[Torg] an idea about the Drama Deck(s)

[Ryan M Roth]

On Sat, 21 Jun 2008, Kansas Jim wrote:
> This all combined to give me an idea - instead of just a realm-specific
> card or two per realm in a generic Drama Deck, what about realm-specific
> Drama Decks? A Nile deck might be heavier on Hero and Action cards, the
> initiative lines in Orrorsh might be skewed more in favor of the
> villains in both Standard and Dramatic scenes, the Approved Actions
> might be expanded to include things like Cast Spell in Aysle or Perform
> Miracle in the Living Land, etc etc.
>

This is a great idea.  I've managed to sucessfully create my own cards 
with a combination of Photoshop, a color printer, a deck of regular 
playing cards of similar size to the originals, card sleeves, and some of 
the file resources available on Garret Taylor's old TORG website 
(Torg-o-Maniacs: http://www.db.erau.edu/~taylorg/torg/).  The sleeves 
remove the need for messy glues or other adhesives, and allow the cards to 
be recycled as necessary.

The challenge here would be to make sure that the relative distributions 
of effects, approved actions, initiative and DSR lines are balanced 
nicely.  That is, making sure you have a good mix of Flurries, 
Taunt/Imtimidate approved actions, Heroes, ABD, Complications, etc.  A 
good first step would be to go through the original deck and determine how 
many of each aspect occurs, and use that as a guideline when adjusting the 
proprotions to fit a particular cosm.

The other minor issue is with crossing cosms -- if a group plays one scene 
in CE and then moves into NE, do they need to swap out all their in their 
hands for new ones from the NE deck? Do subplots from one deck remain 
active when another comes into play?

One other idea is to have a 'core' deck that is always used, and mix in a 
'cosm' deck when in a particular cosm.

Anyway, I find this to be a really neat idea. I would pursue it myself, if 
I had time and an active TORG group.

Ryan R.