Dungeons, dragons, and summer gaming tarot predictions #1

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Well, there’s no E3 this year. Again. But there are summer live streams where E3 news would go! As such, the tradition of E3 predictions lives on. In the past, one might have asked zoo animals to divine gaming predictions for the Destructoid community but I’m a night person and hate sunlight, so I use tarot cards instead.

This year I will be using the brand new Dungeons & Dragons Tarot Deck. As a small review, the deck is both beautiful and deeply flawed. The art is done by Fred Gissubel and reminds me a great deal of the tarot drawn for Dragon Age but never had a deck realized. For the gorgeous, evocative imagery alone, the deck is worth collecting.

It seems it was more geared toward DM scenario planning or tossing in a random event than a good tool for traditional divination, though. The suits of minor arcana are a mess with nothing to distinguish a Two of Strength from a Two of Charisma. Beautiful, but sloppy in that no effort was made to distinguish one suit from another.

They basically brute-forced D&D stats on the suits in a way that doesn’t make sense or line up with the art. For reference Strength is Wands, Intelligence is Swords, Wisdom is Cups, and Charisma is Pentacles/Coins. Good luck knowing which is which without the guide.

I wanted to use a full deck this year, though, so I decided to lean into the storytelling sensibilities of this deck and also referenced other tarot. The readings are single-card, three-card, and sometimes cross spreads.

This is not to say more is better, I just pulled the amount that felt right.

I’ll be doing seven community questions today, with more to come later in the week.

Card Drawn: The Chariot

The Chariot is all about drive, willpower, and victory. Nintendo is like a great old