r/Jerrydecking

I intended to make around 20 cards, but it's so much fun I ended up with around 40 cards.

This is my deck that I'll use for my hobbies so almost all of the prompts are pretty vague since I have various hobbies lol. Some of it is in English, some in my native language. Aesthetically it's bad but I didn't expect making it was so much fun. Maybe I'll it look better overtime. Almost all of the cards are made using a single old magazine. The rest i made by writing on the cards directly or modifying the card itself.

The 4 jokers interact with the cards itself (adding, removing, shuffling, and combining 2 prompts as one).

This is a 9-card jerrydeck I've made for fiction writing.

My plan to use it:

• Draw a card from the top of the deck
• Pick one of the prompts for the chapter
• Pick one of the words on the back of the new top-deck card for use in the chapter (OPTIONAL: use a word only in the colour that matches the drawn card's suit)
• Cards with a golden symbol can produce a number between 1 - 6, which can be used in lieu of a die roll for something in the future

The deck is themed vaguely Medievally, with names like Tarot cards, though I think it could be used for any kind of fiction. The words on the back are all verbs, though I've tried to use words with double meanings.

In the future I could add more words to the backs, and more prompts to the front, maybe some art to the front of the cards too.

Following up on my post from 3 weeks ago, I've continued to make cards in a collage style. I have strayed almost entirely from the idea of 'side quests' and am now making them just because it's fun and therapeutic. I bought a stack of old magazines from Half Price Books and am having a blast chopping up images and words to make encouraging and thought provoking messages or calls to action.

A big part of my process is letting the cards "make themselves"; I try to find words and images from the same article and make interesting phrases by reordering the words. I try not to cut the words up into individual letters, but instead let the phrasing in the magazine become the verbiage I use on the card. Sometimes I find that I cut an image out, and the image on the back is even cooler; I use that one, because it feels like fate wanted that image to exist in that way. I am usually a very analytical and intentional person and it has been kind of exciting to give up control and let things unfold.

I was inspired by u/rhodelzrd 's post here to make a few 'metadeck' cards, like their "scrying" card (draw three, choose one, shuffle) and so I think in my next batch of cards, I'll handwrite the text and make some that introduce some needed structure and more explicit instructions for things I'd actually like to see in the deck.

I felt very inspired by a lot of the creative decks I’ve been seeing here. Decided to take a go at it myself. I picked up a free map from a travel center and some cheap cards from the dollar store to glue these together. I also have a corner cuter which definitely helped make these look a little more polished with the plastic cards lol. I have no idea currently what I want to put for directions/prompts. Open to ideas!