Tarot

Nyx here today!

This series on worldbuilding for Divination is mostly coming from Matthew, because the setting mostly comes from Matthew. But I wanted to break in and add a few thoughts about why I asked him to write these posts in the first place, and why I believe it’s not (totally) biased to say that this thing we’ve developed may be the single most genuine and complete fusing of tarot and tabletop roleplaying games that exists today.

The world of Divination is one wherein Pamela “Pixie” Colman Smith (a real life person who is lovingly fictionalized in our setting) depicted the Esoteric almost perfectly in her 1909 tarot deck. So perfectly, in fact, that the Art began to flow more freely into the Apparent, opening Third Eyes…

The truth is, I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t making a tarot RPG. It seems like I always have, pretty much as long I’ve been GM’ing games and telling stories. When I found the tarot, I was an angsty teen in the 90s, looking for spooky things in spooky places. I was drawn to…