Extended Harrowing Guide?


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I just got my hands on a Harrowing deck, and I'm immensely pleased with how easy it was to pick up. I'm wondering if anyone's come up with more games to play with it, different styles of reading, or, especially, if anyone has elaborated on the interpretation set.

Given the ease with which a 'core' understanding is achieved by the product, I'm wondering if there's another level, post-basics. The guide's kind of ambiguous, I find, in interpretation rules. For the core Past/Present/Future core reading style, it would be nice, for instance, to have more detailed suggestions about... how to interpret *causality* between cards. Specific issues include:

-What, specifically, is the difference between a True Match and an Opposite Match? It would be nice if the differences weren't just a matter of *degrees* of truthiness, but flavors/ style differences indicated by the different kinds of matches.

-For a booklet, the descriptions of each card were totally fine. But it'd be really nice to have longer ones, especially with bulleted alternative interpretations (dependent on type of match or position?)

-How does 'role' interact with the reading? The sample reading at the back made it sound like it's completely up to the individual reader, and while I'm not lazy, some guidelines here would be really nice.

-I believe, traditionally, that Tarot cares whether or not cards come up right side up or upside down. How could this be taken into account?

So yeah! Is there a follow-up guide planned? Has anyone made such a thing unofficially? Anyone have suggestions regarding these issues?

-Paul


I would buy such a product, but I would probably want it to be a short paper-back along the lines of the Adventurers Armory, or just a PDF. I think the decks seem like a lot of fun, but I admit to being not so great at improv when I'm on the spot (I have my moments, but as a general rule...).

Perhaps the introduction to the book could include a brief narrative about someone who is having their fortune told, and the rest of the book bases all of its examples on that instance so that there is a baseline to compare and contrast each card and their possible interpretations.

I've not yet ordered a deck of the cards because I fear my inability to use them with effect, but this theoretical supplementary product would certainly spur my enthusiasm.

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Moved thread.
I've used the Harrow Deck for character creation, but I don't think anybody's expanded upon it beyond what's written in the manual.

Silver Crusade

There's a "Go Fish" style game for Harrow that I submitted to the next Wayfinder, but no idea if it's going to make it in.

Also, I've got the rules pretty much figured out for a Harrow version of Solitaire, but it's a little too easy and I'm trying to figure out a way to make it a little more difficult without making it too difficult and fiddly.

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