The other suits (swords, coins, stars, and glyphs) are generally peppered with more straight buffs High Deck draws are rarer since there are fewer of them, naturally.Īrtifact: Select one item from prepared treasures. It's worth noting many of the High Deck results can be pretty nasty. There are a couple of references below to tables I did not replicate here for space reasons assume that item tables and prepared treasures contain a delicious selection of goods, none too powerful, but none too weak, for the party to happen upon. I'm not going to tip all of my hand (and largely because it's written in a marble notebook and it took time to transcribe it here already), I do want to present what I'm doing for a component of the Tarokka deck, the High Deck. Some of the effects are beneficial, many are not. Now onto the card draws.Īs I stated a couple entries back, I intend on having the players draw a card each session to determine something that happens in it. The owner of the Blood of the Vine now is a woman named Anezjka Martikova, and she has a few younger sisters who may or may not be super-ultra-mega important to part of the plot of this campaign, which relies extraordinarily heavily on the chassis given unto us by Curse of Strahd. Why are you still here?Īnyway, that sidebar matters because in my previous game, the campaign took place chronologically some time after that game.
#RAVENLOFT TAROKKA DECK DRAW PATCH#
Go get it on GOG.com, and get the patch that unblocks you at the Ivlis Caverns too. I will note my joy at noticing the inclusion of a young Bray Martikov in Curse of Strahd, who (even if he is not confirmed to be the younger version of the same character) is in my mind actually Bray Martikova, the innkeeper and owner of the Blood of the Vine in one of my favorite classics, Strahd's Possession. It also has a few aspects that don't really line up with my continuity, and thus needs to be slightly altered. That foundation is I6 Ravenloft, and the latest adventure module reuses a lot of what's there (Ireena Kolyana is the big one for me). Cuthbert help me that sounds pretentious, sorry) I already had kind of an idea where and when I wanted to set them in the greater Ravenloft timeline and canon, which doesn't quite neatly align with what they present in Curse of Strahd.ĬoS is very much a badass new mansion built atop a very old and sturdy foundation. So as a preface, I ran a previous campaign for some members of this group that happened before Curse of Strahd was announced. Actually, maybe only one of them has a link to this blog anyway. And you know, if they do read it anyway it fills them with greater dread, that's kind of a win too.
I've been assured by my (actually rather respectful) players that they won't read this particular entry for spoiler purposes. Okay, hi! On request, I'm going to post a few of the results from my by-session draws.