
The previous edition included the rules for the readings in the deck and described how they could be used inside any D&D adventure whatsoever, irrespective of whether it was linked to Ravenloft or not. Compare this to the deck's previous edition, and the present one is found immediately at an enormous disadvantage. Even more so, they form an internal part of that adventure and cannot be extracted from it. The rules for readings are only included in Curse of Strahd. First, the present deck includes rules only for Prophet's Gambit, the Texas hold 'Em look-alike. (The deck I used is pictured above it's a bespoke tarokka by Eleanor Ferron.) Now I can use these readings as hooks I can write into the game as it continues. Luckily, there was a physical tarokka deck on the shelf just above my desk-so I was able to just reach up, as if it were perfectly natural, grab the deck and roleplay Bela giving a tarokka reading for each of the player characters. However, when a user thoroughly shuffles the deck and then declares an intent to draw some number of cards, these Decks of Powers enact magic that can raise champions. The Principal Tarokka contains the same fifty-four cards as a mundane Tarokka deck, and barring an incomplete deck can be used as such without effecting a fate good or ill. In particular, the tarokka deck is a perfect accessory for this. However, the Forbidden Lore boxed set contains some excellent tools for enhancing that effect. Click Gallery below for full-size pics! Reading for the characters - the rules book in the RAVENLOFT boxed set provides some handy guidelines for performing such activities. Drawing random cards from her tarokka deck, she directs adventurers to search Strahd’s domain for artifacts and allies to help the master of Castle Ravenloft.WotC released Curse of Strahd, a 5E version of the adventure from the 1983 Ravenloft D&D module, in 2017 (see “”D&D: Curse of Strahd’”), with the Tarokka deck released separately by Gale Force Nine (see “GF9’s ‘D&D: Curse of Strahd Tarokka Deck’”). The only hope for the trapped adventurers is to heed the warnings of a mysterious fortune-teller named Madam Eva.With the smallest finger of her right hand, shaking ever so slightly, Gabrielle touched the tarokka deck and whispered her.

Her hand briefly visited the jade amulets around her neck, invoking their magic to shield her from the dark, invisible powers that moved around the domains unhindered and unseen.

