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(Psi)SeveredHead
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Happy B'day too!
I'm so yoinking the axebeak incident. I'm so yoinking...
I'm so yoinking the axebeak incident. I'm so yoinking...
KidCthulhu
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The really amusing thing about the Deck of Many Things is that the Nolin conviced the group to have nothing to do with it. We sold it. I'm not sure how many other groups have ever done that.
When Nolin is the voice of reason, the group is usually shocked enough to listen.
It didn't hurt that Tremere (Tom-Tom) likes to throw them around in his campaign, and several of us who played in that world had seen parties destroyed by the effects of the Deck. We were at least twice burned.
When Nolin is the voice of reason, the group is usually shocked enough to listen.
It didn't hurt that Tremere (Tom-Tom) likes to throw them around in his campaign, and several of us who played in that world had seen parties destroyed by the effects of the Deck. We were at least twice burned.
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Femerus the Gnecro
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got any... heirophants? "GO FISH!"
The deck is one of those items that I always, as a player, try to avoid as though it were made of broken glass.
If it were up to me, I'd toss the lot of them into a spere of annihilation as soon as possible. I especially hate it when DM's give them to low level parties, then complain that the party either:
1. uses it, gets screwed over, and whines
2. uses it, gets uber powerful and abuses the power
3. doesn't use it (thus denying the DM his sick little 'deck' jollies).
I have yet to see anything good come out of the deck or any item like it (check out the funky-ass deck on Sean K Reynold's site for a REALLY strange deck).
The worst part is that you want to keep using it once you start... it's freakish, really.
-Femerus
The deck is one of those items that I always, as a player, try to avoid as though it were made of broken glass.
If it were up to me, I'd toss the lot of them into a spere of annihilation as soon as possible. I especially hate it when DM's give them to low level parties, then complain that the party either:
1. uses it, gets screwed over, and whines
2. uses it, gets uber powerful and abuses the power
3. doesn't use it (thus denying the DM his sick little 'deck' jollies).
I have yet to see anything good come out of the deck or any item like it (check out the funky-ass deck on Sean K Reynold's site for a REALLY strange deck).
The worst part is that you want to keep using it once you start... it's freakish, really.
-Femerus
Sir Osis of Liver
Explorer
Great story, Sialia, i laughed my you know what off and then some.
As to the deck of many things in all my experiances it is completely irristiable, no one i know has ever not pulled from it. They know they're getting sucked into ther void or slapped in the dungeon but they don't care. "I might get a good card" it real fun when we get burned and keep going, it is one of the games greatest mysteries as far as i'm concened. Slap down the deck and watch us turn in to lemmings!
As to the deck of many things in all my experiances it is completely irristiable, no one i know has ever not pulled from it. They know they're getting sucked into ther void or slapped in the dungeon but they don't care. "I might get a good card" it real fun when we get burned and keep going, it is one of the games greatest mysteries as far as i'm concened. Slap down the deck and watch us turn in to lemmings!
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Jeremy
Explorer
The last time I encountered a Deck I was playing an extremely intelligent wizard who knew the chances of drawing a bad card and simply left it to anyone else as slow and steady wins the race.
The DM, voicing through my intelligent familiar decided that the familiar would draw 4 (!!!!) cards. Guess he wanted his Deck Jollies. We all then watched dumbfounded as the raven drew 4 red cards from a freshly shuffled deck, wished himself a were-raven, assumed an elfin hominid form, gained 11 levels, gained not one but two keeps, wishes, and ended up with more draws for 7 (!!!!!!!) total with not a single black card to be found.
Needless to say, everyone jumped at the deck then (except the Wizard and another character as wise as the Wizard was intelligent). Of course, the inevitable happened, characters were utterly destroyed, faced off with Minor Deaths, and were Imprisoned. I'd say the DM was a card shark except I get the feeling that kind of manual dexterity is beyond him.
Go figure.
Oh, having a familiar more powerful than you is an interesting experience. More NPC then familiar at that point, thankfully one of his ill chosen uses of a wish got him assassinated within the week.
The DM, voicing through my intelligent familiar decided that the familiar would draw 4 (!!!!) cards. Guess he wanted his Deck Jollies. We all then watched dumbfounded as the raven drew 4 red cards from a freshly shuffled deck, wished himself a were-raven, assumed an elfin hominid form, gained 11 levels, gained not one but two keeps, wishes, and ended up with more draws for 7 (!!!!!!!) total with not a single black card to be found.
Needless to say, everyone jumped at the deck then (except the Wizard and another character as wise as the Wizard was intelligent). Of course, the inevitable happened, characters were utterly destroyed, faced off with Minor Deaths, and were Imprisoned. I'd say the DM was a card shark except I get the feeling that kind of manual dexterity is beyond him.
Go figure.
Oh, having a familiar more powerful than you is an interesting experience. More NPC then familiar at that point, thankfully one of his ill chosen uses of a wish got him assassinated within the week.
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(Psi)SeveredHead
Adventurer
In one of my campaigns we abused the deck terribly.
We got so many keeps that we combined them into one. Then any time we got the Keep card, we upgraded the keep (mithral mortar, mithral bricks, solid mithral, adamantine coating, etc).
We got many 4th level fighters named Fred (I think they all died).
My thri-kreen PC (Ranger/psion) was attacked by a minor death. I killed it in one round... (heck, my party killed the Tarrasque (2e) and Miska the Spider Wolf in one round.)
In the end, someone used a Wish to get rid of all the black cards... and the DM let them! Even so, I rarely used the deck.
We got so many keeps that we combined them into one. Then any time we got the Keep card, we upgraded the keep (mithral mortar, mithral bricks, solid mithral, adamantine coating, etc).
We got many 4th level fighters named Fred (I think they all died).
My thri-kreen PC (Ranger/psion) was attacked by a minor death. I killed it in one round... (heck, my party killed the Tarrasque (2e) and Miska the Spider Wolf in one round.)
In the end, someone used a Wish to get rid of all the black cards... and the DM let them! Even so, I rarely used the deck.
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