[phantom0]

I like the features available in the current convention card but never use them.  My main problem is that I almost always play with pickup partners, so my card is almost always a little different.

This makes me think that maybe the answer is to set up a convention card based on all the conventions that you play. and be able to turn on or off the conventions you agree to play with your current partner.  You could simply mark the conventions in a list of check boxes when you get a new partner.

What I envision is to setup what each bid in your base system means similar to the way we do now.  Then repeat the process for each convention you play, only marking the bids that the convention overrides.  The order of the convention list could show a priority order indicating which conventions are checked first to determine what the bids mean if specified.

By doing this a flexible convention card could be made that would be easy to use with pickup partners.

--brian agnes (phantom0)