Deck builder

Why your decks live in your browser

A deck of cards you wrote is yours. It might be a class review deck with your pupils' names in it, a set of in-jokes, or a prototype of a game you are designing. None of that needs an account, and none of it needs to sit on somebody else's computer to work.

So it does not. Saving a deck writes it to this browser's own storage, the same place a site keeps whether you wanted the sound on. Nothing is uploaded, there is nothing to sign into, and nobody here can read what you wrote, because it never leaves the device it was typed on.

Which means backing up is your job

That is the honest cost of the arrangement. Clearing site data, a browser reset or a new laptop takes the decks with it, and we cannot get them back for you. Export writes every deck into one file you keep, and import reads it back on any device.

The file is also how a deck reaches somebody else. Send it, and they import it into their own library. Importing adds to what is already there rather than replacing it, so a colleague's deck arriving does not cost you yours.

Building a deck worth keeping

Start from a set and add to it. The ready-made sets here are the same ones the party tools draw from, so a deck that begins as our challenges and gains fifteen of your own is a better fit for your room than either half alone. Copies matter more than people expect: a review deck with four copies of the thing a class keeps getting wrong will teach it.

Once a deck is saved, the draw and discard table is where it gets played, and the shuffler is where it gets dealt into hands.

Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for

The tool runs entirely in your browser. There is no account, nothing you make is uploaded, and nothing you type is sent anywhere or put into a link.

The page itself is not silent, though: it carries advertising code and a visit counter that sets no cookie, and the cookie page says exactly what each of those does.

This page remembers your settings in your browser under pph.decks, and nowhere else. Clearing your site data for papercarnival.com removes it.