How Deck of Many Things DESTROYS Campaigns in Dungeons and Dragons

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  @mangaartist303 · 3 years ago

  I want to invent a trinket version of this item called the Deck of Minor Things. The cards have the same names but the effects are parodies of the originals. For example, the Void is essentially a vacuum cleaner.

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• YO

  @yourbeardlybro5887 · 3 years ago (edited)

  Players: “Let’s use the Deck of Many Things!”<br><br>DM *diabolically laughs*: “Fool, you’ve just activated my ability to make Yu-gi-oh references for the rest of the campaign”<br><br>Players: “noooooooo”

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• KI

  @killianasheart5175 · 3 years ago

  “If someone has this item they should use it responsibly and prepare for the consequences.”<br>That one friend: “Nah.”

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• CH

  @chrisgore8597 · 3 years ago

  I once used the Deck of many things. We were aware that good and bad magical effects could come from it, but still decided to push our luck. My cousin pulled 2 cards, one was the Sun and the other was the Knight card. Our friend got the moon card gaining wishes. Excited by what they got from the deck, I gladly pulled one card, only to get the Donjon card. I got trapped in an extradimensional space that was ruled by a powerful Demon. Since time moved faster in that space, the few minutes that the party spent arguing with our friend with wishes to use one to bring me back, I had already been tortured for 1,000 years. This of course irreversibly altered my character to be fearful, unconfident, speak gibberish to themselves, scream/laugh randomly, and have night terrors. Good Times!

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• SU

  @sumdumcanine8969 · 3 years ago

  I can&apos;t stop imagining a lone survivor against a bbeg situation and the last guy stares at the dm and simply says, &quot;seventy-five&quot; calmly with a smug look of spite

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• OP

  @opsports50 · 3 years ago

  One of the meaner things I&apos;ve ever done was with a group of new players that were just getting into D and D thanks to crit roll. They were aware of the deck of many things, and all the issues it could cause, they were not however familiar with the Deck of Illusions, which are utterly harmless and only good for causing scenes and distractions.

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• ME

  @Meanlucario · 3 years ago

  It&apos;s funny how One Shot and Puffin Forest both made video on this item and came to basically the same conclusion through different ways. Shows how powerful the deck if in a bad way.

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• IT

  @ItsYaBoiV · 3 years ago

  My group had a parody item called the Deck of Not So Many Things, and it was just several copies of a single card that would result in the person who drew from it receiving a drink at its grossest temperature. Drinking hot tea? Now its almost cold. Drinking a cool draft at a tavern? Now its uncomfortably warm, etc, etc. It was from a campaign where everything we received was a joke item, because we were all coming from overly serious games and just wanted something silly.

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• SC

  @scorpionarthur · 2 years ago

  &quot;It can reduce your Intelligence to one.&quot;<br>&quot;Oh sweet, so my Intelligence goes up then.&quot; 😂🤣

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• LO

  @lotsaspaghetticodejr.6488 · 3 years ago

  STORY TIME - READ FOR WHOLESOME LAUGHS<br><br>Years ago I joined a campaign for Pathfinder. My character was a Goblin Rogue named Potatoes. When asked why his name was Potatoes, his response was &quot;Potatoes make happy!&quot;<br><br>As the campaign progressed, Potatoes was eventually offered a potato for dinner. He grew flustered, &quot;THIS NO POTATO!!&quot; and the campaign was gently put on pause as the players could not figure out what he meant. If a potato was not a potato, then what the hell was a potato to him??<br><br>We continue, and as we progress we eventually come to a lair for one of the arch generals for the BBEG. We defeated him and, preplanned, Potatoes rummages through the treasure chest.<br><br>With wide eyes, he holds The Deck of Many Things up with an almost religious zeal. <i>&quot;POOOTATOOO&quot;</i><br><br>It turns out that he had encountered this magical item before, stowed away in - you guessed it - a sack of potatoes. He drew a single card. Wish.<br><br>He wished for friends.<br><br>And in the chaotic magic of the item, it formulated the rise of the BBEG, his reign of terror and his widespread genocide just so the party could meet, unite and defeat him. All so Potatoes could make friends along the way.

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• PI

  @Pinstar · 3 years ago

  The deck is best used for times of desperation. Pull a card when you&apos;re on the ropes. If it turns out good, it can turn a dire situation in your favor. If it turns out bad, you were probably dead anyway.

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• NI

  @nixia64 · 3 years ago

  During my very first DnD campaign, my DM had me roll a d100 for random encounters, and I rolled 100. This caused me to find a DoMT, which because I didn&apos;t know what it was ended up turning my PC&apos;s father into their archnemesis because of the Rogue Card.<br><br>I became very careful using the deck after this.

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