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<blockquote data-quote="Barak" data-source="post: 2367460" data-attributes="member: 3028">I used a very modified one once.&nbsp; My PCs had to go to a &quot;curiosity shop&quot; in the City of Brass.&nbsp; The owner, an unctuous, very pleasing, self-abasing merchant had a deck, and was offering &quot;draws&quot; at 1000 gp a pop.Unbeknownst to my players, it had mostly bad effects in it, with a few good ones so it wasn't too obvious.&nbsp; The twist was, it was a custom-made, less powerful deck.&nbsp; And the &quot;nice&quot; merchant could pretty much &quot;undo&quot; all the bad effects..&nbsp; For a price.&nbsp; For example, the &quot;imprison&quot; card sent the PC to the Sultan's prison, and the merchants, having contacts, could get the PC free..&nbsp; If the proper bribes were offered...All in all, I had unwittingly given my PCs too much wealth.&nbsp; Instead of doing a deus ex machina to remove it, however, I allowed their own greed to do it for me.&nbsp; And for the cost of a couple of +2 to a few stats, they lost (overall) about 600,000 GPs. And they were -happy- to have gotten off so lightly. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Barak, post: 2367460, member: 3028"] I used a very modified one once. My PCs had to go to a "curiosity shop" in the City of Brass. The owner, an unctuous, very pleasing, self-abasing merchant had a deck, and was offering "draws" at 1000 gp a pop. Unbeknownst to my players, it had mostly bad effects in it, with a few good ones so it wasn't too obvious. The twist was, it was a custom-made, less powerful deck. And the "nice" merchant could pretty much "undo" all the bad effects.. For a price. For example, the "imprison" card sent the PC to the Sultan's prison, and the merchants, having contacts, could get the PC free.. If the proper bribes were offered... All in all, I had unwittingly given my PCs too much wealth. Instead of doing a deus ex machina to remove it, however, I allowed their own greed to do it for me. And for the cost of a couple of +2 to a few stats, they lost (overall) about 600,000 GPs. And they were -happy- to have gotten off so lightly. :) [/QUOTE]

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