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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 2709061" data-attributes="member: 11697">Well, I'll have to see if I can get Clueless to post her experience in one game in which they played blackjack with a Deck of Many Things.I've had two experiences with the Deck of Many Things: once as DM, once as a player.As a DM: The PCs were inside one of the towers on the border of the positive touched quasielemental planes with the positive energy plane. Inside, within a section of one of these towers that was normally inaccessable, they had to each draw a single card at random from the deck in a test of bravery (or foolhardiness). Nothing super big happened from their draws.As a player: I was playing in a RttToEE game under the worlds worst DM. He hadn't read the module at all, so a new room to us was a new room to him. He'd briefly read ahead and explain 'OOOOOOOHHHHHHHH!!!!!!' loudly when he read about what monsters would presumably come try to kill us. Pure hack and slash campaign, despite our attempts to talk to one another and give it more depth, the DM simply would have none of it. Well, this was going nowhere, so we said to hell with the game and decided to go out in grand fashion or go so over the top that the campaign would be even further in hell than it already was. So, during a chance to draw from said lovely artifact deck o' cards, we drew. And oh Lord did we draw. I think the lowest number of cards drawn by any PC was 4. One of us drew 8.And yes, that game died shortly thereafter as I started my 3e Planescape campaign to take its place like a stake pounded into the heart of a screaming vampire that up to that point refused to realize it was not long for the world.</blockquote>

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