Oh, have you seen my suggestions about improving exposition? That'd be easy to implement with the pregens you will absolutely totally 100% be making because you love your game and want it to be fun.
Piratecat had some awesome suggestions for running adventures at cons that are very relevant...
I'd pick a dragon around CR 12 to show off what those PCs can really take, but try to create a situation where the PCs have a few different avenues to gain info, do recon, or gain an advantage over the dragon.
I'd suggest having the dragon "trapped" in a cave complex - not in a single room mind...
The second is the answer to the first. You know Wizard decks? They have the regular cards plus 4 wizards and 4 jesters.
8/15 is like having 2 decks with different backs and a Wizard and Joker in each suit.
Erikson's deck and its relation to reality is fantastic - I'm trying to stay away from direct copying though. This is going to be released Creative Commons Attribution so anyone can use it.
Each suit is either masculine (8 male, 7 female) or feminine (reverse). Each suit has all combinations...
Tempting (get it? tempting? get it? AHAHAHAHAA... heh... pheww)
A little on the pessimistic for the whole deck to be devoted to sin :)
I like to think of these as the 120 building blocks of the reality I'm creating.
Depends on whether you count the 10. Then you'd have 48
:)
I have: A, B, C, D, (E/10), 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, O
So each suit has an Alpha and an Omega in addition to the cards you'd expect.
There are some funny things you can do without going into Magic: The Gathering. Here's how far I've gotten BEFORE I got into the tricky business of identifying suits.
I'm fascinated by the number 120 - it has all sorts of properties that appeal to classical numerology (divisibility being a...
I'm not a big fan of having a separate major arcana; I prefer having more face cards and more suits, with "major arcana" fitting into them.
To me "Major Arcana" and "Minor Arcana" is so 3e. In 4e EVERYTHING is Major. :D
I'm making my Great Deck, which is something that's been brewing for awhile. The deck has 120 cards: 8 suits of 15 cards each.
I've got several very important factors worked out (some of the tarot-like properties of the cards), but I'm having a hard time thinking of suit names, which would...
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If I'm down to WotC: Draconomicon. When I was a boy I wish I could have had something like this. Now I have a daughter; she's so tiny she could sleep on the cover. One day I hope she takes it off the shelf and asks me what it's about.
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Edit: Scratch that, use
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