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Playing Card Chat ♠ ♥ ♣ ♦ => Playing Card Plethora => Topic started by: EvanEssence on February 03, 2015, 06:02:17 PM
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/markallender/hobby-farmer-playing-cards-uspcc
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Funny :)
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It's not exactly a common theme - but then again, neither was currency until Jackson Robinson upended the deck collectors' corner of Kickstarter.
The art isn't to my liking. So few things are these days - I think I'm getting grumpy as I get older.
That aside, the indices are REALLY SMALL, with EVEN SMALLER pips in them.
Knowing USPC's notoriously problematic alignment issues, there's a mighty fine chance that the faces - specifically those plants printed into the bleed area - will end up not looking quite as nice as planned. And that assumes that they get the backs right - with this thick, white border on the back, that should be less of an issue, but one never knows.
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I'd probably back them if the back design fit the theme, but I don't understand what rectangles have to do with farming?
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The card back is difficult to get down. I agree entirely there. I guess it's supposed to be fields or something. A lot of wasted space and the upper left corner is left blank. That's prime real estate and it does bother me. The courts are alright though, I don't mind them. I like the full bleed ghost image on the card face and think it would have been an interesting card back. I don't feel like this deck is finished though. Just smacks of "lets see how this does" instead of "This is done, it's great and I love it." in my opinion.
I'd like to see it evolve throughout the campaign and see it's funding goal met. I think there's a certain charm and an underlying joke here that's pretty great.