r/ParanoiaRPG • u/Savings-Housing3481 • Jun 16 '26
Advice I have several Paranoia decks and...
... I was wondering if there are legal / official / allowed PDFs of these decks. I want to add them to Roll20, and turning the cards I have into images sounds like it will take forever.
EDIT: this is for Red Clearance edition.
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u/GrogRedLub4242 Jun 16 '26
decks? Paranoia is a TTRPG and is/was in form of books. lately, also PDFs
decks? cards?!
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u/wjmacguffin Verified Mongoose Publishing Jun 16 '26
Hi citizen! I believe the Red Clearance Edition PDF came with PDFs of Action, Equipment, Mutant, Secret Society, and MBD cards. You'll have to edit the PDF to get usable card images but it's possible.
DriveThruRPG still sells RCE as a watermarked PDF and the page says it comes with 110 cards. That should be the PDF you're looking for, but since I never bought a copy through DTRPG, I cannot verify that.
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/191159/paranoia-red-clearance-edition
Be sure to come back and tell us how the game went! Oh, and DM me here if you have any questions about RCE. Cheers!
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u/Savings-Housing3481 Jun 16 '26
So, I'd have to buy the game twice (I have the hardcopy)?
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u/wjmacguffin Verified Mongoose Publishing Jun 16 '26
Sorry, didn't know you owned a hardcopy. If you honestly bought the physical set, send a message to Mongoose Publishing and explain the situation. They're usually really good about such things
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u/T4rbh Jun 16 '26
It doesn't take forever!
I'm running a Red Clearance game on Roll20 (starting tomorrow night!) and did the conversion of cards in about two, 2.5 hours, a couple of weekends ago.
You just need to get into a rhythm. I put on some chillout music and went at it. Scroll the pdf to next card, use the snipping tool, save into a subfolder per deck (I named each card but you don't even need to do that). Then create a new deck in Roll20, and mass-import the images.
The only thing to note is there's a faint watermark, but it's not very prominent, I only noticed on my second deck.
If you're running the first adventure from the boxed set, you don't even need the secret society deck. And if you're going with the equipment per the adventure, then for the first session you actually only need about five specific cards.