Cthulhu Playing Cards Game (KS)

[Rob Wright]

Yes, another Cthulhu Playing Cards Game

Project by Cthulhu Project, Barcelona, Spain
First created, £20,000 goal
£9(about $14)/1 deck, £14($23)/1 deck & game tokens, £62($99)earlybird-£70($112)standard for Collector's Edition
Shipping is included for USA and UK
Bicycle branded, but no pic of tuck.

Original Cthulhu cards game with unique artwork, sanity tokens to play and collector's figure to store the game. Printed by Bicycle®.

The Cards




The Sanity Tokens




The Collector's Edition

The deck is kept in the rear part of the figure, inside Cthulhu’s wings. The figure can be opened easily to store the game cards inside. This makes the game turn into an impressive collector’s decoration!

[speedyy400]

Definitely an interesting looking design. I don't get what the tokens are for though

[Bill Collins]

Cthulhu again

[Lotrek]

It had been more than a week without any new cthulhu decks on KS and I got really worried. Now I'm calm again. 

[ronyo_faukx]

Definitely an interesting looking design. I don't get what the tokens are for though

I'm guessing the Arkham Horror and Arkham Asylum (not Batman!) board games.

EDIT: Corrrection. The tokens are used in a game they have devised which uses the playing cards. A 'get rid of all your cards before you lose all your Sanity points'-kinda game. 

[10ofclubs]

Well I think that the faces and backs look alright, but those indices are so hard to read. I couldn't imagine trying to actually play a game with these.

[magnacat]

 the backs don't really impress me very much, although the "SD cthulhu" look for the faces is kinda cute...
i'm having a hard time even considering paying $14+ when i've really only seen three cards, and the tuck case looks like what the postal service uses to ship the cards in, not any actual beginning of a concept to consider.
i really liked the AD call of cthulhu deck, and having that available if you don't already own it makes this one hard to take seriously. i could see my japanese girl friends loving those cute versions of these characters, but as said, the pips in the indices are not very kind on the eyes. 

[Don Boyer]

The Pros:

• Cute hand-drawn design - makes it more unique

The Cons:

• One-way back design trying to look like a two-way.
• Not really cheap.
• Tuck box, anyone?
• Isn't the title "Bicycle Cthulhu" already taken?  Y'know, by one of the nearly-a-dozen OTHER Cthulhu decks?
• Listing US$ prices in the body text/images and UK£ prices in the goal and rewards is a little deceptive - unless you can guarantee that there will be no fluctuations in the values of those two currencies relative to each other for the duration of the project...which no one really can do...it's like trying to stop time or swim up a tall waterfall...

Besides, it looks a little SKETCHy...  Get it?  Sketchy?  Like a sketch?  Oh, come on, you have no sense of humor... 

[CBJ]

Well, they posted a pic of the tuck.  Happy to see the "Bicycle" name, but it doesn't look like they'll get funding






CBJ

[kdklown]

Yeah, I just saw that when I visited KS.  I wasn't down with this deck until I saw that tuck.  Now I'd be in but it seems moot.  Turned the reminder on anyway. 

[AlbinoDragon]

Yeah, I just saw that when I visited KS.  I wasn't down with this deck until I saw that tuck.  Now I'd be in but it seems moot.  Turned the reminder on anyway.

I think that's partly why it's so hard to get funding. If it doesn't already look like it will be successful, people just don't pledge.

So let me ask you, if you like it, why not just pledge now even if they don't fund, what do you have to lose?

[kdklown]

Yeah, I just saw that when I visited KS.  I wasn't down with this deck until I saw that tuck.  Now I'd be in but it seems moot.  Turned the reminder on anyway.

I think that's partly why it's so hard to get funding. If it doesn't already look like it will be successful, people just don't pledge.

So let me ask you, if you like it, why not just pledge now even if they don't fund, what do you have to lose?

Easy, the pledge price of a deck.  As I said I really only like the tuck.  If I'm on the fence as a backer and I click the reminder I can think about it and I won't miss the project.  If I back now I will forget about it until the email comes that my credit card was charged.  I understand your viewpoint as a designer but with the amount of money I spend on decks I have to make damn sure I want the thing.  Come to think of it should rethink my $40 pledge for AD's PB decks.     Kidding, I appreciate the debate as well as designers coming here to get the pulse of the market. 

[AlbinoDragon]

That makes sense. I was thinking that you were already on the side that knew you wanted it but didn't want to pledge because it didn't look like it was going to fund.

I tend to watch these forums a lot even if I don't say much. I think it's important to understand what people want and expect to make the best possible products. I just wanted to jump in on this one if I could make a difference since I really like their unique take on the Cthulhu mythos.

[kdklown]

Ok I get your concern now.  I have, on several occasions, backed projects I was pretty sure wouldn't fund just because I thought they were well done.  From that perspective I would agree that you have nothing to lose.   Thanks again for chiming in.  And great work!

[AlbinoDragon]

I can say that from a project creator's view, there is huge value in seeing a pledge even at $1. It let's us know that even if a backer can't go all in on a project, that they still think that what we are doing has value. That's a big reason that, as a backer, I always try to put something towards those projects I think are cool or innovative.

Thanks for the compliment as well. I'm really excited with how the PB project has been progressing.