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Card based RPG's

I literally just signed up, so forgive me if this is a silly question--I haven't actually used Roll20 yet. I was interested in perhaps starting a campaign using the Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game system that used the SAGA rules. For those that aren't familiar with that system, it used a fate deck of cards instead of the more common dice mechanic. I was wondering if it would be easy to play a game like this on here? Can you simulate custom card decks or at least a standard deck of playing cards? 
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Gauss
Forum Champion
Yes, you can build a deck (or many decks). People on Roll20 play all sorts of card games or use cards for various things.  - Gauss
Interesting. I actually have PDF scans of the fate deck cards. How hard would it be to convert that into something usable for Roll20? 
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Gauss
Forum Champion
As easy as converting a pdf to a jpg. :) - Gauss
Thanks. I'll look into the guides for making custom decks. 
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Gauss
Forum Champion
If you have any trouble let me know. :) - Gauss
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Finderski
Plus
Sheet Author
Compendium Curator
What Gauss said, it's super easy.  One trick I learned - if need to extract the card files out of the PDF, Gimp makes it very easy.  If there are multiple cards per page, you can even use the Guides (drag from top or left side to get a line that spans the entire page).  Once you have guides outlining all the cards, you can use the Guillotine feature to cut them all up at one time to make individual card images.   If you need better instructions, let me know. Rich
Thank's for the tips, GV. I was playing with it and was amazed at how easy it was to make a custom deck of cards. I had several custom cards done in a few minutes.