Common Pieces

Common Pieces are authoring helpers for repetitive, well-known tabletop components. They create normal Handlimit Piece Types and Pieces; they do not introduce game-specific runtime code.

Standard 52-card deck

The Docs hub includes a Standard 52-card deck tool. It can create or update:

• a Playing Card Piece Type with the playing_card Key;
• all 52 cards across spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs;
• suit, face_value, rank_value, and score_value attributes;
• the reusable Playing Card playtest presentation.

The generator is idempotent: running it again updates the canonical 52 cards rather than duplicating them, and unrelated custom Pieces such as markers or Jokers are left alone.

Scoring presets

Standard rank values use Ace 1 through King 13.

Golf scoring uses:

• Ace = 1
• 2 = -2
• 3–10 = face value
• Jack = 10
• Queen = 10
• King = 0

Authoring principle

Common Piece tools should only automate repetitive data entry. After generation, the resulting Piece Types and Pieces remain normal editable Handlimit content and can be used by any game definition.