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The Deck of Many Things and you.

Discussion in 'Dungeons & Dragons + Other RPGs' started by Bulges, Apr 19, 2003.

  1. Bulges Gems: 2/31
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    Ok, what is the coolest or worst thing that has ever happened to you due to a Deck of Many Things?

    My character just died due the Deck. Usually, I have great luck with the thing, but not this time. The party just found the Deck and decided to use it right away, BEFORE healing and resting. Since my character was the one that identified it, everyone voted to let me go first (our DM allows everyone to use it). To be completely chaotic, I rolled a d4+1 to determine how many cards I was going to draw. It came up four, so that meant five.

    Card #1: Know the answer to a dilemma (ok, cool card for later).
    Card #2: Lose all magic items (crap, but I had the fewest of us all)
    Card #3: Lose 1d4+1 points of INT and may draw again (DM rolled 4, ugh, me is dumb now)
    Ok, I was already down, so I took the bonus draw to try and undo it.
    Bonus Draw: Lose 10,000 XP and must draw again (ouch, lost two levels [and 10hp], guess I didn't undo it.)
    Forced Draw: Immediately gain +2 to an ability score (yah! I put it in CHA since I was a Bard)
    Card #4: Lose all forms of wealth (ok, after the magic items, I didn't have much left anyway)
    Card #5: Defeat Death or forever be destroyed (ok, after all the other cards, and not healing beforehand, I had 4hp's left and no spells and nothing on me to use. I 'used' my answer next dilemma option and asked if there was anyway I could beat it. Guess what the answer was. So I folded up that character. :wail: )

    I am determined never to do use the Deck again. I can quit any time I want too. [yeh, right].
     
    Bulges, Apr 19, 2003
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