Build relationships with other players.
Fellowship of Fools: The Game (FoF) is a card game based on the Tarot, with art from the 17th century Tarot card deck called the Tarot de Marseilles.
Tarot cards are widely used for game playing, creativity, divination and personal development. Our hope is that FoF can turn that inward reflection of the Tarot outward to playfully develop, maintain and deepen relationships between players.
“The tarot is a machine for constructing stories.”
Italo Calvino
We’ve split the Tarot deck into its two parts: the Major Arcana for Situation Prompts and the Minor Arcana for Topic Prompts. On each card are two different prompts that correspond to the upright and the reversed meaning of the card, the points next to the prompts indicate the difficult of the prompt and how many experience points you can gain or lose when playing with Character Sheets.
There are multiple ways to play Fellowship of Fools: The Game: solo, with two players, or with multiple players. We encourage players to experiment with the cards and find their own ways to play. Visit to our Gamplay page to see the many ways to play, then experiment with the game and submit your own ways to play!
What kind of game is FoF?
Categories that FoF gamplay fits into:
- Card game
- Party game
- Conversation game/icebreaker
- Adventure
- Exploration
- Serious game
- Empathy game
- Affection game
- Affinity game
Game Mechanics in play for FoF:
- Cooperative
- Role playing
- Paper and Pencil
- Journaling
- Storytelling
- Acting/improvisation
- Consent and code of conduct
- Conversation/dialogue
- Self-disclosure
- Self-reflection
- Giving and receiving feedback
Decks Currently Available
Currently there are three different decks of Fellowship of Fools: The Game released for players to explore different kinds/aspects of relationships with others, and to explore these aspects within themselves. These include:
Decks Coming Soon
Future decks that are either in the works being developed or that are planned to be added to the game include:
(Note: We view the entire game and all of its decks to be based in relationship anarchy, the application of anarchist principles to interpersonal relating, which aims to rather than reproduce hierarchical structures found within monogamy [such as amatonormativity, sex-centrism, the reinforcement of hierarchy of intimacy and autonomy-limiting rules] to instead encourage an egalitarian ethics of relating with the fashioning of customized, mutually negotiated relationships that do not limit individual pleasure and autonomy. But, card games take up more space than digital games, and relationships are complex, so the Relationship Anarchy deck is intended to represent the entire game on a micro-level.)
“What we must work on, it seems to me, is not so much to liberate our desires but to make ourselves infinitely more susceptible to pleasure.”
Michel Foucault
How to Play/Purchase
PDF digital editions of Fellowship of Fools: The (Friendship/Romance/Sexuality) Game are available FOR FREE here. Print them, cut them out and play them with friends. Share the pdf files with those you think would like out game!
Physical copies of Fellowship of Fools: The (Friendship/Romance/Sexuality) Game are currently available through The Game Crafter, with two options for affordability. One with a larger, studier outer box and Character Sheets included, the other without the study outer box and a pdf to print your own Character Sheets. You can purchase the full version of the game here, this includes:
- Sturdy outer box
- 40 Character Sheets
- 22 Situation Cards for 44 Situation Prompts (Major Arcana)
- 56 Topic Cards for 112 Topic Prompts (Minor Arcana)
- Small Tarot Box
- Gameplay cards
We are also making available a more affordable version of the game here, this includes:
- 22 Situation Cards for 44 Situation Prompts (Major Arcana)
- 56 Topic Cards for 112 Topic Prompts (Minor Arcana)
- Small Tarot Box
- pdf file of Character Sheet
- Gameplay cards
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