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<blockquote data-quote="Ibrandul" data-source="post: 8841810" data-attributes="member: 6871736"><p>I think it might simply be a third grab-bag book along the lines of Xanathar’s and Tasha’s, only this time themed around an artifact rather than an NPC. That’s pretty much what it sounds like from the description, and it makes sense: there’s a very obvious and plausible story you can tell about why it would be called “The Deck of Many Things” if it’s just another odds-and-ends book. Here, I’ll tell it:</p><p></p><p>It seems the original name for Xanathar’s was “Xanathar’s Guide to Adventurers”: that is, a monster’s guide to adventurers, following an adventurer’s (Volo’s) guide to monsters. But due to the inclusion of non-adventurer-related material, they decided “Everything” was more suitable than “Adventurers,” thus unfortunately ruining the joke. Later they reused the “X’s Y of Everything” naming template for the next grab-bag, Tasha’s. I suspect they were looking around for another NPC to theme the next grab-bag book around when someone noticed that the name of one of D&D’s most famous artifacts already sounded similar to the established naming pattern, and voila.</p><p></p><p>The good news is this almost certainly means we’ll get a tie-in product of actual Deck of Many Things cards next year, so DMs who haven’t purchased one of the out-of-print decks of yesteryear will finally have the opportunity to ruin their campaigns in style.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ibrandul, post: 8841810, member: 6871736"] I think it might simply be a third grab-bag book along the lines of Xanathar’s and Tasha’s, only this time themed around an artifact rather than an NPC. That’s pretty much what it sounds like from the description, and it makes sense: there’s a very obvious and plausible story you can tell about why it would be called “The Deck of Many Things” if it’s just another odds-and-ends book. Here, I’ll tell it: It seems the original name for Xanathar’s was “Xanathar’s Guide to Adventurers”: that is, a monster’s guide to adventurers, following an adventurer’s (Volo’s) guide to monsters. But due to the inclusion of non-adventurer-related material, they decided “Everything” was more suitable than “Adventurers,” thus unfortunately ruining the joke. Later they reused the “X’s Y of Everything” naming template for the next grab-bag, Tasha’s. I suspect they were looking around for another NPC to theme the next grab-bag book around when someone noticed that the name of one of D&D’s most famous artifacts already sounded similar to the established naming pattern, and voila. The good news is this almost certainly means we’ll get a tie-in product of actual Deck of Many Things cards next year, so DMs who haven’t purchased one of the out-of-print decks of yesteryear will finally have the opportunity to ruin their campaigns in style. [/QUOTE]
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