randomly pull one? I totally want a tophat. biggrin.gif That'd be cool. Dump a ton of tarot cards into it, then pull them out randomly. happy.gif

EDIT: And I so want someone to read Kalo's tarot. >.>
Unknown2005-08-31 19:10:51
Feel free, then. eriotehsatyr@hotmail.com Out of curiousity, because I'm horrible at this and feel the need to get the last word in - how old are you again? 17? smile.gif Just checking.

Tarot <3 It's so cool. My friend used to read my tarot. I think it's actually, well, not COOL, but entertaining that you're trying to work it out for an IC method.

Totally do it. Take the time and turn the Lusternian Tarot system into something vaguely close to our current one. I think, done right, it'd be really, really cool.
Amaru2005-08-31 19:10:59
As for random Tarots, try:

CODE
#VAR randtarot %case( %random( 1, 8), "magician", "lovers", "hangedman", "soulless", "warrior", "fool", "princess", "emperor"); randtarot


Except with all the different Tarots, switching the '8' for however many there are.
Unknown2005-08-31 19:11:51
QUOTE(Amaru @ Aug 31 2005, 02:10 PM)
As for random Tarots, try:

CODE
#VAR randtarot %case( %random( 1, 8), "magician", "lovers", "hangedman", "soulless", "warrior", "fool", "princess", "emperor"); randtarot


Except with all the different Tarots, switching the '8' for however many there are.
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That'd work, too. Anyone want to give it a go? biggrin.gif
Shorlen2005-08-31 19:14:49
QUOTE(Ye of Little Faith @ Aug 31 2005, 03:10 PM)
Tarot <3  It's so cool.  My friend used to read my tarot.  I think it's actually, well, not COOL, but entertaining that you're trying to work it out for an IC method.

Totally do it.  Take the time and turn the Lusternian Tarot system into something vaguely close to our current one.  I think, done right, it'd be really, really cool.
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There are 78 cards in a Tarot deck. There are what, ten in the Lusternian tarot deck? It would be rather hard to create a descent metaphorical system with only ten cards =\\
Unknown2005-08-31 19:18:03
I guess I'm the only one whose ever heard of Tarok. Good game, almost as good as Rummy or Poker.
Shamarah2005-08-31 19:20:43
I thought of doing something like fortune-telling with runes once... never really did anything with it though.
Shorlen2005-08-31 19:21:06
QUOTE(Cron @ Aug 31 2005, 03:18 PM)
I guess I'm the only one whose ever heard of Tarok. Good game, almost as good as Rummy or Poker.
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Nope, care to elaborate? I've wanted to play Spades with tarot cards for a while, but never got around to it. You'd just ditch two Major Arcana to lower the deck size from 78 to 76, and play 19 tricks instead of 13, and you'd have five suits biggrin.gif
Unknown2005-08-31 19:23:55
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Nope, care to elaborate? I've wanted to play Spades with tarot cards for a while, but never got around to it. You'd just ditch two Major Arcana to lower the deck size from 78 to 76, and play 19 tricks instead of 13, and you'd have five suits


That is exactly Tarok.
Jairdan2005-08-31 19:24:38
However, with Scrolls in Bookbinding, it WOULD be possible to actually build a full deck of Tarot cards, of course.. packs only hold 50 items... so.. that causes a slight snaffu :-p You'd just have to do it straight out of your inv.. though.. you could also just make a full deck in a system and just use emotes and not even worry about real cards.
Unknown2005-08-31 19:28:17
http://www.pagat.com/tarot/dantarok.html

Pagat has several variations but I like the danish one the best.
Shorlen2005-08-31 19:31:17
QUOTE(Jairdan @ Aug 31 2005, 03:24 PM)
However, with Scrolls in Bookbinding, it WOULD be possible to actually build a full deck of Tarot cards, of course.. packs only hold 50 items... so.. that causes a slight snaffu :-p You'd just have to do it straight out of your inv.. though.. you could also just make a full deck in a system and just use emotes and not even worry about real cards.
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But that's not using the in character tarot cards (which are not at all like OOC tarot cards) to predict things sad.gif
Jairdan2005-08-31 19:37:06
Sure it is.. BUILD an in-character tarot deck. I said full deck, not an IRL deck tongue.gif
Richter2005-08-31 19:45:03
Perfect example of Erion trying to increase his post count.

And I think it would be awesome to have a tarot mini-game, a-la FF.
Unknown2005-08-31 19:56:00
QUOTE(Richter @ Aug 31 2005, 02:45 PM)
Perfect example of Erion trying to increase his post count.

And I think it would be awesome to have a tarot mini-game, a-la FF.
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Liar.

EDIT: And the FF game was hooorrriibbllee. I hated it, with a passion! biggrin.gif And if you seriously think I'm just trying to up my post count, Lisaera can so totally knock my count down by like, however many posts that was. tongue.gif
Unknown2005-08-31 20:44:55
I'll try to make the tarot system. Amaru, you forgot (or didn't know) about reversed cards.

#VAR randtarot %case( %random( 1, 8), "magician", "lovers", "hangedman", "soulless", "warrior", "fool", "princess", "emperor")
#VAR direction %case( %random( 1, 2), "~.", "~. It is reversed~.")
emote draws a tarot card, and lays it on the ground. It shows the picture of the <@randtarot><@direction>
Unknown2005-08-31 21:38:54
I don't know why, but I thought a tarot system was already in place. I wanted a character that could tell horoscopes and read tarot cards or runes for people. I really think is a cool idea.

So if anyone wants to get brainstorm on some meanings of spreads or runes to use ICly, let me know - I'd love to help. I'm just learning IRL. I have about 3 decks and a few books.
Tsakar2005-09-01 01:54:10
QUOTE(Shamarah @ Aug 31 2005, 12:20 PM)
I thought of doing something like fortune-telling with runes once... never really did anything with it though.
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Nokraenom did some fortune telling of a few different people at the inn everyone went to after his and Nymerya's wedding while everyone else was getting overly drunk (I have the log of the whole thing so I could put it up on my site if anyone wanted to see his fortune telling), he used the in-game astrology to get peoples native signs and fortune told from that, and he was very eerily right-on with it for how you would see the persons ic if you knew them yourself, even with the people he'd never met before