The Deck of Fate is here! If dice aren’t your thing but you still like randomness aplenty, the Deck of Fate can stand in for the dice in any Fate or Fudge based RPG.
GET THE APP
The Deck of Fate is now available as an app for IOS and Android devices. Get it now from dof.hiddenachievement.com
WHAT’S IN HERE?
The Deck of Fate is actually three decks in one! You can combine them together if it suits your play goals, or use them separately for a variety of purposes. In this package you’ll find:
- A 6-card “Accelerated Arcana” deck: Six inspirational images, one for each of the approaches from Fate Accelerated.
- A 9-card “Core Arcana” deck: Nine inspirational images covering nine concepts, with “aspect style” positive and negative takes on each.
- An 81-card “Dice Card” deck: Shuffle this deck and draw to simulate the toss of four Fate Dice. Inspirational phrases are found on each card to give you cues on how to interpret the result.
SECRETS OF THE DECK OF FATE
- The backs of the cards can double as fate point counters.
- You can shuffle the Accelerated Arcana and draw from it to randomly determine your approaches for your Fate Accelerated character: first draw is the +3, etc.
- Draw from the deck to randomly determine a character’s aspect—or at least get a good starting-point. This works especially well with the Core Arcana, but can work with the Dice Cards as well.
- If you’re not using one or both of the Arcana decks, consider using a card per player as an initiative tracker: show the art when you haven’t taken your turn yet, flip it over when you have.
- Each Dice Card has a set of symbols on it: A mix of one to three Moons and/or Suns, or an Eclipse. Eclipses are found on unique cards. More symbols are found on cards where the dice combination is rarer.
- You can tie “variable effect” stunts into these symbols; +1 per Moon or Sun, for example, with a special big effect when an Eclipse is drawn.
If the PDF is purchased does that allow right to print on demand with a card printer. I know drivethru cards can do it but my thought was using the blank cards and creating fate points to hand out during sessions. So to have the fate point cards printed at the same time as regular deck.
Unfortunately, the Deck of Fate app crashes when starting up on my Samsung Galaxy S-3. 🙁
We’ll make sure to report this to the app makers at Hidden Achievement.
If we backed the fate core Kickstarter, did we get access to the off with that?
To “the off”?
Sigh….Siri hates me…
I meant to ask if we got access to the pdf of the cards as part of the Kickstarter. I guess Siri prefers “the off” to “the pdf”….
What is the purpose of the “moon phase” symbols on the top and bottom of the cards?
Rarity indicators (more symbols = less common) as well as providing a potential axis for differentiation and mechanical hooks beyond the numeric value of the card. I believe this is covered in the explainer card(s) that come with the Deck. You can see the symbols get some use in the Fate World, Andromeda.
So, how often do you reshuffle? Once per encounter? More? Less?
That’s up to your GM, but if I were using the Deck, I’d probably reshuffle whenever there’s a Refresh.