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The short of it: I am attempting to create a simple card game as an optional mini game. You will collect cards as you travel and even stop by card shops (modern-ish setting). The problem I face is not knowing exactly how to do what I need to.

The long of it:
I have been looking all across the internet from Reddit, to YouTube, to Discord, and countless forums and blogs, but I can't seem to figure out how to do what I need to in order to properly event a card game, or even how to go about making my own plugin to do so. What I've gathered thus far is that I will likely need to find a way to check what cards the player has in their "deck" and create an array based on those cards. I'm using Galv's Magic Shards as a way to create these cards, and I'm adding the note tags to weapons. I was thinking that I would run a script to check which skills the player has, then take those skills and see if they correspond with a predetermined list of numbers, and if so, add them to the array. Then use that array to act as the deck while eventing.

The issue with all of this is that I don't know how to actually go about doing so. I've found the list of script calls you can use and found out how to make an array, and found out how to check if a player has a specific skill, but I don't know how to check if a player has any from a large pool of skills, then take the ones they do have and create an array based on that, then use that array to correspond with pictures and such so that I can actually make this card game work.

I've already found the premade card game on itch.io made by Irana, but it doesn't really match what I'm looking for, and honestly, it's way too expensive for me to download and hope it meets my expectations. I only mention this because every other time I've asked for help on this matter, people immediately say I should get this. Just wanted to get that out of the way is all.

If someone thinks they can help me work on making a plugin, I'd totally be down to colab on that sort of thing. I'd make it myself if I knew enough, but I can only make really simple plugins for the time being. I'm also open to the possibility of commissioning someone if I think it's worth the money, so feel free to make an offer (and if you do, be sure to link any plugins you've made in the past to give me some examples of your work.)

Thanks for taking the time to read this giant wall of text! And if I made anything unclear, feel free to ask and I'll try my best to clear it up.

PS: any plugin I end up making/receiving through this process, I'd be willing to share.