I have the official deck but I don't want to use it for games. I rather use an inexpensive standard playing card deck. Is there an official list of the additional correspondences?
I don't think there's an official one. In newer releases (such as the Book of Many Things and 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide) the magic card deck items have random tables based on die rolls rather than any correspondence with a standard playing card deck. This appears to have been a deliberate design decision to make it easier for people to work with them if they don't have a real deck handy for whatever reason.
The link includes a picture of the playing cards to use. It wouldn't surprise me it newer versions have more cards, but what can you do?
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I have the official deck but I don't want to use it for games. I rather use an inexpensive standard playing card deck. Is there an official list of the additional correspondences?
You won't want to use a playing card deck, but a tarot deck. A tarot deck has 78 cards, while the full Deck of Many Things + Deck of Many More Things has 66, so you'd have 12 "space" cards
The Deck of Many Things maps 1:1 (I think) to the Major Arcana, and then you can make a table assigning the Deck of Many More Things to the Minor Arcana
Benefit is that you can get loads of different styles of tarot decks, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a D&D themed one (well, there is, the Taroka deck from Curse of Strahd, but you know what I mean)
I have the official deck but I don't want to use it for games. I rather use an inexpensive standard playing card deck. Is there an official list of the additional correspondences?
I don't think there's an official one. In newer releases (such as the Book of Many Things and 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide) the magic card deck items have random tables based on die rolls rather than any correspondence with a standard playing card deck. This appears to have been a deliberate design decision to make it easier for people to work with them if they don't have a real deck handy for whatever reason.
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Back in 2e, there was this: https://thecampaign20xx.blogspot.com/2014/07/lets-use-deck-of-many-things.html
The link includes a picture of the playing cards to use. It wouldn't surprise me it newer versions have more cards, but what can you do?
Blanket disclaimer: I only ever state opinion. But I can sound terribly dogmatic - so if you feel I'm trying to tell you what to think, I'm really not, I swear. I'm telling you what I think, that's all.
You won't want to use a playing card deck, but a tarot deck. A tarot deck has 78 cards, while the full Deck of Many Things + Deck of Many More Things has 66, so you'd have 12 "space" cards
The Deck of Many Things maps 1:1 (I think) to the Major Arcana, and then you can make a table assigning the Deck of Many More Things to the Minor Arcana
Benefit is that you can get loads of different styles of tarot decks, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a D&D themed one (well, there is, the Taroka deck from Curse of Strahd, but you know what I mean)
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