Tarot - The Harp
THE HARP
DESCRIPTION
A musician is tuning their harp, preparing to play to an unseen audience. They are clad in many– coloured garb and a jaunty hat sits at an angle on their head. Half of their face is masked. They have not noticed that one of the harpstrings is broken. An hourglass lies at their feet.DIVINITORY MEANING
Associated with swords, and sometimes the god Siém, the harp may indicate an artistic person, or simply demand artistry and skill for a particular challenge. Effectiveness demands preparation; this seems well in hand, timing is everything.REVERSED
The harp reversed warns against lack of preparation or of becoming too immersed in technique at the expense of objective. The musician’s preparations may be inadequate, they may be so busy trying to tune the harp, that the performance never begins. This may or may not be a good thing. The end may or may not justify the means.Game Play
Gain an artistic Bondsman to your settlementBid Type: Open Auction
Reversed Play
Suffer disadvantage on all production unil you have a 'Festival' . This festival will cost 500 pennies, and 3 days per settlement population.Bid Type: Closed Auction Negative
Reversed - Clan can do no Actions, or all Actions are at Disadvantage.
"All actions are at disadvantage" is currently being discussed for the Nolomar card. If that sticks on that card, might need to think about something else for this one.
no actions or all at disadvantage is almost the same to me. How 'bout reversed all actions/missions double penny cost and double destiny cost.
I agree we do not need a card that does the same thing as another.
"the harp may indicate an artistic person, or simply demand artistry and skill for a particular challenge. " Maybe this means that you get to recruit a specialist or Guildsman in a particular field to your settlement. Not sure what the Reverse would be.
Could it be around talents? A specialist comes to your settlement who can train your people in a handful of talents (you still have to spend training to get the talents) Negative could be forgetting talents?
Maybe that trainer is one of the specialists I mentioned. We've had elite trainers before. If you want a different specialist, maybe it's negotiable.
probably need to lock down how you train talents though....i couldn't find anything on the old board locking it down..just suggestions....and unlike skills/stats talents take time based on whats happened so far
If we agree on the nature of the card, then the details of training aren't totally necessary, just that we know that the upright Harp gives you a training specialist. Maybe the Reversed is that all training rolls are at disadvantage for a specified time. It wouldn't affect experience rolls.
Normally I'd agree with you, but you leave potential of a destiny card that cant be resolved until its decided...and sometimes that can take a while.
I like disadvantage on training rolls for the Reversed card, but maybe it should be longer than just 1 turn? Seems a little weak for just 1 turn
I was thinking a year.
Yea, a year is good. Or some chart between 2-4 turns.
There could be other cards that might temporarily or individually cancel the disadvantage.
I think this is kinda moving away from the original description. I think there could be another named card that dealt specifically with bonuses and penalties to training. I think the Harp should be more of a specialist recruitment thing.