Gift of Gab

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Working the patter is dangerous. Y'all know I talk a lot. Fortunately I have Laura to steer me when I do a five minute digression on Era Ten lore in the middle of a Magical Kitties game to over-explain a meta-joke.

The Wheel coming up that quickly IS rare, but it happens. Not as bad as that Tower/Wheel/Tower that hit Tony once.

Part of the reason I bring four decks is also as simple as having picked up four pirate themed decks.

Deck One I found on Amazon, but it's a "woodcut" style, brown on brown, with oversized cards and hard to read AND handle..

Deck two I found on etsy. It's actually "Le Tarot de Mer," so not pirate themed, but it's all ships and krakens and mermaids, and it's a pretty deck in white and blue.

Deck three - and this took me a year to track down - is the same pirate deck Conrad scanned in for the tool. It's been out of print since 2008, so finding it new on eBay for only €20 was a good find.

Finally Deck Four I joined the Kickstarter for last year. "The Lady Tarot Pirate Deck." The Majors and court cards are based on historical female pirates like Anne Bonny and Grace O' Malley, and is supposed to come with some battle maps and a D&D 5e pirate/ship combat supplement using the Tarot deck. A Tarot deck for game mechanics? It'll never work. This deck actually is 80 cards. One of the extra Majors is "The Pact," and I forget the other offhand. My Cutlass table at the con was six women and two men, so the Lady Pirate Deck was a big hit. I cheerfully admit I totally bought that to have a deck where the women got to be badass, not tavern wenches. Art is pretty good, but very good quality paper. Eventually I'll get the supplement and the map, but they had a production issue and decided to just ship the deck itself.


Yours,