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{{5e Magic Item
|name=Deck of Many Things <!-- name of magic item -->
|sorttext= <!--blank, or category sort-->
|canon=true
|type=Wondrous Item <!-- Weapon, Armor, Wondrous Item, Staff, Wand -->
|typenote= <!-- Note following type. ex. ammunition -->
|rarity=Legendary <!-- Common, Uncommon, Rare, Very Rare, Legendary -->
|raritynote= <!-- Note following rarity, other than requires attunement. -->
|attunement= <!-- Yes if requires attunement, otherwise blank -->
|charges= <!-- # of charges or uses, otherwise blank -->
|magicbonus= <!-- blank; or +1, +2, +3 -->
|desc=Usually found in a box or pouch, this deck contains a number of cards made of ivory or vellum. Most (75 percent) of these decks have only thirteen cards, but the rest have twenty-two. 

Before you draw a card, you must declare how many cards you intend to draw and then draw them randomly (you can use an altered deck of playing cards to simulate the deck). Any cards drawn in excess of this number have no effect. Otherwise, as soon as you draw a card from the deck, its magic takes effect. You must draw each card no more than 1 hour after the previous draw. If you fail to draw the chosen number, the remaining number of cards fly from the deck on their own and take effect all at once. 

Once a card is drawn, it fades from existence. Unless the card is the [[#Fool|Fool]] or the [[#Jester#|Jester]], the card reappears in the deck, making it possible to draw the same card twice. 

==Deck==
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!Playing Card 
!Card 
{{!}}-
{{!}}Ace of diamonds 
{{!}}[[#Vizier|Vizier]]* 
{{!}}-
{{!}}King of diamonds 
{{!}}[[#Sun|Sun]] 
{{!}}-
{{!}}Queen of diamonds 
{{!}}[[#Moon|Moon]] 
{{!}}-
{{!}}Jack of diamonds 
{{!}}[[#Star|Star]] 
{{!}}-
{{!}}Two of diamonds 
{{!}}[[#Comet|Comet]]* 
{{!}}-
{{!}}Ace of hearts 
{{!}}[[#The Fates|The Fates]]* 
{{!}}-
{{!}}King of hearts 
{{!}}[[#Throne|Throne]] 
{{!}}-
{{!}}Queen of hearts 
{{!}}[[#Key|Key]] 
{{!}}-
{{!}}Jack of hearts 
{{!}}[[#Knight|Knight]] 
{{!}}-
{{!}}Two of hearts 
{{!}}[[#Gem|Gem]]* 
{{!}}-
{{!}}Ace of clubs 
{{!}}[[#Talons|Talons]]* 
{{!}}-
{{!}}King of clubs 
{{!}}[[#The Void|The Void]] 
{{!}}-
{{!}}Queen of clubs 
{{!}}[[#Flames|Flames]] 
{{!}}-
{{!}}Jack of clubs 
{{!}}[[#Skull|Skull]] 
{{!}}-
{{!}}Two of clubs 
{{!}}[[#Idiot|Idiot]]* 
{{!}}-
{{!}}Ace of spades 
{{!}}[[#Donjon|Donjon]]* 
{{!}}-
{{!}}King of spades 
{{!}}[[#Ruin|Ruin]] 
{{!}}-
{{!}}Queen of spades 
{{!}}[[#Eurayle|Euryale]] 
{{!}}-
{{!}}Jack of spades 
{{!}}[[#Rogue|Rogue]] 
{{!}}-
{{!}}Two of spades 
{{!}}[[#Balance|Balance]]* 
{{!}}-
{{!}}Joker (with TM) 
{{!}}[[#Fool|Fool]]* 
{{!}}-
{{!}}Joker (without TM) 
{{!}}[[#Jester|Jester]] 
{{!}}-
{{!}}colspan="2"{{!}}*Found only in a deck with twenty-two cards 
{{!}}}

===Balance===
Your mind suffers a wrenching alteration, causing your {{srd5lc|Alignment}} to change. Lawful becomes chaotic, good becomes evil, and vice versa. If you are true neutral or unaligned, this card has no effect on you. <ref name="22cards" />

===Comet===
If you single-handedly defeat the next hostile {{srd5lc|Monster}} or group of monsters you encounter, you gain {{srd5lc|Experience Point}}s enough to gain one level. Otherwise, this card has no effect. <ref name="22cards" />

===Donjon===
You disappear and become entombed in a state of suspended animation in an extradimensional sphere. Everything you were wearing and carrying stays behind in the space you occupied when you disappeared. You remain imprisoned until you are found and removed from the sphere. You can’t be located by any {{srd5lc|Divination}} magic, but a ''{{srd5lc|Wish}}'' spell can reveal the location of your prison. You draw no more cards. <ref name="22cards" />

===Euryale===
The card’s medusa-like visage {{srd5lc|Curse}}s you. You take a −2 penalty on {{srd5lc|Saving Throw}}s while cursed in this way. Only a god or the magic of [[#The Fates|The Fates]] card can end this curse. 

