[UA] UA Tarot - searching for ideas

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

I'm kind of against using specific characters from the
game world for Tarot cards.  Ww did that and it made
their decks seem very cheap and far too topical. It's
better, with something like this, to stay in the
abstract.

Also, I'd make the Avatars pop up all over the
backgrounds to the regular cards and give the major
arcana very abstract meanings.

So, like S. Ben Melhuish wrote, boil the Chariot down
to just "Victory" and work in a couple Avatars.  It's
tempting to make the Fool tarot coincide with the Fool
Avatar, but it might be more useful all around to make
the Fool card into "innocence" (or whatever) and have
the Fool Avatar play a part in it (Like having the
Fool Avatar stepping off a precipice and having some
other poor schmuck Avatar, the Martyr or Healer,
maybe, falling to their death while trying to catch
him.)


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-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
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