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draw a card, you must declare how many cards you intend to draw and then draw them randomly (you can use an altered deck of playing cards to simulate the deck). Any cards drawn in excess of this number
Usually found in a box or pouch, this deck contains a number of cards made of ivory or vellum. Most (75 percent) of these decks have only thirteen cards, but the rest have twenty-two.
Before you
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Over the centuries since the first Deck of Many Things was created, many have sought and failed to replicate it. But some have created new cards. These forty-four additional cards are known
collectively as the Deck of Many More Things. (More information on creating new cards for this deck appears in chapter 2.)
Like the Deck of Many Things, the Deck of Many More Things manifests differently on
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draw a card, you must declare how many cards you intend to draw and then draw them randomly (you can use an altered deck of playing cards to simulate the deck). Any cards drawn in excess of this number
Stored in a leather pouch, this unique deck contains twenty-two colored cards made of some strong but unknown metal, each of which features a design printed as a mosaic of raised dots. Before you
Compendium
- Sources->Basic Rules
Deck of Many Things Wondrous item, legendary Usually found in a box or pouch, this deck contains a number of cards made of ivory or vellum. Most (75 percent) of these decks have only thirteen cards
the cards in a deck of many things can earn a character the enmity of another being. With the Flames card, the enmity is overt. The character should experience the devil’s malevolent efforts on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Deck of Many Things Wondrous item, legendary Usually found in a box or pouch, this deck contains a number of cards made of ivory or vellum. Most (75 percent) of these decks have only thirteen cards
TM) Jester *Found only in a deck with twenty-two cards A QUESTION OF ENMITY
Two of the cards in a deck of many things can earn a character the enmity of another being. With the Flames card, the
Compendium
- Sources->The Book of Many Things
Deck of Many More Things Wondrous Item, Legendary Over the centuries since the first Deck of Many Things was created, many have sought and failed to replicate it. But some have created new cards
. These forty-four additional cards are known collectively as the Deck of Many More Things. (More information on creating new cards for this deck appears in chapter 2.) Like the Deck of Many Things, the
Compendium
- Sources->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
Deck of Several Things Wondrous item, legendary Stored in a leather pouch, this unique deck contains twenty-two colored cards made of some strong but unknown metal, each of which features a design
printed as a mosaic of raised dots. Before you draw a card, you must declare how many cards you intend to draw and then draw them randomly (you can use an altered deck of playing cards to simulate the
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Card Sense. The riffler can smell the presence of magical cards, including Deck of Many Things;Decks of Many Things and other magical decks, within 1 mile of itself. It knows the direction to any
dangerously curious spirits manifested as physical beings when the Deck of Many Things was shuffled for the first time. The rifflers were so enraptured with the soft sound made by the whispering cards
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(1d8);{"diceNotation":"1d8","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Reaping Scythe","rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage.Summoned by drawing the Skull card from a Deck of Many Things.
Refer to the Deck of Many Things for further information on this monster.Necrotic, Poison
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search for Deck of Many Things;Decks of Many Things. On harrowing hunts, harrow hawks scout for the prey and accompany the Grim Harrow in battle.PoisonShadow Dash. When the hawk is in dim light or
of Many Things (see chapter 19)— seeks out harrow hawks, capturing them and training them as hunting animals. The Grim Harrow dispatches these Undead companions from the Gardens of Decay to
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; vulnerability to fire damage; immunity to acid, bludgeoning, poison, and psychic damage).The potent magic of a Deck of Many Things can have unpredictable effects on its environment, especially when the deck
. A ruin spider is easily recognizable by anyone familiar with the Deck of Many Things because the pattern on the back of the cards is duplicated on the spider’s carapace.Acid
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the first Deck of Many Things. She doesn’t know why this is but surmises her life is tied to that deck; so long as it continues to exist, so will she. She has no way to prove this hypothesis
, but she nevertheless opposes groups like the Grim Harrow (see chapter 19) that seek to destroy the Deck of Many Things.PoisonEmpowering Aegis (Recharge 4–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"recharge
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Underdark.
Many scholars agree there’s a link between talon beasts, the constellation of the Talons (see chapter 13), and the Talons card found in a Deck of Many Things, but it’s not
magic isn’t enough to sustain them, so they also hunt other living things. A talon beast thrives in the wilderness, but in its search for magic, it often prowls settlements, ruins, catacombs, or the
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hounds are especially useful when investigating possible sightings of a Deck of Many Things. If a harrow hound catches the scent of its prey, it never loses it, even if the hound and its fellow hunters
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Created in the image of the Deck of Many Things, this deck of ivory or vellum cards bestows an assortment of minor benefits and penalties on those who draw from it. Most (75 percent) of these decks
have only thirteen cards, but the rest have twenty-two.
Before you draw a card, you must declare how many cards you intend to draw, then draw them randomly. Any additional cards drawn have no effect
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Bastion)Knights of the Solar Bastion are battle-hardened veterans who operate independently across the multiverse. When word reaches the organization that a Deck of Many Things has appeared, the nearest
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Special Equipment. Mary wears bracers of defense and a ring of protection, and carries a deck of several things (see appendix D).
