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<blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8196993" data-attributes="member: 6915329"><p>Thought: Cards--both regular playing cards and specialty decks--could be used instead of dice. Degrees of success and failure, or even special effects, might be more important, since you could have multiple people put down a card of the same value, but the suit would provide a special effect or beat cards of lower suits. And the character's class--and maybe even race--would influence what those special effects would be. It could be that a fighter's 8 of spades has a slightly different effect than a wizard's 8 of spades, or an elf's 8 of spades. There would be lots of tables involved, or eventually, the rules would be printed on each card, thus allowing people to sell special decks of cards in much the same way they sell special dice now. People would be willing to shell out dough for the cards, especially if they were pretty enough. </p><p></p><p>And in real world basic D&D, monsters would attack or save as a fighter or cleric or whatever of a certain level. In AUD&D1e, monsters would use the appropriate class table to determine the result of their card draw. But they would eventually be turned into monster types, so possibly there's a Dragon table and a Fey table--or a Skirmisher table and a Controller table.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Faolyn, post: 8196993, member: 6915329"] Thought: Cards--both regular playing cards and specialty decks--could be used instead of dice. Degrees of success and failure, or even special effects, might be more important, since you could have multiple people put down a card of the same value, but the suit would provide a special effect or beat cards of lower suits. And the character's class--and maybe even race--would influence what those special effects would be. It could be that a fighter's 8 of spades has a slightly different effect than a wizard's 8 of spades, or an elf's 8 of spades. There would be lots of tables involved, or eventually, the rules would be printed on each card, thus allowing people to sell special decks of cards in much the same way they sell special dice now. People would be willing to shell out dough for the cards, especially if they were pretty enough. And in real world basic D&D, monsters would attack or save as a fighter or cleric or whatever of a certain level. In AUD&D1e, monsters would use the appropriate class table to determine the result of their card draw. But they would eventually be turned into monster types, so possibly there's a Dragon table and a Fey table--or a Skirmisher table and a Controller table. [/QUOTE]
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