Trionfi: A Renaissance-Inspired Tarot and TTRPG

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À ne pas confondre avec le tarot divinatoire, le jeu de tarot trouve probablement son origine en Italie. Il se joue avec un jeu de 78 cartes comprenant 56 cartes de couleur (similaires au jeu de poker de 52 cartes, avec l’ajout d’un Cavalier ou d’un Chevalier parmi les figures, placé entre le Valet et la Dame dans chaque couleur), auxquelles s’ajoutent 21 cartes d’atout sans couleur, classées par ordre croissant, ainsi qu’un « Fou », similaire au Joker mais d’origine différente. Dans la variante la plus populaire du tarot, appelée « tarot français » dans la plupart des pays anglophones, l’un des joueurs endosse le rôle de preneur et affronte tous les autres joueurs. L’objectif du preneur est de marquer un certain nombre de points afin de remplir le contrat qu’il a enchéri au début de la partie. L’objectif des autres joueurs (appelés la défense) est d’empêcher le preneur d’atteindre son score. La défense joue en équipe contre le preneur. Après avoir reçu leur main, les joueurs parient à tour de rôle sur un contrat, en fonction de leur conviction de pouvoir atteindre le nombre de points requis. Le dernier joueur à avoir placé une enchère devient le preneur. Un grand nombre de jeux de cartes européens se jouent soit avec le jeu complet de tarot, soit avec un sous-ensemble de celui-ci, souvent réédité avec des motifs germaniques ou d’autres motifs d’Europe de l’Est.

Présentation de la campagne

Last year my wife and I went to the Uffizi. We were supposed to be there for the morning. We lost the whole day. Standing in front of the Birth of Venus and the Primavera, in the same room, at actual size, was surreal in a way I wasn't prepared for.

She has a whole tarot deck of that painter's work, the Botticelli Tarot, the first deck that ever stopped her in her tracks, and there we were looking at the originals. At some point I realised we'd both been standing with our heads tilted back looking at the ceiling, and had been for a while. My neck hurt for two days.

I've been reading tarot for years, and between us we've collected most of the Renaissance-styled decks out there. Walking out of that building, what I wanted was one more of those on the shelf, with more of us in it.

Because here's what I kept running into as I read about the period: putting more people in the pictures isn't a departure from Renaissance style. It's closer to the source. Venice was a port. Florence ran on banking. These were cities full of people who had arrived from somewhere else, and their painters knew it. So TRIONFI stays as faithful to the period as we could make it, down to the pigments, and it's full of the crowds those cities actually had.

The rest of it came out of falling into the history, where so much of tarot turns out to already be sitting. The Hanged Man is a Florentine shame painting; the city used to hire artists to paint traitors hanging upside down by one ankle on a public wall, and somewhere along the way someone added a halo. The Wheel of Fortune came with its own script written around it: I reign, I have reigned, I have no kingdom, I shall reign. The Devil is a satyr in a cave with two people chained to his pedestal, and the chains are loose enough to lift off over their heads, which is the most honest thing anyone has ever drawn about a bad habit.

As someone on the spectrum, I fall all the way into the things I love, and I've been falling into this one for almost a year now. I now know more about the price of ultramarine in 1480 than any reasonable person needs to.

I'm not doing this alone. The art is by Isuru Prabhasara (@isuru__prabhasara), and every card comes from the same hand, so the deck reads as one world rather than a set of separate pictures. As for the card back design and box design, they were created by Saktiawan (@saktiawn_).

78 cards, standard structure, Rider-Waite-Smith meanings. If you read tarot, you can read this deck cold. It comes with a little white book and a full companion book covering where every image comes from.

This is one of the decks I always wished existed. And now, with your help, it can.

Shipping fees aren't included in the reward prices. We'll collect shipping fees and delivery addresses after the campaign concludes using the post-campaign survey (sent via Backerkit or PledgeBox). We don't want to collect shipping fees on Kickstarter because shipping prices are prone to fluctuate and we'd have to account for Kickstarter's fees.

Here are our estimated shipping costs for a single deck/book:

North America, EU, UK, Australia: $14-21
Asia: $8-16
Everywhere else: $18-24

PS: Please keep an eye on your inbox in the weeks following the end of this campaign. If you don't provide your shipping address within a maximum of six months of receiving the survey (I'll post several updates when I send out the surveys), your pledge will be treated as a donation to the project, since we can't store the decks/books indefinitely.