===The Fates=== 
Reality’s fabric unravels and spins anew, allowing you to avoid or erase one event as if it never happened. You can use the card’s magic as soon as you draw the card or at any other time before you die.<ref name="22cards" /> 

===Flames=== 
A powerful {{srd5lc|Devil}} becomes your enemy. The devil seeks your ruin and plagues your life, savoring your suffering before attempting to slay you. This enmity lasts until either you or the devil dies. 

===Fool=== 
You lose 10,000 {{SRD5|XP}}, discard this card, and draw from the deck again, counting both draws as one of your declared draws. If losing that much XP would cause you to lose a level, you instead lose an amount that leaves you with just enough XP to keep your level. 

===Gem===
Twenty-five pieces of jewelry worth 2,000 gp each or fifty gems worth 1,000 gp each appear at your feet. <ref name="22cards" />

===Idiot===
Permanently reduce your {{SRD5|Intelligence}} by 1d4 + 1 (to a minimum score of 1). You can draw one additional card beyond your declared draws. <ref name="22cards" />

===Jester===
You gain 10,000 XP, or you can draw two additional cards beyond your declared draws. 

===Key===
A {{srd5lc|Rare}} or rarer {{srd5lc|Magic Weapon}} with which you are {{srd5lc|Proficient}} appears in your hands. The {{SRD5|GM}} chooses the weapon. 

===Knight===
You gain the service of a 4th-level {{srd5lc|Fighter}} who appears in a space you choose within 30 feet of you. The fighter is of the same {{srd5lc|Race}} as you and serves you loyally until death, believing the fates have drawn him or her to you. You control this character. 

===Moon===
You are granted the ability to cast the ''wish'' spell 1d3 times. 

===Rogue===
A {{SRD5|NPC|nonplayer character}} of the GM’s choice becomes hostile toward you. The identity of your new enemy isn’t known until the NPC or someone else reveals it. Nothing less than a ''wish'' spell or divine intervention can end the NPC’s hostility toward you. 

===Ruin===
All forms of wealth that you carry or own, other than {{srd5lc|Magic Item}}s, are lost to you. Portable property vanishes. Businesses, buildings, and land you own are lost in a way that alters reality the least. Any documentation that proves you should own something lost to this card also disappears. 

===Skull===
You summon an avatar of death — a ghostly humanoid skeleton clad in a tattered black robe and carrying a spectral scythe. It appears in a space of the GM’s choice within 10 feet of you and attacks you, warning all others that you must win the battle alone. The avatar fights until you die or it drops to 0 {{srd5lc|Hit Point}}s, whereupon it disappears. If anyone tries to help you, the helper summons its own avatar of death. A creature slain by an avatar of death can’t be restored to life. 

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===Star===
Increase one of your {{srd5lc|Ability Score}}s by 2. The score can exceed 20 but can’t exceed 24. 

===Sun===
You gain 50,000 XP, and a {{srd5lc|Wondrous Item}} (which the GM determines randomly) appears in your hands. 

===Talons===
Every magic item you wear or carry disintegrates. {{SRD5|Artifact}}s in your possession aren’t destroyed but do vanish. <ref name="22cards" />

===Throne===
You gain proficiency in the {{SRD5|Persuasion}} skill, and you double your proficiency bonus on {{srd5lc|Check}}s made with that skill. In addition, you gain rightful ownership of a small keep somewhere in the world. However, the keep is currently in the hands of monsters, which you must clear out before you can claim the keep as yours. 

===Vizier===
At any time you choose within one year of drawing this card, you can ask a question in meditation and mentally receive a truthful answer to that question. Besides information, the answer helps you solve a puzzling problem or other dilemma. In other words, the knowledge comes with wisdom on how to apply it. <ref name="22cards" />

===The Void===
This black card spells disaster. Your soul is drawn from your body and contained in an object in a place of the GM’s choice. One or more powerful beings guard the place. While your soul is trapped in this way, your body is {{srd5lc|Incapacitated}}. A ''wish'' spell can’t restore your soul, but the spell reveals the location of the object that holds it. You draw no more cards.
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==Sources==
* [[SRD-OGL v5.1]]
==Notes==
<references>
<ref name="22cards">Found only in a deck with twenty-two cards</ref>
</references>
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Alignment	Neutral Evil +
Author	SRD-CC v5.1 + and SRD-OGL v5.1 +
CRval	0 +
Canon	true +
Challenge Rating	0 +
Creature Name	Avatar of Death +
Experience Points	0 +
Features	Incorporeal Movement +, Turning Immunity +, Reaping Scythe + and {{{feature1}}} +
Hit Points	half the hit point maximum of its summoner +
Item Type	Wondrous Item +
Name	Avatar of Death +
Publication	SRD-CC v5.1 + and SRD-OGL v5.1 +
Rarity	Legendary +
Size	Medium +
SortText	Deck of Many Things 5e +
Title	Deck of Many Things +
Type	Undead +