Muse:Musette Playtest 1:Cards

Georg's Desire

To unleash his fury on Georgia and drive it out of Abkhazia for good
Yes: 2 random Owner: Paul
No: 1 random Owner: Bob

Maria's Desire

To save Georg, her love, from the deepest darkest inclinations of his heart (i.e. his anger).
Yes: 1 hidden, 2 random Owner: Jonathan
No: 2 random Owner: Terry

Yuriy's Desire

To rescue my blind daughter from the midst of erupting hostilities.
Yes: 1 random, 1 hidden Owner: Paul
No: 3 random, 1 hidden Owner: Bob

Jonathan's Cards

QD 9S 8H 6S

Paul's Cards

JD 8D 5C 3C

Bob's Cards

8C 7S 4C 2S

Terry's Cards

QH 6H 5D 3S

Deck

Here's a random deck of cards all in a list. As the cards get drawn, just delete them from the front of the list:
2C 10C 2H 10H JH KS AC 9C KH 4H JS 5S QS AD 6D 9H KD 6C 10D JC 4S 5H 7H 3H 2D 3D 10S KC 7C

Order of Suits

The order of suits is rather unusual, reproduced here for reference:

Hearts, Clubs, Spades, Diamonds

Discussion

1. Jon, I don't know how much thought you've given to handling the cards in actual play (you probably have), but here's a suggestion:

When we will contribute to Desires, let's make sure to just write +1 card or something similar, only revealing its value when the Desire is resolved. Otherwise, it'll totally ruin the game.

--Paul

Ok, that's a good suggestion. I just realized that we can just write the # of cards for each Desire sheet, and then I can randomly determine which ones get drawn from the deck by throwing a die, for example. If you play from a card in your hand, however, we'll have to put that card down explicitly.

--Jonathan

2. The "order of suits" thing always makes people laugh (and sometimes "at me" as opposed to "with me"), but inevitably people really like it. It's easy to remember, even for people not used to card games or standard conventions. There is usually a lot of smiling and laughing whenever I explain it before playing.

--Paul

I'm just very much used to the Spades-Hearts-Diamonds-Clubs suit order that is used in virtually every major card game (Bridge, Hearts, Spades, War, etc. etc.). But in the end the exact order doesn't matter so long as there is one and it's consistent. :-)

--Jonathan

Feel free to delete all this if you'd like to keep this page "clean".

--Paul

Technically, there's a separate discussion page for each regular page that you can edit separately. But I don't really care.

--Jonathan