Shadows Playing Cards: Depression Awareness Deck - KS

[Fes]

[KingfisherZero]

Appreciate the depth of theme and I rather like the concept of the pips on the number cards.

But...

1. The back design leaves way too much white space.
2. I am bothered by the fact that the smeared pips are identical from card to card. Especially when it's as obvious as these.
3. Not a huge fan of using "famous" people on the courts. *Maybe* it wasn't the intention...but it weakens the theme and turns into feeling more about them than the cause.
4. I'm not clear...is this actually raising money in some way for causes related to depression? The creator description is pretty ambiguous.

[masagin303]

Seems more like a Daniel Madison awareness deck...

[Harvonsgard]

Seems more like a Daniel Madison awareness deck...

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Lel... I love that you're killing it lately with the gifs.

Can't speak for the other people featured in this deck but nothing weakens the theme more than having a con artists that plays a persona to prey on folks with a questionable mental state... ...

[Fes]

We all face our own challenges and I dig on the awareness aspect of the deck. I don't mind the pips at all. The number cards are quite nice and water colory. I really dislike this card back to me own eyes it's a skeletal pelvis crapping out an alien that stanks to high hell of muggers and would be murderers. I don't know, it's just what I'm picking up because that's what I think when I see it. The alien ain't saving no body here, least of all the poor person who's been turned into a pelvis. It's all actually pretty horrific to me. At least it's not skulls right? (I'm skull decksed out)

I'm sure some people are going to be excited and elated by the courts here, I'm not one. It's mainly because I'm not a fan of these courts. The designer probably see's them as a draw. I don't think they are. A few of the people depicted seem to suffer from mental illness though so that may be the point of using them. While I don't know any of these people personally I've seen enough of some to know they're probably not my kind of folks. (I'd rather they just used regular every day people than some of these. I think it would have made a far better point toward awareness.) That's what makes this deck, not my kind of deck. Best of luck though.