Harrow readings using Tarot cards


Lost Omens Campaign Setting General Discussion


So I have a deck of Tarot cards and I was hoping there was some conversion somewhere I wasn't seeing that allows you to use Tarot cards in place of Harrow cards, but after perusing through all the material I have, I can't find anything on it, and a websearch and search of this site didn't lead me to anything specific. Anyone point me in the right direction, or do I need to do my own conversion?

I should have just ordered a Harrow deck from Paizo, but I'm starting Crimson Throne tomorrow and don't have time now.

Scarab Sages

There are 78 cards in a tarot deck and only 36 in a harrow deck. Any conversion is going to be, essentially, pick and choose anyway. (It'd be like assigning harrow meanings to a normal deck of cards.)


frivolous misuse of tarot cards brings ill fortune. don't do it.


Shuriken Nekogami wrote:
frivolous misuse of tarot cards brings ill fortune. don't do it.

General agreement.


Abraham spalding wrote:
Shuriken Nekogami wrote:
frivolous misuse of tarot cards brings ill fortune. don't do it.
General agreement.

Agreed


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Geez, didn't know so many people were superstitious. Come on, guys, Deck of Many Things has rules for it. Just was thinking I saw similar rules for a Harrow Deck. Guess I was wrong. Oh well. We'll see if my dog dies tomorrow.


martryn wrote:
Geez, didn't know so many people were superstitious. Come on, guys, Deck of Many Things has rules for it. Just was thinking I saw similar rules for a Harrow Deck. Guess I was wrong. Oh well. We'll see if my dog dies tomorrow.

the curse won't come that quickly. it will develop over the course of a much longer span of time. a few years of incubation at least. and far worse things will happen than your dog dying. try having loved ones suffering for many years in a variety of ways. and cruel things among that line.


martryn wrote:
Geez, didn't know so many people were superstitious. Come on, guys, Deck of Many Things has rules for it. Just was thinking I saw similar rules for a Harrow Deck. Guess I was wrong. Oh well. We'll see if my dog dies tomorrow.

I would suggest it's a matter of sensitivity to others: Many of my christian friends don't want tarot cards out and around -- they see it as a religious item from another religion. While my pagan friends again don't want to see what is considered a mystical tool being misused.

Also what happens when someone decides the cards you flip actually forms a real reading and they have to go off on a tangent about what the cards say? (since you presumably don't know what you are doing with them it could even be construed as a more "true" reading since your thoughts and desires aren't influencing the cards)

Also there are some... general rules when handling such things -- I've been around and seen more than enough to know you shouldn't really break said rules without really good reason.

All this said I suspect you probably could have thought of all this before now, and posted up just to have some "fun" on the subject on line.


That was very well put Abraham


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Oh my god guys I used Tarot cards for the Harrow generation method and now Smurfs 3 is coming out this year. :(


Abraham spalding wrote:
Shuriken Nekogami wrote:
frivolous misuse of tarot cards brings ill fortune. don't do it.
General agreement.

They're cards... that's all they are. Use them to build card houses... set them on fire. Companies make a nice little profit.

I once did tarot readings as a stunt. Readings that people took absolutely seriously. Until I told them at the end that they were totally fake.

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