Glad you found it useful! Unfortunately, I don’t really update this blog anymore, though I do keep an eye on it for new comments and to prune spam.

If you’re interested in following my latest ramblings, check out http://blog.asmor.com

at any rate, i began thinking of my own persona wubba wubba or random magics to unleash on my new 4e group..
Needless to say, i started thinking of variants on the deck of many things. Thanks for this… Also i borrowed your CSS to use on our weblog that we keep our campaign logs on.. very nice.

@twesterm I assume you mean ‘in your opinion’ since this fits very well into how 4e was designed. While I too liked the scary nature of the original deck, most players don’t feel that way, and would rather not have their investments (characters) risked on a gamble. I’m just a little more sadistic with my characters and always keep an up to date rolled spare with me incase i meet my demise.

Cheers for this blog.. just found it today and found the very first article useful.

The point of the item is that you’re supposed to be scared to use it.

If any of that didn’t make sense, I probably wouldn’t suggest doing it.

They love it even if they tend to get “bad” cards more often then not.

@Saragon: I almost called this a minor deck of many things, but decided not to since that would imply the existence of a major deck, and I was not willing to make one nor put one into my campaign.

Perfectly reasonable. The funny thing about the ‘major’ Deck of Many Things from the D20 SRD is that most of its effects translate rather well to 4E simply because they’re such major effects. “Gain a level” is just that, no matter what D&D system you’re playing with.

To use my mythical campaign again as an example: Just because it’s called the minor Deck of Many Things doesn’t mean the major version is easily accessible, or that it even exists outside of fables and gleemen’s tales. (Most major artifacts aren’t easily found, after all.) Still, it’s quite reasonable to think that some crafty mage heard a description of the true deck’s powers and created a much weaker version to mimic its powers on a smaller scale. (Whether or not there were several copies made, each sold as the “true” Deck for enormous sums of money by our trickster mage, may never be known.)

Still, Asmor, definitely a neat item and a good take on a low-powered artifact.

@Tim: Precisely. It’s meant to be something fun that the characters can use either when they’re way ahead of the curve or desperate. It still does have the potential to swing a close fight against them, though, so they can’t use it haphazardly…

Also, thanks for catching that typo.