moogle/whosebaby, he/she/they, late 20s. originally a ToA blog, now an increasingly general blog for fandoms; currently dedicated to tales of arcadia, lorien legacies, dark crystal, rusty lake, the quarry, final fantasy xiv, and scooby doo: mystery incorporated, with a smattering of other things. i also post origfic sometimes, and am big into ttrpg dev. (also, now 18+; kiddos please scoot.) enjoy!
So I've been trying for a long time to figure out a good, simple way to substitute dice for a deck of playing cards. I made this primarily for the sake of accessibility--I am disabled in such a way that I can't use physical cards, and it is much, much harder to find good offline digital card decks than dice rollers--but I'm hoping it will also be useful for people who don't have playing cards on hand or space to use them.
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You will need:
A d10 and d6.
Preferably a way to record which cards you've drawn to which pile.
How to draw a card:
You will be rolling from 1 of 9 tables; the d10 is your table die, and the d6 is your result die. If you roll a 10 on the table die, reroll.
If playing without jokers, reroll on a 5-6 result from Table 9. If playing with jokers, roll normally.
The default order of suits is Spades, Hearts, Diamonds, and Clubs, though you may change this if you want.
The order of numbered cards is Ace to King for each suit, followed by the black joker and red joker.
Roll 1d10 and 1d6.
Table 1:
1: Ace of Spades
2: 2 of Spades
3: 3 of Spades
4: 4 of Spades
5: 5 of Spades
6: 6 of Spades
Table 2:
1: 7 of Spades
2: 8 of Spades
3: 9 of Spades
4: 10 of Spades
5: Jack of Spades
6: Queen of Spades
Table 3:
1: King of Spades
2: Ace of Hearts
3: 2 of Hearts
4: 3 of Hearts
5: 4 of Hearts
6: 5 of Hearts
Table 4:
1: 6 of Hearts
2: 7 of Hearts
3: 8 of Hearts
4: 9 of Hearts
5: 10 of Hearts
6: Jack of Hearts
Table 5:
1: Queen of Hearts
2: King of Hearts
3: Ace of Diamonds
4: 2 of Diamonds
5: 3 of Diamonds
6: 4 of Diamonds
Table 6:
1: 5 of Diamonds
2: 6 of Diamonds
3: 7 of Diamonds
4: 8 of Diamonds
5: 9 of Diamonds
6: 10 of Diamonds
Table 7:
1: Jack of Diamonds
2: Queen of Diamonds
3: King of Diamonds
4: Ace of Clubs
5: 2 of Clubs
6: 3 of Clubs
Table 8:
1: 4 of Clubs
2: 5 of Clubs
3: 6 of Clubs
4: 7 of Clubs
5: 8 of Clubs
6: 9 of Clubs
Table 9:
1: 10 of Clubs
2: Jack of Clubs
3: Queen of Clubs
4: King of Clubs
5: Black Joker
6: Red Joker
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Methods to efficiently keep track of a deck are another story, and will be one of my next projects, but for now have this in case it's helpful to you. Enjoy!
today on my When All You Have is a D10 project: Rolling a 6 with a D100.
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1-16: Option 1
17-32: Option 2
33-48: Option 3
49-64: Option 4
65-80: Option 5
81-96: Option 6
97-100: Reroll
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if you get that last one you can reroll the ones column, tens column, or both, up to you. tune in next time for so fucking help me i WILL find an efficient way to substitute dice for a deck of playing cards
I AM TIRED OF WRITING POEMS ABOUT LOVING THE STARS
WHEN THEY HAVE NEVER LOVED ME BACK.
TIRED OF PRETENDING FATE GIVES A DAMN
ABOUT MY TEARS OR PLEAS, ABOUT MY “please, PLEASE”
TIRED OF BEGGING AND HOPING AND WAITING
FOR THE WORLD TO BECOME A HOME AROUND ME.
AGAIN, AGAIN I REPEAT
I HAVE A RIGHT TO BE ANGRY.
I HAVE A RIGHT TO BE ANGRY.
THE UNIVERSE HAS DONE ME WRONG
I WILL NO LONGER BE MEEK.
SO MAYBE IT IS MY FAULT. MAYBE THE TRUTH OF IT IS
I AM JUST SELF-DESTRUCTIVE.
I AM SELF-DESTRUCTIVE AND DEPRESSED
AND UNWILLING TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
BUT THE SKY IS AN EASY TARGET FOR MY IRE,
FOR WHAT IS DIVINE CAN NEVER DIE.
AND SO I SCREAM UNENDING
A CHALLENGE TO THE STARS
AN EXPERIMENT TO SEE
IF THEY DARE SILENCE ME.
and would i mind it, if they did? no, not at all.
at least–a reply.
at last–to know they are alive.
please, please.
another voice in the void is all that i seek.
A CHALLENGE, OR A PLEA, Amrita C. | Week 2 of 52 Writings
one thing i really like is how they obviously went out of their way to match asahi's speech patterns with his and yotsuyu's father. the guy is a minor NPC who barely has any lines, and yet despite him being an old man who doesn't particularly look like asahi he uses the exact same inflections and tone of voice. you've already been listening to asahi being a creep this whole time, and then suddenly if you're paying attention it becomes so clear where he got it from. he really does just sound exactly like his dad.
(and it makes absolutely everything about the situation that much more skin-crawling, considering what their father is actually saying in the scene where that stands out the most.)
again, minor NPC with very little screentime; it would have been easy for them to just give him A Voice and be done with it, and instead they took the opportunity to imply volumes about asahi and his dynamic with his family in such an effective, understated way. anyway the naeuri siblings are ruining my life
man there is like. so much to be said about hermes' story, the experiences it represents (spoiler alert: even under the least bad faith interpretations it's not just Unfortunate Depression That Was No One's Fault), his dynamics with both the other ancients and meteion, the ancients' society in general, and the fandom's reaction to all of it--especially compared to the way they talk about other villains and antagonists. i have a lot of thoughts in me about it, and hopefully i'll have the spoons to write out at least a few of them.
that said, first and foremost, [stage whispers with my hands around my mouth] it's the
there are so, so many reasons the dinner scene is hysterically funny, and one of them is that matt mccooey and jeremy ang jones' performances are extremely distinct to me even when they're both playing fandaniel. which isn't to say either of them did a bad job with the transition! the change is mostly pretty seamless! but my first instinct is to hear amon!fandaniel as hermes being Theatrical, and a good chunk of the time i have to purposely stop and listen back to register him as fandaniel instead. so when i tell you it almost killed me in one hit to hear the word 'daddy' come out of this man's mouth,