Playing Cards

I started working on this game while out of town visiting family. I have none of my usual game design tools here. That is, no role-playing dice. What I do have at the old family house is almost a dozen decks of playing cards. Nobody here ever played/plays card games together. No gin rummy or hearts or spades. Not for the adults anyway. There were fits of slapjack and go fish and crazy 8s amongst the children. But none for the adults, not that I remember. But there are sometimes simultaneous marathon sessions of solitaire. This family likes to do things alone together.

Which is yet another way to achieve group play with solo rules. Been doing it here for generations, in the succession game of this old family house.

Anyway, given the absence of other things to play with, I have decided that this game will mostly use playing cards for randomness, oracles, resolution, etc.