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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ethernaut" data-source="post: 2704903" data-attributes="member: 16847">Campaign killer... definitely. It killed the best D&D campaign that I was ever involved with. Well, that's not entirely accurate. I think the game was winding down anyway when we discovered the Deck. My character totally didn't want to have anything to do with it. But all the other players thought it would be super-fun to take a draw. So I caved in. Bad move, as a result my character was imprisoned.The imprisonment doesn't bother me nearly as much as I ended the campaign doing something so completely out-of-character. If we had continued, presumably my character could have been rescued. But it was just such a bummer to go out on that kind of note. Especially since the game had been spectacular up to that point.Oh well.Regardless, there is no way I'd ever introduce one of these artifacts into my game without some *serious* thought. About the only way I can think that would be accceptable would be as a sort of McGuffin that was quested for (by PCs or NPCs). I can imagine some interesting adventure hooks from NPCs who drew (successfully or unsuccessfully) from the Deck. But I shudder at having the player character draw unless I had contingency plans for the most disruptive cards.</blockquote>