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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 2364020" data-attributes="member: 158">I never ended a campaign with it, but I screwed a couple with it. First time I used it back in 2nd edition, the player of the Dwarf Wizard (yes, that's correct) kept rolling (no cards, so we used dice) The Moon over and over! He ended up with TWENTY WISHES!!!! He used them on a Staff of the Magi, all his stats to 16 or higher, and nine levels. He was 18th level, and the rest of the party was 9th. Encounters became a bit... er, weird after that. It ended maybe a few months later.The only time it was ever used successfully by me was ONE time, when I used it rules-correctly. Each person gets a stated number of draws, and after that they can never draw again. Everybody took somewhere between one and 4 four draws, I recall, and no one was irrevocably harmed by it. One guy got the Visier, and kept it for about 6 months before he used it, quite wisely, to avoid a death-dealing event to himself. (Kinda reminds me of Hypersmurf's Phantasmal Killer episode he recently mentioned... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />)There was once upon a time a Dungeon Magazine module that used a Deck of many things as a key element to the Dungeon! However, it listed what card was attached to each entryway, so it wasn't random, per se.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 2364020, member: 158"] I never ended a campaign with it, but I screwed a couple with it. First time I used it back in 2nd edition, the player of the Dwarf Wizard (yes, that's correct) kept rolling (no cards, so we used dice) The Moon over and over! He ended up with TWENTY WISHES!!!! He used them on a Staff of the Magi, all his stats to 16 or higher, and nine levels. He was 18th level, and the rest of the party was 9th. Encounters became a bit... er, weird after that. It ended maybe a few months later. The only time it was ever used successfully by me was ONE time, when I used it rules-correctly. Each person gets a stated number of draws, and after that they can never draw again. Everybody took somewhere between one and 4 four draws, I recall, and no one was irrevocably harmed by it. One guy got the Visier, and kept it for about 6 months before he used it, quite wisely, to avoid a death-dealing event to himself. (Kinda reminds me of Hypersmurf's Phantasmal Killer episode he recently mentioned... :D) There was once upon a time a Dungeon Magazine module that used a Deck of many things as a key element to the Dungeon! However, it listed what card was attached to each entryway, so it wasn't random, per se. [/QUOTE]

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