Gain beneficial medium wondrous item and 50,000 XP.Īll magic items you possess disappear permanently. Immediately gain a +2 inherent bonus to one ability score. Immediately lose all wealth and real property.ĭefeat dread wraith or be forever destroyed. Gain 10,000 XP or two more draws from the deck. Gain your choice of twenty-five pieces of jewelry or fifty gems. Lose 10,000 experience points and you must draw again. –1 penalty on all saving throws henceforth.Īvoid any situation you choose. The effects of each card, summarized on the table, are fully described below.ĭefeat the next monster you meet to gain one level. If no tarot deck is available, substitute ordinary playing cards instead, as indicated in the third column.

To simulate the magic cards, you may want to use tarot cards, as indicated in the second column of the accompanying table. Exception: If the jester is drawn, the possessor of the deck may elect to draw two additional cards.Įach time a card is taken from the deck, it is replaced (making it possible to draw the same card twice) unless the draw is the jester or the fool, in which case the card is discarded from the pack. If the character does not willingly draw her allotted number (or if she is somehow prevented from doing so), the cards flip out of the deck on their own. Cards must be drawn within 1 hour of each other, and a character can never again draw from this deck any more cards than she has announced. The character with a deck of many things who wishes to draw a card must announce how many cards she will draw before she begins.

As soon as one of these cards is drawn from the pack, its magic is bestowed upon the person who drew it, for better or worse. Each is engraved with glyphs, characters, and sigils. Each deck contains a number of cards or plaques made of ivory or vellum. Deck of Many Things: A deck of many things (both beneficial and baneful) is usually found in a box or leather pouch.

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