Le Fanu said:
*in a daze* Are you really contemplating the Golden Rider? You of "quality tastes" ?
Yes, me of the "quality tastes".
Le Fanu said:
I bought the Golden Rider because I had a shelf-ful of RWS clones and knew that if I didn't buy this one it would niggle. So I just had to have it.
Now, that is the absolute worst reason to buy a deck that I've ever heard!
Le Fanu said:
It is hilarious. I couldn't get over it when I took it out of the box. Id seen it on taroteca or somewhere, but nothing could have prepared me for the flatness of it. And the daubing! The wonky-eyed devil with eye-liner which looks like it was shakily put on by someone suffering from withdrawal symptoms of god-knows what drugs.
I mean I suppose it is actually quite innovative in that it does a copy of something by deliberately doing worse art,
BWAHAHAHAHA!
Le Fanu said:
unlike Hanson-Roberts who tried to improve it. (so no threat of copyright issues from US Games) I give them credit for that. But it's the faces and the lack of shading and subtlety.
I know you won't believe that I'm saying this, but it's very artlessness is part of its charm, and my interest in it. I'm thinking that looking at a whole CC laid out with this deck could kick start my intuition. Or something.
Le Fanu said:
I mean you don't paint a tarot deck with the same brush that you use to paint the dining room ceiling.
BWAHAHAHAHA!!
Le Fanu said:
It just looks silly, and you lose all the detail. And it makes doing the facial features just impossible...
Very good, le Fanu!
Stands and applauds!!
However... I still want it!
Though good art is good art, and bad art... well, isn't - I do enjoy my Shining Woman/Tribe decks. Talk about bad art!
(though the idea that my reputation would crater as a result of buying this deck... um...)
nisaba said:
Yup, and I can feel my Haindl trying to crawl away at the mere idea, too. My Motherpeace is feeling slightly hopeful, though!
Yes, but at least the Haindl only does this with the courts, not the suit cards. Frankly, that's why I don't have the Ancestral Path anymore. That, and I didn't CARE FOR THE ART BWAHAHAHAA!!!
(no one has ever accused me of consistency...)