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Necro-Drake Mar 11, 2021 @ 4:27am
How to draw cards upside down?
So I was thinking about trying my hand at adding some custom decks to the simulation but ran into something that irked me. As far as I know, there isn't a setting to shuffle cards willy-nilly and have them able to be upside down in the deck (which I think just should be added as a toggle to the base game... but it seems that this kind of suggestion goes back to 2015, so I'm not exactly optimistic). Though a rare function of some cards, the cards I wish to import actually have a function if drawn upside down. (Mythic Game Master Emulator and The Adventure Crafter Decks if you're interested to know.)

I've found two workable solutions without scripting: Flip a coin for each card drawn, which is a little clunky (especially when drawing multiple cards), or create two copies of each card with one image flipped in it's creation and mash those two decks together, which is less clunky but may ruin the actual spread.

I've also heard that there were people trying to script it in, but I have no idea how to get scripting to work and none of the people that were working on it came out to say that they've found the solution. My basic understanding is that they were trying to create an event that triggered every time you drew a card from the designated deck and had a 50% chance to rotate the card 180 degrees. Sounds like the best solution, but I'm not even sure where to start with that.

If yall have any solutions for me I'm all ears and would be mighty thankful for any suggestions and guidance (mechanical or scripting). If not, I'm not entirely opposed to the previously mentioned solutions, I just want a more elegant solution.
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Bone White Mar 11, 2021 @ 8:40am 
put the cards in a bag, don't make a deck with them
Necro-Drake Mar 12, 2021 @ 11:46pm 
Originally posted by Bone White:
put the cards in a bag, don't make a deck with them
Quite brilliant thank you.

Tested out a quick way to do it to if you have enough room on a table:
1.) Shuffle Deck and Split.
2.) Invert one and set it to the side.
3.) Set the other half on the far end and spread.
4.) Select spread cards and shove into bag.
5.) Repeat 3 and 4 for the inverted half.
6.) Shuffle the bag and profit!!!

That way you don't have to do everything manual and setup is quick.
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Date Posted: Mar 11, 2021 @ 4:27am
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