i’m really happy with the original system i scrapped together for dark sentencer, my first record collection jam game! it was initially going to be a hack of there is no way out of this arena, but then i realized i wanted to explore character creation more, and hit on the core mechanic of drawing a major arcana card to tell you something about your character that you can build on. i like the element of randomness that comes with using a tarot deck to dictate how the game will go, and using suits to determine the mood of a scene came naturally from there, since each suit already has certain meaning ascribed to it.