Comments on: A Deck of Many Things, Minor

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[...] what would it look like in 4e? At-Will posted up his idea of it, or, at least, a “minor” version of it, which makes sense for 4e. 4e is less about [...]

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By: Arael

Arael — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:22:27 +0000

Maybe I’m mad but… how about adding a daily power to this DoMT that do something like:
Power (Daily): Minor action. You may make a fate draw from the deck of many things (using the same mechanic of the encounter version) the effect affect you and all your allies. This power cannot be used if u already use the encounter version of this power. This power spend the encounter version of the power.

By: Arael

Arael — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:54:58 +0000

OMG Finally a good version of the DoMT for 4E… I love it I’ll use it in my campaing… thanks a lot for it.
Time to give some spice to the fights

By: gamefiend

gamefiend — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:28:34 +0000

@Joshua Yeah, it’s mostly a flavor item. My wife is into tarot, I saw these and voila! there it is.

It’s an item I envisioned that someone like a wild mage would use, just to spice things up and play into a concept.

@Dead Orcs just wait till I get Paragon and Epic done! the Paragon scales up a bit more, and the Epic is going to be pretty close to “old-school” DoMT.

@Mad Brew –glad you like! Yeah, it would definitely be more enticing to draw without foreknowledge of everything you could get.

@JackofHearts –I felt a little constrained with what I could do at Heroic, simply because I didn’t want to break a game before 11th level. My decision was to make it all non-permanent in the opening tier, daily effects at paragon, and permanent at Epic. The heroic is about 50% flavor, 50% implement (one slight advantage is that you get a +2 implement a few levels before you normally get it at 8th, albeit with a weak critical bonus). Like I’ve said to others, I’m uping the scale of the deck in the Paragon and Epic levels.

@David -hehehehe.

By: David

David — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:35:56 +0000

When you bought these, Ash IM’d me and said “You’re in trouble! He bought a Deck of Many Things!”

By: JackOfHearts

JackOfHearts — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:30:55 +0000

I love the flavor of this. I worry a tad bit about the mechanics, but I honestly think a lot of players would use it anyway because, well, it’s more fun to use your deck of many things to see what happens in a fight. Most fights the PCs can win anyway.

On the downside, it takes an item that previously was interesting out of combat, and gives it that 4.0 flavor of “only interesting things happen in combat.”

By: Mad Brew

Mad Brew — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:35:18 +0000

I like it, especially if the players don’t know all the effects, but acquired it as loot from an enemy who just happened to pull good from it (thus making all the players want to pull cards!).

By: Dead Orcs

Dead Orcs — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:36:11 +0000

I think this is a good stab at a Heroic tier version of this item. I think a Paragon or Epic version of this could come much closer to the original intent (and design) of the item, though.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:12:51 +0000

I’d be a little surprised if anybody used the Power unless as a lark in an encounter they’ll easily win, or maybe as a last-ditch effort in a fight already lost. In the original, the chance at awesome was the lure to risk destruction, here it’s just 50-50 whether you make the fight easier or harder…