I. Love. A tabletop game with a small footprint. It’s just so cozy and nice and fun. If it’s one small deck you can fit in your pocket, all the better.

Stumbling into the realm of games utilizing only a deck of standard cards led me straight to Scoundrel; a free rule set that lets you simulate a dungeon dive using just some regular old playing cards.

The novelty struck harder because I realized, after a quick gander, that this directly inspired the game Card Crawl, which I’ve admired for a...