While there’s still time to get in on the Kickstarter, Pairs will be made available to retailers this Fall with a variety of themed art styles carrying MSRPs anywhere from $10 to approximately $12.
From Cheap Ass Games:
Pairs is a fast and easy card game by James Ernest, with artwork based on The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.
Pairs is a new pub game by James Ernest and Paul Peterson. It’s a card game for 2 to 8 players, and it plays in about 5 minutes.
The deck is very simple: Just the numbers 1 through 10, with each card appearing in proportion to its rank. That means there is 1 x 1, 2 x 2, 3 x 3, and so on, up to 10 x 10. That’s 55 cards, packaged in a compact card box, and it’s everything you need to play.
The artwork for the core Pairs deck will be drawn by Shane Tyree, and based on The Name of the Wind, by Patrick Rothfuss. That’s the first book in his best-selling “Kingkiller Chronicle,” a high-fantasy series that also includes The Wise Man’s Fear. The cards in this deck will be character archetypes from the world, like Tinker, Moneylender, Farmer, Beggar, and Ruh.
Rothfuss is a gamer, and his respect for gaming shows in the way that games like Pairs are integrated into his world. Turns out, he’s also a fan of Cheapass Games! So he was happy to lend us his world for our game.
Pairs doesn’t appear in those books, because we just invented it! But we decided to create a deck of cards that could easily belong in that world. And who knows, Pairs just might show up in future stories.
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