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I’d like to ask you a few questions about “feature expansions” and tweaks to this:

1. I’d be interested in a variant “tailored” for the Ironsworn RPG. That game’s main (and only really) roll is a “2d10 vs. 1d6”. I’m thinking it could be maybe possible to put a d10 table on one side of a DiceFold “spread”, and a d6 table on the other side, and then thus make it possible to “roll simultaneously” on both sides of the spread by slapping a single “Bard business card” over such a spread. Would you maybe be open to doing such a mod? If you don’t care enough, could you maybe possibly at least give some suggestions (if you have any) on how one should permutate the numbers on a page, if I wanted to try and create such a variant myself?

2. Another thought I got, was that I’d love if there was a variant of DiceFold for “a standard deck of cards”. There are some RPGs using “a standard deck of cards” for their randomization (one example is the Glide RPG). I personally really dislike that mechanic - I find it much more cumbersome to carry compared to dice - but I your DiceFold idea got me thinking, that maybe it’d be much easier to use for me in that format! I.e., maybe a set of cards could also be printed on a DiceFold page in randomized order, and then after randomly picking one, I could cross it out to simulate “discarding it”. After I “used up” the whole deck, I could have another DiceFold printed, and use those again; or, a single DiceFold could maybe have a few “decks” printed on subsequent pages. I’m still not sure how best to then solve the situation when a huge number of results is crossed out; maybe I could just go right-and-down (or some other “path” could be drawn, like a spiral, to guide me) till the first non-crossed-out one? Also I know it wouldn’t be able to allow all fancy things that can be done with a deck of cards - and some games can use those - but I believe many RPGs use the cards purely for randomization, with zero fancy extra stuff that can be done with cards…

3. What would you think to maybe draw the “table grid” with “cells” for the numbers, so that in case of ambiguity, it could be maybe easier to see on which side of those lines the “Bard” picker landed, and thus on which number? I saw some review (maybe on BGG?) complain about ambiguity, and this made me think of introducing lines inbetween the numbers to maybe make it easier (I think Gloomholdin’ uses lines in its variant of this idea?)

4. One more thought I got, is that there’s also a “PocketFold” format, that is kinda similar but has some pros & cons compared to “PocketMod”; and one idea came to me, that maybe with a PocketFold, the “Bard card” feature could actually be integrated into the PocketFold itself? by “folding” a partially opened PocketFold at a “random” angle onto the other side… I’m probably not explaining it very clearly though, sorry… 😅

What are your thoughts on those ideas?

EDIT: Hm, I just found that 1 & 2 of the above seems apparently already possible on the pocketmod website - although in somewhat crappy quality IMO. But I’ll try to test it this way maybe. EDIT 2: Uh; “2” is still broken on pocketmod website, because they repeat the same cards multiple times - there should be just a permutation of 52 results (+/- jokers), not repeats… eh, but at least I can try the idea 1…

EDIT 3: The idea number 4 doesn’t seem to really work well in practice, FWIW. That said, a 2nd separate pocketmod/pocketfold booklet could probably be used as a “Bard card” as well, just in case.