Deck of Roleplaying Opportunities

[Dannyalcatraz]

You want to have some fun, track down WotC's OOP game, Everway.

From http://www.rpg.net/columns/briefhistory/briefhistory1.phtml

...Jonathan Tweet's Everway, an entirely innovative RPG design. It introduced a visual randomizer, the Tarot-like Vision cards, which were used to determine the results of character actions. They meant that the gamemaster had a tremendous free hand, and the result was nearly as freeform as 1991's Amber Diceless Roleplaying, by Phage Press. It was another step in the branch of storytelling games, which placed story first, before game or character. However, the freeform system required a very good gamemaster, and not everyone was a Jonathan Tweet or a John Tynes (who had been running playtests for the Wizards crew).

Unfortunately, Everway was dramatically overprinted, with pre-orders numbering 17,000. Wizards staff figured that sales of 5,000-10,000 were much more likely (and indeed, much more inline for a new RPG line), but couldn't really allocate an RPG game, so they printed to the demand. The result was much the same as Fallen Empire's demand-driven overprinting. The game didn't go anywhere.

Those cards are all fantasy-related images done by some of the finest artists in the genre- Hildebrand, Achilleos, Brom, Rowena and others.

You can also have fun tracking down the OoP game Hyborean Gates, a CCG that featured art by Boris Vallejo.

 

[Trellian]

Thanks for all the links and comments. I'll be sure to check out the links and consider the advice. If I ever get to 52 cards, I'll be sure to post it here. I better check with my players first to see if they are at all interested in something like this.