Talossan Playing Cards

[Iason Bitxichë Taiwos]

If we were going to design a set of Talossan Playing cards, I think we would change the suits to symbols that had some meaning to Talossans. Instead of the usual hearts, diamonds, spades and clubs or whatever they use on other decks (I have a deck of Spanish cards where the suits are more like the suits in Tarot cards), wouldn't we want something unique to our country? So far, all I've come up with for suits is a bedpost. (The eight of bedposts, pictured above.) Any ideas on what our other Talossan playing card suits could be? If we can come up with something neat, maybe we could pitch in and get a few decks printed up.

[Glüc da Dhi]

Hands
Beerbottles
Crowns
Poinsettias
Penguins
Bugs

[Iason Bitxichë Taiwos]

I like your suggestions, Glüc. Aside from different suits, maybe the cards of King, Queen and Jack can bear the likenesses of eminent Talossans. (If nobody would mind their face on a playing card.) (If there was a suit of Hands, we could paste Hooligan's face on the King card.) As an example, I've put fellow Ohio Benitian ESB on a Joker card. (I dunno, it seemed to fit...😁)

[Iason Bitxichë Taiwos]

I just realized txocheir is misspelled on the bottom. Oh well, this is just a prototype card.

[Audrada Rôibeardét]

A pack of Talossan playing cards doesn't contain face cards. There are four suits; coins, cups, stars and wands. Each suit has twelve cards. I thought everyone knew that.

(Note: No one knows that because I just made it up.)

[Gödafrïeu Válcadác’h]

birds, bugs, and fish

[Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial]

Once we have all the cards we could import them in Tabletop Simulator for testing purposes.

I tried finding info on Occitanian or North African playing cards but alas...

[Iason Bitxichë Taiwos]

www.wopc.co.uk/morocco/index
I found this

[Iason Bitxichë Taiwos]

How about this? The Five of whatever that thing is on the cover of the Guizua

[Sir Alexandreu Davinescu]

Is it an incense censer?

[Ián Tamorán S.H.]

Feb 22, 2019 8:20:34 GMT -6 Sir Alexandreu Davinescu said:

Is it an incense censer?

So the ace is a censer,
the two is an incense censer,
the three is the sense of an incense censer,
the four is being incensed by the sense of an incense censer,
the five is the sensation of being incensed by the sense of an incense censer,
the six is the sensible sensation of being incensed by the sense of an incense censer,
the seven is the sensational and sensible sensation of being incensed by the sense of an incense censer,
the eight is the sentimental but sensational and sensible sensation of being incensed by the sense of an incense censer,
the nine is the censored and sentimental but sensational and sensible sensation of being incensed by the sense of an incense censer,
the ten is the decaroma,
the jack or knight is Minor Perfumer
the queen is the Chanel
and the King is Melchior.

Yes, this would be a good suit.

[Ián Tamorán S.H.]

...the other suits could be Bedposts (as already suggested) and Beer bottles (how can we not have those!) and accented letters (from El Glheƿ Talossan), such as à á â è é ì í ò ó ô ù ú ƿ ð ë ȇ ĝ î ñ ø. The letters suit could be:

1: à
2: á è
3: â é ì
4: ì í / ò ó
5: á â / ô / è é
6: à á â / ò ó ô
7: è é / ù / ì í / ò ó
8: á â / è é / ì í / ò ó
9: è é / ñ / ì í / ò ó / ë ȇ
10: ò ó / ĝ / ù ú / á â / ñ / ë ȇ
Jack (Knight): ø
Queen: ð
King: ƿ

As the markers in the card corners we could use Ç and Ý

[Iac Marscheir]

Why exactly would a pack of Talossan playing cards have a wynn on it and no thorn?

[Ián Tamorán S.H.]

Mar 4, 2019 16:23:10 GMT -6 Iac Marscheir said:

Why exactly would a pack of Talossan playing cards have a wynn on it and no thorn?

The King has a thorn, because he is the wynn-ing card

[Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial]

I was thinking of something more reminiscent of Southern European card styles, like the Clubs-Swords-Cups-Coins but more talossified (Bedposts-Daggers-Censers-Bence?). The daggers would look like traditional Berber knives or something.

In the same spirit of Talossification, the Aces, Kings, Queens and Jacks would be labelled 1 (< viens "one"), S (< segnhor "lord"), D (< doamna "lady") and L (< lançeir "lancer, gunman") respectively after the words for them in Talossan, and their designs would reflect their Talossan meanings accordingly. I noticed with the deck of Spanish playing cards that I have laying around that the Ace of Coins is especially elaborate instead of the Ace of Spades in normal French playing cards.

Just some food for thought.