D&D 5E Deck of Many Things manufacturing issue from review to delay to dndbeyond article.

[aco175]

I recall having trick cards when I was a kid where half the deck was one card and slightly shorter than the other half. When shuffled, the shorter card would stay next to the longer card, thus allowing me to always guess your card since you would always pick the shorter card. It only works a couple times before people wonder why they keep picking the 10 of diamonds each time.

Not sure if this deck is built like that.

 

[MGibster]

The chance of printing errors is basically baked into the price point, to pay for potential replacements.

I am not an unreasonable man and realize manufacturing defects can happen. At this point, it's just a question of whether this defect is just a rare instance or if it's common.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

That’s lame. The book sounds all right. But a tarot deck random adventure generator? I mean, cool idea but that’s nothing new. You can find all kinds of wild random generators and random generation methods with a quick search.

Few of them are as in depth, versatile, and feature as gorgeous art and design.

Also…novelty is not that important. I’ll never not be horrifically exhausted by the rampant obsession with novelty in the modern world. It’s better to do an old thing very well than to do a new thing kinda okay.

 

[Parmandur]

I am not an unreasonable man and realize manufacturing defects can happen. At this point, it's just a question of whether this defect is just a rare instance or if it's common.

I wxpwxt it's about as common as with other WotC card decks.

 

[Charlaquin]

I am not an unreasonable man and realize manufacturing defects can happen. At this point, it's just a question of whether this defect is just a rare instance or if it's common.

It’s a nearly unavoidable problem with foiled cards. How likely you are to experience it will depend on how humid it is where you live.

 

[darjr]

Curled foil cards? I’d return them. Have to tear the box the books were meant to be stored in? I’d eventually throw the box away and find something else, I’d be very unhappy about it. Different card sizes? I’d grow to hate the thing.

 

[the Jester]

He measured them



And here is a photo.

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That's terrible. Man, what a shame- that's a dealbreaker for me.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Oof! The deck would probably be the only reason I'd consider picking this up, but if the QC on the cards is this bad, I don't think I'll bother.

If you want a deck with the traditional/SRD/CC cards, Etsy has you covered. They don't have the new cards, of course, since those are WotC-only.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

That’s lame. The book sounds all right. But a tarot deck random adventure generator? I mean, cool idea but that’s nothing new. You can find all kinds of wild random generators and random generation methods with a quick search.

I think this is actually a good thing, myself. Yeah, it's not novel in the wider indie RPG and even OSR scene, but most 5E players are new with 5E and have never played anything else. Bringing in cards as a method of adventure generation is new to them and will definitely be expanding some horizons. Fifteen years from now, we'll hear that some designer's first experience with card-based play in RPGs was this set.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Few of them are as in depth, versatile, and feature as gorgeous art and design.

This seems pretty unfair. There are RPGs where everything runs off of the cards, which is definitely more in-depth than what WotC is doing here. And there are plenty of decks as attractive or more attractive than this one (the new Hit Point Press one on Kickstarter, for instance). This is a very pretty deck, but that doesn't mean everything else pales in comparison.