Getting a Pazaak Deck (In real-life, not in game)

[Davalos]

Hello everyone,

 

I have been looking everywhere to find a Pazaak deck so that I can play in the comforts of my own home without the computer.

 

I could print one of myself, but I want something of higher quality than that. I found a few websites of printing companies that would do the work, but they want me to order a minimum of anywhere from 50 to 3000 decks.

 

Anyone know of a company that would print just one deck?

 

Or maybe anyone else who's interested in having their own deck could reply to this message, and we could pool resources to have a big company print us all a deck. There would have to be at least 50 of us.

[Lost Jedi]

I'm interested in getting a deck... probably two, if they're cheap enough, so I can play with other people rather than just count cards.

[Sturm]

Yay, taking KotOR to the next level and getting Pazaak cards!

[Plano Skywalker]

well, there is precedent for it....companies sell (or at least used to) officially-licensed Star Trek 3D Chess, for instance.

 

I don't know if Dejarik or Pazaak has ever been sold like that but it probably would sell quite well.

[Gorgon]

It would probably be copyright infringement to band together here and share the cost of the smallest batch available, mores the pity.

[Purgatorio]

well, there is precedent for it....companies sell (or at least used to) officially-licensed Star Trek 3D Chess, for instance.

 

I don't know if Dejarik or Pazaak has ever been sold like that but it probably would sell quite well.

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Pfft, but that's StarTrek. Completely different.

[Plano Skywalker]

Pfft, but that's StarTrek. Completely different.

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yeah, it seems LFL is not as keen on such things.

 

Dejarik is, obviously, an allusion to Chess and

Pazaak is just a modified Blackjack.

[Sturm]

well, there is precedent for it....companies sell (or at least used to) officially-licensed Star Trek 3D Chess, for instance.

 

I don't know if Dejarik or Pazaak has ever been sold like that but it probably would sell quite well.

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Pfft, but that's YuckTrek. Completely different.

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Well, I first thought Pazaak was pretty much like Black jack, except you have to get to 20, and you have cards that you can put in yourself, and that it doesnt really rely around the 2 cards that you start off originally.

 

Have you tried Ebay? Bound to have some sleezy person from Asia trying to sell you it, yep happened to me before, minus me wanting to buy the Pazaak deck.

[Xard]

[Purgatorio]

Pfft, but that's StarTrek. Completely different.

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yeah, it seems LFL is not as keen on such things.

 

Dejarik is, obviously, an allusion to Chess and

Pazaak is just a modified Blackjack.

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True, but there are some fairly crappy things floating around, (animated Ewoks) but what I meant is StarTrek is umm better than Starwars.

[Darth Mortis]

It would probably be copyright infringement to band together here and share the cost of the smallest batch available, mores the pity.

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I think Gorgon is correct, GL & LA do tend to be very protective of their trademark, and I have a feeling they would abject to anyone making money off something included in one of their games. Even if the Starwars logo wasn't included on the cards, or even mentioned, they would probably make a load noise and start talking to lawyers about taking any company that tried to make Pazaak cards to court, and/or the person(s) who asked them to.

 

While making a deck or two for your own use, or that of friends, isn't going to bother them. Having a couple of hundred or a few thousand decks made would. The safest thing to do is to get in touch with LA and talk to them, make sure that they would not sue you if you had a couple of decks made. (Called covering your backside). If they are ok with the idea great, if their not you'd have to somehow convince them it would be worth while granting a licence to someone. A petition here with enough people saying that they would buy the decks might convince them that they could make some money out of this. Since they already produce Top-Trump games for Starwars producing Pazaak decks should be easy for them, at least thats the theory.

 

They could do a good job of this if so inclined, selling the side decks seporate to the main decks would be fun if you had no idea what cards were in the sidedecks until after you opened them.

[Plano Skywalker]

all I know is, the next version of KOTOR needs to have a "multiplayer" version of Pazaak (by Multiplayer, I mean, you aren't the only one playing against the dealer at the same time....side betting on someone else would be cool too) and being able to look at the table isometrically (you can see the other sprites and, possibly, yourself) just like you would expect in a casino game. you can just sit there and keep playing until you break the bank or run out of money.

[DAWUSS]

How many random cards (the green ones) would you need to make the game even possible?

[Plano Skywalker]

How many random cards (the green ones) would you need to make the game even possible?

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are you talking about the multiplayer version? well, K2 actually uses a finite deck (while K1 just created cards as needed).

 

basically, the multiplayer version would be dealt from a 6- or 8-deck shoe (similar to casino Blackjack).

[CoM_Solaufein]

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[ghosta]

I thought a pazzak deck had only 40 cards in it and assumed the deck was shuffled after each set,

but I'm probly wrong

 

For the meantime your just going to have to settle with usiing several decks of ordinary playing cards.

Edited January 24, 2007 by ghosta

[fleshcutter]

yeah, ill do it, ive been searching for print outs on the net so i can play with my freinds for a while, and i came across this topic, i say bring pazaak to the streets of earth