Fey Presence (Recharges after a Short Rest). Mary can cause each
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, Prestidigitation
2/day each: Bestow Curse, Dispel Magic
1/day: SlowYears ago, a wizard named Gremorly drew the Throne card from a Deck of Many Things, gaining ownership of a small castle called Sovereign
Gremorly, who became a victim of his own ritual.
Gremorly is now one of the many ghosts that haunt the keep. Locals have renamed the keep Harrowhall, as they dread the spectral figures moving through the
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Spellcasting.Aleron was once a tiefling adventurer, but unlike so many victims of the Deck of Many Things, he never drew the Skull card. Instead, when one of his allies drew the card and faced the avatar of death
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, might have been the first person to draw the Skull card from a Deck of Many Things and be slain by the avatar of death. Even Jyn doesn’t know for sure, as that was so long ago that she’s
forgotten almost everything about her former life. Jyn’s existence over so many centuries has left her in tortured misery, and now nihilism is all that drives her. More than any other member of the
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one world, one for each card in a Deck of Many Things. As a group, hierophants are sometimes called Sages, but each hierophant is also identified with a particular card. When a hierophant dies, the
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Deck of Many Things. The avatar of death slew her in a flash. That was many centuries ago, and Wynemar is now a powerful and bloodthirsty Undead commander of the Grim Harrow.
Wreathed in searing
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figure of Vistani legend, Luba’s Tarokka of Souls shaped the destiny of countless heroes. The prophecies of this deck of cards also revealed great evils and guided its creator into the path of
nefarious forces. Untold times the deck’s creator, Mother Luba, narrowly escaped doom, spared only by her keen insights. But even for her, not all wickedness could be escaped. In the most dire
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family had done to van Richten, ran away from home. After many harrowing adventures, she tracked down van Richten two years later. Thinking she was a Vistana assassin, he put a sword to her throat and
for two years, helping him track down and slay many creatures of the night. But because van Richten could never bring himself to fully trust a Vistana, he kept secrets from her. The two vampire
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masters. The first breath drinker manifested in the multiverse when the Void card was first drawn from the original Deck of Many Things.Poison, RadiantAcid, Cold, Fire, Lightning, Thunder; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical AttacksNecrotic
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doom than peace and bounty. Some leonin, known as iconoclasts, devote themselves to thwarting the gods by hunting down their followers and all things born of Nyx that impede on Oreskos and the safety of
the leonin prides.
Prides of leonin roam the plains of Oreskos, protecting the land and its creatures from interlopers, both mortal and immortal. As many leonin suffered at the hands of archon tyrants
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many Lorehold students bury themselves in old tomes, others take a more cavalier approach to their studies and travel the world to see history made before their eyes. Their magic can range from spells
tampering with the flow of time itself to concussive blasts that break through old ruins—to sometimes just bashing things with a glowing scroll.
Lorehold Scholars
The archaeomancers of
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consort with Fiends and Undead, and they reject many of the goodly things from their former lives.
Blackguards often adorn their armor and weapons with dread accoutrements or are marked by eerie
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arcane artifacts and speaking with long-dead adventurers to uncover secrets lost to time.
Though many Lorehold students bury themselves in old tomes, others take a more cavalier approach to their
sometimes just bashing things with a glowing scroll.
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The archaeomancers of Lorehold College draw their magical might from the flow of time and fate and the way those forces shape the
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Fallible Invisibility. The skulk is invisible. This invisibility can be circumvented by three things:
Charnel Candles. The skulk appears as a dim, translucent form in the light of a candle made of
a vague likeness of its master.
Cruel and chaotic, skulks carry out their orders in the most violent manner possible. A summoned skulk can’t return to the Shadowfell until it dies, so many
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Armies require protection, and someone has to put things back together if defenses fail. A combination of protector and medic, a Battle Smith is an expert at defending others and repairing both
material and personnel. To aid in their work, Battle Smiths are usually accompanied by a steel defender, a protective companion of their own creation. Many soldiers tell stories of nearly dying
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The School of Necromancy explores the cosmic forces of life, death, and undeath. As you focus your studies in this tradition, you learn to manipulate the energy that animates all living things. As
menacing, or even villainous, due to the close association with death. Not all necromancers are evil, but the forces they manipulate are considered taboo by many societies.
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corbies range across the Underdark, stripping the tunnels and caverns they traverse of all living things. Even the mightiest creatures of the Underdark hide within fortified lairs or step aside from a dire
travelers prize accurate charts illustrating the movements of these flocks, since trailing a day behind them all but guarantees that the dire corbies will have cleared out many monsters and other threats
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An Artillerist specializes in using magic to hurl energy, projectiles, and explosions on a battlefield. This destructive power is valued by armies in the wars on many different worlds. And when war
about making things right: “It’s about time we fixed things instead of blowing them all to hell.”
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who died a century ago, after a long and nefarious career. Esvele Rosznar, a brash young noble, has recently adopted the Black Viper's persona to lead a secret life of crime. Like many other nobles
hood and mask, exchanging her fine clothes for the kind of practical clothing her parents would never let her wear.
One of the things Esvele has learned is to embrace the legend of the Black Viper