dybbuk67:
Go see if they ever added Castle Falkenstein on here.
I don't see
Castle Falkenstein in the system list for the dice roller.
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If they didn't, there is a possibility they didn't do so because of the card-based system.
I'm not sure if that's the only reason: the deck of 52 playing cards and the deck of 54 playing cards are listed, but the symbol set for those is public domain. I rather think (but can't be 100% sure) that intellectual property issues may have precluded the inclusion of CF. I seem to remember a discussion on adding the
Deck of Fate that ended with that conclusion about it, though.
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If they did, see if you can find a way to play with the "roller," and see what you think.
I wish the news were better, but there it is.
About the only work-around is to use a die roll with a translation table. Take into account while doing this the concept of
sampling without replacement: most card decks need the ability to produce unique results (e.g., we don't really want anyone drawing the Ace of Spades when someone else has already drawn it.) Fortunately, the dice roller accommodates this easily.
As a quick-n-dirty example, a Tarot deck generally contains 78 cards: 22 Major Arcana and 56 Minor Arcana. To simulate a draw from this deck of any number of cards, N, one would roll Nd78 and set the switches for "record each die" and "unique die", then consult the translation table.
Each time the deck is consulted in this way would result in a new "shuffle", so it would be needful to "draw as many cards" as one anticipates are needed in one roll, then record them somewhere (GM's Scratchpad or other private place) for use when needed.