Ooops! Harmonics in my spell…

So I borked the Deck of Fate probabilities last night in my Fate of Bayern post, at least in terms of assigning thaumic energy types and harmonics. The way I wrote it, you would have much higher chances of some types of harmonics than others.

My bad: I couldn’t remember where I had read the number of each combination of sun and moon symbols (it was in this post from Fred Hicks) and I was too intent on writing to actually count them myself. But today I did count them (it’s much easier using the PDF than the deck for this).

Based on this, I assigned the thaumic energy flavours so they would all have the same probability: one sun = Material, multiple suns = Elemental, one moon = Spiritual/Dimensional, and multiple moons = Emotional/Mental. In addition one moon and one sun are at the GM’s discretion based on the fiction, and an eclipse means a wild spell.

That also means I have to change the final part of the example in the earlier post (see after the table).

No. Cards	Motif	Assigned Thaumic Type
18	Single sun	Material
6	Two suns	Elemental
6	Three suns
6	One moon, two suns
6	Two moons, one sun	Emotional/Mental
6	Three moons
6	Two moons
18	Single moon	Spiritual/Dimensional
6	One moon, one sun	GM’s choice
3	Eclipse	Wild
81	TOTAL

So the earlier example would produce the following harmonics:

• Turn 1: O (Material)—properly aligned.
• Turn 2: C (Spiritual/Dimensional).
• Turn 3: O (Material)—properly aligned.
• Turn 4: CCO (Emotional/Mental).
• Turn 5: COO (Elemental).
• Turn 6: OOO (Elemental), then CCO (Emotional/Mental).
• Turn 7: O (Material)—properly aligned.
• Turn 8: C (Spiritual/Dimensional).
• Turn 9: O (Material)—properly aligned.
• Turn 10: C (Spiritual/Dimensional).

For a total of 4 cards properly aligned with Material energy, 3 aligned with Spiritual/Dimensional, 2 with Emotional/Mental, and 2 with Elemental. Coincidentally, I don’t actually have to change my description!