A NEW deck of USPCC playing cards based on the spiritualist movement.

Talking boards, spirit photography, seances, ectoplasm, and levitating tables—the spiritualist movement has a rich history. I want to capture some of that history in a deck of USPCC playing cards.

The spiritualist movement grew out of mesmerism—which is what hypnosis used to be called. But with so much loss of life with the civil war, the spanish flu, and WWI, spiritualism became the hope for many across generations to contact more than the subconscious mind. It was a chance to reach their loved ones who had passed on. Many spiritualists believed they were able to reach "through the veil" and contact the spirit world.

Considered by some to be at best an interesting parlor distraction, by others as outright fraud, still many more viewed it as a chance to find solace, comfort, and closure to those whose lives meant the most and who's absence was unbearable. In disguise, Mary Todd Lincoln went to a spirit photographer and captured an image of her with her late husband. It's also rumored that she held as many as eight seances in the White House. Arthur Conan Doyle was a devout spiritualist (despite the analytical and deductive reasoning of his most famous protagonist). Houdini's wife held seances for years after her husband promised before his death to find a way to contact her if a way was there to be found.

All this history has for me added a lot of meaning and depth to this project. I hope you find it as interesting as I do

Don't mean to hijack your thread Fred, but I have to ask.........what's the difference? I was just about to pick up a set this week for $20 (These do say Platinum Series)

After receiving a disappointing deck from D&D. I got to thinking about designers doing full custom decks as opposed to just a custom backs, Jokers, and Ace of Spades.

With designers like Jackson, Paul, Randy and several others on KS doing full custom decks. I would think that in general people are going to start expecting this on all custom decks. Do you believe this is going to affect big players like E, T11, D&D, and others going forward? Are their designers going to have to do more in the future, or will they be able to rest on there names?

No problem. I'm designing one complete court set that will featured on all three decks. The Holmes and Baker Street Editions will have the exact same faces. However the Moriarty Edition will have the same design but with more eviiil color schemes and metallic silver in place of red for the suite colors. I have had thoughts of designing an entire new court set for the Moriarty Edition that are nothing but Sherlock Holmes Villains. That will most likely be a stretch goal, but I would really like to do that cuz it sounds like a blast.

Hope that helps.

The mocha was just one of the reasons why I don't like it. Tried a latte, wasn't for me. I just don't like coffee. Also, how can you lot drink an espresso, u might as well just chew on a few coffee beans :p .. It's weird, I can eat coffee flavoured chocolate and I eat tiramisu (without the alcohol included). But I won't eat tea based foods but I love drinking it lol there's this green tea ice cream we serve at some venues, was an aquired taste, not a fan.

First, we want to say THANK YOU! Without you, none of this would have been possible!

We will send out the surveys tomorrow. Devonte and I have been working hard already to put everything together and get it done early. We are already in process with USPCC and the card clips are being set up as we speak.

The rest will be done in the next week or two, which means everything may be done sooner then expected.

Thank you all for the support, our next deck should be up on the next week or two.

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Thank you all again, speak this week!

Michael

Fuck water.

I used to drink about 5 a day, but have found that I have lapsed more into drinking coffee nowadays as the instant stuff is easier to prepare.

As Don has stated, DB's design of the court faces blend in more, appearing more natural as compared to the rounders. All in all, to me the rounders deck showed no originality at all, easily taking elements from jerrys and wynns combining it with the changing the faces as in Blaines decks. We can disagree on the rounders, you like them, i think they are just meh, but we both hate this deck.

Sorry Don for the off-tracking, i dont think there will be anymore.

Fred do you like the madison rounders deck ?