by JoelCFC25 » July 3rd, 2018, 12:48 pm
You can steal everything you need from the Pax Porfiriana module (there are probably lots of other modules that do this, but it's the one I know because I added it).
In particular, you want to look in the Game Piece Prototype definitions for the "DeckSetup" prototype, and then look at the mess of Global Key Commands in the Setup map window. The reason there are so many is that the deck construction varies according to the number of players, so you might well avoid that with your game if the rule is always the same.
Broadly speaking, this module has a deck with all the standard cards and then a deck with all the Topple cards (the ones that get shuffled into the top X number of cards). Then there is a hidden Shuffler deck, and the actual Draw Pile deck on the main map. Using Multi-Action Buttons to "sequence" a bunch of Global Key Commands, the module grabs X number of random standard cards, moves them to the temporary Shuffler deck, grabs 1 Topple card, moves it to the Shuffler deck, then sends that combined group en masse to the Draw Pile deck on the map. It repeats this over and over the requisite number of times. Pay particular attention to the Reshuffle setting of each deck--you want "Always" on your staging deck and shuffler deck, but "Never" on what ends up being the actual Draw Pile, to ensure the cards you're mixing in at your intervals don't come out when they shouldn't.
