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Tall Card "Make It Yourself" Deck Kit


Intro

As I was getting together a Firefly Role Playing game I thought it would be fun if we started out playing a game of Tall Card.  After a brief search on web, I found the rules posted at http://www.fireflywiki.org/Firefly/TallCard.  Basically, it's Poker with six suits.  I also found a lot of queries from people wishing someone connected with the show would make some cards we loyal fans could play the game.  As I was one of those wishing masses, I realized three things.  One, that probably wasn't going to happen before I ran my game.  Two, if I wanted a deck of cards, I'd have to make it myself.  Three, if I was going to go through all that trouble, why not share?

I had two goals in designing this deck: To make a deck that looked like it came from the Firefly Universe, and to not waste all the ink in my printer.  I also didn't want to spend a lot of time on this (it took me about a week to create the deck... okay, I was up till 3:00 in the morning most of that week, but I also have a day job, so it evens out).  My solution was to draw rough sketched line figures that looked like they were drawn quickly (see the Legend below).  

The Chinese is real.  I got the Chinese characters from this site: http://www.tigernt.com/cgi-bin/cedict.cgi it's a Chinese/English online Dictionary.  You enter and English word, and get the Chinese Characters and pronunciation back.  The pictures are very tiny ().  That's the glyf for Firefly, by the way.  The result is these cards inadvertently serve the practical purpose of teaching Chinese... okay, a tiny bit of Chinese,  but it's a start.  You can learn a lot more interesting Chinese at http://fireflychinese.home.att.net/


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Tall Card Rules

 

 


The Legend of the Hand Drawn Set


Example card back,... smaller size  

Ways to Make Cards

 

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.Apricot Suit


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Peach Suit


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Apple Suit

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Banana Suit


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.Plum Suit


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Orange Suit

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Card Backs


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