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What began as a little research snowballed into a complete project on its own, so, I'm happy to announce my first Kickstarter, the Marseille Sophistiqué deck.

Before working on this, my only knowledge about tarot was the pop culture stuff, but it turned out that this project encompassed many of my major interests: Illustration, history, research, and of course, gaming. French Tarot is the basis for a family of playing card games that developed in the 15th century but are mostly only known outside of English-speaking countries, where the standard Poker decks are dominant. The Tarot deck differs structurally from the Poker-style ones in having an additional face card in each suit, and a fifth, larger suit of trumps and an individual, traditionally suit-less card.

The concept behind this deck was to incorporate the cool old historical sensibilities and imagery from the centuries-old decks with modern gaming and design, to create a new deck that was faithful to the original, featuring the traditional oversized 2.75x4.75" tarot format.

Currently, the deck contains rules for French Tarot (the original in the family of trick-taking card games, 3-5 player), Baronetti (an introductory 2 player version), and rules for using the deck as a 5-suited Poker deck, but we're planning on adding other games as we hit stretch goals.

Check it out!

Kickstarter link

This looks really cool, probably gonna be what finally gets me into supporting these kickstarters. And being from the PNW, it's cool to know it's from around here. Thinking I'll go for the deck and bag pledge.

Thanks for posting!

Thanks! Great to hear that, and I'm completely with you on it being cool to know it's local/generally connecting like that: There are a lot of projects coming out of the West Coast and I've actually gotten to know two creators whose projects I found on KS pretty well.

So, we're officially funded and into stretch goal territory!

We've improved the cards to linen coating, replaced the tuck flap boxes with heavier land & top ones, and illustrated the honorary 79th tarot card, of Simpsons fame:

We've hit quite a few more stretch goals since yesterday!

Our bags will be nicer and we're now offering prints. Also, probably more important to gamers, we're now able to print a booklet of game rules to go with our deck, and have dramatically expanded our PDF of additional games.

Since yesterday, we've unlocked two more stretch goals- there's a new print option as an add-on, and everyone who's getting a deck will also get an autographed card by way of thanks!

Just a little update today- the PDFs and booklets will now be getting nicer formatting/illustration/illumination.

So, we got the bag samples, and they look great!

Also, we hit another print, and have changed some of the remaining stretch goals around, which we'll be talking about later today.

A heads-up, the kickstarter's closing tonight (pacific time time) with just a couple stretch goals left.